WAR (Warhammer Online)

Where to start, well lets say I didnt fell into the hype of the marketing or lisen to the fanboys.

That also means not lisening to wow fanboys or Blizzards undercover marketing employees.

Day one, bought the copy!

My thoughts abouth the game on day one, was well disapointed, I had troubles to activate my key and the FaQ on the GoA site is a mess.

No official Forums to say your problems or to find a solution is a mayor disapointment, there is no communication with the devs or Goa/Mythic

After asking around I finaly been able to activate my key and start updating and playing the game.

Now my personal opinions are that Mythic shouldnt have kept the Lore by the letter and allowed any gender to take any class availeble this seriously take the fun out of a certain class you want to play but the gender you want isnt availble.

Alright now into the game!

Char customization is lacking (gender aside) the faces where all mostly look alike at certain races, but that wasent realy a big point to me.

The constent clicking on "acept user agreement" when you start the game is anoying, but im sure they will fix that.

Armor on low levels basicly look the same, but I guese this will change when reaching 18+

At the start of the game i was overwhelmend with content, there was so much to do it was starting to get confuzing, like having to many candy for your own good.

The game sure isnt lacking content, to be honest it has way to many of it, and at start its hard to swallow it in one go.

The zones are huge il give you that but they lack something, i still feel closed in I do not know why i feel this way.

The flightpath was a bit disapointing i was hoping to look the scenery from above, I guese im spoiled =)

After reaching level 5 il be honest, i went back to wow, but came back after being so bored of it i gave this game a second chance so to speak, now if reached level 11 im starting to know the ins and outs of the game and it starting to grow into me, finaly people are starting to talk even if its only in "warband" chat.

Things still need to be fixed like pets disapearing and pathing isnt realy 100% fixed yet, and I do hope sincerly it will be :)

Conclusion!

The game is fun, and altho i agree that some people got disapointed at start (me included) it starts to feel fine when reaching higher and higher.

So in all honesty this game isnt a wow killer, but it sure is a nice game i give it a 8/10

The company in terms of no forums and there awefull Goa website i give it sadly a 3/10 and im being generous..

Having no forums is the usual tactic from a dev that is sure that there is going to be flaming. You know which was the previous game that did that?

Vanguard. Guess why.

Originally posted by huxflux2004

Having no forums is the usual tactic from a dev that is sure that there is going to be flaming. You know which was the previous game that did that?

 

Vanguard. Guess why.

that's what confuses me... this game is NOTHING like VG on release.

The constent clicking on "acept user agreement" when you start the game is anoying, but im sure they will fix that.  <<< that is annoying as hell

but as far as the game goes.. it's pretty fun..  which really makes me wonder WTF there are no official forums...   would be nice to have one place to go for the game.   no forums is a big irk of mine.  whomever made that decision should be fired and kicked repeatedly in the mommy-daddy button.  not necessarily in that order.

Have you been to the blizzard forums? it's filled with mentally retarded chimps all writing novels on how blizzard can make their class OP.

Every time someone new asks for help they get flamed its terrible.

I'm suprised the blizzard devs get any work done on the game with all those posts they read through.

Imo mythic did the right thing by not giving players official forums this is a pvp game you know 99% of the forums would be flooded with I R L33T I should PWN ALL posts.

they don't need a forum.

Originally posted by huxflux2004

Having no forums is the usual tactic from a dev that is sure that there is going to be flaming. You know which was the previous game that did that?

 

Vanguard. Guess why.

Yep, and no real chat, no forums = no community outside your guild. Bad for casuals who play these games to socialize.

People that have serious issues with the games will look for help on forums. When you're on an official forum you can usually just log in as your game account and ask for help and at least hope you'll see a Dev/GM/CommunityRep posting. A lot of people will think twice about going to a fansite and registering there just to ask what could be a simple question with little chance of seeing an official response.

...And Mythic hands off the forum responsibilities to fansites that can rule their forums with an iron fist, and many do, as they truly are "fan"-sites.

Questionable tactics.

Originally posted by Z3R01

Have you been to the blizzard forums? it's filled with mentally retarded chimps all writing novels on how blizzard can make their class OP.

