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Bottom line. You tried it, now will you buy it?
gillvane1
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Ok, so you tried the open beta. For those that have played enough to make up their minds, whether that's an hour or several months, (everyone takes a different approach to making a decision), are you going to buy it, or not?
I'm talking about release, or shortly after, not a year from now, not after an expansion, or some other future event that may or may not happen.
Just plain old, you tried it, now will you buy it?
There isn't an answer for those that haven't decided yet, because that's not the question.
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I'm talking about release, or shortly after, not a year from now, not after an expansion, or some other future event that may or may not happen.
Just plain old, you tried it, now will you buy it?
There isn't an answer for those that haven't decided yet, because that's not the question.
MMORPG Maker
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(before anyone says i did all the game tweaks and it has helped a litlle, but not enough)
I got;
x1950xtx 512mb
core 2 duo 6700
2 gb 1033mhz corsair ram
I get about 250FPS on CSS but on Vanguard im getting a very stuttery 20fps with default settings on : which i think is balance. This happened since beta 5 though :P I think the servers effect your performance because of the delay + im from UK so lag will be even worse.
My initial impression wasn't that great, because really the start areas need work IMO, but after looking around the world really is rather amazing.
probably would explode your computer to turn on aa.
anyway... the game has really piss poor graphics and art direction... looks like a bunch of copied and pasted bumpmapped textures reused millions of times.
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wrong topic
"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever." - Noam Chomsky
Vanguard is not the game we were promised and expected to see. The whole expereince is linear and uninspriring. It all lends itself to being a game rather than a world to get lost in. EQ was the last time we will see a world to get lost in.
Yes, some of you may recognise my name. I have been following Vanguard a long time and that is the main reason I am so disapointed with the game. I've stuck up for Sigil numerous times, but now I realise they went back on their plans for an immersive game and just joined the modern idea of MMO's rollercoaster that started with WoW.
We were promised a comprehensive diplomacy sphere that made one part of the world about them and incorporating a quest system of massive proportions and scope. What we got was half of that. Diplomacy is nice, I'll admit, but it is still half of what it could have been. I felt like I was playing the same game over and over when I tried it, ie there wasn't a huge scope for variation of tactics. The quest system is apalling. The graphics plonked above quests givers lends the game the approach of being a guided demo for a solo RP game; go here, speak to him, kill x llama's and y rabbits and return to here...when done move on to the next area. One of Sigil's earlier beta guides actually asked players if they felt zone progressionw as easy enough to follow, ie did the game accurately help you to follow the progression from chunk A to chunk B and on to chunk C.
We were promised combat that was slow and tactical. There supposed to be pauses were you had to decide what move you wanted to play next. If you chose the wrong move you might change the whole course of the encounter in the enemies favour. Choose correctly and a whole path of glorious options open up for you. What we actually have is button spamming. At each level you gain spells you are able to work out, within 5 battles, the tactic you will use until your next spell level. It is, more often than not, pull with nuke, begin melee, cast your specials when they become available, melee to conserve mana and stamina (whatever the bars were), finish mob of with a blast of nuke. Rinse and repeat.
We were promised convoluted and extrvagant regional economies. We now have a regional broker in city banks. Who will ever use player vendors to sell stuff when they can run to the bank and quickly place their items down with the minimum of effort?
Just three examples. I'm so unimpressed and unsatisfied based on my assumptions. It's like Sigil took the easy way out when they had an option of interesting and intruiging or same old, same old WoW route of games that reward too easy. Quick rewards and fixes are not the only method. Sigil seemed to understand that once upon a time and they were making a game that explored the opposite. They were...
Will I buy the game? I dunno to be very honest. I am trying to get into it, and have been trying to get into it since I joined beta in beta 3. I left for a while and hoped to come back to a much more inspriring game in beta 5. Hasn't shown itself to me yet. Maybe I can find more fun when the game is crowded and there is a community. I'm seriously put off by Vanguard's quest dependency and the new use of regional broker/bazaar/markets. Brad once said that having a bazaar like system is negative to the game...how quickly and surprisingly a person's ideals can change it seems.
I don't hate the game. It looks nice and there is a deeply hidden promise and hope that future changes will bring back what was promised. I just find it uninspiring and I miss what was promised.
If I play I can't see the fun lasting much longer than a few months so maybe I should ask myself, 'why bother?'.
It makes me sad to look at the route things took. I feel like I lost a good friend.
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I miss DAoC
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Im going to buy it because this is the only big MMORPG coming out for a while. The rest won't be out till summer. So I guess I'll just have to accept it for what it is.
man, i find this really really sad
maybe this is why the game is coming out so soon - just to be the only new choice available
At this time I will not buy it.
As long as its free I will continue to login.
I miss DAoC
At this point in testing, the server cluster has NOT moved to SOE. So how can the game be hosted by SOE yet? It's not! That's something to consider; SOE has always had a pretty big redundent pipe.
Once Sigil move the game server cluster to SOE datacenter, things will be quite different. Once the game is anounced as Gold, they will move over to the SOE datacenter; but not before then. I'm certain that Sigil, because the game is still in Beta, have not developed their support tools, tech documents, and escalation procedures for Vanguard yet.
Why most do not understand the BETA process better, is beyond me. Haven't there been enough BETA tests out in the MMO realm yet?
Sheesh
I miss DAoC
It won't run for crap on my machine. . . does that count as trying it?
I have been playing Vanguard 3 days now, will definetely buy it since feels to me like eq2 with a lot more options. Wether it will hold my subscription or not depends on how the game plays after level 40. Server crashes, performance and bugs are kind of irritating but to be expected I guess in a beta. There're a lot of things to be fixed still, hope they manage it before the end of the month.
Only real downside is that this game together with oblivion, NWN2 and Gothic 3 demand an upgrade on my old comp
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I will definately be buying it.
Even with some bugs and performance issues this game is better than anything I have played since EQ1 and DAOC. For those that buy into the negative hype the game is getting without even trying it you are going to miss out on an awesome experience.
I don't think anyone expects the MMO masses (which is mainly WoW) to play VG. Its geared towards an entire difference audiencce. Its for mature players who enjoy a challenge and the community in an MMO.
Remember,,,,the people enjoying the beta are in the game playing and not out on the boards trolling....there are currently 9000 people online playing and everyone I ask say they are hooked on the game already....its true there are bugs and some performance issues....but it is truly getting better every day....they patched twice yesterday for god's sake on a Saturday!
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.