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Posted: Oct 18th 2009 5:26PM (Unverified) said

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You keep fighting the good fight, fella. Hope you're having fun when you're not busy frothing at your mouth. Here's a newsflash though, not everyone who doesn't like the game is a angry hater and not everyone that likes the game is a fanboy. It's just that some people are able to objectively look at a game and note its flaws and are able to see them as flaws rather than try and rationalize them as something that's supposed to be in order to make the game "hard."

Isn't it annoying that these days gamers tend to like an MMO just because it's "not WoW" rather than judge the new MMO on its own merits/flaws? Anything that's an obvious bad design choice is hailed by these people as something revolutionary because it is something that WoW does not employ.
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Posted: Oct 18th 2009 7:38PM Mr Angry said

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Sorry, only polite people get full responses from Mr Angry, please fuck off.
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Posted: Oct 19th 2009 3:31AM (Unverified) said

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You're under the mistaken impression that I want a "full answer" from you. Nothing could be farther from the truth, I'm afraid. Going by your original post, there's nothing you can say that will either entertain me nor educate me.

It is a sad reflection of the current MMO-playerbase (or the entire gamer-playerbase if I was a bit more cynical) that anything that doesn't conform to someone's point-of-view is considered a troll or a fanboy's response. Objectivity is a thing of the past it seems.

You go on keeping comfort in the delusion that you're actually withholding something from me by not giving a "full response." I'll be waiting for the inevitable "death" report of this game due to NCSoft's horrible design and "support."
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Posted: Oct 18th 2009 12:25PM (Unverified) said

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basically what mr angry said

yeah its not easy to level, and there is definitely a sizeable amount of grinding.

but this game wasn't designed to appeal to EVERYONE. thats not to say it appeals to hardcores only but they definitely make it to 50 quick.

this game is full of people who are sick of WoW's E-Z mode atm, and i'm sure will lose a few once cataclysm comes out, but they'll quickly be back.

Posted: Oct 21st 2009 12:53AM Angelworks said

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I came and went back to wow already - to me the game just lacked any sort of substance - it really had nothing to do with the grind (but then I didn't make it past 20 where I hear it gets really horrid - when I kinda gave up).

It was boring, the controls were clunky (feels like I'm fighting the game), rubber-banding isn't fun, the playerbase is more immature than wow's (which I didn't think could be possible) and the support from ncsoft when you need help was non-existent. I won't be going past my trial sadly.

I don't know why these games (and wow is guilty of this too really) make new players suffer. All I hear about Aion is how great it is when you are x, y or z level - why not design it to be great from level 1 (actually it is great from level 1, they don't really start punishing you until like 5 or 6 when you realize how vapid it is)?
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Posted: Oct 19th 2009 12:06PM Kalex716 said

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I'm waiting for a game to stop sissy footing around the issue, and start really punishing the people BUYING gold. Or find ways to address the fact that people need to buy it.

The spammers are their because it works, they're not the extent of the issue.

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