WTF?? You post a link to your own blog and say that YOUR opinion is the only true and honest opinion -- And -- anyone who has a negative opinion of Vanguard is troll?

Grow-up, little man.

Vanguard is on the brink of extinction. It's not worth the effort to DL and install and certainly not woth $14.99 per month.

Some people just say whatever they think will get others to subscribe.

Vanguard is dead. 4 developers, 1 raid zone and all post 50 content is total crap. Every patch screws up the game more. Even the VG forums are dead. At this point, even if they fired Silius (the man responsible of Vanguards death) it wouldn't matter, the game and population are just too far gone.

/next mmorpg please

Originally posted by shad0w99

 

Yap Yap...

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Keep changing your story, you might eventually get it right. But until then you should just put on your big girl panties and let the people who know, have a conversation.

As to why there is an FFA server and no Team server - I told you already, but you probably missed it in your rush to gush stupid.

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"The reason SOE gave us FFA only (despite a 75 page vote) is because it's the easiest form of PVP to maintain. There are no rules, and therefore its the perfect excuse to not actually have to do anything with it. Where as Team PVP would have issues with race/class restrictions leading to an OP side (and player complaints/issues that could make the server unplayable)."

Listen, lady, because I can only say it so many times - Try knowing something next time.

I'd ask those dedicated friends of yours about a class. Most people think Vangaurd has gotten worse.

Matrix Online.

Originally posted by shad0w99

 

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I didn't say the playerbase was to blame for there only being a FFA server. I said the population is to blame.

Had the population not declined there would still be a team PvP server.

I'll just quote you to accentuate how lost you really are. 

Lemme guess, next you'll tell us the game is still buggy with poor performance because the population didn't support it properly, and had the players embraced the concept of viral marketing Vanguard would be a smash hit!

Try knowing something next time.

And before you get your Malibu Barbi panties all tangled up, try reading all 75 pages of /signed - Then you'll know.

Originally posted by shad0w99

Vanguard is by far the best MMO around at the moment. The ONLY issue is the lack of population and lack of a faction-based PvP server (Not FFA). Although the population is to blame for not having a server of that type!

 

Hey, guy who doesn' know WTF he is talking about. All the PVP servers were merged into the FFA Server - The playerbase was not consulted. The playerbase did however ask that team pvp be kept, NOT FFA.

The reason SOE gave us FFA only is because it's the easiest form of PVP to maintain. There are no rules, and therefore its the perfect excuse to not actually have to do anything with it. Where as Team PVP would have issues with race/class restrictions leading to an OP side.

Next time don't post. kthx.

Population seems to be doing good.

Silius is a fail. Sub numbers over the past 2 years have declined. Yeah some newbies join, but many more vets leave. They leave out of boredom and SOE/Silius' lust to chase the WOW buck while not infringing on the EQII subscribers. If he has put his heart and soul into vanguard then he is a heartless souless creature indeed. Worst lead developer and smallest development team ever. All 4 of them, wtf can they do?

I wouldnt mention Vanguard either if Silius was my lead developer. That guy is cancer.

Hard to say unless you post a photo of yourself.

Originally posted by Sovrath

 

 I was thinking last night how the riftways make the game actually playable.  .... Otherwise I would be spending my whole time just traveling. I'd never have time to play the game.

Told ya....

On Rifts: That is a decent point. In fact, it used to be that something like that existed. But like Equipment Expertise, it was deemed 'too difficult'. A long time ago, in a game that was fun and challenging to play - Before a rift was available for use you had to unlock it. Unlocking was done by physically visiting the riftway and clcking it. From that point on the riftway was always available.

That might not seem like a big deal, but was cool in that it at least forced players to travel overland at least once before unlocking the magical world of riftways. So ultimately Silius and his staff did two things:

1. Made riftways available to everyone automatically with some modest level requirements
2. Added a lot more rifts through out the entire VG world.

Some will argue that traveling for hours in a game  is no fun. To them I say - Try playing the game. There is no place in all of Vanguard that would require hours of travel to reach without a rift. 20 to 4o minutes? Yes.

It really is a huge list, probably more than I listed, but this is my quck list..

• Death penalty mostly removed
• KOS faction removed
• Equipment Expertise removed
• Weight/encumbrance removed
• adventure XP boosted several times
• craft xp boosted several times
• craft continental faction boosted
• Riftways added all over
• rentable mount cost reduced several times

• swamp gear drop rate boosted
• Monsters like HEG drops are like vending machines instead just getting what drops
• 'epic' galleons crafted within 24hours of release
• quested and crafted gear level requirments reduced
• forced gear for tanks (dk, pali, war) no more choices to equip as desired
• introductin of shandrels makes harvesting almost pointless
• increased drop rate of T6 harvest drops
• item decon no longer related to craft level

And probably more. At one point silius posted a poll to see if anyone was interested in a 'hardcore/original vision' server. It went to 26 page of people with a /signed. There was a huge demand. Then Silius posted that he made a mistake and they couldn't do an original vision server. They locked the thread and he ever spoke of it again. Vanguard used to be challenging and fun.

Now it seems like a hybrid EQII/WoW. No idently, trying to be everything and ultimately failing.

He edited it so you cant' see what he originally posted as the hardcore ruleset, but you CAN see the thread title and all the /sign.

Bet you'd be staying if Silius wasn't the lead developer.

Don't you think the expectations might be so high because God TAsos said the game was feature ready, that the AI was so intense that you could'nt tell it from real players, that the skill  system was indepth and immersive, that everything on the old peice of crap webpage was in game and ready?

Ya think? Do ya? For Gods sake, lady - until a few weeks ago keeps didn't even have fucking doors. DOORS!!

Please Brad, do not let Salim Grant/Silius work on your new project. He is the of death of creativity.

Originally posted by Warsong

 

As this thread and many others indicate is that a good project lead who does his/her homework can see that there is no jumping blind...there are clearly many people not wanting to play a WoW game.

Silius, aka Salim Grant the lead developer of Vanguard is perfect example of a poor lead. He jumped around like a frog and ended up ruining a once cool game.

Anything can arguably be the best. North Korea is arguably a leader in civil rights, just like Vanguard is arguably the best mmo around.

The arena is crap - You have to be level 50 to do anything there. Ever since some cry baby pve people got ganked and lost stacks of coin nobody really goes there.  Thanks Silius.