Originally posted by Goronian

 I seriously do. Look, this is not a flame thread. This is something, of a big question to the people, who play solo.

Why? What draws you in?

See... Let's be honest here. MMORPG's, as games in themselves... Kinda suck. They're repetetive, drawn-out, barely offer a coherent story and their fighting system is a droll.....

Khm...ever tried something else other then Korean mmo's?

Originally posted by glofish

Originally posted by veego590

 

Whatever happens with YOUR account is YOUR responsibility. Coming here and claiming that it is somehow NCSOft's fault that you have not secured your account is ludicrous.

 

You are at fault 100% Bailiff! case closed. All rise.

 

 

Well... if NCSHIT is so capable to protect accounts via good protection system as they are efficient doing anything in game ... well ... can NOT BE players responsabilty.  Going to check my master card at evening just in case this xxx company (better not to use words) charged me even if i cancelled. Im wondering (actually worrying) how they protect transactions and where keep and how they keep our credit card numbers.

Originally posted by sijmister

Originally posted by midillusion 

 

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Now, about the timers, I say that they are important to the point of being vital, but I also throw in a cautionary word about watching them too much. However, it may not be stated explicitly enough to be immediately apparent. I state the fact that you should watch your environment more than timers or DPS meters when I cover the UI more extensively in the second part of the guide. Also, you discount VE a bit too much. It can provide some impressive healing fully talented if your DPS is high enough. If you are dealing 6k DPS, and you are being healed for 25% of that, you are getting 1.5k HPS. That is a huge load off of your healers, and I cannot tell you how many fights where I have been the last DPS standing at 1% or so and finished the fight because of a good combination use of VE, DoT damage, and Dispersion.

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Agree about this a lot. Prevented also at least few times wipe because besides tank I was the only one left alive and was able to heal tank until we won. Also priest is much less burden for any healer i guess then any other healing class, so he can concentrate on rest of party.

So I hate when somebody use recount to put after every single fight only dps numbers on chat window ... because shadow priest contribute for raid is far from only dps, despite being dps class. Have demonstrated few times ... had one of the greatest dps in group ... yet we failed. Tried again, had worse dps ... but we won with enough safety margin. Of course, maybe with better healer, better tank, ... etc... could be different.

Good with priest is that +spell damage helps dps and healing. So despite being specced for dps, priest is always still very good healer. I'm only missing, being professional healer, ability for incombat ressurect.

However as i do not have money for dual spec i have distributed differently points ... I have invested in Silence and Psychic horror. Very good in pvp and also in pve.

Originally posted by SnarlingWolf

I'll say the same thing I do to all of these threads, blame the fellow players.

 

If sad little players didn't feel the need to buy gold so they could be the uberest in the game, then there wouldn't be a market for gold farmers and none of us would have these issues.

 

Do us all a favor and STOP BEING LAZY AND BUYING GOLD.

Agree and for this never buyed. I hate goldsellers for what they do to economy. But also paying 5000g for epic flying mount is madness. I'm not saying should be free .. must be some effort involved to get satisfaction ... but what is to much is simply to much! No mater economy and free market ... there should definitively be some max price that one can request. Seeing that 15.000 g for SINGLE piece of purple equipment I can not immagine how can anyone buy that only from gold he got from playing. And some buy nearly all.  think some automated system should investigate all purchases above some limit. Or make some max value.

And when they catch some gold seller ... should ban ALL accounts that received any gold from gold seller without transaction with some really good eqiupment. I guess is something wrong if somebody purchased 1 healing potion paying for this 10.000 gold.

Originally posted by Czanrei

 I honestly don't think CS will do anything serious for CO in the way of making the game better in any way. CS certainly never put any real effort into CO's beta in the first place. CO was obviously created just for cannon-fodder to fuel funding for STO. Sad & lame, but true I believe. the real victims are the ones foolish enough to waste money on lifetime subscriptions for CO just to get beta acess to STO when CS STILL hasn't given the large majority of them acess yet. CO will be around long enough for STO to launch and then CS will most likely shut the servers down on CO quietly. 

Agree. I quit only because with every patch every week they have been messing terribly with powers and anything. Ok, planned nerfing or buffing, this part of life of any game... but when today you actually feel like superhero (and game is about superheroes) but next day with new patch you has become pussy cat ... something is very wrong with design. Powers (talents, ....) need careful planning and balancing even before publishing any game. Second problem, virtually non existent gm's, petitions that never get answered, .... Next: no retcon. You have read correctly. ... there is no retcon as it should be. Etc etc ... Game, that after 3 weeks was already been on 2nd place in my eyes for fun factor... after n-th patch around 3rd week become thing of past.

