All Posts by daylight01

Originally posted by Kyleran

While I don't agree that IP blocking is the end of the game as you seem to think, the game's handling reeks of F2P games.

Maybe because it does not effect you direclty,I live in Holland and play with guys from the UK,that is no longer possible,also there are only 9 countries that will play on "multi language"servers (2 servers)you tell me how you see that working out and just how busy those servers will be?

I am sorry but I was a long time follower of TCoS but this release has to go down as the worst ever.

Before the "you said you wouldnt play the game" posts start,yes I wont play the game anymore but as a long time follower and poster I am entiled to my point of view.

When the release date was announced I was very excited to start to play with friends and guild mates(having pushed it down there throats for a very long time).

Then came the IP blocking,this was basically the end for me anyway to be honest,but I thought I will finish what I started and continued to post on this and other forums the info I knew.

Now lets have a look what has happened in the last 2 weeks.

-people still posting the IP blocking is not official and nothing is certain yet.

answer -it is 100% with the ip blocking but the mods/devs havent made a more direct post about it just in locked threads or older threads,nothing in big letters in a sticky,I guess they dont want this to be the highlight of the release.

-the required specs.

answer-again it is known but the devs havent made a post about this and stickied it...not that I could see anyway.

-release for the mindscape community was for the 28th Nov,it didnt happen as they didnt publish/deliver the boxes on time so it was delayed at least a week.

answer-come on that cant be sorted out?I mean if the company got blown up I could understand but they never made or delivered them?

now with the very little info the devs/mods are giving and the forums will be IP blocked later this week this has been a nightmare of a release,for a game I followed so long a feel sorry for some of the mods there as I am sure they are not getting the info they need.

With all the IP blocking/release all to hell/forum blocking/no information...this game is already in trouble.

My thoughts are a year from now this game is already dead or Acclaim have control of it and it will be f2p with changes made to enable cash shops.

I just wonder if this was Acclaims plans from the start.

Well these guys really dont do themselves any favours at all over at tcos,I cant see any official post by the devs/mods over there,maybe I missed it but for somthing like this it should be right on the forum page in a sticky....anyway this is from a poster that seen it on the box...

System requirements:

Windows XP / Vista
Pentium 4 2,0 GHz
1 GB-Ram
12 GB Free HD space
Graphics 128 mb ram and direct x 9.0 c (Shader Model 2.0)

Recommended:

Windows XP/Vista
Pentium 4 2,6 GHz
2 GB RAM
12 GB Free HD Space
DirectX 9.0c (Shader Model 2.0) Graphics card with 256 MB ram

 I would say even the recommended would be cutting it pretty thin if you want to run it at a decent setting with decent fps but this what they are saying it would seem.

South Africa has not got a publisher so unfortuantly you wont be able to play,at least not at this time unless you go around the IP blocking,the IP blocking has been made official with certain European countries being covered by Mindscape/Frogster and Acclaim taking some of the other European countries and NA/Australia/NZ.

Seems some people are still in denial.

The info,however sketchy at best is on the official tcos forum...well until the 5th of Decemeber when that too will be IP blocked.

Originally posted by Mitara

Originally posted by darwa

This is akin to asking if people have heard of Rick Astley outside of YouTube.

I met him once at a Blizzcon. He certainly was nothing like the image I'd conjured up.

 

ugh, maybe im old then, cause I remember when Rick Astley was the big hit, just like Minoque, was it Stock, Aitkin and Waterman?

Lol I remember when I was alot younger and my older brother bought the Rick Astley album,worrying times,I would always hide it when my mates came around to play the Atari 2600 incase they thought it was mine :)

Really what is a next gen MMo?

This term gets thrown around alot now and for every game that has said it,well it has ended in tears,The OP mentioned TCoS as maybe being a next gen as you could avoid melee attacks,well I hate to burst your bubble but at times all players do is run around in a circle in melee hoping to avoid the attack.

I tell you what instead of delivering the "next gen mmo" how about a company actually delivers a mmo that is ready for release and we build from there!

Aion has released in Korea and by all accounts has done well,now they have a few months to get it translated and sort out the bugs before it hits the EU/NA market and I tell you what...If the game is in a finished state and playable that will feel "next gen" to me after the terrible releases that have happened in the last couple of years.

You will get some information from the sticky on this forum.

Well tbh the video was a fake,you can hear very bad tactics getting told,also at the end you can hear someone say "fake"also 1 person saying he has to take all the egg's ..come on guys.

for people that might not know what we are talking about here is the video...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU

I love that part "does anyone need something here"...."Isnt he a paladin"...

Originally posted by -Zeno-

It got on Jeopardy
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJT20WxfHss

Damn he got called a hero!!

There is hope for me then :P

Originally posted by Easycure

Even the dev team will understand that seperating european countries from each other isnt the ideal way.
This leads me to believe they didnt have a choice.

For me this seperation isnt a big issue.
This gives everyone a chance to make new friends and start new guilds.

I do have a feeling we will miss the UK players more then they will miss us hehe.

See you all ingame in december

 

The thing that bothers me(yes I am being selfish here)is the fact I am from Scotland but live in Holland,I do speak dutch but am not as relaxed as I am with English,now looking at the servers we will have the Benelux,Scandanivia,Austria and Swiss...French and Germans have there own server's.
 

I know there will be dutch guilds as there will Scandanivian,yes there maybe a few English speaking guilds but without the UK guys and the rest of Europe they will be very few and far between,also take into the fact you will only have say 9 countries over the 2 servers(1xpve 1x pvp)that makes it even worse.

For people like me this is a none starter,even the free trial of the 1st 7 levels doesnt seem worth while,a real shame.

sorry my post was pre-moria,infact it wasnt long after the game got released,I think maybe a month or 2,it really did put me off the fact I couldnt just "help" someone,as a healer that is 1 thing I like in a mmo.

Originally posted by polypterus

I think Dives from the Onyxia wipe audio eventually became more popular even though most people don't actually know his character name. I read that people would invite him to raids to have him yell at them. "More dots! More dots!" The main difference was that the Onyxia wipe audio wasn’t originally meant to be funny. The guy was for real.

Not sure if this was dives but it sure was a great laugh....ahh happy days.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HtvIYRrgZ04

I remember something like this happening to me,I had a minstrel and thought the guy needed a hand after we were done he gave me some abuse....and ok I gve him some back,I just couldnt understand that I had helped him and he was upset,I checked the forums and found that(something of the quote i can remember) "it is always polite to ask 1st if the person would like you too help them before you help"

I found this insane in a mmo game and 1 of the reasons I left,some guy is getting mauled but before I can help I should whisper him 1st to ask and hope before he dies he can say yes and then hope I can still help him?

Not exactly a mmo game when you cant help another player.

Well being a troll or a fanboi has a very thin line it would seem.

I have posted for a certain game for quite sometime now and posted as much info as I could in that time(some may say a fanboi) I dont know I just liked the game.

Then something happened a couple of weeks before launch and I decided I wouldnt play the game anymore because of it(didnt go nuts about it,just said I wouldnt play)

I continued to post about the game,nothing like "this game sux" or anything just the same as I did before,giving out info about the game and what I knew was happenning.

Then once I was giving out what was indeed true but bad for the game I was called a troll and I should stop trolling the boards as I wouldnt be playing!

It would seem you cant win,although on this occassion I was never called a fanboi I could have been seen as one for all the posts I done but was quickly called a troll when I said I wouldnt play.....its a strange world.

Never knew the guy but seen the made up video,dont think some mmo players will let us forget him either.