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Mortal Online sucks?
Xondar123
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Before anyone grabs their torch and pitchfork please read my post. I know the title is a tad antagonistic, but notice the question mark.
Now, I'd like to say definitively that the haters are right and that Mortal Online sucks, or that the fanatics are right and Mortal Online is great, but I can't even download the game!
I've spent the past two days trying to get this game to download, and I think this is the worst downloader I've ever experienced. First of all, I download the installer, it installs an old installer that then proceeds to install a new installer. That's OK, I've had MMOs use an old installer to install a new installer before. But then I notice the thing is using Bit Torrent. What kind of lame MMO developer uses the one form of file transfer that is guaranteed to be heavily throttled or even blocked by 90% of ISPs? Even Blizzard had to drop their pathetic bit torrent installer eventually.
Then the game wants to install itself in two parts. Seriously? After sorting out problems with the Bit Torrent, restarting the patcher seven or eight times, I finally get the first part installed. Then it starts downloading the second part with the crappy Bit Torrent installer. Really? It couldn't download the entire game in one go? Why is it acting like the game came on two CDs that it needs to install from in the first place? Well, the installer of course freezes at 99%. The cynic in me might suggest that this is on purpose so that my bandwidth can get leeched away giving the game to other people unfortunate enough to also be struggling with this crappy Bit Torrent installer. Eventually I just shut the entire thing down.
I boot the installer back up after seriously contemplating just forgetting the whole thing and putting MO on my "games to ignore" list to see that it's installing the second part. Wow, so I guess the "99% complete" thing was a lie after all. As it stands now the installer is back up saying that it's patching (again? Didn't it just do that twice?) but now it's hanging on "installing patch... please wait. This may take several minutes." Pressing quit brings up the message "Mortal online is installing a patch! Don't turn off your computer, you sucker, cause it's patching, you idiot, and it may take several minutes depending on the speed of your dumb computer." This is despite the fact that it wouldn't have taken this long to patch on a 486.
In closing: my review of the MO installer: 0/10. It's a piece of crap, avoid it and play other MMO installers, they have to be more fun than this one.
Edit: Oh joy. Now it's Bit Torrenting another 750 MB. Wonderful.
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I'm tempted to play Mortal Online now. I love a good challenge.
And there I was thinking that MMO's were too easy!
Why are there so many cutesie, fantasy, childish MMO's. Give me blood, gore and a long lasting challenge. I don't need my hand being held along the way. Thanks.
It has been a while since I did a full install from scratch...
I'll have to give it a shot on my laptop and see how long it takes.... and what it does.
Bittorrent hasn't been a problem for me in this and other MMOs, so my faith in it as a content delivery method is probably going to be there a while.
Yeah their installer is archaic, when I installed MO, it asked me for permission everytime it recieved a new patch. Meaning I couldn't just let it go while gone for the day. Nope it expected me to sit there and hit okay through the whole process. Have they at least changed this yet?
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Yep, I'm having the same problem.
The first MMO I ever installed from scratch was FFXI, and I could just turn on the downloader and let it run all night while I slept soundly in my bed (well, apart from updating the PlayOnline crap.)
This is like the 3-year-old child of MMO installers, you have to babysit the damn thing the entire time.
This installer is such a pain, it wouldn't surprise me to see many players just give up on it and the entire game, unless they had already bought it that is.
Surprisingly, this is the only part where I didn't have any problems. But I agree that the installer/client is the first part of the game a player sees, so it should be as easy to download and install the game as possible. I am still hoping they will work on that, but currently, they seem to be having a more pressing issue (desync).
I too went through the download hell. I'm fairly certain that the client is being pulled from a paralell dimension, this would explain the downlaoding and installation issues. After that I was greeted with graphics that were NOTHING like like anything I expected. Thats ok though I play DF and am not a graphics whore. Gameplay? After all the downloading nonsense and attempting to play MO it was uninstalled in 3 days.
