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I’m going to discuss the MMO’s, from top to toe. The order I’ve discussed them in does not represent what place I give them.

World of Warcraft

Ofcourse, the most beloved game played by millions of people. I really liked this game, especially at the start and around level 60-70. There were magnificant lands to explore, and when running trough them, you almost forget how boring the quests are. Almost. I think the weak point of WoW is the quests. The PvP is quite nice, but for the PvE’er (like myself) out there, it becomes boring rather quickly. After you have done hundreds qeusts like: ‘Talk to this guy, go there, kill ten of those, go back, talk to the guy and complete the qeust’, you will become bored. Surley, there are some exceptions to this, there are fun quests in there, but not all that much.

With the new expansions they always drasticly unbalance the different classes, which is also something they should put more thought in.

I like the game, but only at times that I’m in for some heavy exploring and socializing. One tip when playing: Go to a RPPVP server and join the Horde. Why? Becuase little twelve year old kids are afraid of the big red letters saying ‘PVP’ in the realm list, and for the simple fact that they always want to play the good guys.

EvE Online

This game sucks, period. 

To start with, the tutorial is glitchy and extremely boring, not to mention the fact that it takes 2-3 hours to complete if your lucky, and dont run in to any bugs. The PvP is extremely unbalanced because of all the ganking. Basicly you can PvP anywhere. The problem is, people get bored. So what do they do? Mess with other people. For example, you just did 150 missions to get your first cruiser, you’ve invested all your money in it, and are super happy because after five days on the market searching for the right location and price, you’ve finally got it. You want to look at your ship from the outside, to see it for real. You undock, and you warp to a place where the ships of other people won’t mess with your new eye-candy. What happens? A bored player warps in, jamming your warp and killing you. Dry, isn’t it? Well, you’ll have to deal with the fact that you weeks of work on missions, was gone in a minute, because of some bored douche. You now gotta start all over again, probably with the same result.

If your like me, and put your heart and soul in your elite mining ship (an Exhumer), and finally get it after six months of sweat, and that happends, you will BLOW.

The problem is that you lose everything when you die. A good MMO needs to have death penalties, I’m all for that. But not so extreme.

Also, you actually pay real money for your skills here. It trains by time, not by playing. For example quite alot of skills take 5 or 15 days to complete training. So if you want that ship but still need three more skills of 15 days for it, be prepared to spend €30 on two months game time, essentially, buying the skills but having to wait for the cassier to print out your receipt.

Please, stay of this game, the people are nasty, and I can assure you that this will happen to you several times if you start playing this MMO.

Star Trek Online

As a huge Star Trek fan I went into this game with full excitement, it was really hard to poor that much of excitement into the ground, but I have to congratulate Cryptic, they did it!

The tutorial is alot of fun, and definatly worth playing! But when you get further into the game, it becomes extremeley dull. The qeusts are even more boring then in WoW, there’s almost nothing to do, nothing to collect, nothing to look forward to, nothing at all. You just go to places in a really, unrealistic (though now updates) ‘map’, click the buttom, get a loading screen, kill a couple of ships in amazingly boring combat, and repeat that for five hundred times. PVP is exactly the same. Further, there are many inconsistencies with the actual Star Trek, which really dissapoints me.

Combat is really stupid, you can do anything with your ship, explode it, whatever. You will just respawn and continue where you left off…. What the fuck???! Since when is that possible?

This game is just a boring acarde game which really dissapointing. Your better off with playing Pac-Man on your Nintendo 64 all day long, believe me.

If you really want a Stat Trek game, get the only good one. “Star Trek: Bridge Commander”, and while your on it: make a sequel.

Runescape

Please don’t kill me for saying this, but in my opinion the game itself is quite nice. It’s just the people who ruin it. I really have to give Jagex credit for the skill and Java programming they’ve stopped into this game, thumps up! There’s alot to do, the qeusts are build in a way that you actually care about them, and the stories behind them are quite good.

Now don’t get me wrong: I don’t like Runescape, it’s a nice idea, which is well build, but that is where it stops. The problem is that it is fucking infested with 7 year old people saying stuff while they are not knowing what they are talking about. Worse is that they are just lifeless 7 year olds that mix their local laungage with English. Resulting in: “Ik buy Item X van jou” or “Selling Item X voor heel weinig, koop nu!”. Yeah, just try to run that trough the fucking translator.

I can write a whole 1337 paged website about this subject, but I’m just going to summarize it for you: Don’t touch this game, unless your willing to turn off all social features (making it a, compared to the rest, sucky singleplayer game). The players ruin it.

Lord of the Rings: Online

Same shit as WoW, just in a different toilet. Plus, it’s free now so watch it turning in to a Runescape alike game.

Habbo Hotel

Walking with a weird looking ‘thing’ trough a hotel, meeting 7 year old people just sexually harrasing you (or at least trying to) when they don’t know what they are talking about, and paying money for some colored pixels in your ‘room’ nobody gives a fuck about, basicly summarizes the game.

Go play it and waste your life, please.

Conclusion

All MMO’s suck at the moment. I’m really looking forward to Guild Wars 2 as it shows it has potential for something different, something great, something fun.

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So yeah, I just finished with the rank images and I added myself to the appropriate group, which Immediately screamed the words ‘You do to much around here!’ in my face.

What do you think about the rank images? There’s more, but you’ll see that soon enough!

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So far I want to thank Nemesis/Mark Robbo for his help with the images, gamerlv for doing alot on the website and for being purely awesome, and last but not least Gutblast3r for his great recruiter skill, great job!

Peace to ya’all!

The ETA for the Website and Forums is Sunday the 6th. After that setting up the gameservers should go really fast. They will be up a couple of days later!

-Cheers!

Hello!

Based on your previous posts I have compiled two possible looks, I can play around with the colors of the rank images, and Ill probably make the width of the left bar (the big square the images, name, etc stand in) smaller.

My vote goes to the second possibility.

Or: