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• • Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Population Imbalance Issues

  • I'm sorry you feel that way, but the fact remains - Destruction outnumbers Order.

    As per the city captures, like Girlgeek said, they will happen a lot more often. Mythic's bonus system worked great to inject a lot of people into T1 and T2 - Question is how many of those will survive to ultimatly try and balance the population in T4.

  • Posted: 10/29/08 9:02 AM
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• • Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Population Imbalance Issues

  • Hi guys, Arinas here (the OP).
    
    Just two quick points to add that might make some more sense to the article:

    • I wrote it almost a month ago (was posted only now due to some editorial reasons, which is cool), before the experience and renown bonuses were in place, that's why it seems a bit "Last Tuesday". Regardless, the issue still exists, only on a lesser degree.
       
    • When I referred to Order's healers, I was saying a very simple thing. They aren't underpowered in their abilities - We all know they are simply mirror classes of their Destruction counter parts. What I did say was that they are LESS ATTRACTIVE visually.

    I still stand by my point - Destruction is just cooler. And apparently, in an MMO, that's a very big thing.

    Thanks,
    Arinas
     

  • Posted: 10/29/08 3:42 AM
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• • Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Compare and Contrast - Use of IP

  • Hey guys, Asaf here (AKA OP).

    First of all, thanks for reading this and commenting, regardless of the positive or negative reaction in the comment.

    A couple of points I wanted to clarify in regards to the article and some replies:

    • LOTRO was amazing in it's respect to the lore. I said it in the article and I totally mean it. However, I think there HAS to be a balance between a good feeling of playing in the LOTRO world and feeling you're playing an MMO.
       
    • AoC and content issues - Thachsanh, you hit the mark right there. I tried to level up a character in Conan. There were two main issues: First, I had to grind - a lot. I think the minimum would be to have quests that propelled you from 1 to 80. Second, all I did were quests, all the time. There weren't enough instance groups as there weren't enough people or maybe the instances weren't "attractive" enough. Combine it all and you get a feel like you're on an endless race to reach 80, while doing nothing but grinding on the way.
       
    • WAR Fanboy? - Nope, not me. I play a game as long as I enjoy it. I enjoyed both LOTRO and AoC for the first few weeks, then got bored/tired of them. I play WAR and feel the same way I did when I first played WoW, that means a lot. I am currently writing another article about the balance or lack of between races in WAR - If you think I'm a fanboy, please read it and let me know if you still hold that opinion.
       
    • Alienoverlord - I agree with you completely - The world built by GW was meant to support a game and it shows when you play WAR, that's a very valid point.

     

  • Posted: 10/05/08 8:22 AM
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