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Sprawl-zero1eye-  Title: IGN Vault Staff
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Registered: 2002-6-28 03:39:29
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Spookysheep posted:
With social networking being an ingrained part of life to the newest generation, maybe the time of MMO's has past, and we are just all old enough to have been there during their rise and fall (kind of like the cowboys of the "old west", which in reality, was only about a 15 year period in history, then was gone forever, yet immortalized and romanticized as if it has lasted for generations) o.0
In a way, you might be right regarding the subscription-based MMOs. The cover of PC Gamer this last month read "10 huge MMOs that have gone free to play".
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JaconKin  Posts: 186
Registered: 2007-1-16 18:00:40
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Aye, who knows, TOR may very well be the last subscription based MMO to get released. Depending upon how restrictive and nonrestrictive the F2P model is and just as long as you can't buy your way to the top. I know LOTRO has done quite well since it has gone to a hybrid F2P model, being able to release more content than when it was just sub based.
Honestly, it is one of the reasons I'm looking forward to Guild Wars 2 so much beyond what it is offering game play wise, the fact that it is Free once you buy the game is a big plus. The whole idea of a subscription was one of the reasons it took me so long to finally play a MMO in the first place.
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Ugh_Lancelot  Title: Ooo...bouncy!
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Registered: 2002-6-17 14:37:05
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Arcilite_I posted:
Yea, WoW was very polishes at launch, if you could:
1) Log in
2) stay logged in
Other than that, sure the game was awesome. Funny how you forget about them literally giving away days and sometimes a week of free time due to downtime.
Oh, come on now. I know it's fun to bait the token idiot but the point does stand that excluding the launch bugs (getting stuck on mining veins, booted when Hillsbrad crashed, etc.) you must admit that the combat system did have a very fluid and responsive feel. /shrug
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Arcilite_I Title: VN's Most Wanted
Posts: 1,260
Registered: 2002-1-27 08:46:24
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Ugh_Lancelot posted:
Arcilite_I posted:
Yea, WoW was very polishes at launch, if you could:
1) Log in
2) stay logged in
Other than that, sure the game was awesome. Funny how you forget about them literally giving away days and sometimes a week of free time due to downtime.
Oh, come on now. I know it's fun to bait the token idiot but the point does stand that excluding the launch bugs (getting stuck on mining veins, booted when Hillsbrad crashed, etc.) you must admit that the combat system did have a very fluid and responsive feel. /shrug
Combat system was fluid, sure. When you could log in, stay logged in, weren't rubberbanding everywhere, weren't lagging, weren't stuck looting, weren't stuck mining/herbing, weren't stuck in combat and couldn't eat/drink, weren't getting los'd through walls by mobs...I could go on.
Korrigan forgets that WoW had a LOT of issues when it came out. The DK has literally blinded him to anything prior to WotLK.
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Arcilite_I Title: VN's Most Wanted
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Registered: 2002-1-27 08:46:24
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I'm not saying I didn't enjoy the game back then either, it was fun as hell, just that it's damn foolish to pretend the game was without issues.
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The_Korrigan Title: Scrub Buster
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Registered: 2001-7-17 03:51:32
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What's always amusing is when the trolls shoot themself in the foot because they lacked the ability to read and understand what was written fully...
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Quazimortal Title: The One and Only
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Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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Not as amusing as watching you kiss Blizzard's ass all the time.
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Date Posted:
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Polish?
Of course it had more "polish"...lets look at the original system requirements compared to say, AC at its launch...
AC:
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM PC REQUIREMENTS
Minimum CPU Type: Pentium
Minimum CPU Speed: 166 MHz
Minimum RAM Required: 32 MB
Minimum Hard Disk Space: 150 MB
Graphics Type: SVGA
Graphics Resolution: 800x600
Color Depth: High Color
14.4 k Modem or better.
WOW Vanilla:
Windows® System 98/ME/2000/XP OS:
800 MHz or higher CPU
256 MB or more of RAM
32 MB 3D graphics card with hardware transform and lighting, such as GeForce 2 or better
4 GB or more of available hard drive space
DirectX® 9.0c or above
A 56k or higher modem with an Internet connection
Saying WOW had more "polish" is like saying MWF black ops on the 360 had more "polish" then Atari's "ET" for the 2600.
Of course it did. When you compare what was there, with the technology of the time, AC blows WOW out of the water in every aspect.
Polish. Stupidest comparison that could possibly be made between old and new games.
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_Warlucky_ Posts: 183
Registered: 2008-7-20 04:40:07
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Say what you want about WoW graphics but one of the big drawing points at the time for me giving it a look was that I didn't have to upgrade my graphics card because somebody thought the photo real look was what people really wanted rather then game play.
Once that you decide that the pixels don't really matter all that much, most of the games are very close in game play.
Story line falls in the same category for me, who cares.
Just give me a game where I can maneuver my toon, kill stuff and progress in some fashion.
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Arcilite_I Title: VN's Most Wanted
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Registered: 2002-1-27 08:46:24
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What's amusing is how every time Korrigan wants to insult somebody but can't think of anything to say he starts his post off with "What's amusing is".
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