Oh I agree, but you were the one doing the comparisons :). An MMO released these days has to be more smooth than WoW 4 years ago, as it’s being compared to how it is these days and not 4 years ago, if you follow me :).

So – well, I’m looking forward to coming to it in a year or two. haha. Right now the girl and I are just starting WoW for the first time with RaF, and enjoying the hell out of it. It’s currently the most stable and fluid experience I’ve had out of anything online based. Of course, I know full well it’s because of four years.

But I know we’ll get bored eventually, and by then the next gen will have had time to catch up in stability and quality of product. And I’m really really excited about that. I am hoping there will be more in the way of different control schemes though, and have to admit I’m eyeing Tabula Rasa a bit, even though I was in the earlier and open betas and they made me sick, haha.

WAR may very well work out many of its issues before release and then all is forgiven. However they currently have problems that do not have known ways to work around and are very unlikely to self correct. You get the same problems on low population servers and playing at 4 am as you do at 7 pm.

Sure it’s a half hour, better than the hour of other games, but why have a cooldown at all? To enhance “realism”? I thought we didn’t believe in The Vision(tm) anymore that annoying players with “realism” meant more fun? I am just annoyed. Not so much at the travel time but that someone thought it would be a good idea to force players to do it.

@Chris: I couldn’t agree more. They did include the ability for groupmates to cross-que, so my guild just sticks people in each pairing to que the group, but I agree it should be possible. I would expect that we’ll see a ‘Battlemaster’ in the capital Cities at some point.

But as a reminder back to my Blog post, when WoW launched there were NO battlegrounds, even though they were a prmised and highly touted feature. When they were patched in, you had to travel to the zone to que, and you could not que for multiple.

Battlemasters were added after months, (years maybe?) and we can expect similar additions when they playerbase has leveled past the warcamps and all make the cap cities their home.

Back to WAR, I’m with you. In fact we should be holding hands, skipping down the street together whistling the theme song. The one, ONE big thing that bothers me (and will forever more) is that you cannot queue up for other pairing scenarios without travelling there. So, to queue up, its queue EvC, then pay toll, watch flying cutscene for way too long, queue HEvDE, pay toll, watch flying cutscene, queue GvD, wait for one to pop. The fact they let you do all three shows they want you to. The dumb person who decided somehow it was a good idea to make you have to travel (for no apparent reason) makes no sense at all.

To make it worse, when you finally get into a scenario it clears all the other scenarios you are queued for – so you have to do the cross country trek all over again.

Side note – having pairings cross-queueable would also solve the very apparent problem of Empire not having a tank. 15 rounds tonight, only saw two tanks on Order side in Nordenwatch – while Chaos, of course, have an army of chosen. You can’t win without a tank. Give us the KOTBS back, or allow cross-queue-pairing!

And send Cyndre that damn pie already!