1) (Bright Wizard) Rank 1-10 RvR is boring, repetitive, suffers from a serious lack of depth, does not reflect personal skill, and gives me the overwhelming impression that I’m an overpowered cannon that spams Fiery Blast for hours on end (that is, until a single melee character attacks me, from which I have absolutely zero CC to defend myself with).

2) The best part of WAR, a “PvP” game, is in fact its PvE content. Public Quests are simply genius. Unfortunately, the shiny gear I work hard for in PQs is useless in the crap that is also known as RvR.

3) As much as I would like to see WoW dethroned, it is consistently better in almost every category, especially:
Intense, skillful, tactical 1v1 combat that MAKES LARGE SCALE PvP SO ENTERTAINING (Pay attention Mythic; a solid 1v1 game is the foundation for entertaining RvR.)

Mythic needs to admit that its RvR philosophy is not only flawed, but BROKEN and needs to be overhauled if it is to survive in the MMO market for more than a year.

The CC is out of control but who cares about that lets talk about. Why should i play the game ? Were is the fun in it for me after tier 3 ?

You get into the end game and you are doing exactly what you started doing since the game launched. Take a keep tag your it then they take it back.

Keep tag that is basically it, is that FUN ? Hell NO! its a waste of time..

I play my azz off for a week to take zones to get a shot at a fortress what do i get…? 2 hours take a fortress what a fcking joke!

Open RVR? Keep sieges? Redundent as Hell! Same shit everyday I can get that in real life why do i need to pay for it?

I am really upset at this game and how much hype they put into it.. I dragged my entire guild to this game just for all to quit it in 3 months after playing..

80 people complaining to me about the lack of Fun this game was.. Scenerios ruined this game.. Public Quests yea right you and maybe one other Person..

There is not enough people on these servers to have any epic battles, and when you do start seeing some actions its the same 80 people over and over..

You want to make this game successful… Give me DAOC with these graphics.. Give me Relics and powers for taking those relics.. Give me Battle grounds that are instanced with a Big keep to fight over… How hard is this to do .. GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT … DAOC PERIOD..

YOU BUILD IT LIKE DAOC AND THEY WILL COME.. AND COME BACK TO WARHAMMER!!!

Back to the issue at hand, here is what I truly think will need to happen for Mythic to turn this thing around. The realm awards need to be completely gone over and changed from trivial passive abilities to something desirable.

Mythic will need to do a “New Frontier” like they did with DAOC. this will be a complete redesign of their forts instead of the copy and paste job they are using now.

The crowd control needs to be slashed drastically, currently there 177 unique class abilities in the game that crowd control people in Tier 4.

The PvE component and public quests needs to be completely removed from the zone locking mechanism and has to be completely rethought out from top to bottom.

Scenarios should have little to no value in the zone control mechanic, and the renown gained in them needs to be reduced or eliminated.

I welcome you or any of the other WAR fanatics to challenge me on any of these points. I have experienced far more in this game than most people have, and I have watched the top guilds on the most populated server dissolve away into nothing. Warhammer needs people to be successful, and flaming critics of the game is only going to make the WAR community look like the retarded stepchild of WoW.

We didn’t want gear grinding, we wanted RVR. Give us relics! Give us active RVR abilities like someone commented before. That will get people to show up. I know I did back in the DAoC days. Now Darkness Falls was a gear grind, but the fun was clearing it out when you got it.

If they focused on community RVR, not gear grinding. If they bite the bullet and merge more servers. I might consider.

But WAR was released too early and I’m tired of being a paying test subject maybe they can pull it together in the coming months. Too early? still missing classes, no meaningful crafting or economy, etc…

Design can anticipate player behaviour and influence player behaviour but it can’t enforce player behaviour. Players will always prefer to attack. It’s more dynamic, and it’s on the player’s schedule. The best your design is going to do is make it possible for that small warband to hold against the larger number of attackers, and give them a hefty enough reward that they feel it was a worthwhile effort.

As to the comment on city siege not being implemented… I think that’s just not true.