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Gotta say, I decided not to get this game after being in the beta. On the day they said that the game had "gone gold" I knew that I didn't want to have anything to do with it, and these bits and pieces I've been garnering from sites and comments and stuff just confirm it.

Beside the bugs lay a game whose premise has been done to death and better. I'm not even sure what it is about the game, when I first started playing it was pretty fun. The monsters are fun to kill and the skills are cool, but for some reason it just couldn't hold my interest. I think it has something to do with the story being stupid, the voice acting being bad, and it running choppy on a computer that can run Crysis on very high without slowdown. The evidence can be pieced together here and there to connect the game to a portion of the Diablo team, but I could play that game for hours and days. I don't really like to say it, but I think it was Blizzard that had the half that was missing from this. That half of course being funding and polish. EA isn't a horrible company, but they have a very "get it done now" attitude toward development and publishing. Blizzard has always been a "shut the fuck up and leave us alone, you'll get it when we're damn well ready to give it to you" company. This leads to some tight balancing and fun gameplay, where rounded corners abound.

Of course, it may have also been that going into this I was wanting and expecting Diablo 3, which may have skewed my perception on what's good and what's decent, but when I'm able to make a list of things that could have been done better and it takes up more than a page then I know there's something wrong.

They should hold subscriptions until they finish game. I wonder what make those crazy people to subscribe game in beta state?

This is great news & all, but when are the going to fix their terrible 'friends' implementation. I can't add someone to my friend list unless they're online. But how the hell do I know when they're online if I can't see them in my friends list?!?

For a game that wants to draw people into the social aspect of an MMO, it does a terrible job of enabling folks to find each other & chat w/ each other. The chat window has an equally brain dead implementation.

Pay $9.95 to help an EA affiliated company alpha test their Holiday-rushed product?

SIGN ME UP

Watch this game get haxed to shit, then that monthly bill will be pointless.

they took away my Zombot :(

I thought that was working last night?