The way I see Warhammer,  the chaos legion sould look very dark, even give fear.

Orks, needs to look "fun", because are a "don't take me serius" raaaaaaaaaace

This is absolutelly win:

http://img.war-europe.com/syndic_img/careers/fr/Choppa08.jpg

Elfs, Humans and Dwarvens sould looks Epic, in a LOTRO way.

This is Ok.

http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/media/images/screenshots/SST_0807_08.jpg

This could be ok, if the 2 chaos legion guys are PC, and not NPC.

http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/media/newsletter/2008_02/beta04.jpg

I am a graphic whore, but a intelligente one:

- I don't really need utlra high resolution textures, but like it

- I want good animations

- I want good maps

- I want good sounds, icons, fonts, texts, lore, etc..

- I want servers ,client and netcode, to able 40 players on screen

The most important factor is gameplay. If the game is dull or the servers empty, even the best graphics will not save it.

Originally posted by lomiller

Why assume that any game not aiming at your particular tastes is “making mistakes”?

Originally posted by Vrika
Some gold-selling sites do sell legal product keys to the games, so you might want to check you one of them and risk buying from them. But I wouldn't suggest, those sites in general aren't reliable.


Other than that, protect with your money and don't buy the game. We European customers pay usually at least as much for our games as customers in USA (when VAT is not counted). We should also be given same quality of service, and same options available when buing the games. Any company who does not do that does not deserve our money.

I agree. 

I have friends with the game. And have the game installed (as a trial). So I don't need the CD's, the manual, or a box.   And codemasters don't need my money ... enough.

Vanguard used to be very ganking-friendly.   There was some level protections, but once other guy is on your range, you could do "things".

My favorite spell whas "Sleep".  Sleep + PvE or  Sleep + Water is a ganking dream.

Today, seems most RvR servers are off, so no ganking for you  :D

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LOTRO PvPM.  The default gameplay is 4 creeps  to kill 1 freep ... by design. It don't feel like ganking, but is always  Number vs Quality.

All RPG dungeons sould be closed at least a hour in honour the Master of all Dungeon Masters. So sad, life is soo fast, most people tat play MMO-RPG games have no idea who this guy is.

I don't know.

But seems that link is related:

http://www.ryzom.org/donation/new

195,220 $ where collected with donations.

But seemed not enough to open source it. Or maybe this will end on the recyle bin, like auto assault.

Having a open source MMORPG was a interesting step for the open source community.  Anyway theres already something like this ... Continuum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubSpace_(computer_game)

http://subspace.legendzones.com/

I will quote the wikipedia:

"

Billing

The counterpart to the server application is the billing server. This server, which stores player data and scores and links zones together, is named for its originally intended function (in VIE's Subgame server) to store records of who had paid for the game and, therefore, was allowed to play it. Obviously, once VIE went out of business, this function was no longer necessary. Billing servers now serve many additional functions, such as providing a network-wide ban service superior to the one built into Subgame and allowing players in different arenas or zones to chat with each other over chat channels. There are several large biller networks for SubSpace. By far, the largest is SSC, which is the de facto official biller. It is owned by PriitK, the creator of the Continuum client."

Theres life beyond the dead of the original developers, if a game can jump into the freeware or open source community.

Else..

http://www.autoassault.com/news/

Sad.

The opensource community also tried to buy this, to make it a F2P/F2D game  ( free to play, and free to dev).  No idea if that would have worked, but reading the Gameforge never payed the money.. is lame.

Why would people kill something with soo much manpower hours behind?.

:(

Yea. I blame codemasters. These guys don't want to code a internet shop to buy DDO has a digital download. Why? no idea. 

And I don't want to go to a 3th party shop and buy a box. Why would want a box, and wait 2 weeks to get a game?  the game force me to have the cd-key, the box and the cd is crap, and wasted plastic, a nonsense.

This stuff make me *very* angry. I am sorry If sound bad :(

Oh noes.

/me realization AoC will be dumbed down for consoles

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6. They just recently made mobs take longer(MUCH longer to kill), this increases how long it takes to level, most likely they did this to buy themselves time to put in EG content.  Unfortunitly for them I bought the game a week before thos, loved the game because it was so fast and now it's a joke.  Have fun crouching and holding down your mouse button as you use your leach gun on 1 mob for 10-20 seconds until it dies and moving onto the next.

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Thats what killed the game for me. After that change, I whas almost forced to uninstall. Fun was killed with that change.  1 vs 10 mobs become  a boring  1vs1.

The european side of DDO don't have digital download.
Is that hard to create a credit card shop to sell CD-KEYs?   I don't want to order stuff by snail mail.  Just to get a CD-KEY.   I already have teh files i need from the trial, so, why I need a CD and a CD-KEy? I don't need it!

I play LOTRO PvPM, where you get XP for killings (called Infamy) to enhance your char, and it works. But is mostly a RvR gameplay.

I am playing. And liking it.

I made some first bad decissions, and now I am fixing things, but everything is mostly ockay. The enemy on the quest are hard, but my units are leveling well. My main unit is a archer group, then something else, like picker or spearmen. Graphics are somewhat outdated, but this is a strategy game so is not that important.