Comments on: Big WAR Features Cut

By: Links « Book of Grudges

Links « Book of Grudges — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:51:15 +0000

[...] in how we feel. Keen takes a balanced view, as does Syp@Waaagh with some reservations. Matt at MMOGnation is disappointed and wonders if EA were connected. Snafzg@The Greenskin is angry but Cicadyn also posts an alternate [...]

By: 4 classes removed now... - The Older Gamers Forums

4 classes removed now... - The Older Gamers Forums — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:28:03 +0000

[...] (Greenskin) Hammerer (Dwarf) Blackguard (Dark Elf) Knight of the Blazing Sun (Empire) Source: MMOG Nation ? Big WAR Features Cut __________________ Tinman_au "It’s a SERVICE. Not a game. It’s a WORLD. Not a game. [...]

By: theremedy

theremedy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:22:37 +0000

“Now the keep and siege warfare leads dramatically up to … ?”

Big giant purple bubbles that you can’t get into!

By: theremedy

theremedy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:06:01 +0000

You also have the problem of lag. With an abundance of cities you had each race defending their own. Now you have all 6 races coming together to fight over 1 of 2. And if the servers are say about 3k each and 1k shows up… that’s a lot of people to animate.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:54:45 +0000

Well, the issue with the EQ2 launch cities wasn’t that there was only two of them – the issues it that they were huge, sprawling, over-zoned messes. They’re nightmarish to navigate, and a significant number of the at-launch zones shipped were “City” zones, which tells you something right there. :)

My worry with WAR cutting these cities is that those capital cities once sat at the end of a long string of content. Now the keep and siege warfare leads dramatically up to … ?

By: theremedy

theremedy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:43:27 +0000

I’m not kicking a guy while it’s down but didn’t you guys just talk about on massively speaking about how it was crazy for eq2 to release with only 2 capital cities? I’d rather see them delay the game another 6 months and at least have 4.

Also I pose a question… who’s fault do you think this is, EA or Mythic?

By: Snafzg

Snafzg — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:58:30 +0000

If you want to read my original thoughts, feel free to click my name. I am extremely disappointed by this but I think it could be a lot worse. As long as this stuff is freely patched into the game within the first few months, I think they can save their asses.