How many of you guys are going to give WAR a test run?

[Tehtsuo]

My take is WAR does not seem to suck as other MMOs that's been released since WoW: Guild Wars, LOTR, Conan, etc... WAR seems to find a nice chunk of niche from the 10 million WoW player base.

Did someone say Hellgate: London? ROFL

[BGuru]

I can't play WoW since I started playing Warhammer. My 5 box team is level 67 with 150% rested now even Sunday when I was waiting for Warhammer CE head start to begin I couldn't bear to play WoW. I ended up browsing for info on Warhammer classes. I got 5 WoTLK beta keys and tried it with my Pally and Warlock but couldn't get interested in it.

I don't understand why I just don't feel like getting my WoW team to 70 or why I love Warhammer so much. I do not like PvP and have never liked PvP but for some reason I enjoy PvP in Warhammer. I love the graphics since the patch in OB that changed or fixed the textures before there was something not right and 1 day I log on and the graphics were much better.

The only thing I can think of is that, to me, playing WoW feels like work where playing Warhammer feels like fun. I feel like I can't do anything fun in WoW without having to level up, where I can do fun things even at level 1 in Warhammer and the WoTLK expansion just makes me think I have to get to 80 before I can do the fun stuff so I don't feel like playing it. I'm not saying there is anything bad about WoW but I want to have fun when I get home from work and right now Warhammer is fun to me. I left WoW before to try other MMOs and came back after a while so I'll probably come back to WoW at some time but one thing is different this time several hundred WoW players from my server came to the Warhammer server I play on and that is what used to bring me back to WoW it was the people I missed playing with.

[Sanctume]

Tehtsuo -- I probably missed your tell. I don't even recall what color whispers/tells are in that crowded default ui.

There's a slot of missing small features that makes the game feel "polished." I can't even use Shift Click on an item to link it to guild chat so other guildies can say they need it.

The responsive time also feels off. I think they are still playing with the 1.5s or 1.6s global cool down. But the button animation does not fit the timing.

I also don't like the Grudge (rage) indicator being a number on the Ironbreaker Icon in the middle of my buttons. I prefer it to be similar to a rage bar near my health indicator.

I like how the quest helper, quest tracker, tome of knowledge (quest log) work together. I'm sure that can be done in WoW also.

I'll be on after 7pm PST tonight. I hope the queue is less.

[BobGnarly]

I will agree that there are some top-notch things, graphically, in the game. I just feel like the most important, your character, looks really bad. I don't mean bad in a "there aren't enough polygons in this model" kind of way, I mean bad in a "this character has no interesting detail, is all one color, etc". I also find the character animation to be laughable, honestly, but I will confess that I am a stickler about that as all my friends will attest. Nevertheless, it all smacks of a level of quality that I don't believe should be present in a game taking this long to make from a renowned developer.

One other thing, and I know this isn't all Mythic's fault, but I've been hearing nothing be hype-hype-hype about this game for so long. When that happens, the game better be an ace or I tend to turn against it. If this were just a low-key game that you hadn't heard all about for 3 years, I might be a little forgiving. I'll admit to some bias there.

However, all that said I am glad that there are people (like some of you) who are finding it worth a look. I really would like to see something come along and give wow a run, just for competition's sake. I don't really believe this will, in the long run, but hopefully I hope I'm wrong and some of you seem pretty taken so who knows.