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• • MMORPGs and the current economic downturn

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    Originally posted by Elsabolts
    With monthly cable bill and access fees im sure were gonna lose some folks.

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    During hard times people turn to lower cost forms of entertainment. They don't come much cheaper per hour of entertainment than a MMORPG. If anything MMORPGs will become more popular.

  • Posted: 10/10/08 7:01 PM
    General Discussion
• • Warhammer developers scrambling to appease its masses....

  • I don't know what the OPs motives are but this topic reads like he's been dying for something bad to latch on to and this attempt was just grasping at straws. The games had a great launch and the staff are continuing to work on problems that arrise. I don't see the problem.

    Regarding frame rates, I have had some slowdown when things get really busy inside a keep. It can be bad when the rooms full. I'm not running on anything close to latest hardware though. Overall the games performance is good.

  • Posted: 10/02/08 9:22 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • My review, and then i'm done with mmorpg.com for awhile

  • Agreed with most comments on open world RvR, not to be confused with the server type named "open rvr". Open world RvR on a core server is probably the most fun aspect of the game. There is sometimes problems finding the action but once you do it is a riot.

  • Posted: 9/26/08 8:26 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Why WAR is "different" to some and "the same" to others...

  • Not to be awkward but I've been thinking the exact opposite. I played my 1st mmorpg in 2001 and I'm one of those harping on about how WAR is a refreshing change. If you've only ever played 1 mmorpg you are going to go into your next one with the same mindset and try to do the same things and when you find that those things are there announce "This is just like WoW!". They haven't yet experienced that there is a whole range of similar yet different setups across the mmorpg genre and don't necessarily know that the differences exist if you look a little deeper or how those differences can affect the overall experience because their frame of reference is relatively narrow. For example I think some people just assume RvR is just wow battlegrounds under a different name, after all PvP is PvP right?

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    Originally posted by Abrahmm
    Just my theory...
    I think that the main reason why WAR seems like it is completely different to some people and more of the same to others is because we have two primary groups of people. We have, for lack of a better term, "WoW generation" which were introduced into MMOs by WoW or something very similar, or simply like the style of WoW and the likes. These people see WAR as something completely different because they take things that are contained in WoW and others like classes/levels/quests as necessary and critical parts of an MMO. A game that contains these components is just normal, and they look beyond these components to determine if a game is different or not. These people see WAR's RvR, PvP focus, Public Quests, along with other things and think "This is completely different from WoW!"
    The other group of people are the people that know MMOs can be so much more, and so much different. These people look at WAR having classes/levels/quests/fantasy theme and think "Another boring linear game" and probably pass it off before even playing it, or playing knowing what it is going to be and knowing they probably won't like it. Then the terms "WoW-clone" start getting thrown around, because in this group of people's eyes, the game is a WoW clone.
    There, thats my theory on how we can have such heated debates about how WAR is a WoW-clone or how it is nothing like WoW.
    (WoW is used in this because it is always used in everything, I don't care if WoW wasn't the first with these features, get over it. )

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  • Posted: 9/21/08 8:03 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • MMO burn out? I recommend Warhammer.

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    Originally posted by Thunderous
    This thread is a joke.

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    If you quested, grinded, gathered, crafted, etc but failed to pay proper attention to the other half of the game that is RvR then you have no place posting "it's the same old same old". If you only did those things that you are used to doing in all the other games then it's no wonder you think the game has nothing new.

    RvR is not just a slightly beefed up battlegrounds equivelant deserving just as little attention or to be treated as a side minigame. It's a significant part of the game. If you didn't pay it proper attention you will fail to see what War is bringing to the genre that no other game bar DAOC did. It's amazing how many people are crying out for something "new" to do yet when something is right there in front of them they don't even see it. DAOC might be old but I suspect only a small percentage of the people posting here have experienced RvR so for your purposes you should treat RvR as an innovation.

    To those people that think "PvP is not my thing" but are still bored of the same old mmorpg drudgery then I still say give this a chance and get involved in all aspects of the game and maybe it will surprise you coz it did me.

  • Posted: 9/20/08 12:42 PM
    General Discussion