Originally posted by striker09dx What you are not taking into consideration is the box sales of these wow-wannabe MMOs. WAR sold millions, and AOC sales were enormous.
This means that many people wanted to try or give those MMOs a chance. But they…
There are WAY too many way to hijack the login credentials, and yes, most are actually to blame on Blizzard.
The worst: Having a web-board that uses the same login credentials as the game. This is patently DUMB. D U M B. There is no other word for…
Originally posted by Volkmar How did WoW survive as it was fighting against EQ that had been released 5 years earlier (16 march 1999, so some more than 5 years) and had !!!!!8!!!!! EXPANSIONS???
Answer me that.
And EQ was far from the only fish …
Originally posted by VirusDancer Technically, no loot should be BoE/BoP. Think about it for a moment. BoP makes no sense, since obviously for your character to have picked up this dropped loot - the loot must have been picked up before to have bee…
No, it would entirely trash the economy and make it impossible for new players to rise to level 80 in sensible time.
The reason is simple: Imagine you have blues from 10 to 80. Are you going to go into dungeons for gear? Nope. You'll overequip pas…
Umm... neither of the games you mention is so successful what game makers all over the world go "Oh look! That's the formula! We gotta do the same and we'll also have that many people playing".
That's what WoW is. Successful. And hence its formula…
I do not mind telling a level 20 hunter to turn of his pet's taunt. I do not mind telling a level 25 rogue that attacking my target should ensure he does not get aggro. I do not mind telling a level 30 mage that he should maybe hold his heavy hittin…
DKs are fun to play. And a nightmare to play with. Mostly because so many people playing them just can't do it sensibly. Or, as i said a few months ago, "DKs are the new Paladins".
DKs really took the "oh shit, another moron" sigh away from Pallie…
There's a solution to this. It's not a nice one. It's a pretty a..hole'ish approach to it. But I eventually succumbed to the realization that it's the only sensible way to deal with it.
Fact 1: There are more DDs than tanks. If you're a tank, you …
Originally posted by mouthbreath Do you mean to say that WoW has had a ruinous impact on the MMO market because of it's success? WoW is without doubt MMO's pop fav so its going to be a point of comparisson for many MMO players. Its unreasonable to c…
WoW had no "magical formula" that nobody else found before. Blizzard just had a few things that nobody else had, and they knew how to do a few things right.
1. Great IP: Warcraft was already a well known franchise before WoW started. Of course th…
Well, let's be honest here, WoW did lower the difficulty bar quite a bit compared to older MMOs, right from the start. And it only got easier and easier with every patch.
I don't even want to go back to EQ, the epitome of "unfair". A game where yo…
What did you write in your "reason to apply"? If it was something along the lines of "I want in, gimmegimmegimme" it's prolly not really endearing you to the devs.
CBs invites are usually handed to people that can give them something in return. Th…
Originally posted by DBlackstar
Got accepted and having a blast.....Alot like EvE without the BS
Not yet, not yet
Wait 'til it opens, wait 'til the metagaming starts...
Originally posted by MagicManICT
Calling this game 'EVE in the mud' really isn't doing it justice. How many ways are there to create a unique game experience? Shall we call World of Warcraft EverQuest for noobs? (which it is, in my opinion) Shall…
I played both games at launch, and, let's be honest here, it's the first impression that counts. Yeah, some people might return after a while, but when you look at it, no matter how "good" the game really is, a crappy launch sinks it before it had t…
Dunno... doesn't it take like 50 hours of highsec mining to buy a plex for a month? I didn't check recently, but last time I did it was about that much?
And given the current hunt for Hulks... I guess we'll see a few F2P miners rummage for their C…
Well, whether it's good or bad only time will tell. I'm fairly sure CCP will eventually reduce the alpha strike capability of arty again once carebears start to whine and quit.
I'm also quite interested how this will affect prices. With fewer low-…
I'll wait with my final verdict until the open beta starts and the NDAs are lifted and people are no longer tight lipped. Even with what slipped out so far it does not sound like the initial verdicts will be far from "OMGWTF this sucks!"
Fanboys w…