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[quote who="AdmiralMaximus" reply="34" id="2903676"] The issue lies with the fact that your post simply attacked the legitimacy or the objectivism of such lists. THOSE are the kinds of posts i wanted to omit from the thread.[/quote] These lists aren't "objective" for any normal definition of the word. Objectively ranking something requires measurable criteria and has a right and wrong answer. These rankings are based on what the writer thinks is better, and thus are entirely subjectiv

[quote who="EchoingZen" reply="5" id="2903869"]I am trying to figure out what is bothering me and I think I have figured it out. If support does wane for WoM, then how much confidence should I have in FE? If they view the product as a failure, then why should I view WoM or FE any different from them? I am getting a little depressed now. I feel that I am being forced to repurchase the same game.[/quote] I look at FE as Elemental's "2.0" update. It's a chance to

If you bought WoM in 2010, you should get FE free. So in that sense it won't matter because it won't cost you more money to get the new version. They've said that WoM will still be supported alongside FE. TBH, I don't believe it. I believe that they honestly have that intention, but it's not going to last in the face of the reality that FE will probably be the better game and will be the one that gets marketing attention (if they do a marketing push). Once they diverge signifi

[quote who="Vandenburg" reply="104" id="2903397"] Rune crafting resource colection are from there there is even some music that wasn't changed at all from there........ Funny you would say that. Source: Zur: Sure thing. I'm actually really anxious for the game right now, so I can pop it in and start playing. I'm really looking forward to see it. I know there are a few bugs that still need to be fixed. Unlike other titles from Bioware, this [score] was

You can also give people other things to spend mana on that have upkeep, like global enchantment spells or big summons.

I'm pretty sure there was a sale at one point, but the game is selling on its own right now so there's no need for one. Also, FE is going to be the version to own anyway once it comes out.

[quote who="Malsqueek" reply="20" id="2902455"] I do however, hate that essence is gone. It should be used as a means of determinig how good a caster someone is. If your essence isnt higher than the casting value of a spell, you cannot cast it. Mana per combat is limited by essence. Essence can be spent on certain persistent world upgrade spells and super-high level magic. Essence higher than required for spells eithe rmakes them more mana efficient (maintenance), cheaper to cast, or cas

[quote who="RavenX" reply="78" id="2902434"]There are some pretty accurate replies on the game here. Annatar, Heavenfall, and Tydorius's replies all have merit. That said, I'll be doing a proper "Raven Reviews" some time tonight or early in the morning going into detail about the Few things the game does right, and more importantly the Many things the game does Wrong... I'm not a normal reader of the Metacritic site so I don't really know if there's always such a big difference bet

[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="15" id="2902365"] They are loosely the same, in terms of design. Both make you choose between casting and have magical potenial. However, they are nothing a like thematically and do not work out the same. Essense as implemented originally makes it a great idea to imbue everyone, while (according to one post in this thread) global mana as it is now makes it a bad idea to imbue people at all (particularly early in the game). I have been posting the sa

[quote who="Savyg" reply="73" id="2902371"]I doubt content people care enough to go rate games quite so often. Hell, I'm not getting paid for it and my piece has already been said by the professionals (and undoubtedly better.)[/quote] But why would that be different for this game then for other games? Metacritic user reviews ALWAYS have that same issue, and you don't normally see a gap this wide between critics and users (and you don't normally see user reviews this low). I

You guys seem to like it better then people on metacritic do. 3/10. Ouch.

The only suggestion I have is to try removing Elemental from programs & features in control panel and see if that makes Impulse stop crashing. Beyond that, you might have to email [email protected] and get someone to look into it because that's very unusual behavior.

