490 hours

I played until battlegrounds were released and killed world pvp.

Yeh remember EQ2 when you had to wait till 20 before you got to play your class. Everyone quit before hand because it was like JUST LET ME PLAY MY CLASS FROM THE START!

Windows 7 is great after having so many problems with Planetside like never getting it to work on Vista and the spawn tube graphical glitch. I've not had one problem with the game on Windows 7 and hopefully now my mates will be able to try the game after they had the same problems with vista.

I kinda wish they put the trial for when the merge the servers because all my characters are on Werner. However I've just been playing and when you're in a nice big battle you wouldn't get on anyother FPS. You have a friendly Galaxy Gunship flying overhead being attacked by a reaver and then suddenly everyone goes to rescue the Gunship. You're looking up at this dogfight going on and then some Mosqs come to backup the Reaver. Your max units are all trying to attack the aircraft and you're being attacked on the ground by tanks and snipers. It's like just amazing and you wish that SOE did something more with Planetside rather than giving a crap expansion, BFRs which made everyone leave and the bending lol.

Having such a great time again though it's a really good game and the gameplay still holds up which just shows how ahead of it's time it was. Just a shame the graphics are abit dated but people still play Counter Strike so it isn't much of an issue with an FPS.

All their games have development issues.

SOE had to rush out SWG because they signed a contract with LA and if they didn't meet the deadline then LA could sue them. EQ2 was way behind schedule at the same time so they took developers from planetside to go work on both of them games and sealed Planetsides fait.

I think the best thing for Warhammer is to release a zone like Land of the Dead along with level 32 characters as a free trial on Steam and rerelease that great trailer they had. I know I'd play that and it might get me back into the game.

It was a horrible game and I'm so glad it's gone.

Originally posted by bond284

Originally posted by Rajen

I think games don't have trials because they aren't confident enough in the game to get people to buy it after they try it. The company wants you to have to buy the game so they atleast get that money out of you even if you don't like it afterwards, if you have a trial and don't like it then they get nothing from you.

 

 

This, also you end up using a nice chunk of their bandwidth by downloading their enourmous game.  Free trials eventually happen in almost every mmo, it just takes about a year.

I think it's mainly because they don't see much of a return from trials when hype and reviews make people buy the game and then try it once they've paid for it. They don't care if people quit before the 30 days because they've just made £30 off a sale. Then once sales start drying up they put down the price and release a trial for the people who wont put down money without playing it first. Then you start to see promotional offers for people who want to get their friends involved and they start sending out buddy keys to their mates and offer them unique items to get their mates to sub. What happens though is you get some sad git who makes like 3 accounts and subs to them all himself to get the items. However the company doesn't care cause they just made money.

Thats what pisses me off the most because in MMOS now its whoever has the most real life money gets everything. Where as someone who pays the sub and can play more gets the shaft just because he isn''t being suckered in to buying all the little things.

You get them fucking promotional offers with expansions like with SWG where you have to buy the Digital download and the retail version just to get both.

With myself I always want to have everything if I;m to get into an MMO and theres a vertain status for playing from day one. So if I can't play it from day one then I'm not gonna play it and thats why a trial or a beta is important to me because I'm not gonna buy an MMO on pure faith anymore after WAR. There was a time you could and you'd get something out of it. I bought EQ2, WoW, SWG, Planetside, EVE etc etc. all out of pure faith and I atleadt had fun with them for awhile. Now MMOs are just fucking shit and let me down every time.

It's the same reason why I don't like Free 2 Play games or Micro Transaction games.

With a monthly fee it takes away all the people who arn't serious about the game and it makes me feel a part of the community. SWG used to have the best community out there before SOE pissed everyone off and you just wouldn't of had that experience if there was thousands of free 2 play noobs running around griefing everyone.

Mico Tansactions put me off an MMO cause I want to complete everything about an MMO and once you start adding things like TCG in SWG where you have to put down $400 just to get an item on pure luck then ain't interested. I don't have that money to waste and instead of being about the gameplay it becomes about whoevers richer.

