Originally posted by Kuraphimaru

links would be good to at least know wtf you are talking about

Especially given that the first line of the OP doesn't make a great deal of sense anyway.

Originally posted by ForumTroll

Let's stop pretending like we don't buy every single new MMO nowadays.

Lol, you must be really gullible.  Nope, rational people pick and choose what they buy.

Originally posted by helthros

Originally posted by Dibdabs

Not me.  Diablo was fine in its day, but that day was long, long ago.

I wish a lot of out-of-touch old school MMOers understood a concept like this.

 However, I strongly disagree. I played the first Diablo when it came out and I can't wait to carpal tunnel with right-clicking madness -_-

I know from experience that there's no going back to a classic game, especially a rehashed version of it.  It may have looked and played fabulously back in the day, but seems shallow and unappealing after several decades of computer gaming.  EQ1 was a case in point - I LOVED that game, big-time, but when I reactivated my ancient account with the 45 days of free play I deleted the game within a day.  I wish I'd never done it, and thus left my memories untarnished.

It's like the shitty Star Wars films Lucas released after the original ones.  We all expected the original magic, wonder and the unforgettable characters we so loved... and we got Jar Jar Binks and shitloads of expensive but soulless CGI.

Not me.  Diablo was fine in its day, but that day was long, long ago.

I wouldn't go back to that game even for free.

Originally posted by huskie77

Please, regardless of your beliefs, this is a time of family and friends.

I don't have family or friends on this site.  :)

Originally posted by Metentso

So if you were an Elf, an travelled to the human cities, you draw the attention of everybody, since it was strange for an Elf to travel from such a long distance. You were special and you had a tale to tell and people interested in it.

Nothing "special" about it when hundreds of other Elf, Dwarf and Halfling characters had also made the trip that week.  In EQ, an Elf, Dwarf or Halfling in somewhere like Freeport didn't merit a second glance.  Ditto with the "Evil" races travelling to each others home cities.  I think you're getting a bit carried away with the nostalgia!  I considered lengthy travel a personal achievement, especially if I was low level and it was a tough trip, but in reality nobody else thought it that much of a big deal.  Why would they?  I certainly didn't consider I had a tale to tell.  :D

I could select US servers by clicking the link in the top left of the lauchpad widow and then using the drop-down box, though I didn't go any further than that. Maybe give it a whirl.

Maybe try the EU server?  There should be more people around at night in your time zone and, the server seems sociable enough.  True, there are a lot of habitual MMO loners around on the EU servers too, like myself, but I see a lot of groups forming up in chat.

Originally posted by Chivalry1978

At this point my friend was now getting new gear and looking at the price to upgrade again as well as all the money he had put into the game...Btw some where north of 5k at this point and began to question was it worth it.

Your friend is stupid.

Originally posted by Margulis

Then you instantly were sent to kill many boars, lol.

That game had the shi***est quests I've ever seen, and having played Aion that's REALLY saying something.  It was as if every 4th quest entailed killing lots of boars!  It deserved to die.  Hard.

Originally posted by paterah

I guess once this game goes F2P it will be the best F2P in the market that everyone should play.

I love sarcasm.

Originally posted by warlocxl

So I just found out that Aion is going Free-To-Play in February 2012, I presume due to the releases of SWTOR and GW2...

...Personally, being an existing Aion player I think this is exactly what Aion has needed as servers barely have any people on them now and it's getting harder and harder to find groups. With the inflow of free-to-play players, more fun is to be had with this game.

Aion simply wasn't worth paying a monthly fee for.  As is usual for new MMOs these days, it promised much and all it delivered was a warmed-over rehash of 12 year old MMO concepts.  Five of us bought the game, hoping for an exciting new gaming experience... we subbed for a couple of months and we all gave up on it due to boredom and feelings of "we've done this 1000 times already since 1999".

The true test of how poor a game is?  How fast it goes F2P.  Frankly, I'm surprised Aion didn't go F2P months ago.  Even as a F2P game I won't be returning to it - it was THAT bad.

None of the MMOs out there take much in the way of effort or brainpower to get into - they're just games.  So many have free trials or ar F2P you might as well just pick one and have a dabble.  That way, if you don't like the game, no harm done.   I certainly wouldn't spend any money on a game until you find one you like, because some games look great from the standpoint of "videos of actual gameplay" but turn out to be crap.

Originally posted by Zylaxx

I couldnt agree with you more. I have never played an Asian game that didnt offer heavy grinding, unrealistic chainmail bikinis, huge cat like anime eyes, characters running with their upper bodies contorted to appear as if they had a corn cob stuck up their ass, or street fighter animated flashy manga insipred combat.

...yes, the nutjob combat animations, the screeching and grunting of the characters and the 400lb weapons are pretty funny.  It's so ridiculous that I have a hard time people actually LIKE that.  Especially with the mobs that look like they came from a Dr. Seuss book.

I agree with everything you have to say in your post, but I would add the thing I loathe most which is the weird, creepy child-women dressed mainly in Goth lingerie that these guys populate their games with.  It's like the games are made by people who have an unhealthy interest in schoolgirls or something.  Very disquieting. 

From my personal experience, and without one single exception to date, Korean/Asian games are long on eye-candy and VERY short on depth and immersion.  I haven't encountered an Asian/Korean game that I'd even keep on my hard drive for a rainly day, and I've tried lots of them.  No wonder they're largely F2P because they most certainly aren't worth paying for, but of late they share that characteristic with quite a few Western games which are also superficial crap.

Originally posted by Quicksand

I was just looking at some video of Raiderz online and it got me curious, alot of MMO's like Raiderz, Aion, most F2P like Vindictus as well as some other P2P games keep putting in these gigantic oversized extremely stupid (IMO) looking weapons.

I don't get it either.  It looks f*****g ridiculous when you see a character, particularly the typical creepy-looking Asian MMO child-females wielding weapons that must weigh in excess of 100 to 200lbs in weight.

Honestly, buy it.  Thereafter all updates are free, and with the vast number of mods you can download, there's always something new to try.  I've whiled away many an hour on it.

I played Rift and wasn't that impressed.  Yes it looks nice and it's a polished set of graphics, but that counts for nothing to me as I prefer gameplay to eye candy.  The quests were the same old same old - kill this, gather that...  The much vaunted Events are nothing more than the public quests that are already a feature in a few MMOs and the main gripe ingame about tham was that few people bothered to turn up for them.  I was often the only person beside one, and there might be times when another person or two showed up, but that was it.  The Events were largely ignored.  A real PITA when one appeared and you had something to do in the area already. 

An OK game, but it would be laughable to call it MMORPG of the year.  It's like Obama - it would only make it because there's no real opposition worthy of the name.

Originally posted by NextTxen

Looks pretty good for a casual browser game.

Hardly a ringing endorsement.  :D

There's no point to this thread.  The game manufacturers can write down as many of their game's superfabamazing features as they like, but until the games have been commented on by people who have PLAYED them the company blurb is just... blurb.  All the OP has done is quote swathes of text from the companies which SOUND great but actually prove nothing.