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• • Why don't You want to raid any longer in MMO?

  • Hi all,

    Being that i do occasionally raid with my guild on the MMO I play. But I do agree with the reasons you have listed. Personally I do prefer to just ejoy the game and not be governed by turn up this time, spend next 6 hours or so in the same dungeon ( usually how it works - WoW was always kara etc gets boring fast) over and over as the weeks go by.

    I have come to the personal conclusion that I more prefer to do alil raid content every now and then and just enjoy the game with some friends doing what ever we want and not be ordered around fro a 1% chance to get an item that one we may not use and or be replaced faster than was worth the raid time.

    One more thign I wil mention, is I left WoW for LOTRO and the raids I do run with my guild are alot less time consuming and most times teh rewards are worthwhile, I don't mind doing a raid with them everynow and then, as I only need to spend an hour to hour adn a half to run the raid, instead of half a dozen or more.

     Oh and I did consider using extremely large text to be cool :P But I refrained from it LOL.

     

  • Posted: 7/13/08 5:23 PM
    General Discussion
• • Why do so many people that visit MMORPG.com dislike WoW?

  • Originally posted by rasgrix
    

    because there are two communities, the "mmo" community and the "WoW" community, this is the "mmo" community made up of players who played many mmos and people looking for games different from WoW

    
     

    Could'nt agree more.

    On another note, I do like WOW, its great, so easy to play that it keeps the moronic players from around the world there instead of in a good slight hard to play MMO, so we dont get annoyed by them in chat channels and such.

    Long live WoW, so it may keep the crazies happy and not annoying me and other players of other mmo's  :p

     

     

  • Posted: 7/12/08 7:22 PM
    World of Warcraft
• • AoC or LotRO?

  • LOTRO wins in my choice.

    Works nice out of the box, hardly a bug to be found, I find lots of players online always.

    AoC, dont play it myself, but some friends did, Didnt sub after the free month, too much instancing, too many bugs, etc. Hope AoC does pull their heads out of the sand and get it sorted sooner than later as there is heaps of MMO's coming out and competition is nasty for your sub. Longer they take the less plauyers they going to have/keep.

    For me, I playing LOTRO since release, and still enjoy it today, and with another major content update only a week or so away I really cant wait to see the new stuff they adding. and then down the track a new EXP is coming out Mines of Moria :) thats going to rock.

     

     

  • Posted: 7/12/08 7:17 PM
    General Discussion
• • Is this game worth buying?

  • Straight from http://hellgateguru.com/  true or not, I bought the game on release and I must say I feel its going backwards more than forwards. I played free for abit to see if I would like it, and then tried out subs even the newer patches, but its same ol same ol grinding mobs in same place to try adn get something that maybe 3% better than you already got. I lost interest fast and all my friends moved on faster than I did. I really wanted this game to shine. But it didnt for me.

    You may like it quite a few still play though I do find the towns very sparce now and last few times I was on I hardly saw a sole running around anywhere in the game, even chat channels were very quiet.

    But give it a shot, It maybe the thing your looking for or not. Anyways the below post was from a Hellgate fan site, And if thats true, I think its going to go backwards even faster.

    POST FROM http://hellgateguru.com/

    Flagships’s Community Manager, Taylor Balbi, has revealed to VE3D that all Ping0 and Flagship Studios staff have been made redundant. According to Taylor and the VE3D article, employees were notified at a company meeting and subsequently informed that the offices will be officially closed on Saturday. The source went on to reveal that three of the studio’s top brass dug into their own pockets to provide 30 days of pay to all employees.

    As mentioned earlier, word of the studio’s closure reached HanbitSoft, leading to an early press release regarding the control over the Hellgate: London intellectual property that lead to a stern rebuttal from an official source in Flagship Studios, which, subsequently lead to a HanbitSoft lawyer posting the following sentence on our very website: “It is unfortunate that Flagship turned down additional investments HanbitSoft offered to make that would have allowed it to keep its doors open.”

    As also referenced in the legal release, HanbitSoft hopes to independently continue development of Mythos, to which it owns the rights thanks to a loan agreement enacted with Flagship. Comerica now owns the Hellgate: London rights through a similar loan agreement, and will likely continue Asian development with HanbitSoft. As for English-language releases of the two games, it is possible that the Asian companies would continue development, but the fate of the US, Japanese and European version of Hellgate: London remain a mystery.

    In short, Flagship’s time has run out, and all intellectual property may have been lost, all staff fired, and the studio closed. Flagship, we hardly knew ye…

    Further Confirmation: A person going by the name of GLC who is claiming to be a former employee of Ping0 has made the following post on SomethingAwful to further confirm the company’s demise:

    Former Ping0 employee checking in here. I feel bad for some of the talented guys on the staff who busted rear end to try and get a game out on a ridiculous schedule, but I think we all kind of saw this coming after the game came out and basically bombed. Flagship bit off way more than they could chew and made a lot of development and structural mistakes in how they went about things. They had a lot of big dreamers on staff, but not enough nitty-gritty people who knew how to get shit done. It sucks, but that’s life I guess. I didn’t always agree with the decisions of the leadership, but it doesn’t surprise me at all to hear that three of them (probably Roper and the Schaeffers) dug into their own pockets to pay people. Nothing about them, Max Schaeffer in particular, ever made me think they were less than standup guys.

    I think it’s less that they aimed too high than that they tried to aim that high and do it quickly, and they didn’t do anything the easy way. They had their own server architecture, their own client, their own chat, their own graphics engine, their own everything basically. Plus they wanted a game that could support thousands of concurrent connections with no downtime, had an engaging single-player campaign, and could support an ongoing, persistent world. It was like picking everything that’s hard to do in a game, and then putting it on a brand-new company (two of them, really) with people who hadn’t worked together before.

    Plus you had Ping0 doing the back-end and multiplayer, working off a forked codebase, and trying to make sure that what they were designing was open enough that it could be marketed to other companies. And then Mythos, with a team working out of Seattle under Travis Baldtree (who is a fucking genius, by the way), which had to fit into things somehow even though it wasn’t as much of a priority. It was just a really chaotic situation all around. Hopefully the talented guys I met there will bounce back quickly, it’s a lovely time to be unemployed in the bay area.

  • Posted: 7/12/08 7:12 PM
    Hellgate: London
• • AoC Game Director says LotRO & WoW are like McDonalds.

  • Originally posted by JonMichael
    

    This guy really doesn't have a clue... LOL.

    Saying WoW and LOTRO are like McDonalds and AOC is like Steak and Wine? Well... he didn't specify what kind of steak and wine.  I'm thinking Riunite and cube steak.

    Will someone please let this Gaute guy know that you should NEVER serve wine before it's time.  And if you're gonna promise good wine... don't serve Koolaid.

    
     

    What more is needed to be said.

    I'll stick with my Macca's anyday atm. I not really keen on a can of Pal and a bowl of water.

    Cheers

    Tanvaras

    LVL 50 Hobbit Minstrel (LOTRO - Current MMO)

    LVL 70 Human Warrior (WOW - retired)

    LVL 70 Gnome Waarlock (WOW - retired)

     

  • Posted: 6/26/08 5:27 PM
    Lord of the Rings Online