Will use my free month then dump my euro copy for the usa version.

Now, knowing EA, and their american centrism, they will most probably forget to take into account EA europe (and EA Goa), not even caring what they can and cannot do.

To conclude Goa staff acquired a lot of experience on DAOC, and if they were awful at first, they were not too bad at the end. But it is clear that they were not kept in the loop in open beta decisions hence the mess we are meeting and that we will meet when these servers go live. Yet they have prepared for the launch for a while, although EA (US) announced 2 months before release the street date, a release that everyone was suspecting to happen a month later.
A bold move to steal more Acti/blizz customers, yet let’s hope that the logistic did not get as surprised as we got by that announcement!

*rolleyes in a massive way*

http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64019

Thats good news about the graphics… I wonder why the GC versions looked that bad. Why would they show a poor quality version and not even announce that there is a better version?

Unfortunately this does not address my other concern (about bad animation synchronisation and generally slow feedback, interface issues), but it does make me a bit more hopeful.

Thanks a lot for the info.

Neither Mytic, Ea or GOA seem to be taking the EU community very seriously. Maybe they think our money is already in the bag regardless.

Personaly if I had the power within EA or Mythic the conference phone would be going and the “you have 1 day Sort it” command would be issued. Sadly I am begining to think neither Mythic or EA have the ability… Why they did not go with a UK / Swedish or German company I have no idea – at least those countries know about customer relations and organisation.

However, we don’t even have the same basic website functions as the US, and launch date is coming ever closer.
I doubt we’ll even see a Realm War page until ages into live…….. I simply do not understand why GOA repeat the same mistakes from their DAoC times. I thought they were more experienced by now.

But I guess not when they basically have a carte blanche for screwing over the customer base.

Whats worse, the client server model seems to have been completely misinterpreted. Judging by the delay I experience between pressing a button and actually seeing the appropriate animation, I must assume the server is being asked whether the animation should actually be played, or worse, the server orders the client to play the animation. Whatever the cause, even if its just client lag, its completely inacceptable in a game this big. If you’ve got money to spend on a massive cinematic trailer, you should be able to provide some smooth gameplay.

Bad publishing or not, WAR has bigger problems than just its distribution in my opinion. That just seems to be the “icing on the cake”, if you will.

I think I’ll sit on WAR for a bit, so much good stuff coming in the next 2 months, STALKER: Clear Sky, Crysis Warhead, BiA: Hell’s Highway, Farcry 2 and Fallout 3.