Every time someone new asks for help they get flamed its terrible.

I'm suprised the blizzard devs get any work done on the game with all those posts they read through.

Imo mythic did the right thing by not giving players official forums this is a pvp game you know 99% of the forums would be flooded with I R L33T I should PWN ALL posts.

they don't need a forum.

Sir,

Your post is insulting to retarded chimps.   I have personally met several retarded chimps and not a single one of them would play wow.

Good day.

Originally posted by Z3R01

Have you been to the blizzard forums? it's filled with mentally retarded chimps all writing novels on how blizzard can make their class OP.

Every time someone new asks for help they get flamed its terrible.

I'm suprised the blizzard devs get any work done on the game with all those posts they read through.

Imo mythic did the right thing by not giving players official forums this is a pvp game you know 99% of the forums would be flooded with I R L33T I should PWN ALL posts.

they don't need a forum.

The WAR alliance forums may be just as bad at the WoW Official forums, to be honest. There could be a 30 page consolidated thread detailing confirmed performance issues, then someone posts a postively worded "top 3 things you'd like to see to make WAR better" and people say "iron out the perfomance problems" and some idiot comes in saying "you obviously don't know anything about computers the game runs fine for me and 99% of people. qq go back to WoW" and the mods don't do crap.

Originally posted by Home15

Where to start, well lets say I didnt fell into the hype of the marketing or lisen to the fanboys.

That also means not lisening to wow fanboys or Blizzards undercover marketing employees.

Day one, bought the copy!

My thoughts abouth the game on day one, was well disapointed, I had troubles to activate my key and the FaQ on the GoA site is a mess.

No official Forums to say your problems or to find a solution is a mayor disapointment, there is no communication with the devs or Goa/Mythic

After asking around I finaly been able to activate my key and start updating and playing the game.

The "problem" that I found was that it wasn't abundantly clear that you needed to register with the site before registering your key. Other than that its dead simple. User name, email, password, key, then wait for the email ----- which can take a little time.

Now my personal opinions are that Mythic shouldnt have kept the Lore by the letter and allowed any gender to take any class availeble this seriously take the fun out of a certain class you want to play but the gender you want isnt availble.

Alright now into the game!

Char customization is lacking (gender aside) the faces where all mostly look alike at certain races, but that wasent realy a big point to me.

The constent clicking on "acept user agreement" when you start the game is anoying, but im sure they will fix that.

They have said that they hate it too, and are trying to do something about it, but it sounds as if it's a LEGAL REQUIREMENT, so we are stuck for now. They have simplified it to only 1 EULA now.

Armor on low levels basicly look the same, but I guese this will change when reaching 18+

At the start of the game i was overwhelmend with content, there was so much to do it was starting to get confuzing, like having to many candy for your own good.

The game sure isnt lacking content, to be honest it has way to many of it, and at start its hard to swallow it in one go.

I think it is fantastic to have lots of things to do from the very start. Unlike a certian mainstream MMO thats seems pale in comparison.

The zones are huge il give you that but they lack something, i still feel closed in I do not know why i feel this way.

I have no idea why you might feel this way either. Zones (so far) are big enough and well used, not yet seen many wide open useless areas like VG.

The flightpath was a bit disapointing i was hoping to look the scenery from above, I guese im spoiled =)

A great feature, many ppl from WOW would like to do away with the flight part of the flight paths. 

After reaching level 5 il be honest, i went back to wow, but came back after being so bored of it i gave this game a second chance so to speak, now if reached level 11 im starting to know the ins and outs of the game and it starting to grow into me, finaly people are starting to talk even if its only in "warband" chat.

Things still need to be fixed like pets disapearing and pathing isnt realy 100% fixed yet, and I do hope sincerly it will be :)

lets hope so

Conclusion!

The game is fun, and altho i agree that some people got disapointed at start (me included) it starts to feel fine when reaching higher and higher.

So in all honesty this game isnt a wow killer, but it sure is a nice game i give it a 8/10

The company in terms of no forums and there awefull Goa website i give it sadly a 3/10 and im being generous..

No forums is a pain and a blessing. Look at the cesspool of flaming and trolling on many forums these days