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You cannot expect an MMO to have Crysis-like graphics. WAR's graphics are by no means horrible (and I think they are infinitely better than WoWs, even if some of the animations aren't working corerctly yet). And, if WoW is any indication, MMOs succeed and prosper even if they have less than average graphics.

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I have to disagree with the assessment that WoW looks like crap. From just looking at screenshots then it's easy to say that but actually playing the game most people never even notice that the game is so low-res because of the wonderful art direction of the game. You might not like the colorfulness of WoW but I think it's beautiful. It's a lot harder to make a low-res game look good then it is a high-res game.

As far as War goes I haven't been able to play because the open beta was taking ages to download from FilePlanet and BitTorrent so by the time it would have finished downloading the open beta would have already been over. I even had a key and was excited to play but crappy servers ruined it. I won't judge War until I have the chance to play myself but from screenshots it has the same cartoony look of WoW but at higher res and uses less bright colors. All the people who rip on WoW for being cartoony looking would have to do the same for War although I don't mind it at all.

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It might not be as cartoony as WoW with all the bright colors but it definitely doesn't have the realistic looking type graphics of LOTRO. I don't think one way is better than the other as it's just a different style but a lot of people who play games like AOC and LOTRO always rip on WoW for having cartoon type graphics which War is much closer to in style at least from what I've seen although I haven't played it first hand yet.

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It might not be as cartoony as WoW with all the bright colors but it definitely doesn't have the realistic looking type graphics of LOTRO. I don't think one way is better than the other as it's just a different style but a lot of people who play games like AOC and LOTRO always rip on WoW for having cartoon type graphics which War is much closer to in style at least from what I've seen although I haven't played it first hand yet.

I play AoC & LOTRO, soon WAR, and I used to play WOW, no issues on it being too Cartoony or what ever, I liked it.

War is much closer to in style

That's because Warcraft was a copy of Warhammer. Blizz were contracted to make the first Warhammer game before they got the heave-ho but needed to do something with the time they had spent on it. The similarities are going to be there.

It might choke most systems, but it still won't look great. ;)

+1

WAR barely looks better than WoW at times and usually looks worse. The options are quite limited (no AA settings for crissakes) and the engine chugs like NWN2. After playing the glorious beauty of AoC for the last few months, besides the combat, graphics are at the top of my 'con' list.

Anyone know of a European server where Order can put up a fight? Checked out quite a few servers, all of them are destruction dominated - Winning almost every BG and on my current server, order does not have a single keep in ANY places.

Karrag Orrud - Order are putting up some very valiant fights against us on there :)

I find it amusing that there has been a flip in player alignment from WoW it seems. All the kiddies are now teh evil so we're seeing the same population imbalances all over again. Must be the Dark Elves that pushed the issue for the little whackers. ;)

Anyone know where I can buy the game online, other than D2D. I want to play on NA servers (since I am on there), but I am currently residing in the UK. D2D doesn't allow me to purchase it because my country is restricted. Any where else I can buy it?

Thanks

Anyone know where I can buy the game online, other than D2D. I want to play on NA servers (since I am on there), but I am currently residing in the UK. D2D doesn't allow me to purchase it because my country is restricted. Any where else I can buy it?

Thanks

There's Direct2drive.com and direct2drive.co.uk, the last one which serves Europe :)

it's stupid to divde the userbase between european and American, hardly any of the MMO's do t, actually I can't think of any. maybe that FF game, but, who woudl care.... If Erupeans want to play with theNA peopel, let them, just label theserver European and North American so they know.

heck even AoC allows it and that's one of the only MMORPGs where lag actually to some degree matters, and you don't get lag that matters between US and EU anyway.

There's Direct2drive.com and direct2drive.co.uk, the last one which serves Europe :)

Europeans can't buy from the .com store. and the co.uk store don't sell the American version.

Spore was mroe anoying, I was country blocked from even buying the UK/EU version from the European co.uk store, beign forced to buy it from the EA store where it was significantly more expensive, so I wasn't going to buy it from there, since it was quite a bit more expensive than ordering a boxed version even.

The biggest MMO of all time does it as well.

That's why they do it :p (because it's big). So I got my parents to buy the game for me and they will give me the cd key over the phone. I am downloading the game from the ea/mythic torrent right now, but taking like 20 hours :( Wish there was a faster way..

The biggest MMO of all time does it as well.

doesn't mean it's a good thing to do. I guess I didn't remember they did it because I only stayed an coupel of months before I realizesd it was still a 1st gen game, while I was playing third gen games like EQ2 and Vanguard.

There's just no good reason to separate players on geographical location, except to get people to buy multiple opies of the game to play on the other servers. and because "they do it" is not a reason.

wow doesn't really divide it. NA users can play on Eu servers and vice versa.

Same with WAR, just need an account from the correct region.

doesn't mean it's a good thing to do.

No, just goes to show even the big boys do it, no need to start whining about it now.

Anyone want to start a new character? I'm getting kinda bored soloing here :p

Well I will as soon as the download finsihes... since I for some reason decided to buy it .... dammit, why must I be both a fan of Warhammer and Conan universes...

but hen again, I'll be on EU servers :)

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