As i said in other articles ... i stopped with War, Aoc, ... because of problems, bugs, ... but I already knew, that one day I will be back. And have returned and im still returning, despite was unable to find anything even close to wow.

But tragedy with CO is (like with Aion) that when I decided to quit i was sure i will be never back again. They lost customer for ever or at least for few years (if they survive at all so long).

Btw ... I do not plan to play at all STO for first six months. Only because of Cryptic and because what they did to CO, that had great potential. I do not trust them. So with messing that did to CO they lost also customer to STO. At least for some time.

Originally posted by Stradden

MMORPG.com Fallen Earth Correspondent Paul Cox writes this list of ten reasons that people should be playing Icarus Studios' new MMORPG.

Over the last couple of weeks, I have noticed that many people are still up in the air about Fallen Earth. This article will attempt to shed some light on whether or not you're going to want to subscribe to this game. Here is a list of some of the good (yet sometimes controversial) things this game brings to the table.

1 - Fighting!

The combat system. The combat system is quite different from most popular MMOs out there currently. The combat system requires you to aim at your opponent like a first (or third) person shooter. Aiming affects both melee and ranged combat.

Read Ten Reasons to Play Fallen Earth.

Exactly reason 1 made me go away. When I have discovered pressing both buttons (in PvE, have not PvP-ed) is all one have to do ... I had enough of fighting. Also bothered me a lot using mouse buttons to move, then have to switch to keyboard when switching to targeting mode. Well ... was not only reson ... but strong one.

Originally posted by Fishermage

Originally posted by pre_mar

Wow ... because you can not explain something it must be god?? You are actually reasoning like cave man once when they start to develop brain and know nothing about how clouds form, how lighting, .... Today we have explanation. And every day more. Of course I do not think mankind will ever know evertyhing possible, but this does not make god responsible for what we (still) do not know.

Life itself is ultimate meaning or purpose of life!!! Your children are! Your parents are! As I understand people around you and you care about mean NOTHING without god??? I'm fortunate I'm not your relative.

 

Why is life the ultimate meaning of life? Why are children important? what gives them meaning? Why are parents important? what gives them meaning?

What? Without your god your children or wife are not important to you??? They do not have meaning? If some day you discover there is no god, all your moral codex will fell in black abyss?

Sorry ... but if your god is about this ... then I'm glad even more being atheist, because my children and wife mean all to me. I do not need god for this. I enjoy every single moment being with them, walking, playing, going with them to some their preffered sport event, .... Just being in their company.

And when we are gone ... we are gone. Of course, make no mistake, who would not like to have eternal stay in some kind of heaven, enjoying for ethernity ... But I simply accept fact, that you are unable, that there is NOTHING beyond death. And ***THIS*** makes every single moment of life and staying with one you love so important.

Originally posted by hoopty

I am not asking you to believe in my God.The reasons for believing that there’s a God are too numerous, I hardly know where to begin. The  reason I believe in God is that we are totally incapable of rationally explaining the world without a God. In addition, if there is no God, then there is no ultimate meaning or purpose to life >>> we are little more than animals.<<<

Your computer analogy where is the logic and reason in that?

 

Wow ... because you can not explain something it must be god?? You are actually reasoning like cave man once when they start to develop brain and know nothing about how clouds form, how lighting, .... Today we have explanation. And every day more. Of course I do not think mankind will ever know evertyhing possible, but this does not make god responsible for what we (still) do not know.

Life itself is ultimate meaning or purpose of life!!! Your children are! Your parents are! As I understand people around you and you care about mean NOTHING without god??? I'm fortunate I'm not your relative.

Originally posted by econ24

Blizzard has finally done it, lol. It's pretty funny to see them join the cash-shop bandwagon. $10 a pet is INSANE though.

Agree. Despite I love wow and Blizzart to me has the best marketing staf and programmers ... at least to be honest they should give all 10$ to charity.

Originally posted by CyberWiz

EVE doesn't suck ! :p

It does. You just do not know this. :-))

Originally posted by Cecropia

Always keep in mind most people who play don't post.

Rule of thumb.

I post only about games I have played at least tried to play for short. Or sometimes I also post if theme is general.

Originally posted by Ginkeq

The main problem I have with this game is the skill training queue..  When I played EVE I remember having to wait weeks for my skills to catch up with the amount of ISK I was accumulating.  Why did my ISK catch up? 

