WAR Online: AOR

[pontifex]

What makes you think the people in Warhammer will be any better than WoW? Has there been an MMO released since WoW that has had a "mature" player base?

I've played almost all of them and I can say the answer is no - and Warhammer won't be any better.

 

[Modeps]

Your title is redundant.

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: pontifex
What makes you think the people in Warhammer will be any better than WoW? Has there been an MMO released since WoW that has had a "mature" player base?

I've played almost all of them and I can say the answer is no - and Warhammer won't be any better.

QFT. The reason UO, EQ and DAoC were so great early on was the nature of the player base. That will never come back now that WoW has set the subscriber bar up somewhere around the number of people who buy Big Macs every week.

I played DAoC for five years on Igraine and Galahad mostly. Our guild core stuck together pretty much throughout, and we've been parked in an online forum for a couple of years since most of us tired of WoW, waiting on War. I spent some time in Vanguard, and was disappointed the team PvP aspects of that game got shelved. Don't know how things have worked out since.

I hope War lives up to expectations. Some of our guild have been in the beta, and frankly the reports haven't been great. EA is laying down the law pretty hard, and I am afraid they will have to go live with a substandard product, very much like Vanguard.

 

[Tachyone]

The majority of a player base will almost never be "mature" in the sense that you mean but more often than not, the best players of a game will be serious and "mature" as you put it. That's been my own and several of my friends' experience anyways. I've only played RS as a MMORPG, but some of my friends say the same applies to WoW: The more time and effort people put into a game, the more serious and grown-up they are.

Just my opinion. And why shouldn't I be allowed to hope that things will be different in WAR? The term "Hope" would have lost all meaning then (which it might have, actually).

 

[imaheadcase]

If any of you never played DAOC, made by Mythic who is developing Warhammer, you know you are in for a treat. DAOC is still the top made PvP game to date, nothign has come colose to what it offered in PvP aspect. I lived 5 years of my live in DAOC on Bors and Kay servers, enjoyed every minute of it.

Its not even comparable to WoW, its not even worth mentioning the 2 in the same substances..they are 2 completely different games.

 

[ViviTheMage]

After AOC...I think ill wait for these so called 'NEXT BIG GAMES'.

 

[dougp]

Originally posted by: Markbnj

Originally posted by: pontifex
What makes you think the people in Warhammer will be any better than WoW? Has there been an MMO released since WoW that has had a "mature" player base?

I've played almost all of them and I can say the answer is no - and Warhammer won't be any better.

QFT. The reason UO, EQ and DAoC were so great early on was the nature of the player base. That will never come back now that WoW has set the subscriber bar up somewhere around the number of people who buy Big Macs every week.

I played DAoC for five years on Igraine and Galahad mostly. Our guild core stuck together pretty much throughout, and we've been parked in an online forum for a couple of years since most of us tired of WoW, waiting on War. I spent some time in Vanguard, and was disappointed the team PvP aspects of that game got shelved. Don't know how things have worked out since.

I hope War lives up to expectations. Some of our guild have been in the beta, and frankly the reports haven't been great. EA is laying down the law pretty hard, and I am afraid they will have to go live with a substandard product, very much like Vanguard.

Char name, realm and guild on Galahad? I played every realm there, knew quite a few people ... maybe we know each other, lol.

 

[Beev]

Originally posted by: Tachyone
The majority of a player base will almost never be "mature" in the sense that you mean but more often than not, the best players of a game will be serious and "mature" as you put it. That's been my own and several of my friends' experience anyways. I've only played RS as a MMORPG, but some of my friends say the same applies to WoW: The more time and effort people put into a game, the more serious and grown-up they are.

Just my opinion. And why shouldn't I be allowed to hope that things will be different in WAR? The term "Hope" would have lost all meaning then (which it might have, actually).

You can hope all you want, but a lost cause is a lost cause. Have fun being EA's bitch!

 

[Malladine]

Originally posted by: Beev

Originally posted by: Tachyone
The majority of a player base will almost never be "mature" in the sense that you mean but more often than not, the best players of a game will be serious and "mature" as you put it. That's been my own and several of my friends' experience anyways. I've only played RS as a MMORPG, but some of my friends say the same applies to WoW: The more time and effort people put into a game, the more serious and grown-up they are.

