Kashemia

Yeah, the tab targeting is a big confusing. I agree that it doesn't work completely well, the way it targets, but I'm sure you can get used to it. I usually only use my mouse to turn with, so I cna live with that too, though it's a bit of a pain when you have to chose something in the menu. Though if they get rid of the lag on the mouse, I'll likely use it to target mobs with more often too. And I agree on the combat speed, I actually enjoy that it's not just button mashing, but a bit slower. Gives you time to think what is best doing in each situation.

I think they just wrote it in a bad way. It's not like you can't group anymore, you just don't have to. To me, it feels like most other games, I still prefer grouping because I have more fun that way, but I like being able to solo when there's no one online. I think it's fine that they're not forcing you to group all the time, so if there's no one online, you don't have to sit through a horrible group of rude people to get anything done at all. All in all, I'm pretty happy with the news. I'm glad there's a good distance between the city states, and from what I've seen so far, the world appears to be without zoning (perhaps excelt for Limsa Lominsa), and I've missed that for many games!

I think a meet could be pretty awesome. And while I know the travel distance would suck, I also think having seperate meet ups for US and EU would be sort of sad Think of all the people you wouldn't get to meet! BF alone has members from all over. But maybe it's just because I'll have to go to USA on a regular basis anyway (cross continental relationships ftw!), other people might find it more difficult, and I know it can be expensive.

Right now, the only real problem with the things they've said here is the mouse. It sucks when you can generally play the game on high settings, but still have to turn them down to low because your mouse lags <.< I REALLY hope they change their mind on that one. Other than that, I'm ok. I agree with Asyria on the mana thing, and about the AH... I haven't been missing it. I actually enjoy walking around and browsing when people put up retainers, to me, it's far more immersive. I understand that people don't want to rp all the time, but it's not really about that, I just enjoy the feeling of it.

The country? Try the globe So far we, we have members from 2 continents and a possible application from a 3rd. But you're right, it is sort of unprofessional of us.

That sounds interesting! I never played Persona games, but I might check them out, especially if they feel like Twin Peaks I also got totally distracted by the fact that Catherine is the English version of my name <.< It sounds better than the Danish version too, maybe I should change :roll:

I think so? I'm not completely sure, so don't take my word for it, but I don't see much point with having an entire tab for "Quests", if you only really have one quest line

First I thought it was sort of awesome, but then I realized there wasn't an image of your char on it, which is a bit disappointing <.< ... I'm still geeky enough to think it's a bit awesome anyway though <.<

I'm a bit surprised that they're keeping the 48 hour cooldown, but Asyria has a really good point. I'm not sure it will be that much of a problem to me. Right now, I haven't done any quests at all, which is why I run out of guildleves pretty fast I guess, but at launch, it's not like it will be the only thing to do. All in all, I'm pretty optimistic about the game. Just running around right now make me feel.. Well, sort of at home. Of course there will be a rough start, but yeah, as it has been said, which game isn't? It's just part of our culture that we need instant gratification and expect everything to run as if the game was 5 years old, with the technology and graphics of a game that came out next year And I'm not visitting any other fansite than this, for exactly the reason Castiel stated. People are whiners, always will be <.< About the mana regen: I agree that it should be a challenge, that you shouldn't have a huge mana pool to draw from for hours and hours. One of the things that makes me not feel like playing WoW at the moment is because it really has become quite easy in many ways. It sounds like they're gonna do a lot to change that in Cataclysm, but right now, you're just too powerful. I enjoyed the days where you actually had to wait for the tank to get aggro, where you had to pull carefully because you were screwed if you pulled too many mobs, where you actually had to think while healing to make sure you didn't run out of mana half way through the fight. I'm not saying WoW is a bad game, just that I don't think it's a bad thing when it gets more challenging to play.

I don't so much mind the limited race, but I agree that it's a bit sad if they focus too much of making the char a man's man with just the female gender attached "because they have to". I think DA:O made a good job of getting the storyline from both genders. I've never minded playing a male character in games, I've had tons of fun as both Altair and Max Payne, but when they DO allow you to play a female, it sucks when you can feel that it hasn't been focused on nearly as much as the male counterpart.

I agree that the comments haven't been that bad at this point, so I don't think we have much to worry about either.

It's a pretty nice article, and I think you did a good job of representing the community, Castiel. The comments doesn't surprise me. It seems VERY common for non-roleplayers to have close to zero understanding of what roleplayers actually are/what they do. I've heard the idea that roleplayers are all bad players/don't care about the game/all cyber/all are geeks/etc. way more than I can count. I do hope it doesn't scare Zam away from working with us again.

I agree with that, I know plenty of very mature people under 18, but as I've said, at least with BF, it doesn't really have anything to do with maturity, but rather with not wanting to cencur the chat. Of course if people tell us they're 18, and really are not, and then in general act maturely, there's no way for us to check, right?

I don't think Dragon Age: Origins was ment to be a prequel, the name was more refering to the fact that there was a lot of focus put on the origins of the characters Anyway, I'm totally getting this! I played through the original game almost 3 times :oops: and I got all the expansions and stuff, sometimes due to a generous signifigant other

I really love the look of both of the cities, but I'm definitely concidering starting in Ul'dah! The idea of a desert city just really speaks to me!

They have Seith as a race? I haven't seen that anywhere, is it new info?

I'm not a super huge Star Wars fan either, but my partner is, so I'm pretty sure I'll be dragged into something And the game looks nice, though I like the style of FFXIV better so far

SW:TOR, which I also expect to play next to FFXIV if both keeps my interest. GW2 sounds promising if they manage to add all the stuff they're talking about. I've been sort of interested in Secret World for a while, but haven't really payed much attention lately. Blade and Soul looks pretty neat too.

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Kashemia = Seraj Nioben

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What exactly is their Twitter info? Got a link?

As I said, I really think that is just for beta. It makes perfect sense that they don't want people to level too fast right now, so they slow down what you have access to. I'd be VERY surprised if it stays like this after launch. It sounds like a typical beta move.

I don't think it's unlikely either, that they've made the time between guildleves higher to avoid people from levelling too quickly during beta.

Thanks for the tips. I do however run Windows 7, and it's still slow <.< And about the ports, well, since I'm on my landlord's wireless, I can't really do anything to open them. So guess I'll just have to be patient <.< 90% now, so I should be done in what, 6 hours?