--- On Mon, 6/23/08, replicant <replicant@triad.rr.com> wrote:

> From: replicant <replicant@triad.rr.com>
> Subject: [tenchi:106300] [OT] Warhammer Online CBT
> To: tenchi@usagi.org
> Date: Monday, June 23, 2008, 9:29 PM
> Yeah, I've been in beta around 1-1.5 months now.
> Been trying to get in for almost a year now. Built me
> a new PC and submitted the new dxdiag and was invited
> like 3 days later. Very happy times indeed.

That trick didn't work for me, unfortunately (I upgraded my system right before AoC
came out).  I also noted that the runner-up in one of the caption contests that they
hold had a caption that was exactly the same as what I'd submitted...  except for

the name used. 

meh...

And the newsletter quit showing up in my e-mail box several months ago, which suggests
that once again my e-mail addresses have marked something I want as spam and disposed
of it before it even reached my spam box.  They seem to do that with
surprising regularity... 

> As for AoC I am very sorry for your loss. I was in the CBT
> for it for awhile and just never enjoyed it. Really wanted
> to
> like the game since I enjoy the setting and have friends
> and
> acquaintances who work or worked on the game, but just
> never found it enjoyable as a whole. Plus it changed a lot
> from
> it's development to it's current state when it
> comes to the
> focus of the game. I wish them well, but I see it becoming
> another Vanguard. =/

The difference between AoC at around the high 40s and FFXI is that FFXI knows that
you sometimes like to do things other than mass murder lots and lots and lots of mobs...
The game has some neat features, but as a whole it needs some help.  And a lot
of the features are still "broken".  Hence the beta comment. 

> WAR I want to talk about a lot, but the NDA is really
> strict.
> They are actually more enforcing than Blizzard which says
> alot
> when it comes to information. However, some googling can
> find
> lots of leaked info already.

Blizzard was actually pretty lax with their NDA, iirc, and didn't mind at all having
people talk about what was going on with WoW.

I suppose I'll just have to wait for the open beta.  I've pre-ordered, so I'm already
got a slot in that.


junior