WAR (Warhammer Online)

It just proves how easy to entertain Americans are. =P  *ducks*

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j/k ^^

Originally posted by AranStormah

Consider this a heads up if you haven't got the game yet. Buy the US version and play their servers.

The game is doing well in US with healthy servers, acceptable support and regular hotfixes.

In the EU the game is dieing. There's only two servers at High pop mid-week and those are non-english, the rest are somewhere between Med and Low. ORVR is rare, scenarios die out as you advance in tiers and support is non-existant. Patches are lost in translation. Features that the US have had since release are still on indefinate hold in the EU, such as Realm Leaderboards, Free Char Transfer to fix the ghost town servers and the recent Test Server which is the latest to get added to the EU's "coming soon"-list. Europeans are met with the same incompetent arrogance that mirrors what Funcom did at Conan.

I couldn't have thought of a better example of how support will make or break a game. 

Opened a US account today (downloaded/purchased the client from EB Games). Already the difference is noticeable. I should've known better, after hearing all the bad reports in regards to EU DAOC.

Expensive mistake

WAR EU died the day they announced that GOA was going to publish it.

Originally posted by AranStormah

Consider this a heads up if you haven't got the game yet. Buy the US version and play their servers.

The game is doing well in US with healthy servers, acceptable support and regular hotfixes.

In the EU the game is dieing. There's only two servers at High pop mid-week and those are non-english, the rest are somewhere between Med and Low. ORVR is rare, scenarios die out as you advance in tiers and support is non-existant. Patches are lost in translation. Features that the US have had since release are still on indefinate hold in the EU, such as Realm Leaderboards, Free Char Transfer to fix the ghost town servers and the recent Test Server which is the latest to get added to the EU's "coming soon"-list. Europeans are met with the same incompetent arrogance that mirrors what Funcom did at Conan.

I couldn't have thought of a better example of how support will make or break a game. 

Yup, I resubbed wow yesterday. EU has a billion too many servers and GOA / Mythic couldn't give a f**k about the European customer base.

The only High/med server I saw was a french one i think.

I might pop back one day and see how things progress.

Originally posted by Bloker

Originally posted by AranStormah

Consider this a heads up if you haven't got the game yet. Buy the US version and play their servers.

The game is doing well in US with healthy servers, acceptable support and regular hotfixes.

In the EU the game is dieing. There's only two servers at High pop mid-week and those are non-english, the rest are somewhere between Med and Low. ORVR is rare, scenarios die out as you advance in tiers and support is non-existant. Patches are lost in translation. Features that the US have had since release are still on indefinate hold in the EU, such as Realm Leaderboards, Free Char Transfer to fix the ghost town servers and the recent Test Server which is the latest to get added to the EU's "coming soon"-list. Europeans are met with the same incompetent arrogance that mirrors what Funcom did at Conan.

I couldn't have thought of a better example of how support will make or break a game. 

 

Opened a US account today (downloaded/purchased the client from EB Games). Already the difference is noticeable. I should've known better, after hearing all the bad reports in regards to EU DAOC.

Expensive mistake

How did you do that? i am in Europe and its clearly written in red on EB games.

The download version of this product is not eligible for refunds. This product is only available for purchase in the United States, Canada and Mexico. A monthly fee is required to play.

Originally posted by Getalife

Originally posted by Bloker

Originally posted by AranStormah

Consider this a heads up if you haven't got the game yet. Buy the US version and play their servers.

The game is doing well in US with healthy servers, acceptable support and regular hotfixes.

In the EU the game is dieing. There's only two servers at High pop mid-week and those are non-english, the rest are somewhere between Med and Low. ORVR is rare, scenarios die out as you advance in tiers and support is non-existant. Patches are lost in translation. Features that the US have had since release are still on indefinate hold in the EU, such as Realm Leaderboards, Free Char Transfer to fix the ghost town servers and the recent Test Server which is the latest to get added to the EU's "coming soon"-list. Europeans are met with the same incompetent arrogance that mirrors what Funcom did at Conan.

I couldn't have thought of a better example of how support will make or break a game. 

 

Opened a US account today (downloaded/purchased the client from EB Games). Already the difference is noticeable. I should've known better, after hearing all the bad reports in regards to EU DAOC.

Expensive mistake

 

How did you do that? i am in Europe and its clearly written in red on EB games.

The download version of this product is not eligible for refunds. This product is only available for purchase in the United States, Canada and Mexico. A monthly fee is required to play.

 

 They block your IP by country , unfortunately.

Download the trial of hide-my-ip 2008 - www.hide-my-ip.com/ which will mask your current IP address and replace it with a random American one.

Just go through the usual purchase procedures (the pages will load VERY slow while masking your IP) and confirm your order (only click once, takes a while to go trhough). When you reach the download page, close hide-my-ip (or just remove it from your computer) and download the game. Took me about 8 hours or so with a 4mb connection. They'll then send you your cd-key by the email you selected.

Funnily enough, EB  don't seem to care any about the country of origin your Credit Card beongs to, and neither do Mythic when it comes to your subscription. In fact, its easier setting up an account for the US than it is with GOA

Edit - now a lvl 7 Squig Herder on Red Eye Mountain

Yesterday I was killing zombies in chapter 14 (order) all alone... no one even close... I stare at them, then I stopped the slaughter. I went to a nearby mirror, look my face... I WAS ONE OF THEM. Killing 100 zombies because there are no group, no people for the PQs makes you another one, it is ridiculous, it's not a pleasure, it's a pain. Logged off of course, I play for fun, not for that. Scenarios, well, wait your 30 minutes, play that unreal clone, look what miserable amount your bars level, do it again, kill zombies or whatever the first stage of the PQ is (dont even dream doing the second or even third stage). 

Dying... of course. No wonder why... (no economy, useless crafting, empty PQs, scenario mindless grind, empty/meaningles RvR, unrewarding quests...).

I think level 30 is enough of this. Enjoyed the firsts levels though, but lately this is going terrible. At least in Spanish servers, people are quitting massively seems. But just is only my opinion.

Originally posted by AranStormah

Consider this a heads up if you haven't got the game yet. Buy the US version and play their servers.

The game is doing well in US with healthy servers, acceptable support and regular hotfixes.

In the EU the game is dieing. There's only two servers at High pop mid-week and those are non-english, the rest are somewhere between Med and Low. ORVR is rare, scenarios die out as you advance in tiers and support is non-existant. Patches are lost in translation. Features that the US have had since release are still on indefinate hold in the EU, such as Realm Leaderboards, Free Char Transfer to fix the ghost town servers and the recent Test Server which is the latest to get added to the EU's "coming soon"-list. Europeans are met with the same incompetent arrogance that mirrors what Funcom did at Conan.

I couldn't have thought of a better example of how support will make or break a game. 

This dude is just a random troll. We in the EU got our patches usualy 1-2 day after the US, but I have to agree the hype for this game is going down fast, there are more low/low server than mid/high.