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WOW - crap

Started by signoftheserpent, July 17, 2007, 09:49:03 AM

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shadowpriest

#30
November 11, 2007, 01:09:55 AM
I bet this had been said thousand of times, but i miss EQ1! That game was so cool, everything was huge, the player base was great and we didn't have gold sellers everywhere! ahhh the good times :)
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J Arcane

#31
November 11, 2007, 01:58:36 AM
Quote from: shadowpriestI bet this had been said thousand of times, but i miss EQ1! That game was so cool, everything was huge, the player base was great and we didn't have gold sellers everywhere! ahhh the good times :)
Heh heh heh.

No goldsellers.  That's rich.  Dude, there's been gold sellers by the truckload since Ultima Online.  There's not a game out there that lacks them, not a one.
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signoftheserpent

#32
November 11, 2007, 03:34:08 AM
maybe but WoW seems to allow itself to be ruined by it. A shame.
 

J Arcane

#33
November 11, 2007, 03:57:28 AM
Bullshit.  Blizzard bans thousands of accounts on a regular basis, and has shut down whole websites and companies in offense against goldselling.  There's not a single MMO company in the industry that goes to as much effort as Blizzard.  Most of them just gave up and became gold sellers instead.

It's just that it's an incredibly lucrative market, and there's a metric fuckton of gold farmers out there, making it impossible to thwart them 100% of the time even with the best efforts.  

It's like spam.  You can't escape it.  It simply is, whether anyone wants it to be or not.
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Thanatos02

#34
November 11, 2007, 09:43:46 AM
Quote from: J ArcaneHeh heh heh.

No goldsellers.  That's rich.  Dude, there's been gold sellers by the truckload since Ultima Online.  There's not a game out there that lacks them, not a one.
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shadowpriest

#35
November 11, 2007, 11:10:10 AM
There were literally no gold sellers in EQ1 if you compare it to today mmorpgs. That's because there were at that time no big companies selling EQ plats for real money, the farmers business was still in the stone age. Yeah there might have been ways to buy plats, from other players, but nothing well organized like today resellers crap.

Most people i was playing with, from 99 to 03, were not even aware that you could buy plats online. Today, if you don't buy money in an online rpg, you fall behind and can't keep up with other players.
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GrimJesta

#36
November 12, 2007, 06:08:32 PM
Quote from: signoftheserpentAnyways I play Guild Wars now, which I have to say is a far superior product.

I was just about to suggest Guild Wars to you.

I tend to forgive  some of Guild Wars' shortcomings due to the fact that there's no monthly fee, ever. I buy a game once and I get a great game to play with my homies (like we used to do with Diablo II).

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signoftheserpent

#37
November 13, 2007, 12:37:57 PM
actually i've gone right off GW!

the reliance on large groups (usually ai) just ruins it for me. The hero/henchmen ai is so stupid and flawed i just tore my hair out.

But in the end it's just boring. It really is just a series of rather unengaging fights.

I think, on balance, WoW is probably better in the long term. Shame that it's so expensive. I was even going to start playing again but they refused to give me back the month i paid for but didn't use a while back (miserable gits - wouldn't cost them anything!)

Unfortuantely i've got a great big game sized hole that i can't fill. I have no desire to play the rts's that fill my meager collection.
 
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