I disagree with most of Jon's views in the majority of his comment's. For him to think that adding two removed classes will sort out the imbalance issues is ignorant. I can tell you (from a professional gamers point of view, not a writer/journalists.) that by adding those two classes will do nothing about the imbalance problems. Simply put, WAR is a great game for casual's and offers nothing to the hardcores. Glad to see Jacob's vs. Kaplan, Mythic 0 - Blizz 1.
I may be a writer and a journalist, but I'm also a gamer. I am many things, sir. Many of them unplesant, but ignorant is not one of them.
Critical Hit
In the land of Predators,the lion does not fear the jackals...
sorry to say it but that spec you posted is lowend, mid range these days is quad core with 2 cards in Sli or an X2 card, 4 gig or ram is mid range, high end it the top end quad core with high end Sli cards or X2 in crossfire ( esentially 4 cards) and 8 gig of ram. Dell outlet sell machines with 8 gig btw. I sadly have a low end system with a high end graphics card the card does ALOT to solve issues but I only run 2 gig of ram so get the slow loading times rather than the lag in graphics in big battles.
LMAO! Go dream!
SLI is the crappiest invention ever! It's a pure ripoff. Nothing more, nothing less!
People that are paying another 300-600 bucks for just a couple FPS more are idiots!
You have highest FPS with 2 cards in SLI, just to have a new card come out a month later who outperforms the 2 older cards in SLI!
Low end systems are still the single core 64bit CPU's, with 1-2GB of RAM and the GeForce7xxx series.
Mid end systems are the dual cores with 2-4GB of RAM and the GeForce8xxx series.
High end systems are the quad cores with 4-8GB of RAM and the GeForce9xxx or GeForce2xx series.
sorry to say it but that spec you posted is lowend, mid range these days is quad core with 2 cards in Sli or an X2 card, 4 gig or ram is mid range, high end it the top end quad core with high end Sli cards or X2 in crossfire ( esentially 4 cards) and 8 gig of ram. Dell outlet sell machines with 8 gig btw. I sadly have a low end system with a high end graphics card the card does ALOT to solve issues but I only run 2 gig of ram so get the slow loading times rather than the lag in graphics in big battles.
LMAO! Go dream!
SLI is the crappiest invention ever! It's a pure ripoff. Nothing more, nothing less!
People that are paying another 300-600 bucks for just a couple FPS more are idiots!
You have highest FPS with 2 cards in SLI, just to have a new card come out a month later who outperforms the 2 older cards in SLI!
Low end systems are still the single core 64bit CPU's, with 1-2GB of RAM and the GeForce7xxx series.
Mid end systems are the dual cores with 2-4GB of RAM and the GeForce8xxx series.
High end systems are the quad cores with 4-8GB of RAM and the GeForce9xxx or GeForce2xx series.
Luckily you included FOX when describing the talking heads, because your commentary sounds like FOX commenting president Bush. You're just repeating whatever marketing BS Mythic is feeding you. Lets do a comment on your comment: "It’s important to note the language here as he says “750K+ worldwide account holders”. In the first month, this is really the only statistic that is really valid. There’s no real way to talk about current players until we see results past the included 30 days of free play. In any case, this is quite an accomplishment." No its not the only statisic we can look at. You can look at dwindling xfire numbers, empty servers and guildies not playing anymore. I like WAR a lot, but there are serious problems with keeping people hooked to the game. Tier 3 & 4 are just not interesting enough to keep the same interest up as Tier 1 & 2. "Here, Mark announces the game’s first major patch in the form of 1.1. There was some speculation as to whether or not Mythic would keep up with a schedule of big, free updates with all of the small free fixes that have been happening since launch. Mark does a great job here of explaining where the focus has been and where it’s going. We also know that we’re not going to have to wait too long as it’s been promised by later this fall." Here you go again. Just repeating the marketing speak with no analysis what so ever. It this really a big update? Comparable to the last big WoW update for instance? Or are they just adding a few quests and two professions. WAR professions seem to be pretty much four types with some flavour to make them play a little different. "While some might say that this won’t help the perceived imbalance between the number of Order Tanks vs Destruction Tanks, I respectfully disagree. I think that many order side players have been waiting to be able to roll an Empire Tank and they will soon have their chance." Ah, a bit of analysis. Too bad it is wrong. If current order players are going to roll empire tanks, that does nothing to change the imbalance between order and destruction. We need destruction players to roll empire tanks. If that isn't going to happen, the imbalance remains. It’s nice to hear them talking about solving performance issues, and nicer still to hear that they’ve got a focus on lower end machines. sure, its nice, but is it an analysis? Mail system upgrade: Woot! I’m not really sure what else to say here other than once again, it’s interesting how Jacobs manages to put a positive spin on the issue without appearing to “sweep it under the rug”. Eh, maybe you should stop sucking up to advertisers, just like members should stop to suck up to managing editors. Not for my sake, but because objective real analysis will keep more