Why i uninstalled and deleted WoW and LOTRO.

Nomatica

Not that WoW sucks, imo it doesnt i love WoW. But because When i started reading up on AoC and everything that it has and will bring at release i just cant get myself to level up a character in WoW or play mine. Its just that every time i play WoW or LOTRO my mind starts to think about all the awesomeness AOC will bring just in 2 months and i cant get myself to play any other mmorpg.

 

Any one else? I havent played AOC yet and i dont know if it will be bad or good its just that the game sounds so awesome i cant play anything else.

virtuella

So you are punishing yourself for several months by deleting some of your games just because a new promising one releases soon?

Then you might as well delete AOC as soon as it comes out because another one is ready to release soon after etc etc.

AOC will be my 19th MMORPG and Warhammer will be my 20th and so on,but i never delete any games i play before a new one is released.

Nomatica

I dont think ima buy WAR. AOC rocks   and from what i hear from people in beta and from previewers and what not. Theres really no reason to buy WAR it really does nothing different then WOW.

Naitakal

Now that you're saying it... I haven't logged in to LOTRO for quite some time now.

TurnX

I agree with the OP to some extent. I recently got rid of WoW myself because like the OP I couldn't bring myself to lvl yet another alt or keep raiding with one of my mains. I would say it's more due to the fact that after playing for so long it just wasn't as much fun anymore, but I do have to admit that reading up on the AoC awesomeness did impact me a little. To fill the 2 month gap between now and AoC release I actually picked LOTRO up again and will say that it is a fun game, though I will definatly be canceling that account come May 20th.

Vrika

Do you remember Vanguard, and the hype it had previously? Hype is not a game, and until NDA has been lifted all information we get is either monitored by Funcom or from NDA breakers who are really unreliable.



But you should not be playing AoC then either, since Darkfall will bring all kinds of awesomess and AoC will look like boring game compared to that.

TurnX

Not sure if I agree with you there  iamct2327... I think a lot of people that make up the 10 mil subscribers of WoW are looking for something new. Will games that come out this year run as smooth as WoW? No, WoW has 4 yrs of patches, tweaks, etc under it's belt that have made it that way. Will 9 mil of the 10 mil subscribers jump ship as soon as AoC and Warhammer come out? No, but I think those that do leave will find that there is a lot of games out that other than WoW that are fun to play.

TurnX

Also, never use Darkfall as an argument for anything. Until proven otherwise, that game is Vaporware.

nethervoid

This is one of the reasons I stopped reading up on new games before they are out of the NDA.  Too many times I've been let down.  Hell I even bought Horizons after reading what the 'features' were on the box.  lol

Best way to go about this industry is to be pessimistic about every game until it's actually released, else you will be let down time after time after time.  Out of every 10  MMOs that are released, one is half playable.  Out of ten half playable ones, 1 is actually worth pumping a couple of years into.

DeaconX

I understand what the OP means... I play Lotro off and on and it's a pretty damn polished game and all but it's nothing exciting, nothing new really so when I think about a game like AoC and what I've seen of it, the whole design from ground up just seems to be 'truly next gen' compared to the same old games and when I log on, I tend to get bored VERY FAST because of this...

I won't be getting AoC day one, because I'm waiting for word from what BioWare are doing... I'm really holding out for them because they just might be able to make 'the one' mmorpg I could stick with for YEARS to come.  BUT, should they fail my interests, and should AoC get sailing... I guess I'll be in Hyboria!  Truly the best / deepest / most content filled MMORPG on the horizon.

Nomatica

Why do people keep bringing up vanguard? Vanguard failed for many other reasons. 1. Terrible preformance. I am hearing from people that age of conan will run like guildwars. Great graphics but easy on the computer. One thing AOC has that VG doesnt is server lines that will tremendously help preformance.

 

2. Funcom is a more experenced company in mmorpgs then the ones that made vanguard. Anarchy online was a pretty good mmo so im hoping to see that funcom took lessons on what they did wrong and right in their last mmo and do things better with AOC.

 

3. AOC so far sounds like it brings everything to the table and more. Intereactive fighting no button mashing one spell. Raids/exploration/dungeons for PVERs. Awesome PVP for the pvpers, sieges, keeps etc.

 

4. AOC will be a very mature game. No cutesy kids garbage like elves and gnomes and cutesy graphics. When i was playing my warrior in WoW one thing that came to my mind was all the animation AOC characters will have and decapitations. I for one can not wait to decap some ones head off and spit on their corpse. May sound rude and wrong but this is what conan is all about.

Moodsor

Originally posted by Vrika

Do you remember Vanguard, and the hype it had previously? Hype is not a game, and until NDA has been lifted all information we get is either monitored by Funcom or from NDA breakers who are really unreliable.



But you should not be playing AoC then either, since Darkfall will bring all kinds of awesomess and AoC will look like boring game compared to that.

Darkfall ? Id like to see that game be released before i even start giving it a thought. Darkfall is the MMO version of Duke Nukem Forever.

