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Any of the devs have previous MMORPG experience?

All_Mixed_Up

By All_Mixed_Up,
Posted on: 2007-02-02 16:28 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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i'm surprised to see so many devs playing WoW... aren't they the enemy?

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Keep your friends close, etc., etc.

 

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- Earth and Beyond

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Yah!! Pegasus server F T W. Dang EA. I played SWG too. Huzzah Wanderhome

 

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Oh man...let me see...

I've played:
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-- Earth and Beyond ...


So I've played a few, both beta and live.

WW

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Ooo, i don't know if i should ask since WW dosn't post often..

but did you play till they closed down the EnB server????

I wish i did, i might have actually gotten my only char to 150. but i decided to nix it once they anouced closure....

 

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Shadowbane

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It's a shame that only one dev mentioned it...

 

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Know thine enemy. Plus inspite of being the root of all evil and injustice WoW has many positive experiences that I can understand any Dev wanting to sample so as to increase his/her own personal "gaming experience" palette.

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Especially the folks in the art and animation department(s). Eh?

I won't pay $20 + $40 expansion + $15/month subscription to play WoW as a game--one grind is enough, thank you. But here's the paradox: I'll waste hours and hours watching WoW videos and machinima on YouTube.

Because it's purrrty.

(With one exception: "You call that a cape?")

 

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I am encouraged to see that many of our devs have played that god-aweful starwars galaxies. if nothing else, let it serve as an example as what NOT to do to a gaming franchise.

(I mean they killed starwars, how do you do that?! it has a built in customer base. How do you kill starwars?!? And they did it twice, Matrix Online anyone?)

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I am shocked that not ONE of the devs has mentioned Horizons so far.



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Jeez, I put that there thinking no one else would've thought to mention it. Not only did they, but there's a mention of it just above mine. So much for me being clever.

What a horrible, horrible game.

[/ QUOTE ]yeah dude, but you could play a dragon, trust me, that alone would have kept me if the preformace wasnt so bad too. of course, thanks to jay's beast head 6, reptillian tail, beast legs and reptillian skin, and demon wings, i really dont have to worry about that anymore. city of dragons for me

heres one, not a full mmo, but did any of the devs ever play phantays star online? that was an interesting take on the whole lobby to instances world game for a console, probably the most successful game of its type on a console, till the gamesharkers killed it.

 

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I am shocked that not ONE of the devs has mentioned Horizons so far.



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Jeez, I put that there thinking no one else would've thought to mention it. Not only did they, but there's a mention of it just above mine. So much for me being clever.

What a horrible, horrible game.

[/ QUOTE ]yeah dude, but you could play a dragon, trust me, that alone would have kept me if the preformace wasnt so bad too. of course, thanks to jay's beast head 6, reptillian tail, beast legs and reptillian skin, and demon wings, i really dont have to worry about that anymore. city of dragons for me

heres one, not a full mmo, but did any of the devs ever play phantays star online? that was an interesting take on the whole lobby to instances world game for a console, probably the most successful game of its type on a console, till the gamesharkers killed it.

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But the original idea would've allowed you to play Demons, Angels and Vampires as well.

 

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...yeah dude, but you could play a dragon, trust me, that alone would have kept me if the preformace wasnt so bad too. of course, thanks to jay's beast head 6, reptillian tail, beast legs and reptillian skin, and demon wings, i really dont have to worry about that anymore. city of dragons for me

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Horizons ... broke my MMORPG heart I was SO looking forward to be a dragon and learning to fly and horde shiney stuffs ... *sighs*

BUT, thanks to CoH, I now have Peace Dragon

 

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Jesus thats a TON. Man, I gotta play some more if I wanna do something like that. All I got is RS,SWG,WOW,Anarchy, and of course CoH/CoV.

Jesus Posi thats a friggin ton.

 

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I am shocked that not ONE of the devs has mentioned Horizons so far.



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Jeez, I put that there thinking no one else would've thought to mention it. Not only did they, but there's a mention of it just above mine. So much for me being clever.

What a horrible, horrible game.

