I was affected. No many folks that were left in a bad state due to this.
Luckily not myself, but am charging back every penny on my wife and my account.
Ok, so they got a focus group together, and looked on the internet, and people said "More, better PvP!"...
Too bad the niche hardcore players are the only people who speak up in those forums. Here's a big hint to everybody making this type of game: All those casual players that make Warcraft and Diablo crazy, stupid successful.... They play for the co-op and social aspects. They don't PvP. People who post on internet forums and create feature wishlists for these types of games (probably 90+% of the people who read this) aren't representative of the bulk of players no matter how vocal they are, or how important they think they are. If you cater to those players, and "being the next WoW" (in terms of paying playerbase) is your goal, you will fail.
You don't know what you are talking about quite honestly.
Warhammer is very social, the social element comes into play in a very obvious way, the big difference is you are fighting other people not some cheesy AI.
In addition the game appears to have a lot of framework to ensure no abuse of other faction.
This is definitely not warcraft and from a game play. socio-political perspective is very much deeper and better.
Slashdot Mirror
I was affected. No many folks that were left in a bad state due to this. Luckily not myself, but am charging back every penny on my wife and my account.
"PvP is a much more important part of..."
Ok, so they got a focus group together, and looked on the internet, and people said "More, better PvP!"...
Too bad the niche hardcore players are the only people who speak up in those forums. Here's a big hint to everybody making this type of game: All those casual players that make Warcraft and Diablo crazy, stupid successful.... They play for the co-op and social aspects. They don't PvP. People who post on internet forums and create feature wishlists for these types of games (probably 90+% of the people who read this) aren't representative of the bulk of players no matter how vocal they are, or how important they think they are. If you cater to those players, and "being the next WoW" (in terms of paying playerbase) is your goal, you will fail.
You don't know what you are talking about quite honestly. Warhammer is very social, the social element comes into play in a very obvious way, the big difference is you are fighting other people not some cheesy AI. In addition the game appears to have a lot of framework to ensure no abuse of other faction. This is definitely not warcraft and from a game play. socio-political perspective is very much deeper and better.
Best Book I ever read on Design is by far Jakob Nielsen's Designing Web Usability http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Designing-Web-Usability-Practice-Simplicity-Jakob-Nielsen/9781562058104-item.html?ref=Search+Books%3A+'Jakob+Nielsen' It provides factual, mesurable data for it's conclusions.