Smart move on the devs part. Let people get a taste of the game and if they want more, pay for it.

This is a much better model than microtransactions!

To those saying it is Pay 2 Win, isnt every F2P or Microtransaction based game one? It would be idiotic to NOT reward those players that are willing to pay money and actually help keep the servers up.

Common sense is an uncommon virtue on this site!

Originally posted by swampthing11

I'm not sure what's worse anymore with this game.

 

1.  The actual game.

2.  The trolls

3.  The games apologists and crusaders.

 

Frankly, i'm gonna go with number 3.  Trolls are easy to ignore, the game can get better, but the apologists and crusaders are driving me insane.

lol love it! I will have to go with number 3 as well :)

checked LoTRO and Fallen Earth... nada.

I have been in the same situation as you. Played this that and the other but no other game compares to LoTRO for fun and friendship for me personally. I resubbed a few days before F2P started and do not regret it at all :)

All my characters were still on Vilya and Windfola, so far loving Crickhollow! :)

Brian Wood you will be missed.

Even though he is gone it wasn't in waste. The last act of this man was to save his wife and child.

Originally posted by Robokapp

 in WoW I can remember the desert zones being pretty featureless

 as opposed to...real deserts?

 

"featureless" is an actual feature of deserts. :)

 

Having grown up in a desert I can attest to the truthfulness of this! Even the occasional mesa's you may see look like the last one you saw.

Originally posted by SBFord

Tell God. :P

LOL!

Originally posted by Pryetta

I am looking forward to this game but I am wondering if there will be magic. I mean, I asked my brother why there was magic in any of these "history" games and he said that back then they believed some generals had magical powers because things would happen to turn the tide of battle on their side and they believed it was magic.

This actually makes sense! I knew one day I would learn something new on these forums :)

No sarcasm intended if it came across that way lol, genuinely happy to learn something lol.

So now I am curious.... Will this be a PC only game? I for one hope not :)

As for the cash shop..... IT all depends on the items within said shop :) They have to fund the game somehow lol.

Originally posted by parrotpholk

It appears they are going for a super easy mode type of game. Not my cup of tea and the lack of proper information makes this a no go for me.  Hoping Tera and Rifts is better.

Agreed.

Originally posted by Antipathy

Why are people placing so much emphasis on the font of all things?

 

At this early stage of development, the font of a game is trivial to change. And I'm pretty sure that if the developers get sufficient negative feedback about it, then they will change it. After they've done that they will have a coffee break, and then spend the rest of the day concentrating on more important stuff - like playability.

Simple. It is the nature of most MMO players to find ANYTHING wrong with any game but their own.

BTW, that bow looks like one from LOTRO. /sarcasm

Originally posted by splad

actually, they are just adding the bug fixes to the C-Store.

rofl! This is new Cryptic way of earning extra income.

Originally posted by Raizeen

What do you expect with a crappy computer? 1 gig ram is not decent anymore. Games cant stay low end forever cause some people wont upgrade. And its not a internet connection fault but the ram most likely.

Beat me to the edit lol.

Diablo 3 release date? - Estimated 2011
   At Blizzcon 2009, it was revealed that Blizzard plans to launch two games in 2010: StarCraft 2 and the World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm. It's unlikely that Blizzard, reknowned for the high quality of their games, would try to rush Diablo III in the same year as well. And that, I'm afraid, means the earliest Diablo 3 will be available will be late 2010 or 2011.

Can't find any verifiable release date info, this is the best educated guess I could find. But remember it is still just a guess!

Originally posted by eyeswideopen

Originally posted by Grimzay

Will americans get butt hurt like some are about Homefront?

My question is will Muslims get butthurt when people playing Taliban stand there and suicide bomb themselves in the middle of other Taliban.

LOL!

Something to think on:

WAR had huge hype.

Tabula Rasa had huge hype.

Lineage 2 had huge hype.

STO has huge hype.

Name one of those games that lived up to it. Name ANY MMO that has lived up to it's launch hype.

Originally posted by fiontar

As to targeting and interface issues, I've experienced this a few times this week while playing retail. I'm on Win7 x64 (never had this problem with WinXP). For me, it only happens if I've used alt+tab to check something in my web browser. When I go back to the game, many key bindings are non-functional and there are serious issues trying to interact with the world via mouse as well. When this happens, I have to alt+tab out and close all other running programs, then return back to the game.

So, he might be experiencing a similar bug. For me, it's as if the ui isn't passing fully back to the game client after an alt+tab; keyboard and mouse input seem to still think they are back in the windows desktop.

Same as above while running Win 7 x64 Ultimate and only when tabbing in and out of the window. Report already submitted on this.

As long as they don't allow Cryptic to develop it I would interested in giving it a shot. If Cryptic gets their hands on it at all it is a HUGE NO for me.

have you gave Fallen Earth a shot yet?

hmm... I have been subbed to UO since it's inception but have only logged on maybe twice in the last 8 years. Does that count?