Lynae
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.05.02 11:44:00 -
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WoW - Beautiful world, great transferred setting. Low-Level gameplay is brilliant and interesting. Endgame content is a boring, mindless grind with anonymous or much to large groups. Basically: Level 1-30 (or so) - great game; Level cap - graphical chat interface while killing <random monster spawn> with 40 people as often per week as you can afford.
Class balancing is nonexistant, because of PvP concerns. PvP does not belong into this game, but was included for business reasons. Community is based around some very very nice people, and a majority of epeen-"look I have more epix then you"-kids. (And very cute girls play this game!)
The interface is the best game interface created today, fully customizable.
All impression based on EU realms.
Rating: 7/10 <Level 30, 3/10 Endgame, 6/10 RP, 2/10 PvP
I played a little bit of UO on german freeshards, but that game had never fascinated me.
Now in comparision, EVE. - Interesting gameplay and world setting, really big universe. As a new player, gameplay is absolutly boring, sitting around, waiting for skills to learn. You can go mining, missioning or die in combat PvP. Perhaps "endgame" aka "you now have enough SP to fly something which can actually do something" will be more interesting.
Overall nice community, helpful to new players. You can play as good, neutral or evil, basically. You can choose what your professions are, no EXP grind and class/level system (replaced with the ISK-grind ofc).
The interface totally *****, non customizable, laggy. This game has no sound (unless you extract the soundfiles manually and play them in Winamp...).
Rating: 3/10 gameplay with low SP, 7/10 community, 9/10 for setting and freedom. Cant comment on endgame, fleet battles, more pvp then "look there is an interceptor, tackle him. - damn too fast".
I would never go back to WoW at this point. The game is ruined for me, with the new patches and the addon. Yes I was the second druid (and top-10 player) on my realm at level 70 after the expansion hit. You need some time to realize that this game is not as good as you think. Since I were only interested in PvE, all those PvP > all changes in WoW basically canceled my account. I can chat with my friends without paying money to see an elf running around while typing.  It would be a good game, and I do not hate it. It is just no longer something I truly enjoy playing.
I am unsure about EVE. It surely has potential, but progression is way too slow. Waiting 30 days just for 1 skill to complete, which has no real effect on what you can do is a little bit disappointing. I have found a great corp; small but with very nice players. I enjoy playing with them, even if I mostly hinder them in some way because of my low SP (wanted to low-sec gatecamp and me in a frigate  ).
I have found no other mmorpg which suited my needs yet, so I stay here a little bit longer. We'll see what happens.
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 Originally by: Dark Shikari
They're protected by shuttles carrying Templars, Amarr fighter drones used by carriers, but their tanks aren't that strong.
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