Posted Oct 8, 2007 12:48 pm PT

I'm pretty pissed, I loved the beta. and have been advertising it. I think if they ACTUALLY RELEASE IT they could make changes, I mean look at WoW patches every other day. Please release the game, I promise that we will buy it Mister Garrott!

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Posted Oct 8, 2007 6:11 am PT

I played the beta. Very, very fun game. A really good change from WoW, which I'm about burned out on. The graphics looked fairly good, the guns were really cool looking, and after just a couple levels, my character felt pretty powerful. Other than a few graphical issues, which I've encountered in other MMO's that have been out for years, the only major bug I found was lag. And the lag was barely noticeable on low populated areas. Even with the lag and delay, it didn't affect the game that much. It would really mess up PVP but I'm not the greatest fan of PVP so... for questing and leveling, the game seemed pretty well put together. But then I'm old school. I've been gaming for for 24+ years, since I was 5ish, and I don't require perfection to enjoy a game.

From all the bad hype everyone was giving, I was expecting something far less than it was. Good game. I will buy it and play it. Maybe not worth $14.99 a month but neither is WoW.

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Posted Oct 7, 2007 8:06 pm PT

Swampthing.... The NDA was lifted in early September.

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Posted Oct 4, 2007 4:51 am PT

Gee... I thought all you beta players signed NDAs... do you know what that means? You can't talk about the game. What the hell, you don't care. This is what happens when there is no age limit on betas... :/

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Posted Oct 4, 2007 1:24 am PT

It may actually be a game worth trying out. But between my World of Warcraft addiction and Warhammer comming out soon, I doubt I'll take the time to play this. I'd give it more consideration if those wonderful folks on GameSpot end up giving it a rating of 9.5 or higher.

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Posted Oct 3, 2007 2:44 pm PT

I'm playing the beta and I'm loving it. YES ,there are some bugs, and YES the launch is delayed. Best to fix the bugs BEFORE people go out and spend money to buy the game AND spend money on the monthly fee (HALO 3 and XBOX 360 issues, anyone?!) I've had both, and it's a great idea for them to work out the bugs and make sure their people are happy enough to WANT to play the game after beta. I already have my collector's edition ordered and will be happily enjoying this game when it's released.

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Posted Oct 3, 2007 12:03 pm PT

Tabula Rasa is not a very fun game from my limited beta exploits. I will certainly pass on this one.

Bring me Warhammer Online, possibly even Age of Conan, or if by some miracle -- Darkfall.

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Posted Oct 3, 2007 11:35 am PT

2 weeks lol even that isnt going to save this balanceless/broken game plus there actually expecting people to pay $14.99 a month for this lol they need at least 6 months to at least do something with this.

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Posted Oct 3, 2007 11:29 am PT

See you in warhammer

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Posted Oct 3, 2007 10:39 am PT

This game has no competition...why delaying?

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Posted Oct 3, 2007 10:15 am PT

Anyone playing the beta will know that this game is still way too broken to be ready in a month. I hope I'm proven wrong because its a great game - its just seriously BUGGY.

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Posted Oct 3, 2007 9:49 am PT

This game is such a DISAPPOINTMENT! Such boring, lackluster gameplay. Not a shooter, yet no real rpg immersion. TR is even crappier than LOTRO. Shame.

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Posted Oct 3, 2007 9:10 am PT

I'll wait and see what people think about this game when it's released. I haven't been playing much MMORPG as of late. Been too busy playing my XBox 360.

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Posted Oct 3, 2007 9:06 am PT

It still won't be ready .

It still is NOT worth $15 a month.

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Posted Oct 3, 2007 7:46 am PT

On the bright side... The longer it stays in beta, the longer I can play the beta for free. I haven't even tried the instanced missions yet (waiting till my character reaches a higher level), but the other part of the game is a lot of fun. I don't know much about crafting, as it's never been a big thing for me in any MMO. When I get crafting recipes I usually sell them for more ammo. This will be a good game. There's already a lot of content, and now it just needs polish.

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Posted Oct 3, 2007 6:57 am PT

Think its good that they hold it back. But maybe keep it in beta until next year, will be a better idea?

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Posted Oct 3, 2007 5:44 am PT

at least they didn't ship it out early cuz of money problems and other dumb ass excuses that most MMO's fail because of

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Posted Oct 3, 2007 3:51 am PT

Yay. XP boost?

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Posted Oct 3, 2007 2:48 am PT

Draven03 - That's right! DAoC had a really smooth launch, probably the smoothest so far. I beta'd that game, but didn't go beyond my free month of retail when it hit shelves.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 10:59 pm PT

its so popular to delay

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 9:42 pm PT

"Well hey buddy some of us have a...LIFE, so we may only play it 6-7 times a month so the per play cost rises substantially for a game you already payed full price for at retail. I'm 27 so I have a little more to worry about than which capt'n crunch flavor i'm gonna eat tomorrow."

