September going to kill Defiance

[lil frier]

I'm sorry, but I am of the opinion that WoW is one of the most dated looking games out on the market. It certainly lacks the polish you say it does. Defiance on my XBox (slim) looks 10 times better than WoW on my desktop. Heck, I have a few arcade games on my XBox that look better than WoW ever did.

The problem with WoW and Blizzard is that they never bothered to update the engine for it. Yes it would cost a bit extra, but the little extra love they put into it would have been worth every penny. I'm sorry, but 8 sided wheels on catapults is NOT polish. Even when they did slightly upgrade the look of WoW it still looked inferior to MMOs that where older (Star Wars Galaxies).

I don't think that you understood my statement, so I'll clarify: I don't mean how the game looks. I mean how the game behaves. My statement of "polish" is that we don't see the number of bugs on WoW. We don't see the server issues. The free patches with instances and raids in WoW are miles ahead of the joke DLC Defiance's devs have put out.

As for that matter of aesthetics, I'll disagree. WoW wasn't built to look like Battlefield or anything. It's supposed to be highly accessible. They would likely lose some (not MANY) players if they tried to update the physics and visuals, as it would lead to a need for a CPU upgrade (less-likely a GPU upgrade, but maybe that as well) for those on low-end machines.

But again, I really don't care about the graphics in that game. It's simply not a game known for its graphical prowess, nor is it one where I'd care to see it maxed out too much.

[Milar]

Been away a few days...did *insert newest gamerealease here* kill Defiance yet??

No? Oh well...maybe next week....

[Troy Shepard]

My only real complaints are the issues that seem to plague the game and always seem to happen at the worst possible times, and some game mechanics ( no game is ever perfect). For example I dislike the load out system and wish there was a quicker way to swap to the needed weapon as opposed to having to go to the menu and become such a nice target. I do not like Nerfing at all a SAW is supposed to be a nasty gun, and I think when you shoot a person with a rocket launcher they should do more than flinch it's truly sad when a pistol can do more damage to an Ark crystal that a rocket launcher.

I have always found that "wrong". Plus to add to that, when a rocket hits a crit point it should do crit dmg and not the base damage. I was hoping they would have looked into that by now.

[Valdrane78]

I don't think that you understood my statement, so I'll clarify: I don't mean how the game looks. I mean how the game behaves. My statement of "polish" is that we don't see the number of bugs on WoW. We don't see the server issues. The free patches with instances and raids in WoW are miles ahead of the joke DLC Defiance's devs have put out.

As for that matter of aesthetics, I'll disagree. WoW wasn't built to look like Battlefield or anything. It's supposed to be highly accessible. They would likely lose some (not MANY) players if they tried to update the physics and visuals, as it would lead to a need for a CPU upgrade (less-likely a GPU upgrade, but maybe that as well) for those on low-end machines.

But again, I really don't care about the graphics in that game. It's simply not a game known for its graphical prowess, nor is it one where I'd care to see it maxed out too much.

Again, I will have to disagree with you. WoW was plagued with bugs and errors for the first 6 months it was out. Heck, people couldn't even play the first 2 or 3 days it released because well booted.... And with every patch and expac, there is a host of new errors and bugs. A few game breaking, most not. Don't be so quick to put WoW and Blizzard on such a high pedestal. For everything they get right, they do something equally and horribly wrong.

[ten4]

Again, I will have to disagree with you. WoW was plagued with bugs and errors for the first 6 months it was out. Heck, people couldn't even play the first 2 or 3 days it released because well booted.... And with every patch and expac, there is a host of new errors and bugs. A few game breaking, most not. Don't be so quick to put WoW and Blizzard on such a high pedestal. For everything they get right, they do something equally and horribly wrong.

Yea man, WoW is total fail. It being the most played MMO of all time, with 12+ mill subs at it's height clearly means it's a terrible game no one plays like say...Defiance.

To funny, my bet is you either never played WoW or you did but only for a few months at most.

I played 7+ years, it just got to old honestly but I have no regrets. Their standards are 1000x higher than Trion will ever have and that's for sure.

[Misfit501]

You cannot kill that which has no life.

If it bleeds we can kill it.

[Xaearth]

Yea man, WoW was total fail. It being the most played MMO of all time, capping at 12 mill subs clearly means it's a terrible game no one plays like say...Defiance.

To funny, my bet is you either never played WoW or you did but only for a few months at most.

I played 7+ years, it just got to old honestly but I have no regrets. Their standards are 10000x higher than Trion will ever have and that's for sure.

I have yet to meet a person who was able to tell me honestly that, at no point in their time of playing WoW, did they ever play only because it was what their friends were playing and not because they were actually enjoying playing WoW.

It's the Facebook of MMOs. They're filthy rich and the business model worked, but that doesn't mean it's something a fan of video games should applaud.

More on topic, I'm surprised no one mentioned the Shadow Warrior remake yet.

[Bob Blunderbust]

wow was a great game its old but at its time was great and facebook isn't a fail eather

[Bob Blunderbust]

someone should make a mmo called my lil pony spirit of vengeance an open world pvp mmo game with that title will make a lot and I mean a lot of money

[Tyger]

I have yet to meet a person who was able to tell me honestly that, at no point in their time of playing WoW, did they ever play only because it was what their friends were playing and not because they were actually enjoying playing WoW.

It's the Facebook of MMOs. They're filthy rich and the business model worked, but that doesn't mean it's something a fan of video games should applaud.

...probably cuz' it was the biggest sh!t sammich at the time and everyone who was 'someone' took a bite so as not to get left in the dust. I got as far as watching a cousin play it for about 35 minutes or so. My opinion of that game was well founded b4 that particular moment and happily proven after said moment.

Oh and please, those that still drink the 'WoW kool-aid', keep railing on about the one-time 12 mill accounts. That's like citing the millions of people that chose Steamliner transportation over Air travel during the early 1900's. When you don't have actual competition at the time it's hard to boast about how awesome you are. Posters like you use statistics like drunks use lamp posts. Stability>Illumination.