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The thing with the bomb, curses, etc,etc, etc....is that they are on your character. You should easily know something is bad happening to you, you shouldn"t have to look for little clues that your going to explode. The basic UI should have options that allow you to notify YOURSELF that you have...

The ability to modify how the game looks via mods and how the player functions(not how the game itself functions) adds an aspect of ownership to the game. When you start adding a feeling of ownership people feel more connected to the game itself. When you can customize what you see on screen...

Loot, you have a fine point about repetition. WOW did really well in the starting areas and up to about 20-30...then you funnel. You can start in several different places on each side and have a unique experience for a third of it...but then you start hitting the same stuff. One of the...

Keep letting us know where you"re landing man....when you hit Denver I"ll be looking for the shirt.

True...but "willing it" is the first step. Many houses don"t even get that far.

Yes...but you are hypothetically saying that if WOW hadn"t had the history it wouldn"t have done as well. You are saying, hypothetically, that any game that doesn"t have an existing franchise and fan base won"t do so well. Its a hypothetical. We just happen to have differing hypothetical...

Sure it could have. It could have been World of Warcraft....it could have looked and played exactly like it does now. The only difference would have been people wouldn"t have known its name. Now...take WOW as it released. It looks the same and it plays the same. It had an 8 month open...

Max...people have been saying it for years....WOW boomed because it was a good game not because of its name. A lot of people can"t stand that, but its more truth than fallacy. It has always been about the game rather than the name. <shrug> I never played a Blizz game before WOW, they never...

The solid game had way more to do with it than the IP. If IP means everything...then SWG would have had the highest numbers for any of them out of the gate. Or LOTR even. But they haven"t and don"t because the game wasn"t/isn"t that great. I bet if you polled the WOW player base you would...

I don"t think name is as much of an issue as people like to think it is. Quality and fun is the name of the game. VG was a no name IP but had a huge following. If the word of mouth had been good, if the game had been getting the "OMG this is fun!!" type of stuff then it would have come out of...

While many may point to VG and say, "Do something simpler at first" I don"t think you can point at VG and really say anything about the game itself based on the game. I do believe that you can look at the game and say everything that needs to be said about the company behind the game. VG...

hmmm...true dat. And you know the box will have some well endowed hot chick on the cover when it ships. So you are already slated to be labeled as a geek and sexist...go with the flow man. Run with it. :P

-steeples fingers- Yet....you did not deny the truth of his hot elf chick words. Interesting.

Harvesting would be cool if your guild could own a plot of land for herbs, or a mine for miners. You could do upgrades, beat back little invasions...there are always people that love the houses and stuff that would fuss around places like these.

My one thing would be lack of characer building. Most games are merely gear collection games, you"re not building or creating a character you are merely shopping in the in game store to play dress up with your avatar. A nekkid level 70 in WOW is the same as every other nekkid level 70. AA"s help...

Balance is something that is highly overrated and is a buzzword that should have been shot a long time ago. Perfectly balanced classes with everyone able to match up to everyone else is only possible if you only have 1 class. Classes should have upsides and downsides...individual classes...

Not only the similarity of classes, but similarity of peoples avatars at low mid high levels is sad as well. People get the same AA"s, the same talent points, etc, etc, and are little more than an exact copy with a different name. Gear is the only defining characteristic in these games that...

Your choice of wording actually reflects something that bothered me quite a bit. I don"t think WOW was ever really taken seriously by Brad until it started taking over the world. Brad was extremely dismissive in quite a lot of posts about WOW for quite a long time and that in turn was reflected...

Aye...would love to see what Kendricke really has to say about stuff because he is..well...disgruntled and all. As a conspiracy.....has Nino posted since Brad started posting again?? Not that Nino is Brad or anything...but that maybe he was talking with us to much?

I personally feel that most people make the decision on what they think about these games in the first 1-4 hours of these games. It doesn"t matter whats down the road, that things get better, more fun, prettier, or that the dungeons rock etc, etc, because folks have already decided. The hook has...

Ya know somethign I just noticed....Brad keeps comparing things to EQ1 and 1999. The subs are as good or better than EQ1 at the same point. We made EQ higher tech as well and people came and played. But....in the last 7 years landscape of gaming has changed. You will never garner even the...