people glued to mmorpg and that will keep your advertisers. If mmorpg loses its reputation, no sucking up will keep the advertisers here. Anything that helps to promote RvR in this game is going to be a positive. While there any many aspects to the game, RvR is Mythic’s crown jewel. But why, why is it to be positive? Well, because there is almost no RvR going on. You want to travel safely through an open RvR server where I play? Take a route through the RvR area, the change you encounter the ennemy is extremely small. Only if order takes the trouble to organise an attack, there will be RvR, but as order is creamed most of the time (all destruction players finally happy that some RvR is going are attracted like a strong magnet), order will decrease the number of attacks. By completely ignoring this issue, you appear to be either ignorant or willingly covering up the major problems Mythic has. It sure doesnt help mmorpg, nor mythic. Allowing players to move from low pop servers to medium pop servers is going to make a big difference for those players who started out early on a server that just didn’t catch on. Population is such a key to enjoyment in Warhammer. While it’s possible to enjoy yourself on a low pop server, it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and it isn’t the design of the game See you agree on the main issue with Mythic, but are afraid to say so directly. Fear makes for bad writing. But what is the difference between a low and a medium populated server? None. Both are extremely empty. How can WAR be so succesful and need server mergers? Interesting questions you don't touch at all. I am sure that if Mythic wants some applause they could buy some advertisement with you.
Look, I don't care if you disagree with me. That's totally your perogative, but I would think that you could find a more productive way to do that than ranting and raving and making baseless accusations. If you want to hear my full response to your accusations, seek out the many threads where I have explained why doing what you accuse me of is just plain stupid.
I am entitled to my opinion and you are entitled to yours. That doesn't mean that eoither one of us is being somehow bought off, it means that we have a difference of opinion and I'm sorry that you were unable to remain civil about it.
Luckily you included FOX when describing the talking heads, because your commentary sounds like FOX commenting president Bush. You're just repeating whatever marketing BS Mythic is feeding you. Lets do a comment on your comment:
Do you kick and scream and otherwise act childish in front of the television too?
On the balance issue, I'm happy to see that this hasn't decended into a "nerf BW now!" flame fest. Lets face it without a tanking class the only chance Empire had was to out damage Chaos. Introducing the KotBS ( yes, I will be rolling one myself) Mythic can address the concerns many Destruction players have with the BW.
As mentioned elsewhere I hope it's more pleasing to the eye than a fat dwarf shoved into a tin can. One thing the Chosen and Black Orc have going for them over the Ironbreaker and Swordmaster is they just look bad ass. If I didn't love being a sawed-off, beer swilling dwarf with a foul disposition and a gun I'd probably play as a Chosen.
It's your website and your job and please do it any way you see fit. But by not even trying to defend your writing and just referring to elsewhere, that's pretty lame. I am not claiming your receive money or anything, just that you have bad judgement what is the best for this site. And that your writing was seriously lacking in this piece.
Of course I could be completely wrong, but I somehow doubt it. Only time will tell, but I am pretty sure that who ever pays for all this, is going to have to reorganize the team running this site, if this is the quality you stand behind.
As to the tone. When someone has no arguments they always start to complain to the tone of the discussion. Either you are way too sensitive, or this has been a nice, clean and civil comment.
Originally posted by Proto23 It's your website and your job and please do it any way you see fit. But by not even trying to defend your writing and just referring to elsewhere, that's pretty lame. I am not claiming your receive money or anything, just that you have bad judgement what is the best for this site. And that your writing was seriously lacking in this piece. Of course I could be completely wrong, but I somehow doubt it. Only time will tell, but I am pretty sure that who ever pays for all this, is going to have to reorganize the team running this site, if this is the quality you stand behind. As to the tone. When someone has no arguments they always start to complain to the tone of the discussion. Either you are way too sensitive, or this has been a nice, clean and civil comment.
Yes, I think you are completely wrong. He hit the nail on the head, without the ignorant comments.
Hopefully they can fix a lot of things. Currently the game looks good and runs pretty stable, but is full of bugs and class imbalances. A lot of the classes are not even close to feeling finished. I've been disappointed in the game so far but I'll give it until the next patch before I decide to cancel or not.
I don't get it how people not only take his comments personnal but also try to make it look like the author got $$$ from Mythic???
It wasn't an article of how good or bad was WAR doing, just comments on a letter and they where pretty accurate. That's why that article was interesting. Even more as it's always very difficult to write things this way.
