Vanguard goes Open beta with NDA lifted.Follow

I'm running intel with Nvidia cards, two 7950GX2s in Quad SLI to be exact, and Allakhazam is running AMD with I believe 4 7900Gt's or possibly GX2's Either way, we both have very high end systems with nvidia cards, no ATI cards.

O RLY?

But yes our PCs are much more expensive and entry level here is waaay below USA.

Ask DF about my drooling at US prices

Pwnt!

Well they certainly where not selling that in the Plymouth branch!!! I said it with confidence since i had been in and asked

Using my swift mental calulations that PC would set me back $5,900.

And if ANYONE thinks ANY game is worth paying that to play they are barking mad.

To be honest i probably could get a PC for £1000 that would run is on high performance Cyberpower sell in PCFormat at around that price


Gamer Ultra SLI900 (great name huh!)

AMD dual core X2 3800
2GB Coesair DDR2-800
2x Nvidia 7950GT 512's

but thats not really my point, that hardware is not "readily availible" to the general public, so who are you aiming your game at?

I chose to miss your point and score my own

i was there at release for EQ1 too. it was horendous if any of you remember. crashing every other hour, emergancy patches taking the sytem down for a day at a time, then emergency patches to fix the emergancy patches. clipping, warping, half the quests didnt work.

and still, it wasnt as bad as AO at launch. OMG, anyone remember running through any of the city,s at launch? DAoC was smooth. nice launch. so was WoW. EQ2 blew chunks but was still better than EQ1 at launch.

i also did beta for a few. DAoC, EQ2, and even shadowbane. i quit doing beta. it ruined my enjoyment of the game. when you see the game in peices, and constantly involve yourself in chat that is predominatly negative that also focuses your attention on things you probably wouldnt otherwise ever notice, when it gets to launch, your not looking at the game for what it is, your inspecting it for the flaws that were thrown in your face during beta.

it leaves a very negative taste in your mouth. and that is why you mostly see negative press prior to release.

so i dont do beta anymore. i remembered why after a couple weeks of Vanguard beta. the problem with asking for imput from a bunch of powergaming geeks is you get a bunch of differant answers as to how to solve any problem. and to make it worse, the solutions you get DO NOT represent the views of the majority of gamers. who are mostly casual gamers as WoW so clearly demonstraited.

EQ1 fell prey to that mind set. if the best love it the rest will follow. blizzard showed them the errors of their ways. unfortunatly, vanguard was well on its way before WoW took the market by storm. to far into it to change directions and hope to launch a game in the nest few years.

its playable. it wont be for every one. personally, i think it is better than EQ2. but thats just me. i like the graphics better than WoW, even though WoW is more geared for my playstyle.

best of all, its new. not an expansion, not an add on, but something totally new. that alone should be good for a couple months.

Thanks for chiming in with a timely and well thought out witticism. Its new blood like yours that will keep this place going long after the interesting people are gone.

You don't want to get in the way of those ruth farmers. They're.....

ah, forget it.

She's probably confused about whether or not it's a metal, what with the liquid state and all.

End the confusion and mail them some uranium instead.

what does vanguard do in the first place?

********* you know he was a female Taru. Probably played a BRD as well. It would fit in with his ugly chick, midget alter-ego. (That was him, right? my memory is teh suck.)

DDP

Edited, Jan 8th 2007 1:12pm by Nobby