im happy soe took over, they will fix the game, and besides there are lots of sigil devs on the team too....so i really dont see what ppl are nagging about

the difference now is that they have more money and fixing the problems in the game will go alot faster if soe hadnt taken over

im also god damn tired of ppl nagging about how soe ruined their game, why???...what is the point in complaning about a game u dont like??

PLAY ANOTHER GAME THEN!

its like i would put on a record i really hate and then complain to everyone how much i hate the music... meaningless behavoiur 

I want to get one of these games.....but i dont know of many...

I dont want to pay monthly...so no Warcraft (i did want City Of Heroes, but o well)

 

I was thinking about getting Guild Wars...but i watched some video on it...and i kind of changed my mind...its not really an MMO....it seems more like a co-op game...

So any suggestions???

diettoast

if ur not willing to pay for an mmo u gonna get crap...my opinion 

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I started playing the game on release day and continued playing for almost 2 years. At first, it was pretty casual, but then I got more into the end- game content (back then it was UBRS!) and that's when I really took it to a whole different level.

Without getting into details, I was one of the players that did not balance gameplay with real life well when it came to world of warcraft. Even now that I have finally stopped playing the game, there are times that I feel the temptation to download the free trial, look up my old guildies and start raiding/pvping again. But I know exactly what will happen afterwards.

For those of you who are able to keep on playing the game without it adversely affecting your lives, nice going. For a lot of us though, including myself, this game is pretty much like crack.

 

l-_-l

played a druid to lvl 52 over a period of 1-1,5 years, never felt addicted to the game...that ppl are addicted to the game is of course sad....but i consider it naturally that some precentage of its friggi`n 9 mill subs is addicted to the game

How high that precentage is i dont know...i dont need to speculate in that either, but the point is that weather its wow or something entirely else...out of 9 million ppl, someone is bound to get addicted or overdo it in some way...just human nature

if i have played a druid to lvl 52 in over a year how much playing a week do u think that amounts too??

ur addicted to something when u cant deal with ur life in general because of ur addiction....leveling a toon to 52 in over a year is 4-6 hours a week of playing....hardly what i call an addiction! 

I started playing the game on release day and continued playing for almost 2 years. At first, it was pretty casual, but then I got more into the end- game content (back then it was UBRS!) and that's when I really took it to a whole different level.

Without getting into details, I was one of the players that did not balance gameplay with real life well when it came to world of warcraft. Even now that I have finally stopped playing the game, there are times that I feel the temptation to download the free trial, look up my old guildies and start raiding/pvping again. But I know exactly what will happen afterwards.

For those of you who are able to keep on playing the game without it adversely affecting your lives, nice going. For a lot of us though, including myself, this game is pretty much like crack.

 

chainsawzorro

played a druid to lvl 52 over a period of 1-1,5 years, never felt addicted to the game...that ppl are addicted to the game is of course sad....but i consider it naturally that some precentage of its friggi`n 9 mill subs is addicted to the game

How high that precentage is i dont know...i dont need to speculate in that either, but the point is that weather its wow or something entirely else...out of 9 million ppl, someone is bound to get addicted or overdo it in some way...just human nature

I'm going to abandon videogaming totally, instead I'm going to spend all my free time to play the guitar!

For me videogaming has been a big part of my life, but it's just so unimportant and it doesn't give you anything in return. It doesn't matter how good you are on playing Counter-Strike or what level your character have in WoW. Videogaming just eats time that you never going to get back! Reading books, playing music and write has so much more rewards then what videogames gives you in return.

To stop to play videogames is like coming out of the darkness

This is just my thoughts on that.

FreddoX12

yea sure..can i have ur stuff? bwhahaha classic!!

seriously, great that u wanna play guitar...played guitar for 15 years now, played video games since larry 1 on IBM...will play guitar and video games till next year, and the next year after that...and the next year after that to etc etc etc

check out my band "corpseifier" on myspace...peace out mmmmmmmkay!!

btw...wouldnt it be better to quite games after u have made sweet love to crysis, i mean...when everyone will talk about their first time with crysis, u will still be a virgin..kinda...sad 

Boy, that sounds exactly like EQ's launch issues so long ago. You can really tell it's the same Dev team. And the fact that they haven't learned a thing in all the intervening years....Johnny_Rock

wasnt there for EQ1, but just goes to show that there are good mmorpg makers and bad mmorpg makers....brad and Co formula isnt working at all! 

so maybe ur thinking about buying vanguard??

just saw this on a forum board, thought it summed the game up pretty well:

I agree, and so I am going on a leave for now - and im not bashing anything, but I am a very frustrated customer who has a lot of hopes for the future of Vanguard - in a year or so.

