Comments on: Review: Warhammer Preview Weekend

By: Selea the Fallen

Selea the Fallen — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:10:01 +0000

Shadowbane — despite all — is, was, and ever shall be, I suspect, the Lord King of all open pvp/gvg/nation v nation/pk heaven that any pvp junkie or leetplayer could ever have asked for.

Those developing ANY pvp-enabled mmo need to diligently study Shadowbane.

ONLY reason it failed (at its root) is that the immature player base would not accept alternate forms of financing.. then the Asian servers went down, forcing them to play on western servers, which outnumbered westerners to a grotesque degree, which made people leave.

Financing was SB’s downfall.

Still THE standard of pvp combat. Not imo or imho.

QFT

By: Zass

Zass — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:35:02 +0000

awesome review! thanks for all the good infomation

By: Acatnamedbelgium

Acatnamedbelgium — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:43:01 +0000

Great review.

In response to Lord_Valentine, it only really applies with Deciples of Khaine and a few other classes i believe.

By: Lord_Valentine

Lord_Valentine — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:40:05 +0000

a good review, very informative and consices, one thing you didn’t mention was how healing works, I heard that the days of healbots are over, and in order to heal/buff properly one has to get into the action and fight just as hard as your rouge or casters classes.

By: Snafzg

Snafzg — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:19:23 +0000

Nice impressions piece

By: M-dub

M-dub — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:21:15 +0000

Good review seemed to be unbiased and hit the lows as well as the highs. I am leaning towards playing more and more even now that im wow free.

You guys had it right (Joseph and Qix) Shadowbane had the best PVP in an MMO out of all the ones i have played since. I really miss those days but don’t miss all the bugs and random day long server outages. I hope WAR’s multiplayer is as good as SB. Either way ill probably give it a try.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:10:20 +0000

Great review, nice to hear from an MMO Vet. who has had some first-hand experience.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:28:46 +0000

Great writeup, and glad to see someone whol also played Shadowbane. Shadowbane till this day is still the best open PVP game IMO and I miss it. I hope WAR can help me get over it.

By: Qix

Qix — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:09:15 +0000

This is the first I have heard outside of interviews of the developers. Sounds very promising. Now that I am WoW free, i was hoping to stay away from MMO’s for a little bit, haha….

I have been missing castle sieges since ’03 and the days of Shadowbane.