Comments on: Who Said War was Bad? http://www.mmocrunch.com/2008/09/22/who-said-war-was-bad/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:53:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Openedge1 http://www.mmocrunch.com/2008/09/22/who-said-war-was-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-10385 Openedge1 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:04:18 +0000 http://www.mmocrunch.com/2008/09/22/who-said-war-was-bad/#comment-10385 It really is interesting to read the varying opinions of people playing this game... For example, you shower praise, yet on westkarana.com a few choices paragraphs from a simple commenter paints another picture.. <i> "I still think you’re giving WAR too much credit. Just mentioning public quests is sure to generate some sort of positive publicity. As much as I tried to avoid the hype surrounded WAR, and I thought I did a good job doing it, I’m still severely disappointed having purchased such a shallow, linear, tedious and contrived world. I was looking forward to it based on the few blog posts I couldn’t avoid that extolled the virtues of open groups, public quests, etc. In truth, PQs are a joke — they sound good on paper and fail in practice. I have to wait in a queue to log into my server but find that the only PQ that’s possible to complete is the one nearest to the largest city. The server is full but there’s not enough chars to complete the content?? The other PQs remain empty and I had to wait in line to join the server! The singular, popular PQ is fun for 10 minutes. After you max out your area influence you’re given a reward. Being clever, thinking I can head to a different realm and do that chapter’s public quest, I find the same situation, empty PQs save one and the same exact item reward (possibly with a different name) for the same slot with the same stats. How shallow. And don’t even think about doing a public quest if it isn’t between the hours of 6-11 PM. I rolled a dwarf eng and I nearly quit him five minutes after realizing his first two abilities were near exact copies of my elven healer’s abilities. One melee attack and one short ranged dmg attacked. The first quest was a direct copy of the elf quest in the other realm — instant quit. How contrived. Battleground scenarios? Fun for 30 minutes, and then you get tired of doing the same exact map over and over again. I am not a fan of warcraft, but the warcraft battlegrounds are much more fun than any PVP I’ve experienced in WAR so far. Plus there’s that whole other PVE thing that, frankly, WAR just manages to make completely boring, tedious and irrelevant. I didn’t know a game could become more boring than WoW, but Mythic pulled it off. God help you if you want to join a scenario and it’s not during prime time hours too. Sorry if I sound bitter, but it’s hard to avoid the hype and not get excited when everyone is calling WAR a WoW killer. At best, it’s a feeble attempt to capitalize on a very, very small part of WoW’s success while adding in some theoretically great additions that end up being mediocre at best. I’m going to resub my EQ2 sub tonight which I just started playing. Tipa, I should have taken your advice months ago and started playing but I was too proud to leave EQ. EQ2 is really fun so far!"</i> I find it fascinating really. It really is interesting to read the varying opinions of people playing this game…
For example, you shower praise, yet on westkarana.com a few choices paragraphs from a simple commenter paints another picture..

“I still think you’re giving WAR too much credit. Just mentioning public quests is sure to generate some sort of positive publicity. As much as I tried to avoid the hype surrounded WAR, and I thought I did a good job doing it, I’m still severely disappointed having purchased such a shallow, linear, tedious and contrived world. I was looking forward to it based on the few blog posts I couldn’t avoid that extolled the virtues of open groups, public quests, etc.

In truth, PQs are a joke — they sound good on paper and fail in practice. I have to wait in a queue to log into my server but find that the only PQ that’s possible to complete is the one nearest to the largest city. The server is full but there’s not enough chars to complete the content?? The other PQs remain empty and I had to wait in line to join the server! The singular, popular PQ is fun for 10 minutes. After you max out your area influence you’re given a reward. Being clever, thinking I can head to a different realm and do that chapter’s public quest, I find the same situation, empty PQs save one and the same exact item reward (possibly with a different name) for the same slot with the same stats. How shallow. And don’t even think about doing a public quest if it isn’t between the hours of 6-11 PM.

I rolled a dwarf eng and I nearly quit him five minutes after realizing his first two abilities were near exact copies of my elven healer’s abilities. One melee attack and one short ranged dmg attacked. The first quest was a direct copy of the elf quest in the other realm — instant quit. How contrived.

Battleground scenarios? Fun for 30 minutes, and then you get tired of doing the same exact map over and over again. I am not a fan of warcraft, but the warcraft battlegrounds are much more fun than any PVP I’ve experienced in WAR so far. Plus there’s that whole other PVE thing that, frankly, WAR just manages to make completely boring, tedious and irrelevant. I didn’t know a game could become more boring than WoW, but Mythic pulled it off. God help you if you want to join a scenario and it’s not during prime time hours too.

Sorry if I sound bitter, but it’s hard to avoid the hype and not get excited when everyone is calling WAR a WoW killer. At best, it’s a feeble attempt to capitalize on a very, very small part of WoW’s success while adding in some theoretically great additions that end up being mediocre at best. I’m going to resub my EQ2 sub tonight which I just started playing. Tipa, I should have taken your advice months ago and started playing but I was too proud to leave EQ. EQ2 is really fun so far!”

I find it fascinating really.

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