Just my opinion. And why shouldn't I be allowed to hope that things will be different in WAR? The term "Hope" would have lost all meaning then (which it might have, actually).

You can hope all you want, but a lost cause is a lost cause. Have fun being EA's bitch!

:roll: maybe i'm being optimistic, but i believe publishers, as evil as they can appear sometimes, surely must realize that giving developers more freedom can potentially result in a superior product, and at the very least that the opposite will lead to an inferior product.

Personally i'm excited about Warhammer Online because the lore is something i'm somewhat familiar with after playing the tabletop game a bit several years ago. It's a pretty cool universe, almost as cool as 40k!

Plus, imo strong lore gives the developers tons of inspiration = bonus for the players

HoP: you're hoping UO2 will be something like UO1? Me too...but i'm not holding my breath given the opinion of most people i've talked to about it (ffa pvp, full corpse looting, etc). ****ies.

 

[Beev]

Originally posted by: Malladine
:roll: maybe i'm being optimistic, but i believe publishers, as evil as they can appear sometimes, surely must realize that giving developers more freedom can potentially result in a superior product, and at the very least that the opposite will lead to an inferior product.

If EA knew this then Bullfrog and Westwood would still be around.

 

[s44]

Originally posted by: TaylorTech
The system requirements will be pretty tough as well.

My guess will be nothing short of a dual-core processor, 2GB ram, and I'd say an 8800GT at the least for playing on decently high resolutions. No official specs have been given, just a guess.

This could kill the game financially. Sure there's the hardcore contingent, but that's usually not enough to make back a big MMO's costs.

 

[noto12ious]

Originally posted by: s44

Originally posted by: TaylorTech
The system requirements will be pretty tough as well.

My guess will be nothing short of a dual-core processor, 2GB ram, and I'd say an 8800GT at the least for playing on decently high resolutions. No official specs have been given, just a guess.

This could kill the game financially. Sure there's the hardcore contingent, but that's usually not enough to make back a big MMO's costs.

mythic has stated that any computer built in the past 3 years will run warhammer just fine.

 

[VashHT]

I just got into the beta for this over the weekend, did anyone else get in as well?

 

[SZLiao214]

Originally posted by: s44

Originally posted by: TaylorTech
The system requirements will be pretty tough as well.

My guess will be nothing short of a dual-core processor, 2GB ram, and I'd say an 8800GT at the least for playing on decently high resolutions. No official specs have been given, just a guess.

This could kill the game financially. Sure there's the hardcore contingent, but that's usually not enough to make back a big MMO's costs.

I've looked at the screen shot and really doubt you will need a decently beefy computer to run it. Requirements will be higher then wow but i do not see it being significantly higher.

 

[TallBill]

I'll probably give it a shot.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: SZLiao214

Originally posted by: s44

Originally posted by: TaylorTech
The system requirements will be pretty tough as well.

My guess will be nothing short of a dual-core processor, 2GB ram, and I'd say an 8800GT at the least for playing on decently high resolutions. No official specs have been given, just a guess.

This could kill the game financially. Sure there's the hardcore contingent, but that's usually not enough to make back a big MMO's costs.

I've looked at the screen shot and really doubt you will need a decently beefy computer to run it. Requirements will be higher then wow but i do not see it being significantly higher.

yep, from what I've seen it seems like the graphics aren't much better than WoW's - even same art style.

 

[Pepsei]

The biggest game out there, WOW, is like the homely girlfriend (for four years) you so much do not want to go home to, but shes the only chick that will give you the time of day. But she's always there putting out every tuesday and thursday night 6pm EST... (your raid time may vary)

Then you met this new hot norwegian girl who just wants to have fun.. well, my god, she show you her tits on the first date, I guess this is some european thing. but then, each date gets progressively worse, and by stealth, she stops showing you her tits. last time when we were starting to get hot and heavy, she had a memory leak and had to sleep for a few minutes before we could start again, then i saw that she didn't her parts. She was born without a vagina! What a failed girlfriend. She was suppose to have that put in around June but she lied, the story changed to late june~early july.... and then maybe late july.

We have some options in Sept.


1) go back to your homely old girlfriend (who's getting plastic surgery to look good for you)
2) stay with the norwegian girl
3) this new chick who looks similar to #1, but knows 24 other tricks to please you... wait make that 20....

well, I'm going to go with 2 chicks at once and dump the norwegian girl.

