Yeah, there's always the obligatory "wait six months" caveat, but my largest concern (and one of yours), melee combat, is not getting enough attention from Flying Labs. Or they're keeping hush about it, since it's the most denigrated aspect of POTB…
I bet sailors in the early 18th century hated getting ganked too; like the pirates were "bullies" n' stuff. But hey! It's kinda like role-playing in that sense! You get to experience how pissy it was to lose a ship to a boat full of brigands in t…
Granted, any MMO can get lonely if you go at it solo the whole time. But I'm a story whore, and this game -- no hyperbole involved -- has the sharpest, wittiest writing I've seen in an MMO to date, even for the soloists. I guess when writers aren'…
Blizzard is already credited with taking the MMO genre to a picnic -- by picking and choosing the elements they saw working from previous titles, and discarding the rest. Blizzard is also credited with crafting the most streamlined, easy-to-use int…
Computer graphics can do such wonderful things ... until it comes to the human body. I'm vaguely put-off by the pseudo EQII plasticky skin look, but there's too much other good stuff goin' on to ignore. Like the architecture, especially. I'm glad…