world of warcraft

[smite]

For somebody who hasn't played these games before i am well impressed. I started to get into Knight On-line but WOW blows it out of the water.

Graphics Good.
Sound Good.
Gameplay Good.
Learning level Good.

Time usage NOT Good.

Smilo you do have the option to decline a PvP whenever requested.

[smilodon]

Yep I know. Frankly I just like teaming up with folk and going on quests. The idea of fighting other players, unless it was in some kind of huge battel, doesn't appeal that much.

I'm down to a Paladin Human woman and a Night Elf Hunter man from my originl eight characters.  The gnome was fun but I can't really play three characters and do them all juctice.

I didn have a very quick look at  Knights Online and they are in diferent leagues, but KO is free and WOW costs £8 a month, so it's hardly suprising.

[ChimpBoy]

Originally posted by smilodon@Feb 13 2005, 06:43 PM
Chimpy if you like the idea of a Galaxies without a huge tech tree or a vast economic system that is more quest and group centred and has far less game spoiling tactics like corpse looting, spawn camping, grinding etc. then WOW is a good bet. For me it's everything Galaxies isn't.

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Oh bollox - I'm going to Game at lunchtime to pick it up  <_<  Now I've cancelled SWG I have £9 a month burning a hole in my pocket  

I'll call you tomorrow night to find out your toons name and server  

Then I'll create a hot female elf temptress wearing nowt but shiny leather hotpants and go questing with Smilo and his "mighty quarter-staff of justice"......

[0ni0n]

I feel i may of made a mistake going on a normal server if anyone is interested in a pvp server i have started a charactor on 'deathwing' server

cheers mick

[smilodon]

We're all going to end up on different servers I can tell. I'm steering clear of PvP servers at the moment. To be honest I'm really getting hooked on the co-operative questing rather than troll bashing. RP severs allow for quicker grouping IMHO than do normal servers. Still each to their own.

On a related note I'm not actually getting much play at all. Right now (as I wait for the AA to come fix my sodding company car  :angry:  ) I can neither get on the server nor access the WOW web site ( http://www.wow-europe.com ). Is it me or is the system being very flakey? I did get on briefly but had real lag. When I disconnected and reconnected it wouldn't work for me  

[suicidal_monkey]

If you like you can join up with my "other" clan-mates from downgraded, who have laregely migrated to WoW as their main game of choice. Got 2 guilds going on a PvE (non-PvP) server called DOOMHAMMER. I'm avoiding getting the game myself as I haven't the money to spend on it and could really use the time for some other things (notably a few other games I have yet to complete! )

Anyway, if that sounds like your cup of tea, pop on over to our forum and say hi. If of course dMw starts up it's own litte guild then I'm sure there's some sort of way that guilds can aid eachother in the game anyway?  

[smilodon]

Aguild would be a gool idea. Only I don't think we'll ever agree ona server  

Plus I don't much fancy loosing my Level 10 paladin or my level 7 hunter  

Still I'll go with the flow. We need 10 people and a bundle of cash to do it.

[Armitage]

how  much does it cost to play

[smilodon]

The game costsa bout £30  and it's £8 ish a month from then on.

The idea behind the monthly charge is based on

cost of maintaining the servers
development of new original content (new quest, land, features)
in game staff thee to help out and or resolve disputed

Seems a fair price to me.

[smilodon]

I woder if I am alone in getting horrible problems accessing either the servers or the //www.wow-europe.com web site?

Since last night I've been getting pings of upto 4000 and rarely less than 400. The euro web site seems to be down as well. Is it just me or is the whole WOW Euro system falling over?

My mate who shares the same ISP as me can't see the web site. However my dad who's on NTL cable can see the site but gets a message saying it's being taken off-line due to huge demand. All very confusing, but I assume it's not something with either my PC or my ISP?

Anyone having problems?

[RizZy]

I was gonna buy WoW, but I just can't bring myself to pay a monthly subscription for a game, I think I'll wait for Guild Wars to come out & I might check that out instead - http://www.guildwars.com/ for anyone who fancies a look.

[DarkAngel]

Honestly its a good game and great fun, the graphics on guild wars does look nice

[0ni0n]

Riz the way i see it is whats £8 a month! 3 pints, and if i dint have a decent game like this to get into, where you can play for months if not years and keep going back for more i would be spending £35 a month on a new game i get bored of. Bargain i recon

smilo had no probs getting on server cant get on account or web from menu though.

regarding pvp enabling and general guide line read p130 of manual for me the normal pve/normal server are far to limiting with regards to pvp. You are basically down to asking someone for a duel which they can see you are a higher level and decine or see you are lower and kick your butt!! whats the point...far better to have the safe,contested and enermy zones like in pvp servers. obviously this is my point of view as i like abit of pvp it adds to the experience.

cheers

[suicidal_monkey]

my2c/

I thought it was the PvE servers where you had safe, contested and enemy zones? If you are foolish enough to wander into the enemy cities you can be attacked... There's battlegrounds on the PvE servers which gives you the option of straying into a PvP area -if-you-want-to but allowing you to actually play the game without fear of some  bast. 20 levels above you deciding he's bored and flattening your ass while you're innocently trying to do some quest or other! PvE sounds a bit more like TCS-mentality, and PvP a public-server mentality?

/my2c

[0ni0n]

Originally posted by suicidal_monkey@Feb 15 2005, 08:25 AM
my2c/

I thought it was the PvE servers where you had safe contested and enemy zones?

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no thats pvp and the only way some harder person can attack you in pvp is if you are in contested or enermy lands if you are in your own realm you have to attack first this is simular to 'dark age of camalot' pve is more like everquest