WAR (Warhammer Online)

So i've gathered a bit of a reputation on these boards as a bit of a WAR fan boy. So for me to write this is actually pretty significant.

The way things are going... WAR is pretty much going to fail... hard. It had good population to start with... but imo, it was released far too early and people have simply buggered off to other MMORPGs that are more balanced/polished.

However, bugs/imbalance/unppolishness aside... the MAIN problems i see here with WAR that NEED to be FIXED SOON are:

1. Population - there are too many servers and they need to be merged

2. Social aspects - we need item linking NOW and we need duelling NOW, as well as more emotes

3. More responsive combat - enough said.

4. Some kind of renovation of the keep/battle field objective system. Frankly, PVEing undefended keeps and BOs all day isn't my idea of fun... and i happen to be on the most populated EU server. Even IF there isn't some kind of increased incentive for defending, at least make the PVE part more interesting (e.g. introduce a more complex mini game for Rams, instead of just a 'click on the line' game.......)

5. General bugs... especially the obvious, simple ones e.g. the dismounting bug. I mean COMMON! HOW HARD IS IT TO FIX?

6. Make it easier to lock zones, and dont have Serpent's passage on the front all the time - or introduce a SINGLE QUEST for ALL the scenarios.

So yeah, coming from a former WAR fanboy, here are my thoughts. These issues really need to be addressed, otherwise this will  be an empty game within a very short period of time. I mean, the biggest, bestest guild on destruction side on our server all just left for another game recently... they were Server Police of Eltharion.

Originally posted by Firebrawn

So i've gathered a bit of a reputation on these boards as a bit of a WAR fan boy. So for me to write this is actually pretty significant.

 

The way things are going... WAR is pretty much going to fail... hard. It had good population to start with... but imo, it was released far too early and people have simply buggered off to other MMORPGs that are more balanced/polished.

 

However, bugs/imbalance/unppolishness aside... the MAIN problems i see here with WAR that NEED to be FIXED SOON are:

 

1. Population - there are too many servers and they need to be merged

2. Social aspects - we need item linking NOW and we need duelling NOW, as well as more emotes

3. More responsive combat - enough said.

4. Some kind of renovation of the keep/battle field objective system. Frankly, PVEing undefended keeps and BOs all day isn't my idea of fun... and i happen to be on the most populated EU server. Even IF there isn't some kind of increased incentive for defending, at least make the PVE part more interesting (e.g. introduce a more complex mini game for Rams, instead of just a 'click on the line' game.......)

5. General bugs... especially the obvious, simple ones e.g. the dismounting bug. I mean COMMON! HOW HARD IS IT TO FIX?

6. Make it easier to lock zones, and dont have Serpent's passage on the front all the time - or introduce a SINGLE QUEST for ALL the scenarios.

 

So yeah, coming from a former WAR fanboy, here are my thoughts. These issues really need to be addressed, otherwise this will  be an empty game within a very short period of time. I mean, the biggest, bestest guild on destruction side on our server all just left for another game recently... they were Server Police of Eltharion.

'Server Police' sucked.  We used to own them regularly.

Gone back to WoW no doubt, where they can press the 'I win' button?

A couple of good points there, the rest is rubbish.

OP you forget the most important point of them all. This game has no RvR even though that was the most markeded part of this game. Everybody wanted to get a pice of that 100vs100 combat. Well the truth is that nobody got anything as RvR technically could not be supported due to lag.

Fix RvR!!! and Lag!!!

Originally posted by ScamMan

OP you forget the most important point of them all. This game has no RvR even though that was the most markeded part of this game. Everybody wanted to get a pice of that 100vs100 combat. Well the truth is that nobody got anything as RvR technically could not be supported due to lag.

Fix RvR!!! and Lag!!!

Actually RvR issues falls under OP's #4 listing. Why shoudl we defend anything when we get basically buttkiss for it. Attackers get loot, RP, and XP for attacking making it lucrative but boring when no one shows up to defend. This is why scenarios are popular its a steady stream of available xp & rp despte being worth 'less' now than the RvR lakes.

I also disagree with you Scamman on lag. I've been in dozens of 48+ vs 48+ fights with minimal lag, of course i'm smart enough in RVR to turn my settings down to balanced. My friend she gets lagb ecause her video card is a peice of shit. Lag issues seem to vary and actually be a minimal problem for only a section of players.

btw OP I disagree completely with #2.  Neither of them will help the game. Item Linking would be a boon for sure and I'd like to see it but Dueling would actually be destructive to the game's set up like scenarios only worse because everyone would cry that X class on my realm is better than X class please fix.  Classes are balanced against their destruction counterparts it would be completely unbalanced. If you want to fight someone fight the other side thats the whole point of an RvR game..its not supposed to be Internal Realm EPeening.

No matter how much i love WAR i have to agree. i just (with a tear in my eye) canceled WAR. It is a great game, but there are to many low servers in EU. all are low, and the world seems empty. so im going back to old wow just to try the hero class, and as it is now im gonna stay back there. i never meet other people beside in scenarios and its bad. there allmost never someone who wants some open-rvr, and since pvp/rvr is what i like, its gives me an empty feeling. perhaps ill be back when ALOT of servers are merged and they have fixed some of the still many small bugs that just enoys me sometimes (and there is still to many)

Want to save this game. Re sell it as DAOC2 but box DAOC from OF times up to SI and update graphics a bit. Just end this game already.

Its already "over", ie. always going to be niche.  It was over  about a month ago.  Whether it nose dives like AoC or can maintain like CoH I dunno.

I really think this game could have done so much better if Mythic hadn't misjudged the server number. From what I heard about the Beta, people were having a whale of a time, despite the bugs, because the population was rammed and engaging in RvR all the time.

Mythic find themselves in a worrying situation now. They need to stop the falling sub numbers fast if they are going to save this game. Jacobs needs to swallow his pride and start merging servers in NA (EU died the moment GOA were announced as contracters).

Let this be a lesson to developers about making arrogant statements that are only going to come back and bite you on the ass later on.

 WAR is boring, all i have to say about the game really.