WAR (Warhammer Online)

When AoC came out I was seriously pissed off because that game was terrible... so all I got was my hopes for Warhammer, and boy was I let down big time.

Warhammer is extremely boring. I made it to lvl 7 before I had to give up. There's no chance in hell I'm wasting one cent on recurring on this game. I'm still on the free month and I don't even bother playing NOW THAT IT'S FREE.

I bought a giant PC to run AoC when it came out so it sure as hell should be able to run Warhammer... but no... it's loaded with lag and spikes and God knows what.

Imagine that... I have to go and bump my account at Blizzard and start playing WoW again because it works. The community might suck big time but the game itself works.

 After 3 years of waiting, all I can say is ....

Bam Vann DAMMM !!!

This game is Great !

(And here speaks an 3 years daoc veteran, who is not more a hardcore player )

Originally posted by threetwosix

Wow...

This game has to be in the top 5 most boring, least intelligent and biggest let down I have ever played.  And I've played nearly everything.  This game makes WoW look difficult.  Asian Hack N Slash games are even more challenging.  But, the game being 3 year old friendly isn't why I dislike it.  EVERYTHING is bugged in one way or another.  The game is probably a year from being tuned to finish.  There are still items in the game for classes that have long since been removed from the game. 

Quests make you choose a reward even if there is only 1 reward.  Boss mobs sometimes run off only to come back fully healed.  Targetting system is unreliable.  blah blah blah...I could go on and on mentioning every aspect of the game.  Scenerios, bugged... Guild system, bugged.... Alliance system, bugged...  Your mastery tree gives bonus to abilities 3 levels before you can even get the ability to take advantage of the bonus.  WHAT?!?!? 

The community, you ask?  How is the community?  Let's just say, it seems that most of the gimps from WoW who have never played an MMO besides WoW are now playing WAR.

Anyway, I'm just a tad let down by this game.  Especially after waiting for 3 years and being a 7 year DAoC player.

I understand there will be a few of you that disagree and will choose to try and insult me in your clever little ways.  Feel free but the fact remains, WAR is weak.  It doesn't compare to WoW in PvE content and is laughable compared to DAoC in RvR.  LAUGHABLE!!

three2six

I honestly couldn't agree more. Hell... most mmo's kept me atleast subscribing for a month to see what it had to offer.  This game however, never got out of free-month mode before I quit.  I got to lvl 40 and experienced enough. The game is for people that like things simplistic and I need things complex to keep my attention.
 

The next MMO Im counting on is FALLEN EARTH. 

Originally posted by ryman

I think I've seen it all now, PvE is more challenging than a pure PvP game.

Wow, idoicy has sunk a new low.

LAUGHABLE!

What's this "Pure PvP game" you speak of? Certainly not WAR.

i agree warhammer sucks...everybody should just wait for WOTLK instead of getting that.

MMO after MMO has seen this firestorm of bad player reviews and quick subscriber number drops because WoW has set a new standard of playability for MMOs and none of the new generation have been able to reach that bar yet.  It's not like WoW players won't play another game, hell most of them try something else often due to the fact that they play WoW so much that they max out their tolerance for it before the next expansion can come out. 

The problem is newer games have not even come close to being as playable, or as fun as WoW is.  All of these new games were either in production right before WoW came our or shortly after, and they all thought it was this huge gravy train that they were going to get in on if they just said the magic letters M M O.  Well, most of them didn't realize you actually had to have a "good" game to make money off it. 

Some of them went off the everquest standard that the game could be as buggy as hell to launch as long as there was a long term plan for the game and it was marginally fun.  Others were buggy and not fun at all and completely crashed and burned. 

If you want to make a comparison, WoW has the same buisiness format as the movie "Titanic."  Make something with a little bit of everything in it that is going to appeal to a wide variety of people and make it easily available to everyone, but most important start with a huge budget and make sure you research what people want first.  Yeah it might get panned because it is not as critically acclaimed as some of the other material out there, but at it's base it appeals to the public, and that's what drives sales. 

There has been room for some smaller niche games that focus more on the sandbox feel or more group based adventuring, but all of these end up doing one of two things, either making the game so technically advanced it won't run properly on 90% of computers, or they don't hold true to their concept, see the behemoth sales WoW has, and tries to change the gameplay in the first month of release and ending up with a swamp of poor gameplay traits that no one wants to mess with. 

Hopefully since we've had this wave of post WoW launch MMOs now that have crashed and burned, the other games that have just started development will learn some lessons, and we don't get the steaming pile of games that we've had over the last couple years.

Everyone wants their perfect mmo.

WAR or any mmo released in your lifetime will never be close to your perfect game, I promise you.

WAR may have bugs but it has enough good qualities to be a good game and since it is a good game it will continue to be supported by its fans.

After reading the OPs rant on WAR you can easily realize he isn't looking for Warhammer to play he wants DAoC 2.

Ahh well hope you find a game you enjoy.

Originally posted by TsukieU

Originally posted by Teala

Ever since WoW games have been "rushed" to the market.  VG was rushed.   AOC was rushed.   War is no exception...clearly it was rushed.   Any bets Stargate Worlds and every other up and coming new release is rushed and unfinished buggy messes.

Sooner or later the developers and the publishers will wake up and realize that this is no long a new genre and that the people that they are targeting to play their games will not play them if they are not good games right out of the box.

Wish to play an exceptional game try - M&B .  Without a doubt the best game to come along in years.  :)

 

Mount and Blade is a good concept, but still is a mediocre game.  I don't understand the people touting it as TEH BEST GAEM EVA.

Huh?  Are you joking?  M&B is not a mediocre game...game is by far way better in its beta stage than most games are at release.   The combat is fun and you're not spamming little boxes to do your attacks and it takes skill to actually get good and deadly with some of the weapons like the bow and crossbow.   Shooting a bow from horseback in M&B is challanging and fun.  The whole game is fun to play.   Lots and I mean lots of verious weapons to choose from - all with their own forms of attack - pros and cons.   You can raise an army, get a castle. lay seige to your enemies and actually participate in the seiges and command troops.  It is like Planetside but its gone medieval!  Game rocks...seriously.  If I had the money I'd license the engine, and hire programmers to tweak it and turn it into an MMORPG.
 

Originally posted by DeathPriest

than don't play it... does coming on here and bitching and crying make the game any more fun for you?

since when did people take up this mentality that just because THEY don't like a game, it is sooo important to come to the forums and cry about it to the point all you ever read on these sites is thread after thread of complete negativity and "this game is so bad, the people who made it should all be fired because I don't like it!!"

sad sad days in the mmo world.
 

Because people who've payed for the game and found they didn't like it have just as much right to come to forums and express their views as those who played and do enjoy it. Forums do not cater to only one point of view... regardless of the wishes of some of their members.

I do think the OP should have stayed away from using the word "fact" to support his opinions; can't stand it when anyone does that. But, it is still his opinion and he has a right to express it w