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Agree with all you said. As I love sci-fi, space in general, .... I tried at least 4 times with Eve .... but it is the most boring game (hmm, can be called game, right?) ever. I guess I'm permanently out.

Originally posted by Eronakis  

.... God but remember God is omnipresent ....
 

Essentialy, you want to say, he is lurking when we i.e. sex in bed (also when covered?), we go to toilet, ....? :-))

About omnipotent ... he is not, prove is that he need FULL 7 days to create whole universe with need to rest at the end.

About all knowning ... well ... also not. Bible says that after he created Adam, he realized he need company. He should know this from start i guess.

Originally posted by Silverthorn8

 

The bg queues in wow were hideous back in vanilla, 30 minutes is around the time it took to get into Arathi Basin only to get obliterated by a fuckiing pre-made horde team.

 

This game should have been released in 2004 tbh, it has missed the boat!

Now queues for bg are usually under minute or max few minutes ... and what is now even better as in war you can join any bg from anywhere and you are returned to same place. This is great. Im now back to wow. BG are much better to me then scenarios (which enjoyed anyway pretty a lot), but not only. There is no lag. No lag. There can be 20 people in diameter of 10m and everything runs completely smooth on my computer. On the other side, scenarios were nightmare with few to 10 people in small space. Inplayable. Despite last patch that improved prerformance, is still 100 times behind bg.

Originally posted by Fishermage

 

As far as I know, none of the founders were atheists, and I've spent a good deal of time studying their writings on God and such. Could you point me to where you have seen such a thing?

 

Of course not. Through history they have been all killed with great efficience, but some still survived, only because they were not advocating their lack of belief in public. And NOBODY at that time proclaming himself as atheist would have any influence, he would be at least politcitaly eliminated if not physicaly. Even nowadays ... people would elect i.e. atheist president.

Originally posted by frodus

On all the face of the earth the only being that knows its going to die at some point is man.

When God flooded the earth their were only 8 souls saved in all the world.

When God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah their were 4 souls saved among thousands.

What you think of the most,what you talk of the most,and what you do the most in this world, that is what you love the most.

I can say with complete confidence that man is unique in the known universe.

You forgot to add that this info is from big sci-fi book and not something really happened.

Anyway very bad book, as your supreme being has cruely drowned among other also newborns, small children, ... etc etc ... not having any guilt. If it does really exist such monstruosity ... i do not want to have anything with it.

However ... i do not think this thread belong on mmo site ... but it is difficult to stay quiet when somebody comes up with similar "arguments".

Btw, unfortunately Santa Claus does not exist. I do not need nor miss your supreme being.

Originally posted by Zindaihas

Originally posted by Gameloading

Originally posted by Fishermage

Originally posted by Sabiancym

 C:  God doesn't exist.  Therefore he has created no worlds.

 

Prove God doesn't exist.

 

Prove flying spaghetti monster doesn't exist.

 

You can't.  He very well may exist.  Hey wait, I guess that means the same holds true for God.

Khm ... you want to say police will understand I crashed because flying spaghetti monster flyed by my car disturbing me?

Btw ... maybe do you know for any case anywhere somebody was freed because god orderd him to kill somebody? By your logic it should. Nobody could prove he is lying so should be acceptable in court.

Originally posted by dxt178

I'll say one more time... WAR has some of the best Scenarios (BGs) of any MMO. Everything else is just terrible. Make the game focused on this one aspect and lower the monthly price and I, as well as many other fans, would run back. Warhammer is a tabletop game of skirmishes and battles, and it is where this game has and still excels. Not keeps, not public quests, not PvE. Look at soem of the private BG-only WoW servers and you will see that many people love the idea of quick enjoyable MMO PvP fun.

I also thught so about scenarios ... before even trying battlegrounds in Wow. Despite having 9 lv. 80 there and 1 lv. 77 have never played bg's in Wow. Actually ... one single time at lower level ... and was also my last try. Was not fun just running from graveyard 100% of time:-).

Here War did much better job adjusting lower level players stats so they were not in function as target dummies as this happen in bg's in in range 0-6. And in no other game I admit I never did it with a single alt to max level, and that says a lot; wow was my first game in my life that caused me real addiction (I just could not get to bed before completing that "last" quest). I'm no longer addicted but I still playing it when I have time to spare. Btw, I'm approaching 50 so I'm not small kid anymore. I did not liked cartoony look of wow initially ... but now I just love it. And the rest is since ever (I joined with BC) the best. Imo of course.

