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Only brainless minions will listen to simple words and make a decision. PLAY IT TO KNOW.

I stopped reading the comments about a quarter of the way through because by then War had been compared to Wow at least 20 times. This pisses me off to no small extent! If you friggin want to stay with wow then by all means keep masterbating over gnome-titties til your cock falls off, but keep IT TO YOUR SELF! The game is not called Warhammer online: The new wow. Its like we’re supposed to have this huge ball and chain with wow chiseled onto it attached to our feet at a checkpoint before we’re allowed to even consider having fun in new ways. “Is War a cool game? Yes, but wow…” “Is War inovative? Yes, but wow…” “Is war trying its little heart out to bring satisfaction to the huge percentage of mmo players who are losing interest? Yes, but wow…”

Im friggin sick of it, and that goes to the discussion authors too. Tabula Rasa tried to wrench away from the wow chain, but you know what killed it for me? I couldnt read general chat for 5 seconds without seeing those hated 3 letters WOW pop up again and again and again. For the sake of pink lobsters! Age of Conan even went so far as to throw in nipples and crotch to try and get our minds off wow!

Blizzard, pls take your titles and profits and get back to making the games we love you for. Finish that Diablo3 and SC2… go on, we will end up loving you for it. And finally, to every MMo gamer out there who feels a pitance for the genre: Pls, let us help make war great. Let us for get the joys of the past and help make the future more fun.

pant…pant…pant… end rant

Sure, scenarios are fun. For a while. But sooner or later, they’re going to be just as much of a bore as WoW’s battlegrounds, because they essentially are battlegrounds. Getting exp, loot and cash from them is a novel twist on them and a step above WoW, but this doesn’t detract from the fact that they are fixed scenarios and not dynamic situations. You’ll have capture the flag(s) and all that jazz, but how long is it fun for?

WAR is not a particular threat to WoW just yet. It becomes a real challenger if it can keep subs and increase them over time. This means that RvR must have inherent risk and reward, as opposed to killing other players just because you should. Do you get to take a leader’s head and stick it on a spike somewhere? Do you get to sack a city and carry off gear a la public quest loot style? Can you get awesome trophies, mount armours, and most importantly does beating the other side in RvR hurt them badly enough to make them fight you until they get it back? A lot of WAR’s success will depend on how addictive the RvR is. For real veterans, on kills alone, give extra spell animations, there’s an idea. Stuff like that. So you know you’re fighting a real badass from the extra flourish his fireballs are packin’, for instance.

By the way, fire GOA. They are useless, incompetent, and I don’t think Europe has committed enough sins to warrant them overseeing the complete and utter shambles of the Open Beta. God only knows the complete frak up they are going to pull off on launch day, and early access before that, but if bookies were taking bets I’d bet the last few quid I’m not spending on the CE version of this game that the downtime for each will be at least six hours on each respective day.

I can see the future, and it’s another GOA screw-up. Don’t say you weren’t warned. :) If you want to get more subs in Europe, send those amateurs packing, ‘cos we are not at all pleased with the piss poor second rate service we are getting here. Even the EU website looks like I threw rabbit droppings at it and smeared them into recognizable shapes compared to the US site.

Failing that, if you insist on keeping them, I can communicate in non-broken English in a timelier fashion to update the customer base, and I accept coffee and ham and tomato sandwiches as payment. Yanno, for that missing Community Rep job that’s not listed as a vacancy, but sodding well ought to be….