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• • Technical question about wireless internet and WOW.

  • considering most MMos can work over a 56k (and even a 28K) line no problem, at least on normal play, I do not think you would hit the 5GB limit even if you play like 24/7 all the month.

    But if you want to know the exact amount that WoW will get of that limit, I do not know. Check those freeware programs another user mentioned, they will surely help you determine how much you are losing per day or even per hour.

  • Posted: 7/06/08 9:30 AM
    World of Warcraft
• • Poll: What side will you play at launch?

  • I'm gonna be a Witch hunter or a warrior priest... or something else of course, depends what I and my wife will like.

    Order probably at start but no guarantee we will stay there

  • Posted: 7/06/08 9:20 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • AoC will Shine when DX10 comes very soon!

  • How exactly the DX 10 would make ANY difference, really?

    AoC is already considered the best graphics in the MMorpg genre, there is no one else to beat with even better graphics.

    If people are not interested in the current ones, again, arguably the best on the market right now, I doubt they would be interested in an arbitrary increase in graphics when they already did not care of that before.

     

  • Posted: 7/05/08 2:42 AM
    Age of Conan
• • Ugly warhammer screenshots

  • Originally posted by Gishgeron
    

     

      To ME, they stand just fine.  I can GLADLY accept the game if it looked just like that.  The fact that we know it will actually be BETTER is merely icing on my cake.  I have long been a herald for the ideal that gameplay is lord of graphics, and not the other way around.  If you disagree....then I would direct you toward games like Vanguard and AoC.  They were designed with you in mind.

      Though...it would appear (judging by what I am seeing from feedback) that designing for graphics hasn't once landed someone in the piles of money yet.  Perhaps next time, then?  At least funcom made back its investment (if you assume they sold every shipped box AND score a 1/3 retention).

      I just don't see anything ugly in the pictures at all.  It looks great fun to me.  I rather hate realism....I can get all the realism I want by going to work.  When I game, I want fantastical.  I want something different...something I cannot see out my window.  I see that crap all the time.  I'm the kind of player that actually likes a good art direction....I love Cel-shading when done right.  I loved the art in Legend of Mana, and play that game to this day. 

      If anything, people don't need to defend Mythic at all.  YOU need to defend YOUR stance here.  Most of us find you both trite and silly for even suggesting what you do.  I defy you to prove to me that you are neither in a manner of my liking.

    
     

    First of all, I never said I want more realistic graphics, but that screenshot is plain ugly, realistic or not.

    Infact I am a fan of graphics having their own artistic style and I am not saying either that WAR does not have that, the OTHER shots and movies shows some good stuff.

    I've heard the mantra "gameplay over graphics" a millions times nowadays and while I can agree to a point with it, I also think that the graphics should be good enough or then no amount of amazing gameplay is gonna make the game succeed too much (*points to Roma Victor*), especially 3D games like this where you are supposed to lose yourself in a different world. Other genres have way less use for graphics, like, I dunno, turn based strategy games.

    What is ugly in the screenshot? Textures are low quality, the ground is bare and just bad, the edges are all really ugly and not smoothed at all, you can see the pixels for crying out loud... it looks like a DAoC screenshot from oh so many years ago.

    Now, the issue here is NOT that WAR graphics is bad, we have seen it is not, the issue is WHY is mythic posting these non excellent screenies on their official main warhammer web site.

    Go check Games Workshop page, go check their models... do you see any unfinished, badly painted miniature there (beside maybe in the "learn how to paint section")? Do Ford shows you partially wrecked cars in their site? No? guess why?

    But if you see nothing wrong in that shot, I guess we can't really have a debate :D

  • Posted: 7/02/08 2:41 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Several Questions about War! Please help.

  • Originally posted by Zathoral
    

    Hey guys. I am currently playing AoC, but things just arent looking too good for the future of the game, so I am taking a look at War, and I have a few questions that i haven't been able to find answers to.

    1. I am a hardcore crafter. I love crafting and making money in mmos. What will crafting in War be like? Will the gear actually compare if not better looted gear? Will there be ways to obtain higher end recipes for instance through raid drops, pvp, or just random world drops? What crafting professions will there be? For instance armorsmith, weaponsmith, etc. How does one advance their crafting profession?

    2. Housing. Will there be housing, guild halls, or anything like that in War?

    3. Server types. Will all servers have the RvR pvp? If so how will PvP servers be different from PvE servers if they even make seperate server types. What other server types will there be?

     

    Thanks.

    
     

    1. As the others have said, you will find a very different type of crafting here than in other games, for one you cannot make armours and weapons here, just Potions and Talismans. Talismans, however, seems to be quite interesting as they are a bit like "enchanting" in WoW, only better as you can destroy old items and preserve one of their best quality to then apply it to a new item of yours.

    (like... you had a sword with nice stats that also had a.... say... flaming damage. Now you get a new sword that has better stats but no flaming damage, you can destroy the previous sword, take the flaming effect off and make a talisman with it, then apply the talisman to the new sword to have a better flaming sword)

    Check out the mark jacobs video to know all we know about crafting. It looks quite entertaining, dunno if it will be enough for you, but hey.

    2. There are keeps for guilds and a special Inn where guilded persons can meet to coordinate their efforts, that is about all so far.

    3. there are RP servers confirmed, nothing else so far.

  • Posted: 7/01/08 5:26 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)