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• • Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: 750,000 Players

  • After WoW this is the second game I'm becoming addicted. And I'm not so young any more. All others (and have been many of them) put together I have played in my life were not so fun, good, avesome, ... as WoW and now War. I guess I will remain for a lot of time split between this two worlds.

    Making comparison (impossible to cover all, this comes now first in my mind):

    War needs much (really much) better gathering & crafting system. Few things feels pretty unnatural (i.e. you can pull 1 mob from in middle a group of 100 mobs; runners does not brings help back, ...). But otherwise game is just doing great. Scenarios are really great idea, especially possibility to jump to them from any part of the world. Great also pq's. RvR (ok, PvP) and PvE are incredibly good integrated together. I never PvP-ed before War, actually hated it, ... but now has become integral part of my gameplay.

    On the other side, now I really hate returning in Wow how much time one must wait between fights without drink and eat. Thinking back ... 1/3 of gameplay was feeding.

     

    Enough for now.

  • Posted: 10/21/08 11:29 AM
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• • Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Hickman Interview Part Two

  • I agree with guillermo197 regarding over valuated scenarios. Ok, a lot of times I like them, they are fun, ... but they get insanely lot xp so I ended many times doing scenarios also only for xp (even if I would prefer doing questing), because I wanted next level much faster.

  • Posted: 10/09/08 6:00 AM
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• • Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Compare and Contrast - Use of IP

  • About "stunning" graphics of Lotro ... ok, environment as such in ok, but Lotro also "feature" unnatural running of characters, topped with ugly, crippled, grotesque, ... movement of bear pet. The worst I have ever seen in any game. But I like(d) the lore. Controls did never felt right. Etc.

    On the other side, AoC had great potential ... many bugs, after months program was still like closed-beta, ... but the worst thing was complete ignorance from Funcom. In everything they said, in every report, ... they just ignored all complains from players, which were considered dumbbers, so I felt. They just stick their head in sand. Gathereing, crafting, ... to be rewritten from scratch. But graphics are really great not to speak about fatalities. I guess some day I will return to see if they finished beta.

    So far I like War every day more and more ... they have already fixed two most disturbing things (there was no autoloot checkbox, delay between mails was 20 secs) ... the only pain in the ass remain incredibly bad gathering and crafting. Ok, alchemy can be leveled pretty easy. Talismans are close to impossible, not to mention it looks have to destroy PURPLE equipment to get fragment for permanent talismans, all others are only TEMPORARY. From few hours to days. !?! Not to mention that in game about WAR some weapon and armor crafting would fit perfectly and not some talisman making. And for sure there should be minning and herb gathering.

    Ok, there were Goa problem with open beta lounch ... but they were more then fair extending free period twice. To me did never felt like cheap way to buy customers, ... it looked completely honest. And producers are very fair to players in any way, support is very very fast, .... 

    To me for sure most complete universe is still by large WoW ... but for sure also I will play War for long time.

  • Posted: 10/04/08 4:28 AM
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• • Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Hickman - Addressing the Cut Classes

  • Hmm ... about bugs ... have lv. 18, 15, 14, 12 ... and 3 classes lv. 8. All Empire. On other server 3 destr up to lv. 5 (essentially just to experiment, for serious work I prefer to be good guy :-)). Up to now I have NOT encountered any serious bug that would prevent me from playing. Ok, once I was unable to play one alt for one hour, I was always returned to char selection. And once one quest which required killing 7 mobs was fixed at 6/7 until I restarted client.

    And there was GOA problem with open beta.

    But as for lunch goes it was incredibly smooth, I can hardly remember one better. Client is super stable, especially compared to any other similar game I have played through years (and I'm not so young), support is pretty responsive (but to short for description), ... etc.

    Warhammer is doing really great. Also who needs that fu...ing gold sellers? At lv. 18 my bright wizard already have money for mount.

    Of course, there is always something to improve. I'm also looking forward to missing classes, cities, ... but for now I'm satisfied.

    The only thing I really do not like is gathering and crafting which is really bad. I mean bad. Talisman making is incredibly time consuming (while my primary alt is lv. 9 in talisman, other is over 100 in alchemy) and expensive. And not rewarding. After destroying green, blue, ... items ... you can create talismans with minimal effect. But not only! They least from only FEW HOURS to few days! Not to speaking that in game about war there should be primarily armor and weapon crafting and not talisman making. And kind of mining. Ok for alchemy, but there should be for sure some kind of herbalism.

  • Posted: 10/01/08 4:08 AM
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• • Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Correspondent - PQs, A Breath of Air

  •  Different people, different tastes.

    However I agree completely with original poster and it is also my position. About PQ, they are not pefrect, but to my they are fun and mean distraction from regular questing which I really enjoy. In Mythic also succeeded in RvR camp, imo. I never liked PvP, this is the first time I enjoy. And scenarios are also great. Of course ... doing over and over same scenario for 99 times would not be interesting ... Like PQ, I would like to see also more scenarios per area.

    So far War is great Game and for sure I will be subscribed for time. Only area that I really dislike is gathering and crafting.

  • Posted: 9/25/08 3:14 AM
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