Yet you can come on here and argue about it.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 9:19 pm PT

Well hey buddy some of us have a...LIFE, so we may only play it 6-7 times a month so the per play cost rises substantially for a game you already payed full price for at retail. I'm 27 so I have a little more to worry about than which capt'n crunch flavor i'm gonna eat tomorrow.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 8:30 pm PT

Same story as usual -- there has never been, and likely never will be, an MMO that the community believes is ready at launch. Which is not to say Tabula Rasa IS ready, I'm sure it's not, and the criticism is probably fair, but they could wait another year or three and people would be saying all the same things. It would help if more of these companies had some idea why they were making their game in the first place -- I think that lack of vision is the reason why so many of these games end up getting delayed for years, and finally released in a half-baked state, with the best case scenario recouping some of the millions of development dollars before the thing goes dark.

(I'm actually planning on trying Tabula Rasa, but I don't have ridiculously high expectations of it. The beta isn't bad, just nothing revolutionary.)

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 7:33 pm PT

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 7:23 pm PT

OMG YOU PEOPLE ARE POOR AS CRAP!

$15 a month is like 50 cents a day! (sometimes more in February, some times less in months with 31 days)

GET A JOB!!!!

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 7:19 pm PT

From what I've gathered from people playing Beta, is that it's just another Guild Wars. I'm in the WAR beta and well....Here I come Warhammer Online

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 7:03 pm PT

see you in warhamer

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 6:59 pm PT

omg. well, guess i gotta wait

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 6:26 pm PT

Without $15 per month, I'd grab this in an instant, but with it... maaaaaaybe. I'll have to wait and see.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 6:22 pm PT

SteveTwo - While WoW had a decent launch, you are forgetting the original launch of DAoC. That launch, imo, was the smoothest ever.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 6:01 pm PT

geesh is that expensive, 14.99.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 5:55 pm PT

The beta uses a lot of good ideas but they're not enough to pull this game from mediocrity. It just doesnt feel worth it to level in this game.. and I had high hopes for it. Oh well.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 5:47 pm PT

They should delay it for another year is more like it..this game really stinks atm

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 5:29 pm PT

I can forgive the choppy performance and bugs of the beta, because it is after all a beta, but the unforgivable thing is that even if the game ran perfectly and was bug-free, I couldn't see a single thing in there that would make me want to play it over any other MMO.

They've been touting this as a revolution in MMORPGs. The only thing this game revolutionizes is mediocrity.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 5:24 pm PT

and btw .... Garriott if you ever read this .... might want to take a look at what everyone has written up till now ... not one positive post :S I haven't played it myself but DANG thats brutal ....

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 5:22 pm PT

thats a hefty monthly fee .... dang i thought my WoW fee was expensive ... it better be darn good or its never gonna lift off. It just doesn't have that famous Blizzard logo backing it ... :S

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 4:53 pm PT

Thank god, the game didn't look anywhere near enough done. I really want to play the game, but I refuse to have something less than finished. Power to the devs.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 4:45 pm PT

Zemus, unfortunately every MMO that releases releases into a Beta state. The only real exception to that rule was WoW, and that had to deal with different problems since thier game wasn't designed for the number of people who were interested in playing it.

Every MMO is going to have a shake-down period after launch where something is not going to go as planned. If you want a stable more-finished MMO, just wait about 6-9months after its release. This is the formulae I found works for most MMOs.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 4:42 pm PT

The beta was a disappointment, to say the least. Laggy, buggy, but the biggest issue was that it just wasn't all that much fun to play. It's a shame, but I really hope Mr. Garriot can fix this in time.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 4:35 pm PT

I am taking a long break from MMOGs, but at least this one sounds interesting!

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 4:27 pm PT

i try the beta and did not like it the game is good but not worth playing 15 bucks at month

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 4:25 pm PT

2 weeks? How about a year Garriott! Your game is going to be a live Beta Test that costs per month with little to no enjoyable value. I played very far into the beta with a good solid group, NCsoft must be threatening to pull the plug if they don't see profit soon because this game is no where near ready and no sane development team would release this.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 4:21 pm PT

They need to take 6 months and make the game actually enjoyable. Garriott had some big ideas, most of which have been dumbed down and now the game doesn't have much of any appeal, if not for being the only new sci-fi MMO.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 4:06 pm PT

They'd need more than a month to make this game worthwhile. It definitely shows its age of six years in development hell. It might have been a passable game 4-5 years ago, but it's 2007 now and the bar has been raised well past what the game delivers.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 4:02 pm PT

I wish they add PvP feature during that delay

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 3:58 pm PT

I played the Beta too and I didn't liek the game. It's too slow-paced and requires alot of dumb micro-management.

Hellgate London looks better IMO.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 3:49 pm PT

Yeah, not gonna get this game, especially with that 14.99 monthly fee. I played the Beta quite a bit and thought it was very Ok. But that's just me!

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 3:39 pm PT

ah, well as long as its for the better, its not a huge delay.

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Posted Oct 2, 2007 3:33 pm PT

from what i hear, it needed it.

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