Other then WoW, what's the best MMO-RPG out there?

[Ualaa]

To date, I've been playing a lot of Warcraft.
Prior to warcraft I played classic EQ through the Planes of Power expansion.

Unfortunately, the lastest patch looks like it will require a reinstall.
The last patch required a reinstall.
Not worth continuing to play warcraft if its going to require a reinstall for every patch.

Heroics and Battlegrounds are probably the most fun, arena style pvp is mostly bleh.
10-man raids are a lot more fun then 25-man's.
I software box, via Keyclone... so preferably something where this is an option.
Any suggestions on another game?

[Aradar]

Unfortunately, the lastest patch looks like it will require a reinstall.
The last patch required a reinstall.
Not worth continuing to play warcraft if its going to require a reinstall for every patch.

As WoW is the only one I've played, I can't give much advice on that but your above statement makes me think you are doing something wrong. I software box myself and have never had to reinstall for a patch so with more information I'm sure myself or more likely, someone else, will be able to help you with that problem.

[Ualaa]

Well.. had wow installed to C:\Programs\World of Warcraft\
I have six instances of wow symlinked off of the main install.
One instance is for everything on when I one-box in raids.
Five instances is for everything turned down when I five box.

I'm running Windows Vista, Home Premium, 64-bit.
Q6600, 8gb ram, HD4870X2.
Warcraft is on the administrator account and is run as an administrator.

Prior to the 2.x to 3.x patch, immediately prior to WotLK, each patch was done by patching the main copy.
And then copy/pasting the wow.exe to each of the symlinked folders.
With that big patch, I received a red error message at the log on screen (where you input user/password info)
A blue poster eventually said to reinstall the game.

They recommended to reinstall to c:\users\public\games
The blue said Vista prefered the public area for writing to files, sometimes having issues in c:\programs\

This time, the patch goes ok at first.
After it patches it says it needs to repatch.
Launcher.exe eventually leads to a screen which says "Patch Aborted".
Wow.exe opens the wow has crashed what is the reason screen. With a dialogue about wow.exe version mismatch.
Repair tool downloaded 2mb, then 26.1mb and now finds wow to be fine.
After each repair, the same shit as above.

As usual, blues are useless saying reinstall.

[kadaan]

I just un-link all my folders, patch to the main, copy exe files (repair, launcher, bnupdate, backgrounddownloader, wowerror, and wow) and re-link the data folders. Worked just fine.

[Meeo]

I did what kadaan had to do as well, my stuff is working great again!

[Bot]

im symlinked and have never had any hitch with the patches. i just patch the main install and everything else works with no other actions on my part. didnt even have to copy exe's or anything. maybe i just got lucky the last few times... hopefully this patch doesnt put an end to that :S

[Diwa]

I played a lot of MMORPG and went back to WoW. I looked back and regret the time I've wasted. If the patch will be your reason of leaving I bet you that 85% of other MMORPG are more problematic and unsupported even the new ones. WoW has the most experience, content and support. You can never go wrong with 11 million players. Not to mention $75,000 Tournament...

[Hairball]

Unfortunately, the lastest patch looks like it will require a reinstall.
The last patch required a reinstall.
Not worth continuing to play warcraft if its going to require a reinstall for every patch.

I think its safe to say that YOU are doing something very wrong.

10,000,000+ other WoW players aren't having this problem. Blaming the game based on something unique to your setup (and quitting because of it) is a very silly thing to do.

[Ulta]

I believe there was an option for me to leave everything in the program files where I had it even though it was recommended to move it to the user’s folder. I didn’t want to change what’s always worked fine for me so I left it how it was and still haven't had any probs yet...

[Prepared]

Well.. had wow installed to C:\Programs\World of Warcraft\
I have six instances of wow symlinked off of the main install.
One instance is for everything on when I one-box in raids.
Five instances is for everything turned down when I five box.

I'm running Windows Vista, Home Premium, 64-bit.
Q6600, 8gb ram, HD4870X2.
Warcraft is on the administrator account and is run as an administrator.

Prior to the 2.x to 3.x patch, immediately prior to WotLK, each patch was done by patching the main copy.
And then copy/pasting the wow.exe to each of the symlinked folders.
With that big patch, I received a red error message at the log on screen (where you input user/password info)
A blue poster eventually said to reinstall the game.

They recommended to reinstall to c:\users\public\games
The blue said Vista prefered the public area for writing to files, sometimes having issues in c:\programs\

This time, the patch goes ok at first.
After it patches it says it needs to repatch.
Launcher.exe eventually leads to a screen which says "Patch Aborted".
Wow.exe opens the wow has crashed what is the reason screen. With a dialogue about wow.exe version mismatch.
Repair tool downloaded 2mb, then 26.1mb and now finds wow to be fine.
After each repair, the same shit as above.

As usual, blues are useless saying reinstall.

Have you tried running multiple copies without any symlinks or copies? I've run all my instances from the same path and have never had any issues. Not understanding why the need for different config.wtf files either, my configuration successfully runs 36 copies across 11 computers. Each computer has its own copy of the WoW installation and runs 3 to 4 instances of the game started by Octopus. Each time there is a new patch, I only have to patch each computer once and no copying of anything. I start up each copy before Octopus so that the <Accept> is done over the Terms of Service message but other than that, it's ready to go.