General Discussion

People on here talking about WAR this, WAR that, WOW this, WOW that. Coming from playing WOW and other MMO's I can say yes it has a feel of WOW, but why fix something if it isnt broken (lol AOC). To me WAR is a breath of fresh air.

I love the fact that from the start you feel like your actually in a war and not just killing 5 kabolds that just stand there while a rabbit bounces by (zzzzzz). I also like the fact that you dont have to spend day after day grinding to the highest level to feel like your actually being part of something. Some people may like this and dont get me wrong I love the way you build up to be something, just not months of being a nothing, then the game actually starts.

everyones going to have different views and really you have to play WAR to understand that its a down to earth enjoyable game that you can enjoy by yourself or with a warparty of 20 people you just met.

Originally posted by snoop101

People on here talking about WAR this, WAR that, WOW this, WOW that. Coming from playing WOW and other MMO's I can say yes it has a feel of WOW, but why fix something if it isnt broken (lol AOC). To me WAR is a breath of fresh air.

I love the fact that from the start you feel like your actually in a war and not just killing 5 kabolds that just stand there while a rabbit bounces by (zzzzzz). I also like the fact that you dont have to spend day after day grinding to the highest level to feel like your actually being part of something. Some people may like this and dont get me wrong I love the way you build up to be something, just not months of being a nothing, then the game actually starts.

everyones going to have different views and really you have to play WAR to understand that its a down to earth enjoyable game that you can enjoy by yourself or with a warparty of 20 people you just met.

I played WAR, I didn't care for it. I didn't think it was a "breath of fresh air", but a "breath of the same air I've been breathing for 3 years". I found it to be the same boring format with a few sprinkles of new ideas. I really don't think it deserves the hype or rave reviews it has been getting. But hey, thats just my opinion(waits for a fanboy to come in and tell me I'm the only one with that opinion).

To me theres so many things I like about it, but I could ramble on more then before. The biggest thing for me is I feel like im actually contributing to something even at level 5. One of my biggest issues with WOW was the fact that if you arent 70 your a nothing and its just to easy of a game and blizz keeps on making it easier because there loosing people.

Anyways i've played many MMO's and put in a lot of time. I enjoy playing MMO's and would say that once the WAR community builds up after launch it will even get better. Im looking forward to the days ahead.

I'm not going to play it for one reason, the complete and utter lack of crafting as a key feature.

Sure there's crafting and it looks like it'll be decent compared to most games.   But it's still a system pushed by one designer instead of a good number of the team.   They're literally grandfathering clause of stupity-ing out one feature that can literally add layers of complexity all by itself.

Granted that's pretty much the only opinion that I'll ever hold for the game unless I get on my buddies account for a weekend, which he's estatically waiting for(though he doesn't have the internet at the moment for various reasons).

They said  they will add more crafting proffessions in content patches, but I don't know how many or how soon.

When I first started playing warhammer I was "kinda" into it. I kept playing some more and finally got my friend that left WoW a while ago to give it a go. Since I've got him to play with and we leveled to 10 I can say this game gets better the more you play and higher you get. Don't get me wrong it's a good game from 1-5, you get to do public quest and depending on how much you put into the quest you get some nice rewards. It's also nice to level pvping instead of questing if you get bored of pve stuff. I'm really enjoying it now as a healer helping my white lion friend wreak fools :p. Anyways, I think you need to give it a chance,level to atleast 8 where you get a morale skill to use in rvr/pve and enjoy the fact you don't have to pvp grind 24/7 or quest for hours to have a good time.

I liked WAR when I was in CB, even though I was trown in RANK 31 I saw allot of things I liked about the game, not so in a MMORPG sense, but more as a entertaining fun type of game.

Since OB I must admit that if I was trown in at lvl 0 I might not have liked it as it is allot slower then what I noticed in CB being higher ranked made a hugh difference for me.

But overall I probebly will get the game, but I am not sure if it's going to be long term, but in all cases I play a game or mmorpg to have fun, and I had fun with WAR.

Some people we WAR as a WoW clones and some people see them as very different. It depends on how you see each game.

People that are into Jazz can see two jazz songs as being very different, but someone who doesn't like jazz will think they sound the same. Same thing could be said about Reggae and many other kinds of music, even classical.

Some people just look at three things; graphics, skills system and combat on a one on one scale. For those people WAR will be a WoW clone.

But I see things like travels times, time spent questing, time spent solo, time spent looking for a group, time in combat, teams tactics, team risk, team rewards.

For me WoW = time waisted, WAR = time well spent.

I'm not even looking at combat, or graphics or skill system. Those just aren't the key issues for me.

I see two totally different games.

What I find funny is all the people who have been on this site hating WOW saying how its too easy and dumbed down are all suddenly loving WAR and defending it. Even though WAR is even easier than WOW and even more dumbed down and even the RVR is dumbed down from DAOC. So it's like the only reason you hate WOW is because you don't want to like anything that is popular because you want to be "hardcore" and different like some emo kid.

It's like all the people that suddenly jumped to SWG's defense after the CU and NGE even though they were the esact same people who were moaning during the pre cu age saying how shit it was. I played SWG emu and just seeing how the basic mechanics works brings back all the memories of why that game pissed me off so much. Now you have all the hardcore fanbois on the emu forums and when you mention content from the CU and NGE they flame you until you get banned. It's like the CU and NGE done some good things that you cant ignore like quest based progression aswel as grinding and things like fixing buffs and armour making it more diverse. Before the CU everyone was just wearing the same armour and using the same weapons and it was soooooooo boring.

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