Let me say first that with the friends who play this game I have had a blast, but its a game that is broke. The fixes arent where they should be as if anything should be in place it should be the performance issues.

Everyone can give credit to the devs for being open and Honest, but the choices you make affect you.

So lets take a look at the events:

 - During the developement stage announce that your partnership with MS or SOE is only for publishing/billing purposes, and that Sigil will maintain the control of the game. Knowing SOE's track record (NGE - has personally killed myself and the server I was on - if not the whole game). 

 - Announce that you are releasing the game 3 or 4 months early because you dont have enough money to finish it.

 - Charge people the monthly fee because they are playing the game, yet have unreasonable performance issues and quest that are "Coming Soon". When would you like me to do this level 22 quest? When I am level 50?

  - Encourage players to constantly report bugs and flaws with the game, after all this game was released early so you could pay to test it and report your findings, so we wouldnt have to hire testers.

 - Only have an official forums for 'bugs and issues' because guilds and community are obviously not the priority. "Please do not post this information on these forums, this is for technical use only"

 - Announce that SOE will be getting more involved, going back on a promise that was made long ago.

 - Announce in the same statement that really, our systems are using "tomorrow's" technology. This game is really designed for the end of 2007 or early 2008. The performance issues are on the side of the End-User, not the developer. The fact that your system can run Doom 3 or Oblivion at 80 FPS is not the concern even when you set Vanguard to Highest Performance making it look like EQ1 and still only pull 20 FPS.

 - Also announce in the same statement that Boat Battles and Pirates are looking to be in a 2008 expansion. If you would have seen the dev's video - they announced that would be in the game.

 It is comforting to know the game is already looking to pull money out of your pocket on features that were announced to be included in the game.  Expansion??? Lets fix what we have first!

 - Note that the game was released January 30th, and it is now May, is this where we would have been had the game not been released and there was the extra "three to four months" to work out the bugs?

What we have here is plain and simple a mess. Vanguard has a lot of promise! I love the game so far, but the game is far from finished, and the consumer that is reading the forums is paying for it because they are taking a chance on the game at such an early stage.

It is very frustrating to CTD 4+ times each time you sit down to play. Having tweaked performance, drivers, and everything imaginable - this is unacceptable.

I work for a major computer company. I have current subscriptions on many mmo's that are active including: ffxi, wow, coh/cov, and station access which includes, swg, vg soh, eq1, eq2, planetside, mxo.

 When you purchase a game, you should be able to install, and play it. Tweak it a little bit and just enjoy it. I understand that Vanguard is unique in the situation, but consider the timeline that the eager subscriber had to go through.

 As I mentioned before... Performance Issues!  We can deal with incomplete quest, and missing helms or graphics. We can deal with the abilities of each class not being totally tweaked and tested. What is difficult for us to deal with is performance issues. "Load Lag" when a lightpost or fence shows up on the screen. Falling through the world. These occurances can and will happen. They shouldnt be the norm.

 Fix the performance then give me my helms.

Releasing a game in this state gives the average consumer the impression that this is how the game is going to play, reguardless of tweaks. The Unreal engine is a beautiful thing - but come on, this is too broke.

Please pelase understand in no way am I looking for any feed back of "oh so why dont you go play that mmo" or anything like that. I am simply posting my situation, and asking that the developers consider what they are doing and how they are impacting the community before their next move.

played vanguard:SOH when it came out...canceled my subscription couple days after cos of the bugs

so i was just wondering if anyone out there thats playing the game can tell me if its still very buggy? 

It is a pretty crappy game. Played the prerelease trial and just couldnt get into it. Theyre banking that there are enough LOTR fans out there to get some money off the game purchase and a few months subscriptions.

In the end, the game will die out and have an extremely small following.

mrbojangles25

true story 

on thing is for sure...lotr will not beat wow.....

but for me...wow dominance is not a bad thing, keeps all the children away from other mmo`s

i really hope that the more adult impressions age of conan has given us is for real...and i hope the children are still playing wow when it releases..

meanwhile..i look to Two Worlds as my Oblivion replacer