Lok1

Isn't it strange how a bunch of news articles keep repeating the words "it's a success" ?

What are they trying to convince us of? is it a subliminal message?

@Loki1 and in my opinion if quests guide you in and out of maps in a linear sequence, the game can't be a hybrid, such an element is too intrusive and strong, it's the essence of themepark, there can't be any "sandpark" balance many often delude themselves with.

in the real world such perfect 50/50 proportion you dream of is mostly utopical.

Oh i might have enjoyed this game.

Too bad quests tell me where to go, i can't explore and learn the world on my own oh no, i have to go where the quests tell me to.

And no i can't avoid them, in a game that features quests it is foolish not to do them.

if this game is a success, then it's a success of negativity.

TOR is a negative phenomenon because:

-it recycles old MMO elements, thus discouraging innovation
-it discourages socialization in favor of NPC's and solitary quests
-it separates people instead of making them feel they're ONE entity facing the same problems(like politics and economy)

TOR is an unhealthy game, i'm afraid.

i think it's imperative to go against the game, it's just, it's moral.

Because apart from being a game without the faintest trace of challenge given to the player, it's an online game that's played for its offline elements so it encourages selfishness and asociality.

So it's terribly unhealthy for the whole genre, it's a disease of the genre.

Haters then really are the good guys, promoters of real virtuality and dynamic worlds. TOR is not dynamic, not open, not progressive, not alive in any way. TOR is a plague that must be fought and destroyed. Buy explosive, destroy EA buildings.

heh people seem to call sheer lack of content and WoW carbon copies

"a bug"

@Norcii

For god sake, what's wrong with you guys, you sound like spoiled children.

I am an old timer, i play games, i accept little errors, who cares that when i mount on a hourse sometimes i face its ass, i had amazing fun being a slag hauler, my clan was full of awesome oak-hearted fellows who did PvP(i hate violence, i don't fight, i let people kill me).

It's total PVP, professions are aimed to be incredibly deep. What else do you need!!! :)

My only beef is that i hate FPS visuals, i don't want that kind immersion, give me a 3rd person camera where my character looks like an ant. And don't even give me different combat animations, i liked ultima fighting, simple, symbolic, non-violent.

@Norcii

Fair? What is fair? Your definition of it is not the same as mine.

I don't need/want facilitations in my sandbox game, i like it as simulative as can be.

So i like, as one said, "unneecessarily complicated" professions(hello, they are complicated in real life too), and total simplicity and minimalism in the actual gameplay. I don't want no channels, no auction houses, no tutorials, no quests, no windows! i just want plain social interaction, total combat, territory control and crafting made just as it is in R/L.

I still have no idea what's wrong with this game, but that's just me not being afraid of non-accessible online games.

Please tell me why are people so mad at this game.

If i didn't actually find it to be a GOOD game(great crafting, pure PVP what else could you possibly need?), i would say: fuck sake it's the ONLY TRUE sandbox we have, the only one, all the rest is clones of WoW. And we crap on it? It's like a starved beggar who got a sandwich and complains the cheese is not salty.

@Loki1

Back in UO, PVP was BASED on exploiting tricks. Why is that wrong? I think players just got very very spoilt and, no offence, a bit butthurt at the first harshnesses.

It's the wow-made-me-a-pussy syndrome, to me. Proove me wrong :)

@TitusGroan

Exploitable? It's simply PvP, what's there to be exploited? Just get smarter, exploit better.

In real life medieval fighters "exploited" stuff, who cares?