For WoW fanboys or disappointed WAR fan: sorry it isn't the bashing article you where looking for. Move along! Get back to your forums so you can congratulate each others or jump in the opposite camp if you like.
At least try to be honest when you argue with a author and if you are making assumptions provide links.
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Nice to see the devs know the real problems of the game, nice comments Jon.
BTW who the fuck are u PinkCat? At least try to be professional In Real Life.
I may be a writer and a journalist, but I'm also a gamer. I am many things, sir. Many of them unplesant, but ignorant is not one of them.
Critical Hit
In the land of Predators,the lion does not fear the jackals...
LMAO! Go dream!
SLI is the crappiest invention ever! It's a pure ripoff. Nothing more, nothing less!
People that are paying another 300-600 bucks for just a couple FPS more are idiots!
You have highest FPS with 2 cards in SLI, just to have a new card come out a month later who outperforms the 2 older cards in SLI!
Low end systems are still the single core 64bit CPU's, with 1-2GB of RAM and the GeForce7xxx series.
Mid end systems are the dual cores with 2-4GB of RAM and the GeForce8xxx series.
High end systems are the quad cores with 4-8GB of RAM and the GeForce9xxx or GeForce2xx series.
As example.
Cheers
LMAO! Go dream!
SLI is the crappiest invention ever! It's a pure ripoff. Nothing more, nothing less!
People that are paying another 300-600 bucks for just a couple FPS more are idiots!
You have highest FPS with 2 cards in SLI, just to have a new card come out a month later who outperforms the 2 older cards in SLI!
Low end systems are still the single core 64bit CPU's, with 1-2GB of RAM and the GeForce7xxx series.
Mid end systems are the dual cores with 2-4GB of RAM and the GeForce8xxx series.
High end systems are the quad cores with 4-8GB of RAM and the GeForce9xxx or GeForce2xx series.
As example.
Cheers
Look, I don't care if you disagree with me. That's totally your perogative, but I would think that you could find a more productive way to do that than ranting and raving and making baseless accusations. If you want to hear my full response to your accusations, seek out the many threads where I have explained why doing what you accuse me of is just plain stupid.
I am entitled to my opinion and you are entitled to yours. That doesn't mean that eoither one of us is being somehow bought off, it means that we have a difference of opinion and I'm sorry that you were unable to remain civil about it.
Cheers,
Jon Wood
Managing Editor
MMORPG.com
Do you kick and scream and otherwise act childish in front of the television too?
On the balance issue, I'm happy to see that this hasn't decended into a "nerf BW now!" flame fest. Lets face it without a tanking class the only chance Empire had was to out damage Chaos. Introducing the KotBS ( yes, I will be rolling one myself) Mythic can address the concerns many Destruction players have with the BW.
As mentioned elsewhere I hope it's more pleasing to the eye than a fat dwarf shoved into a tin can. One thing the Chosen and Black Orc have going for them over the Ironbreaker and Swordmaster is they just look bad ass. If I didn't love being a sawed-off, beer swilling dwarf with a foul disposition and a gun I'd probably play as a Chosen.
All in all good news IMHO
It's your website and your job and please do it any way you see fit. But by not even trying to defend your writing and just referring to elsewhere, that's pretty lame. I am not claiming your receive money or anything, just that you have bad judgement what is the best for this site. And that your writing was seriously lacking in this piece.
Of course I could be completely wrong, but I somehow doubt it. Only time will tell, but I am pretty sure that who ever pays for all this, is going to have to reorganize the team running this site, if this is the quality you stand behind.
As to the tone. When someone has no arguments they always start to complain to the tone of the discussion. Either you are way too sensitive, or this has been a nice, clean and civil comment.
Yes, I think you are completely wrong. He hit the nail on the head, without the ignorant comments.
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Does anyone know for certain if the Black Guard will be able to dual wield?
Hopefully they can fix a lot of things. Currently the game looks good and runs pretty stable, but is full of bugs and class imbalances. A lot of the classes are not even close to feeling finished. I've been disappointed in the game so far but I'll give it until the next patch before I decide to cancel or not.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFQhfhnjYMk
Dark Age of Camelot
I don't get it how people not only take his comments personnal but also try to make it look like the author got $$$ from Mythic???
It wasn't an article of how good or bad was WAR doing, just comments on a letter and they where pretty accurate. That's why that article was interesting. Even more as it's always very difficult to write things this way.
For WoW fanboys or disappointed WAR fan: sorry it isn't the bashing article you where looking for. Move along! Get back to your forums so you can congratulate each others or jump in the opposite camp if you like.
At least try to be honest when you argue with a author and if you are making assumptions provide links.
A casual gamer.