He’s quiting because too much RvR…. Funny I quit his game cause too much pve.

The game was fun even during the first PW. Since then over two months ago the game has improved by a weekly basis. There is still a lot of polish that needs to be done but it seems that people are finally getting into the open world RvR which is the best part of the game. Also it is good to note that the pve, although not my focus, is actually fun and challenging. As far as server pops go heres a big surprise. In one week they completely fixed it! I was shocked but not only did buffing the exp gained by 20% on certain servers that needed more people on a faction balance the order/destro ratio, but it also distributed the people from the full servers better. As far as queues go currently there is only one active scenario per tier. This one usually pops in less then 10 min on a med pop server. The others take a long time. This isn’t completely mythics fault its just that people gravitate to the easiest one. I’m sure they will buff exp gains on the others to promote their use. Both WoW and WAR have their upsides and downsides but they shouldn’t really be compared because it is a different game(one is near completely team-based, one is i’m superman for one example why they are different). Kaplans’s comments just shows blizzards insecurity with dealing with competition. WotLK is adding achievement system(meh), adding an open world bg(Billions of dollars and this is all you offer??? One new bg, you must really hate your pvp players), 10 more levels of pve(uhhhggggg!!!), raids(double uhhhgg!), More grinding of the same 4 bgs to get welfare gear which you can’t play endgame without(triple uhhhhg).

This is totally inaccurate. Queue times in early WoW battlegrounds were a direct result of population imbalance; on the average server, Alliance outnumbered Horde 2-1; on some servers it was reputed to be as bad as 10-1. As a result Alliance queue times for battlegrounds were extremely long, particularly for large battlegrounds like Alterac Valley.

Certainly REALM SERVER queue times were long because so many people were trying to play, but it’s a totally fair comparison to WoW 1.10 to point out long queue times based on faction imbalance.

I had a preorder out for Warhammer and started playing it right around launch day. I enjoyed the game a lot, but I was plagued by a really terrible stuttering issue that seemed to affect me, every person I asked in the game, every forum I posted on (like this epic 87 page one with no resolution trying to figure out what was wrong, but to the tech support was seemingly a very minor, very isolated occurrence and was not a superhuge deal. I liked the game enough to really soldier through anyway and deal with getting 3 FPS regardless of my system being well beyond the minimum requirements (and regardless of whether I set the settings to min or max), but eventually I had enough. I canceled my account about a week before the free month went up, fully intending though to come back in a couple months when presumably the post-launch bugginess that all MMOGs have gets fixed and I can actually play the game at the full detail my computer can handle.

But I read the game sites and I follow up on this stuff cos I find it interesting, and I’ve played WoW and LOTRO and Ultima Online and so on and so forth, yet WoW is really the only one I’ve enjoyed to continue paying for after the free month. Nevertheless I really liked Warhammer and looked forward to coming back to it.

UNTIL, well, I read one of the Massively articles (I think) about your Blizzard spat, and kindof thought it was a little juvenile, and then I saw you knee-deep in a thread on the IGN boards where other posters were spitting the most insane vitriol towards WoW and WoW-players on a level that went beyond healthy (I mean really, personally attacking people in epic ways because of their video game preference is so weird it’s not even funny), and I thought that was really not appropriate for you to be involved in even by association, much less your essential “Yeah that” of it all.

And then I got here from Syp’s blog and read this, and read your comments here which are babyish and antagonistic and really, really stupid, and it becomes apparent that you must google your name or something to rush and complain and contradict everything that criticizes you. Hey, I can appreciate that on one level, it’s great you’re passionate about your product. But really there’s a difference between respectfully disagreeing and what you’re doing, which is this ridiculous OMFG LET’S THROW DOWN every time someone says something negative about you and your game.

So wall of text aside, I intended to come back to Warhammer after the bugs that made the game impossible to me were fixed. Now, after seeing your behavior, I won’t (and I know this weighs in absolutely zilch on your considerations surely, nor would I expect otherwise), because I can’t in good conscience let my fifteen bucks a month pad the pockets of such a big baby.

what game are you playing?

every blue reward for maxing inf gets replaced in a few hours when i gain a level and can buy the next rvr gear piece. now PQ loot reward bags are usually pretty good, but it’s too random to grind for.

It’s really refreshing to see a game where PvP and actual warfare seems to be built from leve 1 upwards into it – WOW is very bad in this regard i.e. meaningful PvP is in sandboxes away from the rest of the game (battlegrounds, arenas)

Also WAR’s approach to class design, particularly healing seems to be really refreshing.

And WoW’s approach to class design – even after 4 years of the game – is still very patchy. On one hand you have a really interesting new class in the DK as well as sophisticated classes like the warrior, you have abysmal pieces of class design like the pala (hit the same 4 buttons again and again no matter the situation) and mages (mostly a one button class whatever the spec.

Having been so negative, I do think that WoW is an awesome game (I wouldn’t waste my time typing this otherwise!) but it’s had a lot of glaring faults for too long and having a healthy MMO eco system is good re. getting everyone – including Blizzard – to sharpen up their act.