Ok, I lied — I couldn’t keep a straight face, either…

I’ll just admit to my lifetime subscription of HKO, and move on.

;)

Just man up and admit it, you’ll feel much better about yourself in the morning.

*snickers*

I can’t stand Hello Kitty Online.

That is all.

:D

My overall points still stand, however, and I read about the same things on other blogs from fans, fanboys, and people who are “meh” on the whole thing: it’s lonely, there’s no chat, and as I said, WAR is most certainly *not* everywhere as the slogan promised. WAR is only in a single instanced scenario per tier. For now. Seems Mythic already has their thinking caps on and are looking to fix that.

Either way, “some” is often not enough to keep paying for something.

The Scenario thing is REALLY annoying and I can’t help but think it’s due to people using the Join All button and somehow Nordenwatch queues up first simply because it’s listed first (or something logically flawed like that). I can’t believe that people only want to play Nordenwatch without having some fun in KE or GoE.

I wouldn’t say no one was open RVRing, on Tuesday night I was up until about midnight doing Open RVR with a CoW group. We were taking objectives when we got zerged by Clan of Shadows (I use Zerg in the sense of them having far superior numbers and us facing a constant stream of enemies). We also joined up with some folks from Catalyst and took a keep then could take another one because Clan of Shadows and another guild (and stragglers) were defending it. It was a HUUUGE keep. We got the doors down but that was about it before we started losing (weak) people who needed sleep.

Hard-coded keybinds (which happen to be the ones I *always* use for other things) piss me off. I don’t appreciate being forced to change everything around for one single game when there’s no excuse whatsoever on any world in any universe for keybinds to be hard-coded.

Only one scenario per tier being used also sucks. No one questing, no one PQing, no one open RvRing. WAR isn’t everywhere at all; WAR is only in the instanced scenarios and that gets old in a damn hurry.

If it weren’t for guild chat, I’d swear I was playing a single player MMO. That also pisses me off. If I hadn’t known about CoW, I’d literally be alone. If there’s no chat, how does anyone make friends? No one talks in scenarios either unless it’s the WoW kids who just insult everyone else for being noobs and not doing “their jobs.” I certainly wouldn’t want to guild with them… How the hell has anyone ever figured out who they want to guild with other than the CoW’s? Seriously…

Mythic can fix everything except the community. I want to like WAR, I really do, but right now it’s just not cutting it for me.

My #1 point is looking at how those bloggers view other games and if their opinions match mine. i.e Darren tries anything, Jobildo likes everything and you tend to like things I’m not too keen on (even if I do agree with some of your points on things).

Point #2 hints at that.

Point #3 was simply a matter I my dislike for Turbine due to experience with their products, both current and past.

The above comment is a child of my thinking about where I’d go if I find myself disliking WAR. I considered WoW but.. meh. This post is LOTRO focused and got me thinking about LOTRO which is one of the few MMOs I’ve yet to play. It’s a reminder of why that is and I figured I’d share. :D

My LOTRO guild leader is trying WAR and liking the RvR so I logged in the other day and in less than a minute I was pissed off and logged out. At least I said hi to CoW. And bye. I’ll see if this next patch fixes the issues that are setting off my temper or not. If not, I’m canceling for awhile. However, I’m also fully aware that even if they fix my bugs, there’s probably not much they can do about my boredom other than a total revamp of the game.

1) General malaise with it from numerous bloggers
2) You like LOTRO but you also like DDO which seemed so wrong to me
3) It’s Turbine (last time I tried to play DDO I couldn’t even boot the game… it’d crash on start up)

Honestly, maybe if I get completely bored with WAR, I’ll give LOTRO a shot. Maybe… unlikely… okay, probably never. Sorry :0(