Do not play any SOE games. You will not be happy.

You 2 need to learn how to read. It was a 1 week walkout. For this week. And it appears to have worked, as aliied had a very quick win with most of the Axis squads aggreeing to walkout. Now, lets see if CRS will put this 1.29 patch in now.

Quests that advance story lines are good and worth having devs put in games. But quests for grinding, where you repeat the same quest hundreds of times, is bull poop.

WoW pre BC was a blast, hell pvp was fun till BG's came into the game. WoW went to shit when devs tried and found it successful in trapping dim wits into mindless grinds instead of actually creating fun content that can advance story lines or help develop your avatar. Then other MMO's decided to follow the WOW model, god I hope that changes soon.

Good stuff!

Originally posted by MoLoK_

 Originally posted by ardohain

Originally posted by lugal

Funcom has to my knowledge, never claimed to be making a WoW killer. AoC was never going to compete with WoW. 2 different type of games. Also, the fact they never expected the 700k subs they had is proof of that. So, stop trying to spread that BS your spewing.

 

this is correct. funcom never expected to be top dog in subscriptions. they were quite comfortable with the niche they would appeal to. i think they unfortunately cut an even thinner slice of pie than they intended.

 

For the last time. Everyone who followed the making of AoC should know that Funcom were after wow-subs. That is why they didnt make a true next gen game. Funcom chasing wow-subs does not mean that they tried to kill wow, they didnt have enough talent or money to try that...

Every MMO is after WOW subs. Duh. Now you contradict yourself, my previous reply to your post you stand firm by implying AOC was going to a WOW killer.

Originally posted by MoLoK_

Originally posted by lugal

Funcom has to my knowledge, never claimed to be making a WoW killer. AoC was never going to compete with WoW. 2 different type of games. Also, the fact they never expected the 700k subs they had is proof of that. So, stop trying to spread that BS your spewing.

 

Wrong.

 

"Compete with WoW" doesnt have to mean "getting 12 million subs". It can simply mean "the subscribers coming to AoC will be taken from WoW player base". 

 

Funcom stated that they were indeed going after Wow's subscribers. Thats why so many features are so strikingly similar in AoC compared to WoW. Funcoms idea with AoC was something like this:

 

"Lets make as many features in AoC similar to WoW as possible. With one exception - fighting. That way we will give all the WoW-refugees an easy transition over to AoC."

I call bullshit on that comment. Show me a link to where you got that.

Also, every mmo is competing with each other, it doenst mean the developer is out to kill a specific MMO. YOur leap in logic fails. Show me where, they specifically said they were making a "WOW KILLER". Of course they are competing with WOW, WOW has most of the gamers, every MMO is competing with WOW, that doesnt mean Stargate is a WOW killer, thats just stupid.

I remember seeing alot people getting banned on SOE forums. Some of my friends had alt accounts just for posting, since the forums were more fun than the game at times. Tarq server likes it <>, not <  >.

A bounty system woud be nice. Alot of people would come back for that.

4 allied single fighters against 1. Yeah thats fair. Why dont CRS move the sap locations again, just make this even better.

Originally posted by whisperwynd

Originally posted by Malickie

 This guy is speaking officially for this website, people who play AOC visit this website, it's very likely they are going to have some issue with being criticized by industry professionals.

This is basically the equivalent of the xbox mag, saying only yard apes play on xbox live. That may be funny for those who play playstation. However, those who play xbox are going to think twice before reading and trusting what that magazine has to say before spending their money on games it recommends. It could cause some to quit reading/posting here all together, which hurts no one but mmorpg.com.

This has nothing to do with how the game was scored, it has everything to do with the way you show respect to those who are visting your site.

As I said in my first post in this thread, I don't disagree with the game getting a 6-7( I'd go with a 7 personally, judged by the standards present in official reviews here), I take offence to being called a neanderthal however.

Take the forum war b.s. somewhere else, I'm sick and tired of arguing over ad hominem rehetoric.

 

 

I hate to interject against you once again Malickie, but nowhere does it say neanderthal in the review either. I just don't understand where those insulted get that.

He uses '"Unfortunately handicapped by the general asshattery of its player base.." but nowhere does he call the playerbase idiots or neanderthals. I wish ppl would spend more time reading and less time convincing themselves of their self-righteous claim to victimization. I've read it twice, so please tell me where he says that.

 

Maybe you need to take your own advice.

Copy pasted from the review.

Cons

Grind-Geavy Mid to High Level Progression
Lack of PVP Risk/Reward
Neanderthal Player Base
Post-20 Quest Content
Under-Developed Crafting, Social Games 
 

EDIT: Malickie was quicker than I with the copy paste.

Take a look into LOTRO. Big xpac just coming out. Seems like its up your alley.

Funcom has to my knowledge, never claimed to be making a WoW killer. AoC was never going to compete with WoW. 2 different type of games. Also, the fact they never expected the 700k subs they had is proof of that. So, stop trying to spread that BS your spewing.

No idea what the op is ranting about, his thoughts are random like somebody who is mentally unstable, and his grammar is worse than mine. Which is pretty bad.

Pretty dumb to equate your hate of America to how how Blizzard runs its business.

LOL! Thanks for the laugh. Guild Wars has pvp. LOL!

My question, before I get to excited is pretty fair, which company is hosting the servers for live?

Is Bioware going to purchase thier own server farms around the world to host the game? Or are they going to have another, like SOE do the server management for them?

For is they decide to have SOE manage the server side, or even the acount management side, I will not even bother with this game.

SOE has done nothing but ruin games, so I fear LA will push Bioware to use SOE in an effort to prop up SWG.

Axis dont fly in tier0. The twin engine 110 is garbage. Slow. Cant turn with a damm. basically, your single engine tier0 fighters fly circles around it. So, wiuth a crap fighter, nobody flies RDP raids or flies at all due to the crappy 110. Now you see allied just running all over the map with thier air power at tier0. All we axis can do is hope to hold the line long enuff for tier1 and all the axis players to come back.

So, are we gonna walk out or what?

HAROO!

Interesting.

Population is good. Plenty to do and many fights going on.

As long as SOE has nothing to do with this, I'm all over it like a fat kid on a twinkie.