Ouch.......WoW takes a blow to the gut...Follow

I personaly love FFxi and have no plans on playing WoW or EQ2. The ultra hard challange is what I love about the game. I belive that WoW and EQ2 will not be a bad game. It will just be different and aimed towards other ppls interest. It is great that WoW and EQ2 are comeing out so the ffxi servers will lose some of there player base. I can not wait till I can camp an NM without 50 ppl also doing it. I hope blizzard does a great job with WoW, becuase it just might solve a lot of the problems in ffxi.

Having never seen (or at least taken note of you) posting before, I interpreted that edginess as your character. If that is not the case, then I apologize. I just got a little annoyed after reading 5 posts in a row that were all in the same brash tone and more or less about the same two things.

I spent 6-7 hours playing this, and was utterly bored to tears. Looks nice, gameplay feels very substandard. I won't be spending any money on this, uless they start to give some depth and playability. IMO of course.

I started playing FFxi since it was FF! I mean it's a FF game... how the hell can I not go and buy it right away. I love FF games, love the story, the play and the look. When i got the FFxi I didn't cared for flaws or the boring same thing over again, since this was a FF game! I know, thought it was going to be the best mmorpg! since it was a FF. And hoped that if I got my drg to high level I would get more invites for the pt... nope.

so I leveled whm so that I get pt. But that is not tha job I want to be... i don't like whm. Why sould i pay money to play some thing I don't like just for geting a PT? ...i was on FF-crak i hated the FFxi but thought if i got/leveled other job mabe i would like it. so got my whm to 30. Got brd...

when I played as a Brd i got lot of invites, sure it was same 2-3 song over and over again... got to level 31 and i hated to hear the same song. over and over.

my last fath on FFxi was a bst. why not i leveled all the job to 30. yes all the job, smn, pld, drk, thf, and so.

The bst job was the only fun job i had in the ffxi for the longast time. it was diffacult and I can start and go. no need for PT, or lfp. and I enjoyed the game since it was hard to level bst! I was so happy! sure i died alot but no biggy :D I liked the free time i get soloing. i can help my ls and ppl.

My bst was level 20 and i was so happy. but it didn;t matter i stoped looking at this game as a FF game. Even if i liked my bst job, I didn't want to see the FFxi logo again.

I hated FFxi even at the start and only real reason I didn't stop was a FF game!

IF it had no FF conaction i would of quit long ago...

I hope that it was only me that played this game since it had FF name, and that ppl see something good in the game that I don't see. if not then this game is the worst MMorpg and it's going to say for a long time...


and here i am looking for new mmorpg to spend time on...

and i read all the things that FFxi ppl said about WOW and i don't care if you play and like FFXI. I will buy and play wow no matter what.

I know that WOW will be better then FFxi. Since FFxi is the worst mmorpg i ever played.

Edit: sorry korean my engish is not to good -_-;;

Edited, Tue Jun 29 17:11:20 2004 by XvermonX

I've got one thing to say to that. And then I'll elabourate :D

BETA IS MOVING AT 300+% SPEED
over the regular game! The reason you've completed so much of the game so fast is exactly that! Now lets see, you say that you're 2/3 of the way through the game. Now take that down to normal playing perspective, that would make it (my math sucks please correct me if I'm wrong) an eigth of the way through the game? In a single month, an eight of the way through. That seems completely normal to me. Level 60 by 8 months is easy to accomplish for a dedicated player, I'd think, and it looks to me that most Beta Testers are a little over-dedicated.

Please excuse me if it's already been said, but I'm WAAY to lazy to look through these pages. :)

+ I have plenty of faith in Blizzard. I think they wouldn't release a game if anyone working on it felt it was boring after playing as long as they had. Blizzard is one of the few companies who will go out of their way to make a game great.

We be jammin'.

I must say that after playing for a month that the quote from that one beta tester is completely BS. Very few people dislike the game and 90% + I group with think wow is the best MMORPG they have played. The main grouping that dislike the game are diablo2 players expecting a diablo MMORPG. EQ players even the time guild ones find plenty to do in WoW. It still takes 6-9played days or so to cap at 45 (and who knows what the max is going to take). I am a powergamer and always have been and don't believe for a second that WoW is not friendly to powergamers. They put a lot of effort into makeing challengeing instances (Zul'Farrek, Uldaman) that will be tough even for the best oft he best. When raid content comes in we will get a view of the true end game but from what ive seen they have great scripting capability and will be able to make some truely unique encounters.

Good CC makes a group in WoW, rogues/mages/priests/druids all have some form of crowd control. Many encounters would be extremly hard without it, its not just mow down 15 mobs at once diablo style. Diablo was fun but its not what I want in a MMORPG. FFIX never appealed to me because of the japanese (ive had bad expereinces with eastern players in the past and like being able to communicate with people) getting a huge head start and no new NA servers. Ive yet to see raid content but they definately plan on haveing static raid content and dynamicaly instanced raid content. Some of their instance scripts are really cool (Exicutioner trial in Zul'Farrek is really hard but rewarding) and add a lot of flavor to the single group content. When raid content starts to go in i have confidence it will be of the highest quality.

Sorry to say I can't wait for this game but what I know about the game and what this guy has said makes sense. I did like EQ when I lvled my Shammy to high lvl and then wanted to make a ranger on another account. Power lvling myself it didn't take long to get my ranger to a point where I could group and fight with my shammy and start raiding. But with no Plvling I don't know if I would like this game much. whats was one thing I really liked. Everyone is bashing this guy but for me, I'm not looking to bash anyone. I like to hear people views on things. No one ever said there is just one view on things.

I'm am really going to have to think about getting this game now.

Rockhead - regarding power-leveling,

Power-leveling was one of the downfalls of EQ, imho. The fact that players *could* be power-leveled is what helped fuel Yantis and EQPA. Blizzard will have to deal with that subject eventually, but at the least they can make it harder for people to generate high-level characters and be forced to work with people who leave the game and abandon their accounts.

I also didn't like power-leveling in general. Nothing pissed me off more than to go into Blackburrow as a level 8, and find that there is *nothing* up in the dungeon anywhere, because some low-level bard is running around with his pocket druid. I've been screwed over in this regard by power-levelers as high as level 60. Besides which, depending on who is being power-leveled, that player is often clueless about the game or at least about their class.

When Luclin came out, people developed a dependency on C3, didn't learn how to play the game without it, and assumed that they would be useless without those buffs. I also had to try to tune out all the people who came buff-begging me for Virtue, and I can't tell you how much it nauseated me that some level 1's were running around with 1500 HP and ridiculous mana regen, untwinked. But if you dare try to explain that to any of these people, and how they are ruining their own game experience as well as everyone else's, they immediately take offense, tell you you are incredibly rude, and have the gall to even tell you it is your *JOB* to buff them. Of course they never considered reimbursing me enough to pay for the component cost of paying the spell -- partly out of rudeness and partly out of ignorance.

Maybe you can't bear to see a game where power-leveling isn't an option, but I can't bear to see a game where it is.

Only an enchanter could do that. If you were a cleric and tried to sell an HP buff, you would get a quarter of the donation, and have an overhead cost for each cast that the donations wouldn't even cover. Granted, druids used to be able to sell ports, but that actually involved a little bit of work. C3 was yet another one of the things to make the list of "What broke EQ" (tm).