World Of Warcraft - Stress test beta. - Page 2

Jonbo298 · 09-01-2004, 04:55 PM

You try to maintain those huge servers with a nearly constant uptime for only a few dollars from your customers. Engineers, maintenance, salary, etc..For my $15 a month to Cryptic for City of Heroes, I get a big update every 2-3 months (every 2 so far), uptime is pretty good (I have yet ot see the servers crash, except for the Test server which has updates before they go live and server can get unstable but thats what testing is for before it hits the live servers). Plus, the devs are awesome in CoH because they actually read the forums and listen to its customers and make changes accordingly.

So my $15 a month is well deserved for a great game. And future games will be $15 a month also because of the massive servers to maintain and whatnot. They aren't cheap Null.

Null · 09-01-2004, 05:06 PM

im not sayin they're cheap. but all the people in the world that buy and play these games, $15 each from them every month? you do the math, We'll just say they arent ever going to have a money problem for a long long time.

What im saying is, they could do it at a much cheaper price and still make a nice profit after spending the costs on the servers.

BTW, Stress testing beta hasnt even started yet? i installed the game this afternoon, only to find i have to wait untill it begins to sign a name up. =/ i wanted to play now damnit!

Canyarion · 09-02-2004, 06:11 PM

Ah, hasn't started yet.... ok

I want to know when our EU Bèta starts!

And yes I've done the math.... I thought Blizzard was going to get filty rich.... but I guess I was a bit wrong... not THAT many ppl are gonna play it...

Jonbo298 · 09-02-2004, 06:32 PM

It just started today. I played for a few minutes, just could not get into it and went back to City of Heroes

And I know that it takes time to get into but I just can't see myself playing WoW

Null · 09-02-2004, 06:43 PM

im runnin around with no clue what to do.

how do i get money? hehe

Canyarion · 09-03-2004, 10:42 AM

Eeeehm are there any monsters around? Kill them!

Team up with ppl perhaps?

Oh Jonbo.......

GT News · 09-03-2004, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Canyarion

Eeeehm are there any monsters around? Kill them!

Team up with ppl perhaps?

Oh Jonbo.......

Are all D Eeeehm there any monsters around?Killing is wrong.What do you have that is ?
Tell me more.
The ALICE chat robot can follow many things, like our discussion about devil Team up with ppl perhaps. Try being more or less specific.

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Canyarion · 09-03-2004, 10:43 AM

Ghehe, devil and angel.

Null · 09-03-2004, 11:51 AM

i was looking around my inventory and draged my shirt and pants off onto the gameplay screen, i thought it would just set them down and i could pick them back up. but it deleted them....

so now i'm walking around in my underwear =/

Jonbo298 · 09-03-2004, 02:55 PM

I'm not playing WoW anymore. I gave my account to Hero2 to use for the week. Ask him

Typhoid · 09-03-2004, 02:58 PM

I know this is late to say, but how are you plaing the game? Meaning did you have to like...sign up or just download it?

So can i just download it and go at it?

Canyarion · 09-03-2004, 03:05 PM

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manasecret · 09-09-2004, 01:48 PM

I love it. MMPORGS have never been able to capture me, and this one has me enthralled.

It was able to grab me because the options you have to choose for your character in the very beginning are minimal, unlike most games like this where you have to decide a million options when you barely know how attributes like "Mind" are going to affect anything you do. In WoW, all special talents are chosen as you go along (and there are loads), while most attributes mean something to me.

(I haven't played CoH, so it may be similar.)

I also like the Warcraft universe, and know some of the recent backstory and how different races interweave. So that helps a lot.

Canyarion · 09-09-2004, 01:57 PM

Gheh, that's what Blizzard's trying to do, very playable for everybody. I will also love this game, but I'm afraid that it will devour my time and money.

Jonbo298 · 09-09-2004, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by manasecret

It was able to grab me because the options you have to choose for your character in the very beginning are minimal, unlike most games like this where you have to decide a million options when you barely know how attributes like "Mind" are going to affect anything you do. In WoW, all special talents are chosen as you go along (and there are loads), while most attributes mean something to me.

(I haven't played CoH, so it may be similar.)

CoH is kind of along those lines. You start by choosing your origin (not a big thing that matters in game except what enemies you face in the beginning of the game) then choose your primary and secondary powersets and choose your first powers, then you make your character in the best character creator ever for an MMORPG and then from there your in game and when you level, you choose what powers you want. It's a fairly simple process to do.