In the US you can't copyright a title, and trademark protection is for businesses operating in the same sphere. This guy isn't doing business in any sphere, and Blizzard's lawyers know they can't sue him anymore than they can sue a snowplow manufact…
Originally posted by rnor6084
Good god you people are ruthless. Why so damned bitter?? Seems to be a ever increasing problem in the MMO community. YIKES.
It's probably because the kinds of games we like to play don't exist anymore. H…
I was surprised to see a friend of mine just hit 85. He was always a pretty hardcore player, always raided with a good guild etc. But I remember in Burning Crusade it still took him a good long time to hit 70. I struggled to keep up and fell behind …
How old are those screenshots? The game didn't used to look as terrible as it does now. I'm not a picky guy, I mainly play Anarchy Online, but even with AA forced up all the way everything is blurry. I feel like I'm playing without my glasses on.
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MMOs are very time-consuming social activities, and they almost always end on a bad note.
Your guild dissolves, your friends quit, the game folds or an expansion changes it into something else. If none of these things happen, you wind up standing …
Minecraft is a wonderful game, and it does scratch the Lego itch in a big way, but its multiplayer has almost none of the traditional features of MMOs. Most of all, damage isn't implemented yet, so it's a bit like Garry's Mod. It's a playground with…
Yes, because if we are to interact meaningfully with other players we must know that we can encounter them by chance and track them down or vice versa. Never mind the inevitable nonsense of "lol im at the fountain now i dont see u." Knowing that peo…
I'm not concerned they will nerf it to please old-world puritanical conservative types. Those guys are too concerned with having a black man in the White House to focus on their usual buffet of moral and sexual hangups. But NCsoft might well tone th…
I don't agree that this is primarily a PvP game. The PvP Chip War is arguably the most important part of the game, but it only happens every 8 hours. Apart from that, PvP is a small part of the overall experience as the vast majority of your time wi…
Originally posted by MaDSaM No Newbes aka. small PvPers, means an overhang of higher PvPes who naturally kick the smaller ones butt.
If there were more Newbes, there´d be far more small level PvPers, who could for example gang up on an older guild…
Cutting off the appeals process one day before the free return weekend was dirty pool. It showed contempt for former subscribers, as though we are not real customers. Never mind most people who bought Aion will buy from NCsoft again, and a good numb…
Originally posted by VengeSunsoar I played Ryzom for three months. At first the game seemed amazing... I can develop any skill I want wow, I can craft everything wow.
After three months of fighting the same mobs and the same plants the same way n…
I hope you've already tried and tired of the other games you mentioned, because they are all better than FE.
I'm sure things aren't the same as they were during the first two months, but I don't see how they could have improved. Maybe the remainin…
What does this have to do with orcs? I never said anything about loosing the Ettenmoors upon Eriador. I'm talking about brigands. I'm talking about just plain disagreeable people.
If you can go to the shire, the Blackwolds can manage it too. If th…
Originally posted by Rocketeer
Originally posted by Ragana
Originally posted by Rocketeer
Sorry not buying it. PvE Servers are just as popular in WoW as PvP Servers, so its certainly not the open world pvp missing. Also Warhammer p…
If I remember right, they did this last summer and then again in the fall, but haven't done one this year until now. There may have even been three of them last year.
It may be that the game is failing, but it's also effective. I stuck around for …
It doesn't meet most of your criteria, but I feel like tossing this one at you anyway.
Ryzom.
It's kind of old, and it can get grindy. If you try to solo you'll find yourself doing the same crap over and over again. But the community is very stro…
Depending on how you define it, AA probably began with Shadows of Luclin - but Anarchy Online had a form of guild renown early on, though it depended on PvP achievements and could be lost. Does it really matter, when none of these games would be aro…
I went back to Warhammer for a couple months earlier this year. It was indeed nonstop PvP to a point. Once I got past level 20 the action started to fall off. Warbands were less common and I found it excruciating to do the PvE necessary just to cove…
There is simply no way to start out in this game and hope to play it with other people. Communication is impossible at low levels, and while the grinding is fun it (for most people) can't sustain many long solo sessions in a row.
If you don't care…