Morning Discussion
I sure wish I knew where the weekend went. It seems like it was one giant wedding-related blur. Then I realize it was, and once again offer my congratulations to two of my closest friends, Will and Mary Richardson.
Oh, and in less than 24 hours, we'll all be playing Left 4 Dead. Don't think we're going to let the zombie apocalypse arrive without some fanfare--check back around midnight EST for our cooperative review of the co-op zombie shooter.
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Since the Warhammer guild is dead... How many people here regularly play WoW? My laptop can handle it so it's something my wife and I can both play together, but before I sign up, I want to make sure there's a solid guild that won't stop playing after two weeks.
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Make sure to link your account(s) to a friend or fellow shacker on the same realm so you can enjoy RAF leveling.
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18457898#itemanchor_18457898
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Yeah, I've hopped on to Warhammer for the past two or three days and there's only either been me on, or myself and one other person. Plus the world is empty and scenario queues are getting long. I hear 750,000 people are playing but I'm not seeing anyone.
Yesterday I set up a WoW trial for my wife and hopped on to a 'recommended' server and it was ridiculously busy. Such a huge difference.
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- Ridiculous choke points in keeps making them easy to completely defend against any number of attackers with only a single group.
- RvR campaign that forces you to grind completely pointless PvE for hours on end to lock down a zone.
- Piss-poor gear options that force you to upgrade because of "wards"
- "Wards" which force you to grind keeps to gear up for fortresses and capitals
- Scenario queuing system that makes it exceedingly difficult to pop more than one type of scenario
- RvR balance issues that are still unaddressed (but appear to be "fixed" as part of the 1.05 patch)
- Really, really, really, really, really bad dungeons and PvE
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I really don't know why War failed to keep my attention. I don't think the guild angst was the issue because I play most of my MMOs without a shack guild. I know why I quit City of Heroes and I've got a pretty good idea why only recently WoW has managed to hold me for any length. I suppose both Age of Conan and Warhammer promised a lot more if you grouped up meant that having a guild was important. It's also rather off putting to spend launch weekend keeping pace with most in the guild and then to return next weekend and discover that everyone you'd grouped with the weekend before was 10-15 levels higher.
The good news is that I don't see the Shack jumping into Champions Online or Star Trek Online so until SWTOR comes along I probably won't have to worry about guilds for a while although once the WotLK queues have died down on Mal'ganis I'll re-visit GCR.-
I don't really understand why I didn't come back to WAR as well. Apart from some personal stuff that kept me from playing any games at all for a couple of weeks I missed this urge to play WAR. I still think it's a very good game, fun classes, good quests, nice world, RvR and so on. But something, just something is missing and I don't know what it is.
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To me it really suffered from having WoW out in the lead.. while I know they are different games, there just so many things that mattered to me personally that really hindered WAR's experience..
An example that comes to mind was the movement of the characters looked really bad when viewing other players.. animations for spells being cast were missing ( I think this is patched soon? now?)
It wasn't one particular thing overall that made me stick with WoW, I think more that WoW does more right for me that WAR did.
I did LOVE the book of feats and stuff that WAR kept, and wish WoW would have done something more like it with their achievement system.
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If you and your wife are going to play WoW together, make sure that once you set up your account, you refer her as a friend. The bonuses are VERY worth it. If she's already set up a trial account without the referral, delete that crap, and have her create a new one with the referral. It's worth it for both of you.
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