*some parts of the post stolen from spinez0r from AoC forum*

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: dreadpiratedoug

Originally posted by: Markbnj

Originally posted by: pontifex
What makes you think the people in Warhammer will be any better than WoW? Has there been an MMO released since WoW that has had a "mature" player base?

I've played almost all of them and I can say the answer is no - and Warhammer won't be any better.

QFT. The reason UO, EQ and DAoC were so great early on was the nature of the player base. That will never come back now that WoW has set the subscriber bar up somewhere around the number of people who buy Big Macs every week.

I played DAoC for five years on Igraine and Galahad mostly. Our guild core stuck together pretty much throughout, and we've been parked in an online forum for a couple of years since most of us tired of WoW, waiting on War. I spent some time in Vanguard, and was disappointed the team PvP aspects of that game got shelved. Don't know how things have worked out since.

I hope War lives up to expectations. Some of our guild have been in the beta, and frankly the reports haven't been great. EA is laying down the law pretty hard, and I am afraid they will have to go live with a substandard product, very much like Vanguard.

Char name, realm and guild on Galahad? I played every realm there, knew quite a few people ... maybe we know each other, lol.

Always Midgard, except for a few weeks here and there in Hib or Alb just to get the feel of the homelands .

Guild was Imperial March, bunch of people from Onslaught on Igraine. I don't recall which character I played there. Had a Hunter named Crouch, I remember that, and I think a runie too.

 

[StevenNevets]

Awhile ago I remember the general opinion was that this game would suck and fail really hard.

Now there's hype again?



What do you guys really think?

 

[Reckoner]

I've always liked Mythic games. Magestorm, Spellbinder, DAoC (one of the best games ever before ToA), and I can't wait to see the finished product of Warhammer.

 

[ElFenix]

if it has all the zones that are listed on their site then it already has more than lotro

 

[jackace]

I have a question about getting into the beta. If you pre-order the game do you automatically get access to the beta?

 

[eggrolls]

System requirements have been released. Any half decent computer from the past few years will meet them.

http://herald.warhammeronline....NewsArticle.war?id=168

For Windows XP

* 2.5 GHz P4 (single core) processor or equivalent
* 1 Gigabyte RAM
* A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
* At least 15 GB of hard drive space

For Windows VISTA

* 2.5 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
* 2 Gigabyte RAM
* A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
* At least 15 GB of hard drive space

Supported Video Cards

ATI Radeon(TM) series

* 9500, 9600, 9800
* X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
* X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
* 2400, 2600, 2900,
* 3650, 3850, 3870
* 4850, 4870

NVIDIA GeForce series

* FX 5900, FX 5950
* 6600, 6800,
* 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
* 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
* 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800
* GTX 260, GTX 280

Intel(R) Extreme Graphics

* GMA X4500

 

[DirtMcGirt]

I haven't kept up much with this game, any one know if it'll be just another MMORPGrind?

I've read about some of the PVP aspects on how you could overtake the opposite factions capitol cities and I like the idea.

 

[mharr7]

Man o Man...Ive been watching a bunch of HD videos from beta, and seen a crap load of high res pics....now that they're implementing high textures, it is starting to look amazing. The scenery is beautiful. Gameplay looks fun as well too. Can't wait for some battleground fighting!

And no, its not just another MMORPGring. You can actually level all the way from lvl 1-40 just by doing PVP, or you can PVE, or mix it up. Whatever you like to do, you do it, and you earn exp and cash all while doing each. They said it doesn't take as long to hit lvl 40 as it does in other big MMO's(aka 60 in WOW). Taking over the other factions capital cities is the ultimate that you can do in the game. Everything you do, whether its PVE or PVP, all go towards the same goal, which is to conquer the other factions cities and castle thingys. There are open areas of PVP with publc quests, and there are scenarios that you que into, and depending on the side you're on, you're either have to defend your towers, or take over the others towers(while they're trying to defend it). If you do so, I think you get some sort of combat boost or something? Not really sure, but you're rewarded somehow. The whole point is to build up your renown, which is what you get from killing others and taking over their towers etc...and become a high realm rank. I BELIEVE you spend those renown realm points into better talents or items, therefore making you stronger.

Thats kinda what i've gotten from reading and watching vids...someone correct me if i'm wrong.