I also have to buy the Collectors Edition just so I get those special items that make you feel superior to people who join after the games launched and don't have them. Thats another reason why I want a trial or beta before the games launched so I know if I'm gonna buy it or not.  Otherwise i wont buy the CE and I'll never play the game again.

I hated how SWG started because I would try to get friends into the game and there was this lame tutorial that taught you nothing. Then it would throw them into the game and there was no indication of what they could do. So before I could get them into the game they were fedup. My friend loved the profession system but he said there wasn't anything to do. I agree the game just had hardly any Star Wars content.

What they needed was a new tutorial showing you how things work and content.

It turns out to be like Guild Wars but becomes so popular all other mmorpgs in future copy it like they did WoW.

When they said they were remodeling the character models I thought Great! Then they showed them off and they were still as ugly as ever. Until they fix them horrible ugly character models I will not be interested.

I would have given it a 2 cause the game is just so bland with poor graphics and animations. Why would you want to explore such a empty lifeless world like that?

How do they learn about the body in school?

SWG Pre CU system was perfect for me.

The problem became when they added holocrons in so you had to grind professions you didn't even like to unlock Jedi. The system before it was better where it didn't tell you how to play the game but you played how you liked to. The game didn't feel like a grind then because you were playing the professions you liked and doing tasks you enjoyed.

I also wish they added more content in the game so instead of having to grind mission terms I could do quests and dungeons and stuff to gain XP. I mean say WoW had this system then I could go to any part of the world and do whatever content I wanted to do with my friends. It's no linear and it doesn't make me wait through months of grinding to do it and play with friends.

What they also needed to do is allow normal professions to gain XP via PVP and have proper PVP battlegrounds instead of the ones that were in and were broken the whole time and then got taken out.

Instead all we had to do was boring mission terms because SOE were too busy ruining Jedi each patch for the tards who complained they were too hard when that was the whole point of the timeline.

Warcraft has an amazing storyline and lore. Everquest is one of the most boring generic fantasy worlds I've played and as an mmorpg it doesn't have a good story.

Go play Warcraft 3 and The Frozen Throne and other Blizzard games like diablo 2 and Starcraft. Blizzard are masters of creating cinematics and stories that immerse you.It's funny how everyone shits on Blizzard and saying they ripped off Warhammer or whatever but I'd rather Warcraft and starcraft over Warhammer any day.

i highly doubt they'll base a movie on World of Warcraft but just the Warcraft IP. The press probably just say based on World of Warcraft cause they're clueless and havn't heard of Warcraft 3 before.

I remember this flash based RPG from years and years back. Man It was so hard and took me atleast 2 months to complete.

http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/quest_for_the_crown

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by John.A.Zoid

When Japanese games are translated into english they just sound cheesy and just don't translate well. All i hear is good things about this game and I wanna try it but I'm not putting £35 down to get into a beta of a game I probably wont like because I'm not into the whole Japanese art style thing.

 

It's a korean game. It's a mixture between Korean gameplay and western gameplay.

 

Well Asian games all look alike.

When Japanese games are translated into english they just sound cheesy and just don't translate well. All i hear is good things about this game and I wanna try it but I'm not putting £35 down to get into a beta of a game I probably wont like because I'm not into the whole Japanese art style thing.

What I hate is everyone raids so seriously and you have to get everything right or you get shouted at. It also takes up most of your day and tbh I want some exercise aswel lol. What I loved about SWG when they did add content into it was it felt like there was no set group size to do the content. I did most of it messing about with just me and a good friend of mine and I was having fun. Maybe it's because the game was borked and buggy and SOE had yet to fix it but I prefer doing instances and dungeons with only upto 5 other people.

Sure theres a time and a place for having 40 people but thats out in the open world where you stumble upon something great like everyone raiding a city or something. I hate having to get all organised and people taking the raid so seriously just so someone can get gear. I don't care about gear I just do content for fun.

Developers don't stay making the same game forever. Everyother mmorpg out there has tons of original developers leave over the years because they want to do something new.