Nomatica

I was following darkfall for a long time. Darkfall seems like another dark and light to me. Reasons why i can follow funcom without being totally let down is because funcom is a more experenced company and already have a popular mmo out even if its old.

nethervoid

Originally posted by Nomatica


Why do people keep bringing up vanguard? Vanguard failed for many other reasons. 1. Terrible preformance. I am hearing from people that age of conan will run like guildwars. Great graphics but easy on the computer. One thing AOC has that VG doesnt is server lines that will tremendously help preformance.
 
2. Funcom is a more experenced company in mmorpgs then the ones that made vanguard. Anarchy online was a pretty good mmo so im hoping to see that funcom took lessons on what they did wrong and right in their last mmo and do things better with AOC.

1.  Vanguard has server lines - You just can't see them

2.  The makers of Vanguard made EQ - Sounds like at least the same amount of experience or maybe more depending on how you look at it

The real problem with most of the failures since EQ is promising content the budget can't deliver.  If AoC has a problem it will most definitely be linked with this previous statement...and it's so common it's just not surprising at all anymore.  I actually expect it now.

andmiller

Originally posted by Velera


 
Originally posted by Vrika

Do you remember Vanguard, and the hype it had previously? Hype is not a game, and until NDA has been lifted all information we get is either monitored by Funcom or from NDA breakers who are really unreliable.



But you should not be playing AoC then either, since Darkfall will bring all kinds of awesomess and AoC will look like boring game compared to that.

 

Darkfall ? Id like to see that game be released before i even start giving it a thought. Darkfall is the MMO version of Duke Nukem Forever.

I can't believe someone who posts about over-hyped games, like in paragraph 1, would then post about the "awesomeness" of darkfall.  At least over-hyped piles of crap like Vanguard and Dark and Light actually got released!!

Nomatica

Originally posted by nethervoid


 
Originally posted by Nomatica


Why do people keep bringing up vanguard? Vanguard failed for many other reasons. 1. Terrible preformance. I am hearing from people that age of conan will run like guildwars. Great graphics but easy on the computer. One thing AOC has that VG doesnt is server lines that will tremendously help preformance.
 
2. Funcom is a more experenced company in mmorpgs then the ones that made vanguard. Anarchy online was a pretty good mmo so im hoping to see that funcom took lessons on what they did wrong and right in their last mmo and do things better with AOC.

 

1.  Vanguard has server lines - You just can't see them

2.  The makers of Vanguard made EQ - Sounds like at least the same amount of experience or maybe more depending on how you look at it

The real problem with most of the failures since EQ is promising content the budget can't deliver.  If AoC has a problem it will most definitely be linked with this previous statement...and it's so common it's just not surprising at all anymore.  I actually expect it now.

It wasnt made by the same people that made EQ was it? I dont remember verant being involved.

TedDanson

Originally posted by Nomatica

Originally posted by nethervoid


 
Originally posted by Nomatica


Why do people keep bringing up vanguard? Vanguard failed for many other reasons. 1. Terrible preformance. I am hearing from people that age of conan will run like guildwars. Great graphics but easy on the computer. One thing AOC has that VG doesnt is server lines that will tremendously help preformance.
 
2. Funcom is a more experenced company in mmorpgs then the ones that made vanguard. Anarchy online was a pretty good mmo so im hoping to see that funcom took lessons on what they did wrong and right in their last mmo and do things better with AOC.

 

1.  Vanguard has server lines - You just can't see them

2.  The makers of Vanguard made EQ - Sounds like at least the same amount of experience or maybe more depending on how you look at it

The real problem with most of the failures since EQ is promising content the budget can't deliver.  If AoC has a problem it will most definitely be linked with this previous statement...and it's so common it's just not surprising at all anymore.  I actually expect it now.

It wasnt made by the same people that made EQ was it? I dont remember verant being involved.

As far as I remember Brad Mcquaid was head designer of EQ at Verant. He then left and started Sigl entertainment and began work on Vanguard. Which would, in fact, make him the same person who created EQ.

andmiller

Originally posted by TedDanson

Originally posted by Nomatica

Originally posted by nethervoid


 
Originally posted by Nomatica


Why do people keep bringing up vanguard? Vanguard failed for many other reasons. 1. Terrible preformance. I am hearing from people that age of conan will run like guildwars. Great graphics but easy on the computer. One thing AOC has that VG doesnt is server lines that will tremendously help preformance.
 
2. Funcom is a more experenced company in mmorpgs then the ones that made vanguard. Anarchy online was a pretty good mmo so im hoping to see that funcom took lessons on what they did wrong and right in their last mmo and do things better with AOC.

 

1.  Vanguard has server lines - You just can't see them

2.  The makers of Vanguard made EQ - Sounds like at least the same amount of experience or maybe more depending on how you look at it

The real problem with most of the failures since EQ is promising content the budget can't deliver.  If AoC has a problem it will most definitely be linked with this previous statement...and it's so common it's just not surprising at all anymore.  I actually expect it now.

It wasnt made by the same people that made EQ was it? I dont remember verant being involved.

As far as I remember Brad Mcquaid was head designer of EQ at Verant. He then left and started Sigl entertainment and began work on Vanguard. Which would, in fact, make him the same person who created EQ.

