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2011 = Bounceback Year for the MMORPG Industry « Taugrim's MMO Blog — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:43:10 +0000

[...] I played several other “new” games to the Western market: Aion and Allods Online (AO). Aion’s grindfest killed my interest before I even reached level cap. AO had a terrific Beta experience go into the toilet when the game developer implemented a Death [...]

By: Shiara

Shiara — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:32:46 +0000

Hey Tau (and Nam and others), miss you all. Hope you all are doing well! I’ve since fallen in with the Agony crew in War (and LotRO, though I haven’t gone creepside there in forever).

Will bump into you folks in some game soon, hopefully.

- Kytara

By: taugrim

taugrim — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:12:50 +0000

Glad to hear Agony is still having fun and that WAR is much more stable. It was still very buggy when I de-subbed back in 1.3.1.

The population flux is a huge issue, and one that I wish Mythic had spent more time thinking through before going live with the game.

You guys have a great guild. Say hi to the Agony crew for me!

By: Skutrug

Skutrug — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:05:06 +0000

Yo Taugrim, your ol’ buddies in Agony are still well and kicking in WAR – Come back to serving the Great Eye… or Sigmar depending on your inclination
Agony destro is on Badlands – Agony Order is on Iron Rock. Irony/Obliteration moved to Gorfang I believe – you have both Order and Destro characters, so you will likely experience both sides.
WAR is still a ton of fun, specially now that most annoying bugs have be eliminated – I have steady non-lag gameplay with over 150 characters on/around screen.
Population side seems to be a constant flux, as people seems to be playing across different servers and swinging to the dominant side. Mythic has very much tried to improve things – sometimes their ideas appear odd – like the recent scenarios debacle – but it is often a manner of communication (or lack of it).
T1 is still a blast – and you can be competitive from level 1 to 40… as you know well. The next patch will put everyone at the highest level of scenario tier, so no more farming the 36-38 in scenarios. We are all hoping they bring back the fortresses in a functional way sometimes soon. New RvR weapons are on the way, the current classes are pretty much set at their right position – a few still do need a bit of love, but all are playable.
All in all, WAR is fun.
Skut

By: Namaste

Namaste — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:52:58 +0000

Yeah EVE does take time to get advanced in the game for sure. I am mostly playing it now to see and learn the game. I really have wanted to see why so many people love this game so much.I only plan to play it for a few months.

I hear you can be viable in the PVP in just a few weeks if you become a “tackler”. Basically disabling the opponents warp drive and slowing them down.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:47:00 +0000

Okay, first glance, another RoM WoW clone.

Second glance, WAR clone, and a bloody good one at that. The steampunk/sci-fi fantasia disney-esque art style is really something else too.

If you’re fed up of the usual high fantasy, roll an empire character.

Graphically this game is astonishing, in that it is free an’ all.

Combat is a bit sluggish and slow at these low levels, hope it changes.

Still playing, we’ll see what happens.

By: taugrim

taugrim — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:34:12 +0000

If you haven’t yet, check out my last post re: WAR:
http://taugrim.com/2010/01/05/social-gaming-may-kill-traditional-mmorpg/

EA is pulling resources away from Mythic, which is not good for WAR.

EA won’t publish the subscriber numbers for WAR, but given that it was 300k in Q1 2009 and the game kept losing players and servers since then, my guess is it’s well under 100k now.

By: taugrim

taugrim — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:31:44 +0000

I’ve heard great things about EVE Online, but it sounds like it takes a lot of time to get advanced in the game, and that is a bit of a turnoff.

WAR really defined for me what an MMO experience should be in terms of fun factor and the ability to compete against better-geared, higher-ranked opponents. I don’t like games that give the much better geared player an insurmountable advantage (WoW was that way). In WAR I was able to defeat much-better geared opponents via skill, positioning, and timing of cooldowns.

Let me know how GW2 turns out. I didn’t play GW1. And I’ll be posting how Allod’s goes for me. I’ve been having trouble installed the Beta 5 client, but that’s pretty commmon. I’m still sorting through that now.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:09:37 +0000

Is the general player-base for WAR so low now then? Has there been much news from the Devs?

I totally agree, tanks were just machines and it was a game where every single class/race combo was extremely well-thought out and fun to play.

As aforementioned, I’m playing WoW now and it is sometimes desperately tricky to keep a momentum and commitment going, I have only 1 main and have done for years. Only now have I started experimenting with other classes, I’m right in thinking that isn’t a good thing.

Ive checked out Allods, not sure what to think.

By: Namaste

Namaste — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:54:55 +0000

Yeah Taugrim, Warhammer really spoiled me as far as fun PVP. Nothing is better than PVP from level 1 in a game.

I barely lasted 3 months in AION. Got an Assassin to level 47. Just couldn’t find much PVP like I could in WAR. I was too bored in the game and I was one of those who didn’t mind the leveling grind.

I may try Allods. I hate that it’s a free game with MT though. I am actually playing EVE Online right now. I can really see why so many people either find EVE boring or love it. The game is so complex and deep. I just wish I got into EVE in 2003 So this game will be a decent filler for me until Guild Wars 2 comes out. Even though Guild Wars is an NCsoft game it is made by Arenanet. It is the exact opposite of a grinding game. You easily hit max level in a few days and pvp right away. So I am patiently awaiting GW2 while I play EVE Online.