I wanted to play Vanguard, but it wouldn't properly run on my computer even on low settings. It's not a bad computer, was cream of the crop in 2008. It could run, say, Dawn of War or The Witcher without much effort. With Vanguard, at first the perfo…
I'm European, but I've always been playing on US Servers because Europeans tend to be incapable of speaking proper English.
As for the merger, single servers are always superior to several servers, as they make the world look united and shared by…
The game itself is quite nicely polished for a beta, however, the part which pertains to registration is a disaster. There are 404 errors all over the European site: most notably, neither the client download nor the register pages would open. Even t…
The OP has masterfully described the tastes of the despicable casual gamer.
One thing that really irks me about new MMO's is that players can't have any impact on the world. The quest system that turns the world into something really abstract,…
Good RTS, and these are almost exclusively Western, are all controlled with PnC. So are most RPGs such as Baldur's Gate, Fallout, Neverwinter Nights, etc. The most advanced MMORPG, Ultima Online, is using mouse interface as well (although not PnC). …
That's what MUDs experienced previously. That's what Ultima Online experienced after the advent of Everquest, the father of bland 3D RPGs. In the end, Everquest was destroyed by an even more primitive game, that being World of Warcraft. I actually f…