[/ QUOTE ]yeah dude, but you could play a dragon, trust me, that alone would have kept me if the preformace wasnt so bad too. of course, thanks to jay's beast head 6, reptillian tail, beast legs and reptillian skin, and demon wings, i really dont have to worry about that anymore. city of dragons for me

heres one, not a full mmo, but did any of the devs ever play phantays star online? that was an interesting take on the whole lobby to instances world game for a console, probably the most successful game of its type on a console, till the gamesharkers killed it.

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But the original idea would've allowed you to play Demons, Angels and Vampires as well.

[/ QUOTE ]i have heard that, and if i werent playing a game currently that let me do that, id really want a game like that, but luckily coh/v gives me my fix for pretty much anything bipedal. one of the reasons i see myself being here when they close down the servers in however many years. the funny part is we can make everything on that list outside of the water based guy,and the fairy with the right wings..and if a certain bit of info about possible wing types made already for the game is true, the fairies will be getting proper wings soon too.

 

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I am shocked that not ONE of the devs has mentioned Horizons so far.



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Jeez, I put that there thinking no one else would've thought to mention it. Not only did they, but there's a mention of it just above mine. So much for me being clever.

What a horrible, horrible game.

[/ QUOTE ]yeah dude, but you could play a dragon, trust me, that alone would have kept me if the preformace wasnt so bad too. of course, thanks to jay's beast head 6, reptillian tail, beast legs and reptillian skin, and demon wings, i really dont have to worry about that anymore. city of dragons for me

heres one, not a full mmo, but did any of the devs ever play phantays star online? that was an interesting take on the whole lobby to instances world game for a console, probably the most successful game of its type on a console, till the gamesharkers killed it.

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But the original idea would've allowed you to play Demons, Angels and Vampires as well.

[/ QUOTE ]i have heard that, and if i werent playing a game currently that let me do that, id really want a game like that, but luckily coh/v gives me my fix for pretty much anything bipedal. one of the reasons i see myself being here when they close down the servers in however many years. the funny part is we can make everything on that list outside of the water based guy,and the fairy with the right wings..and if a certain bit of info about possible wing types made already for the game is true, the fairies will be getting proper wings soon too.

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I was actually more interested in the "special" game mechanics based around those classes.

 

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Know thine enemy. Plus inspite of being the root of all evil and injustice WoW has many positive experiences that I can understand any Dev wanting to sample so as to increase his/her own personal "gaming experience" palette.

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Especially the folks in the art and animation department(s). Eh?

I won't pay $20 + $40 expansion + $15/month subscription to play WoW as a game--one grind is enough, thank you. But here's the paradox: I'll waste hours and hours watching WoW videos and machinima on YouTube.

Because it's purrrty.

(With one exception: "You call that a cape?")

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Really? When I first played it I wanted to take a gun to whoever designed the male models. I have totally jacked friends, and NONE of them look like that. Those guys arms are frggin HUGEANTIC. Like, I can crush your face with my forearm hugeantic.

And also, I gotta say:

They ride in single file to hide their numbers.

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Know thine enemy. Plus inspite of being the root of all evil and injustice WoW has many positive experiences that I can understand any Dev wanting to sample so as to increase his/her own personal "gaming experience" palette.

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Especially the folks in the art and animation department(s). Eh?

I won't pay $20 + $40 expansion + $15/month subscription to play WoW as a game--one grind is enough, thank you. But here's the paradox: I'll waste hours and hours watching WoW videos and machinima on YouTube.

Because it's purrrty.

(With one exception: "You call that a cape?")

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Really? When I first played it I wanted to take a gun to whoever designed the male models. I have totally jacked friends, and NONE of them look like that. Those guys arms are frggin HUGEANTIC. Like, I can crush your face with my forearm hugeantic.

And also, I gotta say:

They ride in single file to hide their numbers.

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Warlock player? And yes I dislike how the humans look in World of Warcraft too. Being an old school Everquest player, I dislike how just about all the World of Warcraft races look like.

The only races I can stand are:

1) Undead, my favorite race and the one I play.

2) Gnomes, I'd never play one but they are good for entertainment value. I laugh when I see them. Plus they were fun to punt.

3) Blood Elves I enjoy because they remind me of High Elves from Everquest. I am glad they are part of the Horde.

