Well, I’m done with Warhammer Online.
Overall, its a decent game. It did “work as intended”, and like many games give it six months to a year of players beating on the servers and Mythic patching/fixing/adjusting, it will be very nice. I think my problem with it, is besides being just a jaded, grumpy old gamer – is I’m primarily a PVE player. In WAR, at least to me, much of the PVE content feels the same from area to area. Now of course this sounds a bit crazy, since there just isn’t that much difference PVE-wise from one game to the next. You either get a Fedex quest, kill 10 rats quest, kill mobs for drops, etc. What I found was that as I went up in levels, the PVE content felt like I was doing the exact same quests in each area, and the Public Quests (which I enjoyed) became empty, as players discovered the best “bang for the buck” was to run scenarios back to back.
So what you have now is at the flightmaster towns where the scenario quests are located, you will see tons of players standing around in queue. Go outside that area to quest, its just empty. Public Quests in the T3 areas are only used to grind the first stage for gear, and then abandoned. I’ve seen only about 2-3 players at a time hitting those Public Quests. Everyone else is just running scenarios back to back, which in itself turns into another type of grind. Open RVR is empty except when it becomes a zerg, even then it usually is not opposed much by Destruction. Players tend to only want to do RVR when they have overwhelming numbers and can zerg. If I want a PVP scenario based game, I’ll just fire up a Half-Life 2 mod. I can PVP in a balanced game without needing to level.
So now I’m back to bouncing around MMO’s again. My wife and I prepurchased the expansion to LOTRO – Mines of Moria and have been playing that with our guild, the Valar Guild. I’ve been grinding up my metalsmithing and knocked out Book 9, along with exploring Forochel a bit. I don’t care for their faction system, as some of my riding points that I used now require faction to travel to/from. But its not too bad to get to the aquantence level to use the travel ability. Its a much more casual game feel that I notice, and with our lifetime subscription, I don’t feel like if I don’t play I’m wasting a subscription fee. With WOW’s 3.02 update and the Halloween event, its actually got us back to playing some with it as well. I always enjoyed the events on WOW, and the achievement system is another “carrot on a stick” that for some reason I want to chase a bit.
Wonder how long I will last in each of these games, or which I will play when each expansion hits the shelves.
