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I have to agree, a very well done article.

I don't intend to play War, just not my style.  I like pvp, but Mythic's version of pvp just bores me to death, after you retake a town or castle for the nth time it becomes meaningless as far as I am concerned and there is nothing else to do at end game.  The game is just too Wow like without the end game raiding.

I hope those that play enjoy it.

Damn! Now I have to buy it!!

Originally posted by JK-Kanosi

Originally posted by IAmMMO

Originally posted by JK-Kanosi

I was a MMORPG fan when I first started playing DAoC in 2001 and then switched to SWG in 2005. I can't say for sure if I am a MMORPG fan anymore though, because community is just as much a feature of a MMORPG as PvP or Raiding. The community since WoW came out in almost every MMORPG I've played has been rude, anti-social, and disrespectful with small pockets of mature people. This is the exact opposite of how the community was before WoW. Your last paragraph said that you would recommend the game to fans of MMORPGs, but I cannot say for sure if I am a fan of MMORPGs anymore. I love the idea of building a character over a long period of time with other people online, but I absolutely hate what the MMORPG community has devolved to.

I guess the question is: Is the WAR community like the DAoC and SWG community before WoW brought several million people into our games, or is the WAR community like WoW's?

 

  I couldn't agree with you more. This is the main reason I'm not bothering with WAR, or a lot of other MMO's now for that matter anymore. They're full of the young teens born in the late 1980's and early 1990's, or the Beavis and Butthead generation as I like to call them. Not all in that generation are bad I know, but a majority of them do have issues on how to act socially in a MMO.

 

 

Yeah, I know I am over-generalizing here, but there is a lot of truth in what I am saying. It's weird how MMORPG "seem" to attract the same type of people in every game. There could have been mostly teenagers playing MMORPGs before WoW came out, but you'd never know by talking to them. I felt like I was around people just like me.

TBH guys Im not finding that the WOW crowd has jumped ship, or they have grown up and not brought there childish antics with them TBH on my server the majority are 30 something brits who grew up on Warhammer and we are having a blast without a omfg i pwnt u anywhere to be seen.

Excellent viewpoint Jon! Like others have mentioned, its good you gave a "no bullcrap" review (if game magazines would do this, some game might not have been reduced to hard core players left). I share a wide view of your opinions on the game, Im a fan of PVP, but dont mind one bit if I get owned in combat so long as my team wins in the end :D

As to the age crowd, I have seen alot of twenty somthings on up into 50s playing (couple in my guild whove played several games with our crew for years) and I must say they are enjoying it, even though most of the older guys didnt like PVP, they sure do now. Community on my server seems to be fairly good so far (Ironfist) Hope the same for other servers.

A fair review for the most part. I will say i ran into a ton of bugs during my time in open beta, none of which were fixed before the early start hit. It also seems some races areas were "cleaner" than others. The chaos pve areas were horrible for stuck mobs,though i didnt run into many stuck mobs with elves or empire. Perhaps the various starting areas explain why some people run into very few bugs yet others found a ton.

My impression at the end of open beta was that it was yet another game  being rushed out the door before it was ready. In my opinion its a less polished,buggier rehash of daoc with a warhammer skin tacked on.

You might enjoy the game if you havent played daoc and dont mind buggy, rushed products. If you enjoyed daoc and are johnsing so hard for pre toa RvR that you can overlook it being inferior to what they released 7 years ago, you may like WAR.

Summary:

WAR is the best MMORPG ever. Come join us.

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Originally posted by JK-Kanosi
The genre is just different now and I have adapted, as it sounds like you have. But there comes a time when you wonder why you adapt to immaturity, instead of just leaving the genre completely. Especially when your a person who is approaching 30, is married, and has a child in 1st grade. How many people do you know in real life, that are adults, who say they hang out with 12-15 year olds? Well, that is essentially what you are doing in MMORPGs and it kind of makes me feel dirty, lol.
I'm buying WAR today, and I will do my best to ignore the bad crowd. Hopefully the gameplay is good enough to hook me, so that I can start reaching out to the mature crowd and join a guild.

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try The Older Gamers you have to be over 25 to join the guild. They play in a lot of games - not just MMOs and have a large U.S, Australian and European membership.

 Only issue i have with this artical is the carebear remark honestly. There is alot more reasons why people are going core then open and its more then just they want to be ganked. Figre the server types should of been touched on and why.

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