WoW isn't to blame for people's addiction to it. Poeple who become addicted to WoW suffer from Addictive Personality Disorder. So if it's not WoW, it'd be EQ, or LOTRO, or some other MMOG, or perhaps alcohol or some harder substance abuse (leading to a chemical dependancy).

WoW is the first real mainstream MMOG to bring this issue to light. And histeria in the media just fuels the fire. Things like WoWdetox.com with it's hundreds of "testimonies" of people who have "cracked their addiction" to the evil WoW. It's the technology that frightens people.

It's also wrong to say "People need to show some self control!" They have about as much control over their addiction as an alcoholic does over theirs. It is of course up to the addict to take the final step to curb their addiction.

Oh well, there are plenty of other RTS' for you to enjoy...napalm_winter

QFT

Opinion is precisely that, opinion. It's not evidence, it's not right or wrong. It's opinion. Don't beat this guy up because he didn't like SupCom. Personally I like prefer a game that delivers massive maps with a scope for hundreds of units in massive confrontation. Now I just wish my rig could handle it when I DO deploy 200 units, and I've seen this game running on some mad rigs, and they fair no better when there's 100+ gunships or bombers zooming around the map.

40k is going to be pretty tricky they cant make it like a usual mmo like wow or lotr simply because they use firearms which wouldnt work so it would have to be a fpsmmo like huxley is so it could be a hit or a miss.

white45e

Planetside, Star Wars Galaxies and Anarchy Online utilise firearms as the main means of offensive weaponry. Planetside is a standard FPS MMOG (outdated, but it has rather interesting netcode and hit detection that mostly evens out the playfield between high and low ping players), and AO and SWG treat firearms in much the same way as WoW or EQ treat ranged attacks with bows/guns, using random number generation (basically like a 'to hit' roll of the old pen and paper games) to manage your hits and misses, which removes the whole twitch factor. I think you'll find 40k will be a rather simple matter for THQ to base an MMOG on.

Here is my "brain giving openions".

 

Cut and run. Get out of the MMORPG funk while you can still obtain an education. Glue back together the peices of your shattered existence. You're young. There is still hope for you.

ElvisNixon

Harsh, and uncalled for. Perhaps this person does'nt speak English as his/her first language. Oh, and before you pick on someone's spelling, ensure first you know how to spell. It's "PIECES" not "PEICES". Basic spelling rule learned in lower primary school...."I before E except after C." 

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Yep, Syndicate was an awesome game, I still have both my copies of Syndicate and Syndicate Wars (which I enjoyed immensly, the destructable environment was so much fun, calling down orbital strikes on buildings and reducing them to rubble)

My fondest memory was using a persuadatron to recruit the entire civilian population (including police) of a map and storming a rival corporation base with them, there was mass carnage on every front. I might even dig out my copy and see if it still works =D

krazyorange

i forgot about the mind control - I only wish the AI on the zombies was better - I can remember them getting stuck and attacking each other.

Yeah, the AI was really basic, and the persuaded civs would just fire at targets regardless of what was infront of them (inlcuding your agents). I died a number of times to my persuaded zombie horde's friendly fire =P 

im just going to wait for warhammer online which is what everyone should do im confident the game will offer somthing new.white45e

Seems like WAR is a long long way off, but if you truly want to wait for something, Warhammer 40,000 online is the thing I'm really waiting for. I think this will truly be something different in the MMOG market. And on the plus side, it's being developed by THQ. This is of course all speculative, as THQ just recently announced thier extension of the licence agreements with Games Workshop for the Warhammer 40k 'verse.

Read about THQ's licence deal here

Yep, Syndicate was an awesome game, I still have both my copies of Syndicate and Syndicate Wars (which I enjoyed immensly, the destructable environment was so much fun, calling down orbital strikes on buildings and reducing them to rubble)

My fondest memory was using a persuadatron to recruit the entire civilian population (including police) of a map and storming a rival corporation base with them, there was mass carnage on every front. I might even dig out my copy and see if it still works =D 

If I were you, I'd go to www.lotro.com and register for the open beta (which ends in about 2 weeks), and download the client. Play the game yourself. It's purely a matter of personal opinion. I happen to think that LOTRO is a better game than WoW and will more than likely switch when it goes live. Of course, I've played WoW since beta, have multiple 70s and I'm in the market for something new. Give it a go, and see what YOU think of the game.

p.s. Middle Earth is HUGE, a lot bigger than WoW. There is only a limited portion of the map currently available, but I'd say Turbine will be expanding the world in the live version via either regular patching or free/paid for expansions.