First Thing You Will Do When Servers Come Back Online

[Abriael]

A message to you and to the moderator who took my post down. Please go ahead and ban me, why would I ever want to be part of a community where even the "MODERATORS" can't take a persons opinion for exactly that....an opinion.

You seem to think that people should accept your "opinion", but you don't seem very ready to accept theirs.

Popularity != Quality. History demonstrated that the popularity of wow clones is always short lived.

[weeble]

lol my first day will be cursed, i desided to do a full windows redownload on my pc cause it been running slugish and couldn't figure out why. a week or2 from no mmo's sounded like a fitting time to do so. but i forgot to save my macro's. so i gotta do them alllllll over again, so waisting a few hours on that crap.

on top that i need to redownload all the patches from scratch>< ...also my game control needs redo'ing. i can do that while it's offline but i messed half of it up lol.

but when i'm done with that i'll gallop around in joy, i'll stare at my 100anima and maybe fap one out then do my leves or something lol.

[Fieros]

Set up my retainers and grind some carpentry while I wait for leve group to log on.

[TonyMontana]

First thing I plan to do when I log in will be to try and find out how many of my LS friends havent quit the game while the servers were down for almost 2 weeks.

[Airlea]

First thing I plan to do when I log in will be to try and find out how many of my LS friends havent quit the game while the servers were down for almost 2 weeks.

Seems like people have gone one of two ways with the servers down. They either moved on to other games and will likely wait it out for the major patches, or they realized how much they enjoy the game already despite the lack of content and fixes that are needed.

[Mana-Font]

You seem to think that people should accept your "opinion", but you don't seem very ready to accept theirs.

Popularity != Quality. History demonstrated that the popularity of wow clones is always short lived.

Quick question, have you played the game?

On the contrary I am very open to any opinion anyone would have to offer, however, I don't see you stating any opinions. Also it is not for you or anyone else to accept my opinion at all and tbh I could care less if you did. I was simply using my freedoms to express an opinion. I get extremely frustrated with all the fanboy's saying "WoW clone" or "WoW sucks" both of those statements are false. Rift is a completely different game while yes it has things very similar to WoW it also has things very similar to EVERY OTHER MMO IN HISTORY including FFXI and FFXIV (just like every other gaming company has done with every other genre...take whats good and make it better). The whole WoW sucks argument can also be completely thrown out as numbers show WoW does not suck.....and number don't lie. It is simply a matter of preference and that is it. Oh and before you go off on a rant about popularity != quality again because of my numbers comment really think about it. Would it be popular if it was not good? And do you think FFXIV is quality in it's current state?

[Elaguila]

lol my first day will be cursed, i desided to do a full windows redownload on my pc cause it been running slugish and couldn't figure out why. a week or2 from no mmo's sounded like a fitting time to do so. but i forgot to save my macro's. so i gotta do them alllllll over again, so waisting a few hours on that crap.

on top that i need to redownload all the patches from scratch>< ...also my game control needs redo'ing. i can do that while it's offline but i messed half of it up lol.

but when i'm done with that i'll gallop around in joy, i'll stare at my 100anima and maybe fap one out then do my leves or something lol.

Awwww, damn man, that blows :/

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Quick question, have you played the game?

On the contrary I am very open to any opinion anyone would have to offer, however, I don't see you stating any opinions. Also it is not for you or anyone else to accept my opinion at all and tbh I could care less if you did. I was simply using my freedoms to express an opinion. I get extremely frustrated with all the fanboy's saying "WoW clone" or "WoW sucks" both of those statements are false. Rift is a completely different game while yes it has things very similar to WoW it also has things very similar to EVERY OTHER MMO IN HISTORY including FFXI and FFXIV (just like every other gaming company has done with every other genre...take whats good and make it better). The whole WoW sucks argument can also be completely thrown out as numbers show WoW does not suck.....and number don't lie. It is simply a matter of preference and that is it. Oh and before you go off on a rant about popularity != quality again because of my numbers comment really think about it. Would it be popular if it was not good? And do you think FFXIV is quality in it's current state?

Your post was taken down because it was off topic. It had nothing to do with your "freedoms". Of course you have them, but mods have been trying to take out posts that have great potential in derailing a discussion.

On Topic: I will be fishing and then ranking ALC til my friends sign on and probably take out dodore or great buffalo.

[Airlea]

fanboy's saying "WoW clone" or "WoW sucks" both of those statements are false.

Both of those statements are opinions. True/false isn't even applicable.

The whole WoW sucks argument can also be completely thrown out as numbers show WoW does not suck.....and number don't lie.

Soccer is the #1 sport in the world. Most people in America would tell you "soccer sucks." Does the fact that they're in the minority invalidate their opinion in any way? Does it make it a "lie," or make it in any way "false?"

Nope.

[Abriael]

Quick question, have you played the game?

I did, and I stated my opinion. That the two parts of that intentionally snarky sentence you posted are in clear conflict with each other. I'm sure you're able to extrapolate my opinion from there.

WoW doesn't suck (in itself, it's community does, but that's another matter). But WoW clones will always have and always had a very short lived popularity, because they offer pretty much exactly the same experience, and people don't leave their level 85 character on wow (in which they literally invested years of their life) behind for too long if there's nothing different to keep them elsewhere. Once the novelty factor fades, initial content is devoured, and the flaws start to surface, it's back to wow.
That's simply how the market works, how it worked so far, and how it'll work for rift.