OT: Can anyone help me with some WoW info ?

[Madbone]

Hi Everybody

Sorry for posting this in the hardcore forum but this is the forum and players I used to know and have fun with.
First of all I have read through most of the information regarding WoW but have very little knowledge about the game besides that.

I was an experienced hardcore D2 and LoD player until late last year. I had lot of fun with some of you in GAT-Europe. Maybe somebody who knows me is still around ? And if you plan to play WoW are you then part of and groups/guilds with old HC players ?

Anyway as stated previously my knowledge about WoW is minimal. Is WoW a new LoD-like game as I hope or could anyone take a few minutes to explain the major differences between these two games to me ?

Will there be some kind of hardcore mode as we know it from LoD ?
Thanks a lot for the help.

Regards
Madbone

[Valkenswaerdt]

Have you tried this site (http://www.worldofwar.net)? I check up there every once in awhile to see how the game is progressing.

[jsiv]

It will be similar to LoD. And then it will also be very different in some ways. Something like a mixture of Pacman and Arkanoid. I heard some say International Karate++ meets Paperboy, but I disagree. It definately has Pacman elements. Like The Secret Yellow Dot Level (tm). But yeah, I could agree more with the Paperboy aspect, seeing as how you level up by delivering newspapers to monsters. There are dungeons where you slay lower level newspaper-worker-type monsters and collect the newspapers which you then deliver to become a great newspaper tycoon. This will include, of course, at low levels delivering the papers, then getting a job as a printer. Later you will move on to getting your own column and so forth.

In short: Ask someone else.

Hi Madbone! ;) some of us are still around.

[Madbone]

HAHAHAHAHA. Nice one Jsiv. Amazing that you are still around. How are you doing ? Are you the only one still around ?

I have tried the other page and got a lot of nice info that tells me we are dealing with some Diablo-like game. But one thing is factual information another is hands on experience perhaps from beta participants ?

[jsiv]

Well, the crowd is thinning, but Kev (ansettman/unoob), Steve (wendallll), ADSL (replying in a sec I bet), Baranor, Jaba, Jonas and a few others are still around. Also, we've got some new faces in GAT.

Far from the huge playing time we put in earlier, but we're around.

About WoW, I haven't checked it out much. I wasn't too keen on paying a monthly fee when I play as little as I do these days, but I might reconsider now that I finished school (for now anyway).

I might actually be one of the most ignorant people on these boards concerning WoW ;) And here I am, yapping away.

[Madbone]

Funny thing is that I feel just about the same way as you do. I don't want to pay a monthly fee and haven't really given WoW much attention so far.

But I'm MISSING many elements of LoD/GAT play and decided to try and get some more info. Perhaps I will be fun and worth the monthly investment. If we get close at some fun co-op play like we did in GAT I would gladly pay.

I just don't know if it is that type of game. Hoped someone could tell me.

Some nice familiar names you listed. Good old ADSL, Barry (have you found a nice job ?), Wendall etc. What happened to Stress ?

If WoW turns out to be a good game it would be very nice to form some sort of old GAT clan/guild !!!

[Madbone]

Oh and grats about the school. Just summer holiday or actually finished ?

[jsiv]

I finished a "HF". Nice to have that over with.

Hmm, I might reconsider WoW, the team playing does sound tempting, since Diablo 2 doesn't have that much to offer anymore.

Stress doesn't play anymore. He was back on for a while in 1.10, but quickly lost interest again. Guess he's kinda busy with school and all. I talk to him on MSN once in a while.

[Madbone]

Nice. What now besides the mandatory beers ? :clap:

[jsiv]

Well, the mandatory Roskilde Festival next week :) GIB SUN PLZ!

Oh, and I WILL be drinking more than the mandatory number of beers.