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• • WOW the beast, no stopping it i guess.

  • [quote]Originally posted by Getalife
    I mean really? i will never understand whats the attraction but WOW is king of all MMO. Nothing even comes close to sheer number and intereste it generates in people. Now since my sub for WAR will run out i feel sorry for Mythic and current state of EU servers (thanks to GOA). But i will never understand what's so special about WOW? can anyone explain it to me please?[/b][/quote]

    
    I don't really get it myself. I started playing again after telling myself I wouldn't but I went into it with understanding and thinking I was going to take my time and actually focus on the story. I figure stop going into the game as I did other mmorpg (getting armor, items, grouping, etc). I came to this conclusion when I thought about why I liked Blizzard's games. They are fun to play but more importantly I enjoyed the storylines. So I decided to focus on the story. I'm reading anything and everything that have to deal the quest slowly. Doing that allows me to slip into the role of my character (as much as I can anyway in my head while I play).

    I'm finding myself hooked actually. It helps that I picked up the Burning Crusade expansion and I'm now playing a Draenei and closing in on lvl 20 (first time). Going to try and play a human again and see if I get the same outcome.

    I don't think it's any one thing in the end that makes people and so many hooked. It could be a combination of things. I know for me it's the lore and storyline of the game and wanting to see what happens next after Warcraft 3 and it's expansion.

  • Posted: 11/23/08 3:37 AM
    World of Warcraft
• • A memorial for Jeff Freeman

  • Ah that Jeff Freeman. Thanks.

  • Posted: 11/15/08 11:47 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • So D14 snuck in yesterday...

  • That is kinda funny. However I've always liked loading screens. In most games you can see some pretty pieces of art. Though I did like the tips and images in Star Wars Galaxies. Sometimes you'd get images of place you haven't traveled to yet, etc.

    How is the population in the game (TR)?

  • Posted: 11/15/08 3:57 PM
    Tabula Rasa
• • A memorial for Jeff Freeman

  • Who was this guy? Name sounds familiar but can't place it.

  • Posted: 11/15/08 3:54 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • DAOC Vets, post your DAOC/WAR comparisons here!

  • I wanted to like Warhammer Online. I tried to but I came away from it being bored. The thing that kills it for me are the scenarios. Which really are closer to WoW's battlegrounds then DAoC's tiered RvR battlegrounds. They take far to many people out of the normal game world. Which as a results effects the population for the RvR areas and public quest. It spreads the player base out to much.

    I didn't like that all the talk about each class being different turned out to be like. You can see the matches on the other side (granted it might not be a Empire to Chaos match but it's there). Only slight tweaks at the end. However even with the mastery system (Which I don't think actually works.) there isn't that much of a difference. The delay in combat was annoying as well. Someone else mentioned it earlier. I didn't like doing an ability only to go through the motions and it not actually work.

    Experience at the beginning needs to be addressed. It comes at you far to easily so that when you do finally end the next tier by pure comparison it's as if you drop to a slow crawl. The drop off is to big.

    However population and the affect scenarios have on the game is what made me leave in the end. I was tired of playing alone. I wanted to do Public Quest but I could only do stage 1 by myself as there was no one else around. Open RvR only happen a few times and when it happens it's very unbalanced at times either on your side or the other due to people being in scenarios.

  • Posted: 11/15/08 1:22 PM
    Dark Age of Camelot