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• • World of Warcraft: The Nexus

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  • Posted: 5/13/08 4:24 PM
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• • World of Warcraft: The Nexus

  • Originally posted by greymann
    

     

    Originally posted by thief425
    

    /yawn.  yadda yadda yadda yadda....

     

    Meh, you'll be back with expansion.  It took me about a year to get bored of wow but only 2 hours with AoC.  Playing AoC actually got me back into wow.  Thanks funcom.  As far as the population goes... you've got to be really thick to believe it's going to be any better in AoC.  You'll have the same rude humans there as anywhere in society--kids and all.  Have fun with your pipe dream while it lasts but I doubt you even believe your own remarks since no one knows how AoC will go at this point.

    I rename you qwief425 because all you are is a lot of hot stinky air.

    Actually, I should've left the day after the first expansion, when I realized that Blizzard's degree of creativity ends at how to reskin tier 2 gear to make people feel better about hitting level 70.  I will take responsibility for starting the flame war, but I know that you can't criticize anything Blizzard does - it's not allowed.  I assume the new dungeon will have some trash mobs, some bosses that are spread out so that it takes most guilds two nights to complete the instance, and some loot that's marginally better, looks like it's from the future where spikes and color auras are every where, and before long, everyone will look the same again.

    Like I said before...you guys can have all of that.  As for me, Blizzard just doesn't bring anything to the table that I expect out of a modern gaming company.  I don't feel like being a Skinner-box rat anymore, and to each his own.

    As far as my "singular experience" that was so generalized, I've played on 3 different servers, on both faction sides, and I dare anyone to argue that there hasn't been a degradation of the population over the last two years.  The more Blizzard spends on marketing, the more exploiters, BG afk'ers, gankers, and griefers that swarm in like roaches.  The entire game is now being "balanced" for arena, without regard as to what it does to PvE, World PvP, or the standard battlegrounds.  Why do pallies get "turn evil" in the middle of Season 3?  Why revamp the Shaman's Ghost Wolf?  Why change the way that health and mana drinks work?  Why give ALL mages Ice Block?  Why the sudden overabundance of diminishing returns?  The answer to each question is Arena.  I don't have to swallow the Kool-Aid if I don't want to.

    I read the original article to see if Blizzard actually had tripped and fallen in some creativity juice, but, once again, they fail to deliver.  It's the same old raid template with different bosses and a different irrelevant and boring storyline that has nothing to do with anything else.  Enjoy it.  You'll get to run it 300 times before you get that "Sacred Sword of the Took Forever to Get This".  If you're curious when WotLK is coming out, wait until Mythic announces the release date for Warhammer, and subtract one week.  Blizzard can't afford to have its target market see something else, so they'll have to try to suck you in with a new xpack.

  • Posted: 5/13/08 2:32 PM
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• • World of Warcraft: The Nexus

  • /yawn.  Did anyone actually read Blizzard's bloated, incongruent ramblings about what this place does?  Once again, Blizzard delivers random content with some free-association storyline.  You guys can have it for all I care, Funcom's release is not even close to Vanguard, and unless you're in Beta as of yesterday, and breaking your NDA, there's no way that you can make that comparison.  If you're making your "Vanguardian" doomspeech based on anything more than 3 days old, you're information is outdated, and not to be taken as fact.  If you're making those assertions based off of something you read, second-hand, from some other beta leaker, then you need to check your sources, because you don't know what you're talking about.

    Anyway, I hope WoWers stay in WoW, just like I hope prisoners stay in prison.  It's better that you're over there and contained, than spewing up my game with your "OMGWTFWOWROXXORZBBQPWNSALLNUBSCOPTR" bullcrap.  I spent 3.5 years playing the game, and am really glad that I've moved on.  The community is mostly rude and asinine, and the "story" blizzard is telling has no relation to itself any more.  It's like they release content that is in direct opposition to any content before it, and rather than fix it to be a story/world with continuity, they just pretend like it doesn't happen...

    Move along folks, nothing to see here, level up super fast so you don't realize that even after the coming of the burning legions, MC and BWL are down there with their same tired content, as if nothing ever happened.

     

    flame on if you wish, it's what I expect, but I don't really care.  Insult a blizzard superfan and they scream at you, it must be all the pent up aggression from boring gameplay....

  • Posted: 5/13/08 9:40 AM
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• • Age of Conan: Conan Launch Event in Oslo

  • That's nice.  You can also pay File Planet 15 dollars to get in, or you can register for one of 50 contests where the winners aren't announced in a timely fashion, in order to drive more traffic to the site for as long as possible, or you can just keep your tech tester account until you've paid every other site that's out there for a chance to get in to the party, only to find out that they haven't sent your invitation until the last minute, even thought they've probably known for weeks that you would have a reserved seat at the party. 

    Seriously though, MMORPG was on top of their game for their giveaways, and were WAAAAY more on point than any other giveaway, thanks to them, I'm in closed beta now, but at least I knew what I was subscribing for, as opposed to being led around with a carrot for all those other chumps.  Really, this criticism is directed at FC for playing their tech testers like suckers, because they knew we wanted upgraded to CB, and would do anything to get in there.  Even if it meant overwhelming their partner sites with refresh spams and screwing some otherwise loyal fans out of slots.  I know I ended up with 3 CB keys before it was all said and done...overkill much?  Would've been more fair to just tell the TT's that we'd get upgraded from the beginning, that way more people could've participated in the various betas.

  • Posted: 5/08/08 9:31 PM
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• • Mercenary For Hire - FFA-PvP Guild LF Pro Mercs

  • Mercenary for Hire will be a FFA PvP guild post-launch that will function as a trade union for Mercenaries that wish to practice their craft. Our mission statement is as follows:
    
    Our mission is to provide our server's community with a supply of labor for hire. We are organized as a union of free lance workers, who come together in order to maintain a stable market for our services, and in our unity, we gain strength. We operate independently, yet as a whole. Therefore, each individual is a constant reflection of the union. We have zero tolerance for immaturity or a lack of utmost professionalism. We must all exemplify our Core Values at all times, as we represent the standard of our guild banner by our individual actions. Behaviors that fail to uphold the high standards set by our pride in our work as individuals, and as a collective, will not be tolerated. It is by this creed that we hope to exist, in the world of Hyboria, as a critical component to the success of the players on our server.
    
    To our clients we will serve as protectors, as defenders, as hunters, as dungeon guides, as guardians and as healers. To our targets we will serve as nightmares and phantoms, as massed armies swarming the defenses or holding the walls, as terror and torment, and as fiends and destroyers. To our kind, as strength in numbers, friend and ally, as protector and aide. To Hyboria, we shall serve as long as there is need for our service, and as long as our reputation precedes us, we will stand tall and proud of ourselves, as a united collective, so that the world of Hyboria may live and thrive for all, not merely those powerful enough to suffocate their competition.
    
    If you are interested, please apply for access @
    http://www.mercenaryforhire.tk

  • Posted: 4/21/08 2:57 AM
    Age of Conan