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Vanguard - Saga of Heroes Released
An anonymous reader writes "After years of promises and fan hype, Sigil Games Online and SOE has released Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. I've been playing the pre-release the last few days and I've been really enjoying it. I scoffed at the idea of diplomacy in a MMOG, but Sigil has done something with it I've never seen before. They made it a card game...within a game. MMORPG.com has a preview of the Beta game, and Gamespy offers up out of the box impressions of the game on Launch day. GameTrailers has a launch day trailer and dragon mount video to give you an idea of what it looks like in action. Whether the game turns out well or not, the fans are happy that it is finally on the shelves."
Well they fully admitted they only released now because they ran out of development funds and it was either release it and start getting income, or fold the project.
I personally cancelled my pre-order. One of my closest gaming friends can't even run the game on her brand new system. When we inquired with their QA they told her she'd need to roll back her graphics drivers to a version older than her system. When that didn't work we learned that despite saying they support all 7xxx series nvidia cards, they've only had time to test 7300 and 7800 cards. If you have another card its hit or miss that it will work. Apparently if you have a 7500 (the one my friend has) you're SOL till they get around to making it work.
I refuse to pay for a game most of my friends can't even play.