WAR (Warhammer Online)

No matter your opinion of the game I thought this needed posting.

From this interview;

www.videogamer.com/pc/warhammer_online_age_of_reckoning/preview-1252.html

I won't get into my own personal opinion of WAR (or WOW) but I will say typical Barnett hyping what he cant deliver.

I am going to have to agree with paul on this. I played both at launch and while it is technically not wars launch date yet, what I experienced in war open beta was far beyond what wow is currently and defintly far beyond what they launched as.

Well its true but not really saying that much.

People do remember the problems with fear in the first month don't they?  WoW balance had some serious issues in the first two months.

As far as bugs and smoothness etc WAR is a bit better depedning on how the server roll outs go.  But class balance wise it is significantly better.

Not that WoW was bad but it had some notable and significant problem.  to its credit it fixed them fairly quick.  Well I dunno maybe it over nerfed them, but Mythic over nerfed sswordmaster over the last couple months IMO.  So its pointless to throw stones there.

Originally posted by gestalt11

Well its true but not really saying that much.

 

People do remember the problems with fear in the first month don't they?  WoW balance had some serious issues in the first two months.

 

As far as bugs and smoothness etc WAR is a bit better depedning on how the server roll outs go.  But class balance wise it is significantly better.

Not that WoW was bad but it had some notable and significant problem.  to its credit it fixed them fairly quick.  Well I dunno maybe it over nerfed them, but Mythic over nerfed sswordmaster over the last couple months IMO.  So its pointless to throw stones there.

All I havde to say about WoW and how terrible its launch was with respect to class balance is:

LOL DRUIDS.

Does ANYONE remember how insanely BAD every spec of Druid was EXCEPT Restoration and, to add to that, Druids had INSANE training costs for skills -- remember, they reimbursed us?

But then again, most WoW-a-holics only remember the good and the forget the rest. It was and IS a great game, but it had MANY more -serious- issues at launch than most of us care to recall.

Warhammer may be more "simple" if you judge it by its cover, its bells and whistles -- but it is a solid game with what I believe will be endless fun and glorious RvR for years to come.

If RvR is your bag, this IS the game.

WoW does every aspect of the MMO genre well, for mass appeal, but in my opinion, does not excel at all aspects. It is the Jack-of-all-Trades in the MMO universe.

Warhammer has a little for everyone, but its focus is large scale and , so far, insanely addictive RvR. I start to jones when the queue takes more than 5 minutes!!

EDIT: Tewwible grammerz.

I read the entire interview and it's thoughtful and straight forward, not hype.

As to the question is WAR better than WoW was at launch? Absolutely, it's not even in question.

Unlike Blizzard, who floundered around for years after launch before being able to get an expansion out, Mythic has already been working on expansions with a dedicated expansion team. I don't know if we will see expansions at the rate of EQ2, but it seems at least one a year is a good bet. Plus, they have a seperate team working on free content additions we'll see between expansions.

Sounds good to me.

I think the biggest issue now is population balance. If they take a proactive approach to addressing it, things will be looking very promising.

I give a lot of credit to WoW and I've played it for quite some time. Up until WAR it did a good job at taking a lot of the good in most major mmos, and then tweaking them a bit. However, I do not forget all of the bad that was involved during the launch of WoW.

Which is why whenever someone tries to bash WAR on things that aren't even that major, I have to really question whether or not they even like mmos. WAR hasn't even officially launched yet and it is already almost on par if not better (depending on preferences) than WoW. This only means great things for WAR and its playerbase.

Remains to be seen since the game hasn't launched yet. To his credit, Mythic seems to be very serious about being a real competitor in this market competing with WoW '08, not WoW '04 unlike some of the other recent failed games.

post after post I see people comparing War to WoW who gives a shit delete your wow toon and go play War, at least that way I can stop hearing all your QQ'ing and get a better Lat in the process..

see you in two month when you come back to WoW

Elven

Originally posted by Elvenbaine

post after post I see people comparing War to WoW who gives a shit delete your wow toon and go play War, at least that way I can stop hearing all your QQ'ing and get a better Lat in the process..

 

see you in two month when you come back to WoW

Elven

Lol come back to WoW?  That game is done and beatin. ( In my eyes)  I really have no desire to pay 50 to redo everything I already did.

Woopty doo I can play a CrapKnight.  Yea I loved them in WC3 the idea of them.  But in WoW, they look like shit.  And if they are not over powered in pvp they are going to be gimper than a Prot Warrior in PvP.

Barnett is absolutely right. I remember WoW's launch. I even remember its beta. So far WAR is way better. Though, launch day and the couple months thereafter will be the true test.

-EDIT- I'm not being a grammer nazi, because I hate those guys. And I don't know if it was you or the article, but it's thAn, not thEn.  Just a friendly pointer.