Warhammer Online beta

[Trash Man]

What are the best random names you have been given so far?

Just made a Squig herder, he was randomly named Kumgag

[Trash Man]

http://www.war-europe.com/#/news/?id_news=en144&lang=en

Seems we are getting 7 days free play because of the poor beta release. Unexpected, the whole idea of a beta is to find problems, but I'm not going to complain

[Destroyer^]

Yeah that is definitly a decent present for the poor open beta we had..... btw if anyone wants to come on karak-hirn server...order.... im in a guild The Sylvan Blades and will be named Cypher246/Cypherbob or CypherDave

[TiG]

Originally Posted by Geist

Ok, so I was trying to ignore this as I don't want to be sucked in and lose my life ala wow... But I wouldn't mind some view points on the below.

I always felt in wow that you had to put lots of time in (raiding etc.) to really get anything out of it. How do you all find those type of feelings in war?

Will the not quite so hardcore player still get lots out of it?

I also assume the sides are not going to be balanced (order vs destruction). Do you all think its going to be another alliance vs horde - 3:1 type affair or is it far to early to tell?

Well when joining servers you can see ratio of players on the servers so there is some immediate knowledge of what you are getting into. Even on beta which was seemingly only the individual server for PVP i was getting a game in sub 2minutes.

The other thing that i think is completely true, or will be, is that War is much more friendly to more casual players, the crafting system looks especially designed to make it all lightweight. No grinding for 6 million gold and items to craft that item.

So item upgrades look like they will come from coming top in these open quests and the reputation of the open quests or reputation of the rvr battles (RP)

I'm no were near as much time as i had while i was playing WoW, and think it could be a good balance for me at the moment.

TiG

[Geist]

cheers for the replies.

Looking at the min specs it will not run on my computer So seems it was a moot point.

The official website says:

"A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 " but then below that says the ati x800 is supported. Now I'm using the x800 and it does not do shader 2.0...

[Allen]

Originally Posted by Trash Man

http://www.war-europe.com/#/news/?id_news=en144&lang=en

Seems we are getting 7 days free play because of the poor beta release. Unexpected, the whole idea of a beta is to find problems, but I'm not going to complain

It probably goes to show that companies use open beta's to allow people a sneak preview, get their taste buds watering and get them tempted into paying for the game, rather than to find bugs or stress test the server.

Otherwise, why would they offer 7 days free for problematic beta testing?

[beanbandit]

Originally Posted by Allen

It probably goes to show that companies use open beta's to allow people a sneak preview, get their taste buds watering and get them tempted into paying for the game, rather than to find bugs or stress test the server.

Otherwise, why would they offer 7 days free for problematic beta testing?

They are offering EU open beta 7 days compensation as they totally screwed up the start of the open beta. Its do this or face possible court action as is was advertised that you would get an open beta slot. GOA are a complete bunch of idiots that are trying to keep their customers happy. Same thing happened with WoW launch in europe, we all got free days play because they didn't think so many people would try and create an account on day 1.

[Carlh]

I also have just activated by head-start key.

Shall download the game tonight and login to play (still awaiting my pre-order to arrive)

I didnt even do the Beta of the game so hope I dont have the issues that some users are having

Also has anyone got a fast download link for the game - will have to download tonight when I get in

[Splash]

I still have the official torrent (that the horrible downloader app uses) which should have been flying pretty much, especially if you're comfortable with the setup of a bittorrent client. Let me know if you want it and I'll upload it somewhere for you.