They had a lot of the core development team from EQ on their staff.  Truly amazing how bad that game turned out.

 

Nomatica

but i remember reading that there was a publisher issue with VG and it had to be released asap no more delays to be worked upon the game.

Manestream

 

Originally posted by Nomatica

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Well, apart from the fact of hearing several bad things about this game (not going to go into as they have been mentioned before) since it has had a postponement and some changes are ment to have taken place. i am myself very dubious about what the game will be like from what it says and what it is at release, why, because most games have in fact, let all expectations down. So i am just saying for you not to pin all your hopes onto somethign that could turn out to be far from expected.

 

Kyleran

Originally posted by Nomatica


I dont think ima buy WAR. AOC rocks   and from what i hear from people in beta and from previewers and what not. Theres really no reason to buy WAR it really does nothing different then WOW.

Actually, in terms of gameplay, I think you'll find that AOC will more closely resemble WOW than WAR.

AOC has high end PVE raid instances, just like WOW, their normal servers have PVP restricted to the border kingdoms (which WOW is soon to implement), and really resembles DAOC when you think about it.

No, I think in the end, WAR will be quite a bit different in terms of focus, it will really be mostly about the PVP end game, more so than AOC.

I'll let you know, I plan to play both. 

Datcyde

Originally posted by Nomatica


Not that WoW sucks, imo it doesnt i love WoW. But because When i started reading up on AoC and everything that it has and will bring at release i just cant get myself to level up a character in WoW or play mine. Its just that every time i play WoW or LOTRO my mind starts to think about all the awesomeness AOC will bring just in 2 months and i cant get myself to play any other mmorpg.
 
Any one else? I havent played AOC yet and i dont know if it will be bad or good its just that the game sounds so awesome i cant play anything else.

 I just got back into playing eve after a month break but im stil looking into aoc everyday hoping that there is some new news about it out. Once its released ill be playing way less eve but i wont cancel my account because in EvE all your skills are time based.

Sabradin

 

Originally posted by Nomatica


Not that WoW sucks, imo it doesnt i love WoW. But because When i started reading up on AoC and everything that it has and will bring at release i just cant get myself to level up a character in WoW or play mine. Its just that every time i play WoW or LOTRO my mind starts to think about all the awesomeness AOC will bring just in 2 months and i cant get myself to play any other mmorpg.
 
Any one else? I havent played AOC yet and i dont know if it will be bad or good its just that the game sounds so awesome i cant play anything else.

i know what you're saying

 

how can you invest time in a game when you have faith that you will soon be leaving that investment shortly with nothing to show for it? (unless all you like to do is level characters)

I had the same issue last summer, before they delay.  I was having difficulty doing anything and it was in part because I believed in aoc (and the release date) and so I threw the game away and cancelled my subscription. 

Of course the delay happened, but do I regret it?  Definitely not.  There were more reasons that I quit wow, that was just one of them.

Part of me though has come to wonder just how good this game will be.  I think it will be really good.. but not great.  I think I will casually invest my time into it.  Afterall, the game director wants the game to be for casual players (rationally you'd think that you would want to balance ALL of your target audience's desires... but I suppose the casual player is exactly who Guate wants to target.. shame)

but thats good for me, if its the type of game to play casually, because I obsess over things like wow, and if there isn't much of an incentive to play a ton rather than a little, then the chance of me obsessing is small(er)

mlbslugger

Wow the amount of ignorance here amazes me. If you are not sure of Brad McQuaid;s "involvment" with EQ you should try to find the book "Everquest Companion" and read... Then you can laugh at the previous posts with me

 

talif

 

Originally posted by Vrika

Do you remember Vanguard, and the hype it had previously? Hype is not a game, and until NDA has been lifted all information we get is either monitored by Funcom or from NDA breakers who are really unreliable.



But you should not be playing AoC then either, since Darkfall will bring all kinds of awesomess and AoC will look like boring game compared to that.

You do realize that Dark fall is old before it releases . That game been in development for years and both the graphics and engine for that game are old and dated it game looks like Dx7 or 8 and best. Good luck if you think Dark fall will be a hit if it every comes out.

 

 

Back to topic i for one can't play anything that holds my interest anymore i still have wow installed on my machine and guild wars and ffxi and coh and i even got a 30 day sony pass from a friend to come back to vanguard i played it for 15 to 30 mins and i remember y i  left.Good thing i didn't waste my money buying it

eric_w66

I hope AoC turns out to be a great game, but I wouldn't quit other games I was enjoying currently just because of the anticipation, unless you wanted to save a couple months subscription fees to help purchase the box when its released 2 months from now.

Currently, I'm unsubscribed from all MMO's, partly due to financial reasons (But I just got a new job so that's going away!) and partly due to boredom. Since I gave up my "hard core raider lifestyle", I've found most games don't cater to a casual player in any meaningful way. LOTRO was fun for a month, until I hit the "You must group to finish these 4500 quests" wall at about 35 (which they said they have fixed, but oh well too late for me). And WoW, fun to go back to from time to time to blast things, but my chars are so woefully undergeared at 70 that even thinking about a heroic instance kills me.