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I agree 100%. QA should not be a "necessary evil" that is left to temps and part timers who really have no vested interest in the overall game. They are there to pick up a paycheck and maybe get to play a cool game while they do it. You need to have someone with some authority running QA and...

A wise choice. Tauren Shaman are awesome and mine has been my main for 2 years now. The most fun class I have played and the racial choice is good for pvp (5% hp and warstomp).

How do you figure? World of Warcraft $80 million dev budget (rumored) / 1.5 million subscribers (March 17, 2005; seeBlizzard Entertainment - Press Release) =$53.33 dev dollars per sub @ 3 months vs.Vanguard $30 million dev budget = 150,000 subscribers at best (no press releases, but is in...

I agree. I am positive there is more to the story that we don"t know on the situation between SOE and Sigil before release. Its quite possible that SOE had already given Sigil a few extensions more than they wanted to or than were agreed upon. It is also possible that SOE was fed up with...

Why even post your experiences like this? Just because you didn"t make any friends, doesn"t mean other people don"t. In fact, my experiences are completely opposite. I have made friends in WoW that became real life friends (was in a guild formed from employees of the company I work for) and...

Agreed x 10. All these assertions that WoW was bad for the industry are ludicrous. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence can see that there are MANY new titles being planned for the genre and the bar has been raised as far as expectations for polish and quality. Whether you like WoW or not...

I didn"t know that. That"s cool then. Another possible complication I just thought of would be the developers would be betting the ranch on one console or else do tons more coding to get the game ready for multiple consoles somehow. If they put all their eggs in one basket on one console...

I agree with you that consoles would be an ideal platform for MMO"s. Especially allowing for a keyboard and mouse, in addition to the normal console controller. The developers win because they can take the nightmare of multiple platform support out of the equation and optimize it for one set of...

Like I said, I haven"t played it so I don"t know. I am only going off the opinions of most others on this board. I won"t even attempt to put a definition to the term casual. I suspect there are "casual" players that can handle 3 death penalties, steep levelling curves, and bug problems. I...

Steve: Great post and I agree with everything you said. Your niche deserves a good game and I really wish Vanguard was it. Here is hoping the kinks can be ironed out and it can continue to improve. However, I think the scoffing that is happening right now is because Brad comes in here and...

Nice recovery attempt. I don"t know what Itzena was quoting you about, but you are the poster boy for vanbois who drive potential VG players away (as has been pointed out by multiple other people). That was my original point, Mr. Hypocrite, as you continue to whine like a mule (about the WoW...

Someone just got owned.

Perhaps because you yourself are whining like a little whore about the supposed WoW whiners? Hypocrite much?

Ditto. That and the "Its the game for all you anti-WoW folks!" marketing and mentality.

This is when I stop listening to devs. When they start sounding like an infomercial with phrases like "stay tuned..." and "...what"s happening around here." Honestly, that exact post could have been copied and pasted from 100 other boards. I was enjoying this thread immensely when it was...

Look, 8 million people are not wrong about WoW. They have an opinion about the game and have said so with their subscriber dollars. I was being generous by guesstimating Vanguardmighthit 800k someday. So your perch on the opinion totem pole is pretty low when yourONLYway to convince people of...

Graphic. Opinion. Opinion. Dubious opinion, at that, considering one game has 8 million accounts and the other will be WILDLY lucky to hit 800,000. The world is huge, I will give you that. And there is content. Whether the content is good is debatable. The rest is pure opinion. One good plus...

Like World of Starcraft? On a more serious note, I have a friend exactly like that, too. He had never really played any video games seriously (dabbled a bit in a few, but never addicted to anything) and certainly never read fantasy books or cared much for Tolkein-esque games. After...