[quote who="Sethai" reply="114" id="2900707"]i said earlier that i don't care about multiplayer, but i've simultaneously no desire to go all Egyptian over this issue. i respect stardock's judgement and dislike the way this has taken over the forums. even if multiplayer is only included to shut up reviewers "con: it has no multiplayer," then it will have some value i guess.[/quote] No. A thousand times no. "con: it has no multiplayer" is NOTHING compared to "con: the multiplaye

[quote who="TCores" reply="26" id="2901855"] While I respect your happenstance, I feel you are an outlier in a world of Xfire & Vent. When playing games, I rarely have the focus to carry on a chat conversation with other people if those people are not involved in the game I'm undertaking, for the same reason I don't talk on the telephone when trying to play Starcraft.[/quote] Starcraft II players can and do talk to WoW players all the time. It's not just Steam that does it, b

[quote quoting="post"] By the very nature of DLC, the content available in DLC must go down, meaning less bang for the buck. If only five hundred people buy the DLC @ $5.00 you will have (at most) 2,500 dollars to spend on its development. If one thousand buy, you will have 5,000. You lose the scale of economy. How do you convince 10,000 people to buy (for example) your New Pony Models Superpack? Does that market even have 10,000 potential customers?[/quote] I'm not a fan of DLC

[quote who="Tydorius" reply="16" id="2899973"]I was disappointed when I went from XWing Alliance to the console games "Rogue Squadron" etc. It would be awesome to see them recreate one of the original games at the least. I'd love to see X Wing and Tie Fighter tied into a new game on one of the current gen consoles. Playing X Wing over Xbox Live would be something - I can't think of any decent space based simulators on XBox anyway. I'll always prefer it on PC, but

That number sounds like it's using bad measurement to me. if I'm playing a LAN game, how do they know? If I play SP once and then only play MP for two years, am I still counted as buying the game for SP? Numbers can be twisted for all kinds of fun things. A month after Civ 5 was out, more then half the people who bought it still hadn't earned an achievement for completing a single game. Does that mean SP is only played by 50% of customers? I doubt it. As for the poll (and any poll on

[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="12" id="2899443"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 9It'll be Derek's call. But as a reminder: If you try to be all things to all people you end up being nothing to them all. Saying that game X has a feature you want is meaningless. Fallen Enchantress has lots of features other games don't have and vice versa. That said, we are VERY interested in having co-op MP modes. But we won't sacrifice single player budget for it. &nbs

Might have worked, if it was a new game. There is ZERO chance I pay extra for a MP mode in Elemental that I already paid for unless I have an iron clad guarantee that it's going to be supported on-par with the SP game and not as the basement dwelling red-headed stepchild that it is right now.

[quote who="kenata" reply="94" id="2899798"] I completely agree with you. Honestly this thead has a lot of posts now, but of the roughly 50 votes, how much of the WoM customers is that? The only thing this thread proves is that there are in fact players in the community who want this type of functionality. It does not however prove that the implementation of such functionality is desired by the vast majority of users, nor does it prove that the implementation of such functionality would

Tie Fighter is to this day probably the best game of its type ever made. I'm speaking of course about the DOS version. This is a genre that needs to make a comeback.

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="1" id="2899031"]From a day-to-day perspective, we're focusing on single player aspects of FE, and obviously developing them in a way where they'll work in MP [/quote] And that's all people want, but Brad keeps posting that MP is "going to go in an increasingly different direction from SP". If it's so rarely used that it's not worth focusing on, why is it worth coming up with a different version of the game for that nobody wants in the first place? <p

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="9" id="2898462"] I'd definitely get Rift if I wasn't waiting for SW: TOR and Guild Wars 2, I very much enjoyed it during the betas.[/quote] TOR is being delayed so long that I'm sick of waiting. When it shows up, I'll be interested again.

I guess once advantag eof a F2P model is that I could actually be persuaded to look at the game under that model. So long as they want money up front, it's not going to draw my attention from Rift.

"Look at my ranking, now my forum posts will be taken seriously when I call everyone else noobs!" People do this in WoW too, but it never works out well for them because in the end they're easy to spot. They try to join a raid guild with their fancy gear, die 15 times in their first raid, and get a reputation on the server for being a moron. Then they have to pay to server tranasfer and try again.