Instead of uninstalling, you should have sent your installation to me!
yes the downloading is evry buggy and problemfull....just like the game.
Unfortunately that's not why the game sucks. even once you instal the game and play it for a wile and see all the buggs, empty unfinished parts, lag issues, disync issues, exploits and broken coding that's STILL not why this game sucks.
this game sucks because once you spend a little time maxing your skills, and making some armor there is absolutely NOTHING TO DO.
all that is left is riding arround in full armor and kill other players trying to farm mats, with the odd encounter with other geared players which most will avoid since that would be risking loosing your nice gear.
no quests, no land control, no battle grounds, no random world dropps, no guild cities, no raids, no group objectives, no......nothing. even the exploring can be done in a few days on a horse, and then what?
there is absolutely no content besides ganking other players. how long do you think that's gonna keep you paying 15$ a month?
>>there is absolutely no content besides ganking other players. how long do you think that's gonna keep you paying 15$ a month?
Oh yea? Well 10 years down the road they might have some content that will be worth it! You will miss out thought because you didn't give the game a chance! Enjoy missing out on all the fun!
He who keeps his cool best wins.
I told them to fix their patcher in July of 2009.
I even gave them code to get started, and a few ideas that I came up with off the top of my head.
http://www.mortalonline.com/forums/18911-few-engineering-suggestions-engineer.html
It is almost a year later, and their patcher is still terrible and now written as a 'donation' from a community member. If that doesn't show you the professionalism that SV exudes, then I don't know what does.
to Benthon:
if you are happy running arround a very bland and unfinished world killing nubes farming mats for 10 years AND paying 15$ a month wile waiting for Starvault to add "something to do" content.........well then....all the best of luck.
99% of people will not. they will max their skills and craft all the armors in a few weeks and then get bored and move onto the next mmo.
Not much for sarcasm huh? Check his post history:p
I had no problems running te patcher and installing the game as soft as melted butter
the gameplay inside sucked big time that another thing
lol. I love the statement. Enjoy missing out on the fun.
Half the fun is being in an environment of a first-person shooter where the pvp is always on,all the time, and carry's absolutely no consequences or purpose.
Not to mention, even trying to hang in a town with some leather in your bag, or having just sold leather and now you have coin in your bag is looted faster than you can blink because the thievery of one player from another in-town goes completely unchecked really.
heh, I'm all for more freedom, but the exhasting nature in which this game is a pvp juggernaut of full open aggression is something to be watched as an experiment as to how quickly a potential player installs and uninstalls the client.
Search for the torrent file and load it in µtorrent or some other free to get tool for downloading torrents; you'll see the speed rise up quickly; then just install the patch and keep downloading until you're fully patched.
You just need to wait for the installer to start downloading for the torrent file to be there.
I'd give a more detailed explanation, but it's been ages since I played in the beta and the game isn't even on my comp anymore, but I'm sure you'll find people answering similar questions on the official forums if you do a search.
Their patcher just plain sucks (well at least it did months ago and it seems they didn't fix it yet).
Feel free to use my referral link for SW:TOR if you want to test out the game. You'll get some special unlocks!
they must actualice the torrents and make only one, now we have 1-5 5-1x and then 1x patch, they must do a new 1-actually.
That's right MO sucks. Even with the new and so waited patches, which are supposed to "add content" (weeee two more NPCs that will sell you a torch, omg what a nice patch). I think that's why they won't ever put a trial because their way of making money is to lure you buying the game and after you paid 60 bucks well you can still unsub that's too late you got scammed :P . I've been one of their victims so I can witness this :P
unfortunatly MO does suck. Saying it sucks doesn't mean being a hater, its just a shortened way of describing all the bugs, the emptyness, the lack of content, the devs and the support team.
Wait...am I reading this correctly...there are no mobs in the game? Are there even NPCs in the game at all? Seriously?
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
Please don't necromance threads. Locked.
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