I've experienced several Tortage quality zones so far myself. Can't provide any more specific details.Yeah, I thought about that too.... Age of Conan all over again. Good point.
Still, surprised the Press would pick up on that. They're usually the most clueless of the bunch.
Open beta was late October 2004 I believe.
I think you'll find that most people who were top end raiders in EQ actually don't want to return to the days of being able to cockblock. In fact I challenge you to find anyone here who was a best in server raider in EQ and wants to go back to the cock-blocking in EQ.
There is a reason why they still are playing the NDA game two months from release and I think it will be a future example in one of TotalBiscuits rants on his dislike of pre-orders and early access.
Honestly I think its just the fact that for the longest time the "press" never actually played MMOs, so they had no idea what they were talking about or a comparison to judge their reviews on. Maybe they're catching up a little.
Psst, that was a joke.. You know, Asians and Blizzard. WOW's initial success wasn't a surprise due how good the game was to most of us. The big surprise is how many people are still playing it, or still pay for a few months each year. I'd love a breakdown of what subs are from NA/Europe and which are from Asia currently.
Wikipedia says WoW was released on November 23, 2004. That sounds correct since I remember playing in open beta for a couple of weeks. Any idea when the NDA was lifted?
Once closed beta started in March I'm pretty sure the NDA was lifted straight away.
Anyone remember there wasn't a fucking NDA to begin with after closed friends and family alpha, and anyone could post about anything regarding to the game about 8 months before it launched? That's because they were confident in their product.
What is your criteria to determine when a game goes live whether it is "finished"? ESO has already said stuff like the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood quests won't be implemented until after the game is released. Other than that, what content do you believe will be missing when the game launches but should have been included and tested before release?
That's what I remember too.
Most of the previews for ESO so far I've seen present it as "buggy and mediocre but maybe they can fix it by launch."
Yes? After a 7 year development cycle, and this is the best they can come up with, the answer is most assuredly yes.
We're comparing ESO to FFXIV now? Let's have some perspective people. Christ.
Do you have any background in software engineering? I'm software QA myself. Most of the time you don't know things are broke until you test them because developers typically suck at unit testing their own code. What do you think was the primary purpose of the weekend beta test that gave out 500K new keys? The crap the weekend beta testers had to put up with from a QA perspective is a good thing as long as the root cause of what caused the problems was identified.
Marketing. To say that over 1 million were trying to log in to their "Much Anticipated Elder Scrolls Game". Compliments of Peter Hines.
Not even close. The market back in 2003,4 was thought market capped at 430-500k. This was stated by anyone with a pulse back then, and some folks knew it was wrong. Unfortunately, even some folks at Blizzard agreed with the previous. When it hit 1.5 million within a week, it astounded the entire gaming space. I agree, it sucked. I was getting raid split in molten core after reaching 60 and a month in or however long it took to get there, so a majority of time was spent in L/UBRS. But, they were also the first company to my knowledge to credit days back to my account. (There could have been others before, I just probably never played them - so I am not sure) On Mal'Ganis, I was given two weeks paid to make up for it. Doesn't mean it didn't suck. At least they did * Something *.