PvP, PvE. I never liked PvP, I'm PvE man. My first encounter with PvP that enjoyed a lot and changed this my view was thanks to War, especially scenarios. Very fun, but laggy. Just implayable with my pretty good pc. Even running Aoc(!) was much more fluid, and this says a lot. I also tried RvR areas ... but with nearly no players at any time around ... well ... was not fun. Actually ... if there were anyone around was usually me and at least 3 desto.  Scenarios were always accessible and with enough players. But laggy, imbalanced. Not only because of players ... but because of overpowerd "bad" guys.

But now also in Wow one can have instant access to bg's and is returned to same place when joined. Copycat from War? Who cares. It is there. And I love it. In bg no matter how much players are present .... everything runs smoooooooth for me! With 10 to 20 players in small space no lag. No lag. Could not believe when I left aprox week ago War and resubbed after long time Wow and tried for the first time bg's. Not a chance in scenarios (that I loved) anything is fluid... not even after the last of the latest patches.

So for now my final conclusion is that I will be split for long time only between Wow and Aoc ... and from time to time Lotro. And maybe some newcomer. I'm afraid I have decided that War is permanently out .... at least do not plan to return before year or so (If it will be still there). And I'm kind'a sad because of this because at least up to between lv. 15 and 29 with all possible alts I enjoed pretty a lot questing.  It is obvious that by far my world is Wow world ... but I'm always looking for something other and fun. Even if one love pizza, can not eat pizza for whole life and 5 times per day. :-)

Originally posted by tvalentine

Originally posted by Elikal

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If developers did their job in development they would not need to nerf, but later they compensate their own failure on the back of the player. Imagine you buy a car and 5 months later after you drive and enjoy your big horsepowers the creators of your car come to you are take out some of the tech and some of the power with the argument "it is unfair to be faster and more secure with your tech gadgets than other drivers". I mean, wouldn't you be fucked up too?

 Name ONE game that has never had to have its professions/classes/whatever balanced.... Name ONE. You're talking about MMORPGs not singleplayer games. What your saying is pretty much like saying patches = failed development. Get a clue

In CO this has nothing to do with perfecting (as I understand balancing) ... has to do with criminally messing up and  has only to do with incredible incompetence. They are standard how not to design and redesign any game, not only mmo.

Originally posted by Elikal

If developers did their job in development they would not need to nerf, but later they compensate their own failure on the back of the player. Imagine you buy a car and 5 months later after you drive and enjoy your big horsepowers the creators of your car come to you are take out some of the tech and some of the power with the argument "it is unfair to be faster and more secure with your tech gadgets than other drivers". I mean, wouldn't you be fucked up too?

When a company nerfs it means only one thing: they totally borked it and now the gamers have to pay the price. How about: we gamer have patience with your tinkering with our characters when you have patience with us not paying while the game is under "paid beta"?

Often nerfs are just a sudden paradigm change. For instance, EQ2 Paladins were nerfed about 2 years after EQ2 launch. And I thought WTF? And they changed a good tank with some heals to a half-baked healer who also might tank. It was changed ALL THE DAMN way around and for why? Just because after TWO YEARS SOE had the idea to make Paladin a healer instead of a tank. Great.

Or some Companies who recently launch games (*cough cough*) and ONE DAY after Beta realize they have too little content and swing a nerf over ALL POWERS to compensate the lack of content. Man, I can quote so many examples of messed up nerfing, it isn't even funny to be right. Nerfs are made often after games run for years and years? How can it be after a game runs and people played that over and over SUDDENLY some Dev thinks "oh wow, thats OP"?

 

(For someone who is aligned with Cryptic and the nerfs of the powers... man you have some guts to defend nerfs. I really have bite my MF tongue not to just YELL something REALLY BAD. *fumes*)

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Could not agree more. And regarding CO I stopped to play only because of this attitude. Every single f. week they have messed totally with game. Like day & night. Game has (had for me) great potential .... after few weeks of gameplay was already on second place for fun factor, could become even first in time .... but after another "mother of nerfs" I simply had enough. One morning after this nerf I was in very good mood, barely could wait to continue .... then minute after logging ... world crashed on me. Game over. In seconds I lost completely interest. And I'm sorry because game was great and I love lore.

As I already posted in other forums when i quit pretty bugged Aoc or War I was already sure i will return in few months ... this is the first game where I'm pretty sure I will never return. For me they have effectively killed the game.