Scott

Me wants.

Wish there was an edit option. ;)

Should have read: "I honestly don't see the appeal of AoC as a PvE game for people that don't intend to participate in PvP, there are stronger PvE MMO's than AoC."

Agreed, I intended to reply to the author on his site a day before and realized it was pointless. AoC and LotRO are two completely different MMO's targetting at totally different audiences.

I honestly don't see the appeal of AoC as a PvE game for people that don't intend to participate in PvE, there are strong PvE MMO's than AoC.

As others pointed out the author was already biased, he's bored with the game and hasn't even gotten past the first third of it, intends to right a review when he's all but decided the game 'sucks'

AoC is the only true PvP oriented MMO on the market right now, no other MMO allows that freedom, for what faults it has, it's proven there's 500,000-700,000 subscribers backing that up. Players are tired of the existing MMO content, and they're tired of limited PvP rulesets, AoC delivered on those despite its early release and minor faults.

Ryzom was actually an interesting MMO, It just didn't get the reception it needed at launch, and the graphics are sorely outdated now. However many of its game mechanics are fun and solid.

Still, knowing the type of companies that buyout properties like this, it'll likely go on life support again with minimal investment before it's shut down again.

The best thing that could happen is the community wins the bid for it to release the source and improve it.

Youd don't have to "enjoy" your chosen medium as an artist or designer to be a great designer.

Do you expect entrepreneurs to enjoy their chosen business? No. They create and build companies for the love and challenge of building something from the ground up.

Do web dev's enjoy spending time on their websites? For most no, they enjoy the act of creating, and building the community or experience that others will visit.

Game designers and developers aren't any different than those professions, their satisfaction in their profession, their fun, is in the act of creation and seeing their work embraced by players having fun, it's never about them playing such games. Their mindset will always be, why fritter my time away playing somebodies game, when I can build one myself? You always have that drive in you.

As for those in school as analysts, their responses are spot on as well. You lose your ability to suspend disbelief when you're trained to critically analyze systems and reverse engineer everything you see to understand it. It makes it rather hard to enjoy something when you're mind is constantly trying to critically analyze it in that fashion.

Yeah baby, gimme the phat loots.

Gimme or I'll pod you!

More screen for more pwnage.

X3f is a god upon xbox360 fanboys delivering the sugary goodness of gaming related news like a 10 lb bag of pure columbian sugar sniffed straight up. Yeah it's hardcore like that.

SPARTA!!!!

Fav scene when the kill peeps. Ok, so sue me.. I've got the DVD ordered and on the way..