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By: West Karana » Daily Blogroll 5/13 — Going Rogue edition

West Karana » Daily Blogroll 5/13 — Going Rogue edition — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:28:13 +0000

[...] looks back at a Year of WAR and charts the rise and fall of her time in the game, as she lets her subscription expire. Though I [...]

By: skarbd

skarbd — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:03:06 +0000

PS – Nice to meet you on Saturdays Warhammer drinks.

By: skarbd

skarbd — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:02:39 +0000

Hiya Spinks,

A little comment I grabbed from RedPhoniex post on warhammer alliance, re: Wards

“As part of this implementation, the ward system is being overhauled into a sigil system. Wards will no longer be attached to actual armor but instead tied to achievements in the Tome of Knowledge, such as killing the boss that dropped that armor. Wards can then be combined into sigils which have the same effects wards do now. This allows players to mix and match set pieces, and retain wards/sigils even if they don’t have the armor pieces.”

Hopefully this will be in for land of the dead.

By: mydeathknight

mydeathknight — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:37:59 +0000

I’ve been playing Dawn of War 2, Raiding in WoW has started to get a little dry again for me…. wipe, wipe, wipe, wipe… boss kill, wipe etc gets a little dull! Jousting is fun I suppose and bite sized enough to dip in and out of.

Anyway I digress, DoW2 has given me a hankering to reactivate my WAR account! I doubt many RTS players will do this, but using the Warboss as a hero on my Orks has tempted me back into WAR and a Black Orc!

By: unwize

unwize — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:05:26 +0000

Your ‘best things’ list is spot on. The good ideas were there, even if the implementation of them wasn’t always very great.

My reasons for leaving were a little more damning than yours:

- WAR PvE is beyond lacklustre.

- Balanced PvP was scarce, even in scenarios.

- The client was (and still is, judging by the latest videos) supremely unpolished, likely beyond repair.

- The server architecture is incapable of handling the horribly ill-conceived RvR end-game.

It seems laughable now that this game was once touted as a WoW contender, and I’m betting that the EA bigwigs will think thrice before funding another project with Mark Jacobs at the head.

By: arbitrary

arbitrary — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:56:31 +0000

I wish they’d made DAOC2. Then it would be a serious contender for my time and money.

This post made me both happy and sad.

By: Melmoth

Melmoth — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:52:23 +0000

In my mind, the game they should have made was DaoC II

Spooky, I was discussing WAR this morning with Zoso and had that exact same thought.

I’m expecting Champions Online to soak up a large amount of my subscription funds because it should be City of Heroes with a graphics upgrade and a lot of the original issues ironed out. A DAoC2 that did a similar sort of thing would surely have my subscription for several years as well.