4) Dwarves I enjoy them too. Although some have the ugliest faces.

Races I hate:

1) The Tri-Horde on Kalimdor (People that Alpha Tested know what I mean by Tri-Horde). For those that don't, Trolls, Orcs, and Tauren. All of these races just look dumb and too primitive. Trolls look the stupidest in my opinion. I hate being allied with these guys. I would go insane if we didn't get Blood Elves.

2) Humans, reason mentioned by above poster.

3) Night Elves, just look at them, they scream noob or cyber for some reason.

Neutral Race

Draenei I haven't decided if I think they are cool or not.

 

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I just loathed most of WoW's animations (repetative, re-used, and boring); and most of the race models were pretty 'meh' to me too

I however *loathed* the Human Female. (Which is what I played to 60 twice - I came to loathe it in doing so)


To explain:

The boobs were something like a 36DD, I carried my sword like I had no effing clue how to use it (it looked like I was barely holding onto the damn thing) - and my swings? I have *one* swing that looked like I meant it. One of them I *let go* of the sword with one hand <x.x>

It. Was. Irritating.

Then again, I have some similar complaints about DDOs animations (some good ones, but mostly pretty 'eh') - but DDO the game I like so much better than WoW that I'm "OK" with 'eh' animations >.> Though I do hope they'll improve them at some point.

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Lighthouse worked for Sony, whom removed his soul and sent him over to us, which is why he is the way he is.

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No, hours upon hours of playing EverQuest and PlanetSide did that (not to mention all those other games that I shouldn't mention, cause well these are the CoH forums). But then, I don't design the game, so you are safe!

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You played PlanetSide?!
And here I thought I was the only one who played that. Now I feel the urge to hop in my BFR and aid the Vanu on Markov to crush everyone.

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Go VR! Oh man, those were the days, weren't they? I used to love the lasher, you could hit people around corners! Good times , it was a fun little game.

 

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Don't be dissin' on Toontown. I found it to be kind of fun when I tried it out.

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Yes my daughter wanted it for Christmas and so I now have a character on it too. Colonel Bonzo Doggengoober...a guilty pleasure for the old man who grew up with Looney Tunes every Saturday Morning and the Wonderful World of Disney.

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I'm glad to see that at least one dev played Earth and Beyond. It just wasn't given much of an opportunity to succeed when they took Westwood out of the picture.

I never made it to 150, got close but couldn't keep going in such an empty game after they announced the closure.

 

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Good lord,

I'm a newbie then

I haven't played any MMOs but this one.

@CrimsonOriole

 

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Hmm...lemme think...I've played:

Numerous MUD's and MUSH's(even wrote a specialized client for ATS TrekMUSH)
Neverwinter Nights(not really an MMO, but more of bridge between MUD/MMO)
Air Warrior
Air Warrior II
Air Warrior III
Ultima Online(beta and live)
Everquest
Anarchy Online(beta and live)
Eve Online
Planetside
Star Wars Galaxies
Earth and Beyond Online(beta)
CoH/CoV
DDO
Matrix Online

Think that's most of 'em

 

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Hmm...lemme think...I've played:

Numerous MUD's and MUSH's(even wrote a specialized client for ATS TrekMUSH)
Neverwinter Nights(not really an MMO, but more of bridge between MUD/MMO)
Air Warrior
Air Warrior II
Air Warrior III
Ultima Online(beta and live)
Everquest
Anarchy Online(beta and live)
Eve Online
Planetside
Star Wars Galaxies
Earth and Beyond Online(beta)
CoH/CoV
DDO
Matrix Online

Think that's most of 'em

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Wow hello there! Did you register just for this post?

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Server/Network Engineer/Admin

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You want to grant him a red-name? Even if he works for the McDonald's regional headquarters in Boise?

 

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A red-name? Even if he works for the McDonald's regional headquarters in Boise?

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Yeah he didn't work for them

 

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A red-name? Even if he works for the McDonald's regional headquarters in Boise?

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No he works for the game check his profile.

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I didn't see NCSoft or Cryptic in his profile anywhere. It's a nice sentiment but perhaps if you're really interested in granting him a redname, PM Lighthouse and ask if he works on the game. Lot's of companies have computer techies.