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• • Remember! Don't play games you don't like! Grinding BAD!

  • I really don't game near as much as I used to. I'm finishing up my last year of college and have a part-time job...so all free time during the week is spoken for.

    I try to play games on the weekends, but I just can't find anything I like. Even singleplayer, FPS, RTS and other "classic" types of PC games bore me to tears. The last game I got really hooked on was WoW, and I stopped playing that over a year ago.

    It feels like all the games I try to pick up nowadays are so similar, nothing stands out. I'm losing my passion for the hobby. I went from a high school student who spent 99.9% of his free time playing video games to a graduating senior who can barely play a game for 5 minutes without losing interest.

    I think I'm... I'm getting... old! 

  • Posted: 8/08/08 2:34 AM
    General Discussion
• • The Cuts Deviate Too Much From The Original Concept; Not The Same Game Anymore

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    Originally posted by SundersGhost
    Okay, so let me begin with your first sentence. It's just not going to work out well for YOU.  not Us.  YOU.  From then on, what you state should be rethought from the angle of YOU, not US.  Thank you for sharing with us how the game will not work for YOU.  If that is truly the case, as has been said before by even Mark himself, don't buy the game if it is not right for you.  For those it works for, they can play the game and be happy.
    Also as has been said, if you want the game to be delayed and it is not, simply do not buy it.  Wait 6 months, or a year, however long you think it should be delayed, and buy the game then (If the game is something you are interested in) and it can be the same as if they had delayed it... for you.
    To save people the time of posting tangent rants about how we should not pay to Beta a game, that too is the choice of those who wish to pay for the game now, as opposed to later.  If YOU do not wish to pay for the game in its current state, don't.  For those that find it worth paying for now, permit them to without imposing your personal agendas on how they wish to spend THEIR leisure time and funds.  Thanks.
     

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    I'm sorry, SundersGhost, but this post was for US not YOU. So kindly remember that when I was writing this post it was for US not YOU. So if YOU don't agree with it, YOU don't have to comment on it, YOU can let US discuss it. YOU should go to another thread to comment where people are writing posts for YOU. Thanks.

    See how pretentious and annoying that is?

  • Posted: 7/14/08 7:45 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • The Cuts Deviate Too Much From The Original Concept; Not The Same Game Anymore

  • It's just not going to work out well for us, any way you slice it, unless the game is delayed until it is FINISHED.

    They're cutting two tanks, and two melee DPS. Now maybe those classes are only being delayed until after launch or maybe they're not going to be put into the game at all...Mr. Jacobs said they haven't decided yet.

    Here's the problem:
    If you cut out the tanks for any race, you now have a race that has no tank. This means they're no longer self-reliant. They now have to depend on a tank from another race if they need a meat shield for any specific content.

    Normally that wouldn't be that big of a problem EXCEPT that A) It doesn't really fit with the lore of the Warhammer world (Games Workshop has to be upset about this) and B) They've ALSO cut the cities down to only TWO cities!!!

    Now what's going to happen? You have races that can't be self-reliant, which is going to interfere with the lore of the game world and strip away racial identity because players are going to pretty much be forced to mingle with other races. You also have all the races smashed together in the Human and Chaos cities. This will strip away whatever small bit of racial identity was left for the Orcs/Dwarves, High Elf/Dark Elf segments.

    Remember all the race-specific Tier zones? Whatever happened to all that? Each race with it's own area to level up and battle their own sworn enemies. Guess we can kiss it goodbye, because it's going to be hard to have race specific areas if everyone is starting out in the same city.

    What the eff, Mythic? The thing I was most looking forward to MMO-wise was seeing an accurate depicition of the Warhammer world, a world with a lot of racial tension and infighting. Now you're spinning your heels on us this late in the game?

    I could deal with the frail alliances between the different races for the sake of game mechanics, it wasn't a big deal. But this latest move of cutting a fourth of the classes and mashing all the races into one city each...it's really a bad, bad idea.

    I see no way this can work the way you've laid it out and still end up a Warhammer game. You said you wanted to do it right. You said you wanted to be faithful to the material. You seem to be ACTING like you want to be the next Blizzard and not release games until they're done. So DO IT and stop caving to stockholders.

    When it comes to haughty development principles, it's put up or shut up. Actions not words. Make the game the way you intended to, the way you told me you would, or I'm not buyin'. Tell that to your benefactors.

  • Posted: 7/14/08 7:34 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)