Anyone else think war is crud?

First the install doesnt want to give me a .exe, and the patcher doesnt want to load, so I go googlin for one that works. Finally get it patched so I run it, and it locks up about 5sec into the menus, try to get back in and it black screens me (this is on my fresh laptop aswell, not just 1 pc). After about half an hour I finally get in...

Sorry but I dont get whats so special about it, they've ripped most of it off wow (with new words yay) and the graphics look horrid. I was expecting something at least fun to look at but its just horrid and runs pretty average for what looks pretty poor.

So after about an hour of playing I go to use my hearthstone ripoff and the game just quits on me... didnt bother loading it back up after that. One of my mates hasnt bought it yet so hes buying my copy, Might try it in 6 months once things are working properly if it hasnt sunk already to the ocean floor next to Age of conan.

Queue the QQ of hyped up fanboys.... now :thumbsup:

I tried the beta and wasnt really all that impressed but thats probably due to the fact that ive recently just started multiboxing and its made wow feel like its my first ever mmo (the one you really love.) I wont be leaving wow anytime soon.

I am a member of an online gaming community and the ones that have been playing since the first beta are getting tired of it already.

The only thing I see going for it at the moment is its something fresh, its nothing new though. From the hearthstones to the "wargroup aka raid" its just a bad rip of wow.

Once the novelty wears off its gonna be real hard for it to survive.

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Originally Posted by 'Youngceo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=123501#pos t123501

First the install doesnt want to give me a .exe, and the patcher doesnt want to load, so I go googlin for one that works. Finally get it patched so I run it, and it locks up about 5sec into the menus, try to get back in and it black screens me (this is on my fresh laptop aswell, not just 1 pc). After about half an hour I finally get in...

Sorry but I dont get whats so special about it, they've ripped most of it off wow (with new words yay) and the graphics look horrid. I was expecting something at least fun to look at but its just horrid and runs pretty average for what looks pretty poor.

So after about an hour of playing I go to use my hearthstone ripoff and the game just quits on me... didnt bother loading it back up after that. One of my mates hasnt bought it yet so hes buying my copy, Might try it in 6 months once things are working properly if it hasnt sunk already to the ocean floor next to Age of conan.

Queue the QQ of hyped up fanboys.... now :thumbsup:

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I think you are being a bit hash and that is me putting it nicely. Did you play wow on day 1? If so you know about teh 3 hour loot lag and the week or so of on agian off again down time. MMO's will all do this at launch its the nature of the beast. As for rip on wow, well im sure there are many aspects that have been ripped. Don think for a moment that wow has not ripped a number of ideas of war for wolk....think achievements.

I really thought the install and start up of WAR was a lot better than WOW has been historically.

Ok.. Having been on when WoW launched, and Lord of the Rings, and Age of Conan. WAR has by a HUGE margin a much better and smooth roll out then any of the other MMOs that have been released so far.

If you had problems installing the game and getting going, you can't blame that on the game it self, because well the game can't install and set up it's self. You only tried the game for an hour?

I personally am having alot of fun with the game. Just like WOW and all the other MMOs it takes a few hours to actually get in to the game, and get a feel for how it works and plays. Yes it's different then Warcraft, but then it's not WOW so don't expect it to be the same. Yes there is a lot of things that are taken from other games. Achievments which wasn't started with WOW... or even LOTR for that matter. There really isn't so much a new idea for MMOs as it is an old idea re worked in a new fashion.

Any how. WAR is a good game so far. This may change at level cap with a lack of things to do like AoC had, but that is yet to be seen. The PvP is ALOT better in WAR then in WOW tho, as it has been far more ballanced for PvP, Where WOW is ballanced around PvE with PvP as an afterthough.

Give the game a try, level to 10 then give your opinon of it before you trash it down before you even get in to playing it.

I think you guys miss his entire point. If the game is that hard to get into and dumps on him regularly, why should he be generous? Also, graphics appearance is a subjective measure for most people, so his opinion is entirely valid. I haven't played it and have no intention of playing it so I have no vested interest either way. Just saying, after the whining I see about WoWs little glitches, this is fairly tame for someone that has this much trouble just getting the game to run stable.

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Originally Posted by 'Youngceo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=123501#pos t123501

First the install doesnt want to give me a .exe, and the patcher doesnt want to load, so I go googlin for one that works. Finally get it patched so I run it, and it locks up about 5sec into the menus, try to get back in and it black screens me (this is on my fresh laptop aswell, not just 1 pc). After about half an hour I finally get in...

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If you have the retail CD, I don't see why the thousands of players have zero issues installing the game? Care to look at your flaws and a user before tossing blame?
If you're talking about the beta, it is no longer beta, maybe you should clarify your rant above.

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Sorry but I dont get whats so special about it, they've ripped most of it off wow (with new words yay) and the graphics look horrid. I was expecting something at least fun to look at but its just horrid and runs pretty average for what looks pretty poor.

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There's little originality in WoW. Most of the concepts are from what works from it's predessor. WoW is a huge improvement of EQ, not so original. You sound like a wow fanboi.
And why are you "sorry" for stating an opinion? You don't like the graphics, that's your opinion. Players have enjoyed online Pong and had fun despite the graphics.

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So after about an hour of playing I go to use my hearthstone ripoff and the game just quits on me... didnt bother loading it back up after that. One of my mates hasnt bought it yet so hes buying my copy, Might try it in 6 months once things are working properly if it hasnt sunk already to the ocean floor next to Age of conan.

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LOL Heartstone ripoff. There were recall scrolls back in UO, a game of 10+ years ago. There were also recall scrolls in MUD--Multi User Dungeons that was played over ftp. I think Dungeon & Dragons have gate spells too. I di dnot play Conan, so you're more informed on be about that. You sound very well informed for playing that game's heartstone in 1 hours time. Impressive.

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Queue the QQ of hyped up fanboys.... now :thumbsup:

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It's really great of you to pre-judge responses with the derogatory term "fanboys." and it should be "fanboi." Grats. GG.

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Originally Posted by 'Alienenduro',index.php?page=Thread&postID=123512# post123512

I tried the beta and wasnt really all that impressed but thats probably due to the fact that ive recently just started multiboxing and its made wow feel like its my first ever mmo (the one you really love.) I wont be leaving wow anytime soon.

I am a member of an online gaming community and the ones that have been playing since the first beta are getting tired of it already.

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It's not made for multi-boxing. I'm 2-boxing now, and I'm used to 2-boxing games as playing 1 character is not enough. I doubt I'll go beyond 2.

WoW's multi-boxing is fun and was made easy with software solution rather than pure hardware. But I've played WoW for over 3 years, so new games that seems to survice more than it's first free month is good for "some" gamers. It's a different game.

Heck, I still play Dota when WoW got boring. I haven't played Dota since 1 week of Open Beta.

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Originally Posted by 'Youngceo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=123501#pos t123501

I go to use my hearthstone ripoff

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I wish you had made this the title of your thread so I could have chuckled and moved on, saving me thirty seconds of your stupidity.