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• • Just watched gameplay footage of a White Lion

  • The lameness of this thread is... beyond words really.

    A nice emote might illustrate it better:

    

    To the OP: why oh why oh why?

    Just give us one valid reason why would you go on starting a thread like this? It's been done to death already. Why do you think ANYONE would care that you in particular think that WAR's UI and art direction style is similar to WoW? Why? Are you a pathological megalomaniac or something? What's wrong with you? I mean you are entitled to your opinion and all and respect etc but... why why why when it has been stated soooo many times already? Just why?

    And why are you misleading people into reading this miserable copycat thread of yours by mentioning the White Lion class in the title? Why? It has nothing relevant to do with your OP. The only explanation is that it is intentional to drag posters into reading this same old crap that is making baby Jesus cry...

    Why?

    Just why?

    (for emphasis)

  • Posted: 7/25/08 9:08 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Balance?

  • In before the obligatory 20+ page flamefest on the definition of "balance" in MMORPGs....

    Well, the general gist of it is that its going to be a rock-paper-scissors thing (+shotgun ofc).... basically.... in a way.

    - masteries are going to be very important, so while one class will beat another in one spec combination, a different combination of masteries may reverse the dominance

    - group play and synergies between different classes and specs will play a huge part in determining who's stronger. This is a game that emphasizes group play. I don't think you'll see much 1v1 PvP in WAR... except maybe on open servers ()

    The second point imo is the most important: it's not how badass you personally are but how well you work  with and complement your allies. If you don't know how to play with others you'll sink like a stone. Just like in any decent team sport for example.

  • Posted: 7/24/08 5:53 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Ok, enough - I am turning my back on MMORPG.com, it has degenerated too far

  • Yo Elikal, chill mate.

    These forums are just like RL, you got your idiots, you got your smart people, you got your trolls and all kinds of fantastic creatures lurking about. This is a public forum drawing in people with all kinds of different backgrounds and agendas and you can't expect everybody to conform to your standards of civility.

    It's like going to a football game as opposed to a quiet coffee with your personal friends. When I go to mmorpg.com I know exactly what to expect so I don my 2-inch laminated kevlar flame retardant troll armor. I know it can get really hard but you need to keep your cool and not take things to heart or else them toothy clawy thingies are going to eat you alive.

    On the other hand there's quite a few forums around that are more narrow in scope and private in character so people tend to be much more civil if not reasonable. MMORPGs are the Big Thing right now and there's a lot of people who want to get their voices heard - which is really hard if the forum is overpopulated. That's the prime reason why I support Mythic's "no official forums" policy. The contrast between AoC's pre-release forums and WAR's unofficial ones is like heaven and hell. The amount of people yelling in AoC was stupendous - total dog-eat-dog. Mythic got its fans spread around on numerous smaller forums so it's much easier to get heard there.

    So chill. Find yourself a nice quiet forum or two where you can discuss things rationally and civilly (for WAR people I reccommend warhammeralliance) while occassionally dropping by here to see what's the score. You really can't expect a quality discussion on a forum site of such wide scope and popularity as mmorpg.com.

  • Posted: 7/24/08 7:07 AM
    General Discussion
• • Return Of The Lich King Beta- I've played it- its awsome

  • Originally posted by Dreathor
    

    How you got the name of the expansion wrong I will never know.

     

    Amazing, innit?

    Personally I usually call it "Wrath of the Grind King"

    Funny how your mind can play tricks on ya!

  • Posted: 7/23/08 7:57 AM
    World of Warcraft
• • 2 Points

  • About MMO addiction...

    IMO it's very much down to the way the game is configured. WoW, for example, is horrible in this regard. You have to waste inordinate amounts of time in order to be eligible for some fun. Grind, grind, grind... grind this, grind that so you can maybe, in the future, go to a dungeon you haven't seen yet or compete in PvP.

    I consider WoW a horrible game due to these simple metrics - the proportion of time you're actually having fun to the total time played. Most people "waisting their lives" on WoW are actually not having fun - they are all slaving away hoping to get the chance of actually having fun occasionally.

    Case in point: I play COD4 and QW as well. In these games your fun/time-played ratio is close to 100% so I don't feel any need to play more than an hour at a stretch. I get my dose of fun and then I find something else to do. While I was playing WoW I discovered that its "fun ratio" is miserable - I'd say 20%. For each hour actually doing something meaningful I'd have to spend 4 hours trying to get the group together, grindi some mats, fly around, grind, grind.... I'd be working for hours and hours on a promise of entertainment. If I just got my entertainment straight up I'd probably waste much less time than I did. That's a dastardly, dope-dealer customer retention strategy Blizzard got there and I really passionately despise them for it cause I'm pretty sure its intentional.

    They don't care about you having having fun, they just want you hooked. Just like a drug dealer schtick - stringing you along with promises of paradise but actually just trying to keep you in hell for as long as possible.

    One of the prime reasons why I'm so excited about WAR is that it seems it'll offer a much better fun/time-played ratio than what is the norm in MMOs so far. I expect to be able to log in, see who's online and in just a few minutes be somewhere doing something meaningful and entertaining.

  • Posted: 7/22/08 12:15 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)