It is amazing really. When you get a "real" machine all the bugs are gone, travel times are reduced exponentially, all the content works, nothing is incomplete, there are so many people to group with you have to beat them off with sticks, the raid game is fully implemented and functional, the...

The assumption that most people, even gamers, will dump 2k on a machine or even close to that is a bad assumption. Enthusiasts will do so...but most of your normal, run of the mill gamers are looking at your suggestion of a 2k machine like you have just grown a third eye. Most folks will be...

One of the things that bothers me about this whole VG release and its issues is that the main issues, the things Brad talks about as mistakes and things that will be changing, are things anyone with an ounce of sense was saying 6-8months ago. All of those folks got brushed off, told it was...

Sadly, I still haven"t seen a pic, vid, or ingame moment where everything meshed and looked good. Pieces of it look great....but together it just doesn"t seem to match. Most of the pics look like the characters were sloppily photoshopped into the background, they float, the sense of...

The things that you agree with are the things that drive me nuts eventually. I watch a horse run and it just seems incongruous to its surroundings...like the car in front of the blue screen in a tv sitcom...they are showing people in a car but it just doesn"t quite match the background. Same...

EQ2 and VG always reminded me of "Look what we can do with this fabulous new tech and awesome tools!!!!" more than anything. That doesn"t mean its bad...but it presents a lot of jarring or very odd inconsistancies when you look at them. I know that we get screenshots in every VG thread to...

Agree....but everytime this was brought up people screamed. Huge is wonderful but you need to be central initially and expand outwards later so that people can find each other in a group centric game. I know they wanted to be able to fill in holes in later expansions rather than adding onto the...

He basically said they had very few resources devoted to the raiding content at this time because everyone was trying to fix and finish the existing content so what they have is currently playable. Hopefully there is a lot of group content at the upper levels since quite a lot of people...

hmmm...an instanced dungeon and a non-instanced dungeon can be the exact same. I don"t understand the talk of spawn timers and place holders, respawn, etc, etc and the assumption that instances vs no instance are different animals....it can all be exactly the same. The only difference is your...

Well, I don"t think the age thing has ever, or will ever hold water in regards to WOW. Its just an easy way to insult folks. What does hold water is that WOW is full of people who don"t have MMO experience. They don"t know what an assist is, they don"t know how to function in groups because...

General chats, ooc and the like got turned off in "99 in EQ and get turned off in all other games as well. If I want to listen to idiots I can find an unending supply everywhere I look it seems, so when I get a chance to shut them the hell off I take it immediately. I play these games to be...

Bah....Brad and many others said the attittudes and postings of many of the fans drive people away....you are kinda that poster child Cam.

It always seemed to me that the folks that dissed WOW as ezmode, etc, etc, got their talking points almost directly from Brad. He scoffed at WOW in the beginning, said it wouldn"t last, would have no retention, blah blah blah woof woof. Those that were following his game took their cue on how to...

Some of you are still missing what Rayne says is his issue. Its AFTER the island, after he gets stripped and dumped nekkid in the small starter town. In the first area it is an intended mechanic, in the second area it is not and the second is area is where he says he is having an issue.

lol...you are such a whiny little wench. Yes, I think WOW has great class dynamics and an awesome grouping experience if people choose to experience it. Most people don"t because its easier to solo, but its there if they so choose to use it. My playing of these games is always grouped. About 99%...

Aye, I reposted in the other post with the full census from Safehouse. And if asking a question about our earlier theorycrafting on subs is your idea of trying to stick it to VG...well...your a nimrod. I have always been in the "hope it is a great game cause we need more of those" camp. I...

So there are a few more than 15k people that have reached level 15 so far. We were guessing that it was probably 80-100k before....does that make sense now?

If someone comes and says, "I didn"t really enjoy WOW all that much, it didn"t have the feel I was looking for." people wouldn"t jump all over them and beat them with teh dead horse stick. Its usually, retards play wow, ezmode, cartoony, boring, play the kiddie game, enjoy it with the rest of...

egads....thats a stupid one that has been beaten into submission here so many times it silly to even bring it up. The name brought some people in...the game itself kept them. If the name/IP was the only reason for success then SWG should have about 20million accounts...right?