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• • My Last Post in these Forums and a Plea to the Community

  • I agree with you on many points.  MMORPG is like a cesspool of trolls and propaganda artists.  I still don't think that you should leave though.  Even though you have probably run into your share of crap from the employee's of different companies, developers of different games, and general lemmings of negativity that permeate this forum, I'll bet that you have also helped let those of us smart enough not to just believe everything we read be able to make an informed decision about whether or not to try some games.

    That's important, especially here.

    So, in the name of the forum we are currently posting in, to hell with the critics, nothing that they can possibly say to keep someone from trying out what they want to play is going to work anyway.  In my experience, people who have to come to sites like this to make a decision whether they are going to play a game or not are most likely the same lemmings that will come back to post negative stuff about the game anyway.  Most people just come to see the circus.  To find out if there is anything they should know and/or to compare notes about things they already know to others who already know them too.

    As far as AOC goes, my notes go like this.

    1. They were incredibly egotistical in beta.  This, not the beta testers, is the reason that every bug they have run into upon release is applauded.  They jerked around their tech testers pretty badly, had them show up for testing as though it was a real job and then forced them to go back and stand in line among the unwashed in order to enter open beta.  They then, only after most of the tech testers went out and paid for open beta, allowed them to participate in general beta where they were still expected to test the game.

    AOC was a 30 gig download.  Each time a tester had to change their account status, unless they had 60 to 90 gigs of hard drive space just laying around empty, they were forced to go through the download process again which, when it came to general or tech beta was extremely slow.  In this situation they shouldn't have been surprised at the negative feedback that jerking these people around was going to inspire.  They knew that they had a good game though and so they used this in their favor.  Nothing that we can do about it now except to pay or not pay.  I'm paying because it is a good game.  I still, however, harbor my resentments and will probably not beta test another game made by these same folks.

    2. AOC kicks ass.  There is plenty of content, plenty of action, and I have not stopped playing it since release.  I play on a PVP server and so I am sorry, I will not divulge any spoilers.  You want to get hard like me then you get smart like me.  I will say though that the opportunity is there, just like it has been in so many games before where people swear that it is not.

    3. The game is not as buggy as the processes set up outside of it.  Account setups, customer service, all the things that have to do with dealing with those people can only be called one step above primitive.  I have, however, experienced very few bugs since release but I think that this is in part because I have not been trying to hack at the game.  I had a friend that complained on day one.  His graphics were all messed up and it couldn't be his fault because he had an 8800 gtx video card.  As soon as I convinced him to get his head out of his own ass and update his drivers, his problems were solved and I have not heard a word out of him since.

    There are still some graphical bugs that need to be sorted out, but nothing that is so detrimental to gameplay that it ranks as an A or even B class bug.

    4. The inteface rocks.  I can solve everyones problem with one single command.  "Shift - L" locks those pesky icons to the hotbar.  After that I was happier than a pig in shite.

    5. I run a hyperthreaded 3gig intel with 3 gigs of ram and a 8500 GT.  It runs fine in groups, solo, and pvp.  I run on low settings but really can't see the difference between that and normal other than the clip plaining.  Again, to all of you superusers who think that just because you paid an arm and a leg to brag about your rigs that it gives you the right to call any game that you can't run all out a lemon, get yer heads out of your asses and realize that these guys aren't programming for you, they are programming for you tomorrow and you are part of that problem not part of that solution.

    I see all of the blood, all of the gore, the nipples are intact, and my green and blue gear looks pimp.  I even set up a version to run on my girls machine that is the same as mine only with a gig less of ram and a 256meg hyper memory card in it and it looks just the same.  Her's runs it a little bit choppier but still not at all unplayable.  This is the first time in the last three MMO's that I have played where I can say that we will not have to upgrade to play it.  Thank god for Vanguard after all huh?  At least it turned out ot be good for something.

    In summary I think that AOC is a winner.  It is something new in a market full of clones of the last thing.  And although I don't care much for the decision makers that are in charge of public relations, I still give it a thumbs up for anyone experienced enough and smart enough to know how to do more than zerg and bitch.  The gameplay is linear only long enough to teach the stupid how to focus, after that it opens up like any good MMO should.  The secrets are there and properly buried so that not just any idiot can get on the game and powerlevel into greatness (although this hasn't stopped a slew of them from trying).

    If you play the game right you will always be better than the next guy no matter which class you play.  That is as it should be and I pray that they do not change it.

    Finally, to the op, if you can't handle the hatespeak on this site, just do what I do and wait for someone to say something reasonable before you post.  In cases where you have something to say, just say it, damn communication beyond the point of what you have to say hehehehe.  Someone will read it and appreciate you for you effort.  And if they don't?  To hell with them too!

    Sorry for the vulgar language, playing that game all week has gotten me back in touch with the manimal inside :P

  • Posted: 6/01/08 7:11 PM
    Age of Conan
• • City of Heroes: Optional In-game Advertising in CoH

  • "At no additional expense?" 

    When I first saw this article my heart jumped.  "COH/X is going to be free?"  Then I read it.  Bleh...  Not as exciting as I thought.  I was hoping that they had went the way of Anarchy Online and opened the game up to anyone who wanted to play.  With the only benefit of in-game advertising being to cushion the fall of dropping subscriptions though, I don't see how this is supposed to be good news to anyone other than the already subscribed.  It's not like I'm going to go sign back up just so I can find out where I should by my sneakers while I play.

  • Posted: 4/10/08 1:54 PM
    General Discussion
• • Football MMO

  • I found a football MMO beta that looks pretty cool.  You don't get to actually twitch but everything else there is to do with a career in football is there.  You can manage individual players or entire teams depending on how much time and effort you want to put into each and already there is a pretty fair amount of people playing. 

    It's not going to take anyone away from anything else they are playing of course, but if you like football, fantasy football, or anything to do with football, it's a pretty nice real time simulation. 

    Follow this link to check it out.

    http://goallineblitz.com/

    Peace

    Jesad

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  • Posted: 3/30/08 5:11 PM
    General Discussion