Ah, but that’s one of the selling points… IF they pull off what they say they’re trying to do, the RvR will start at level one. ;)

But… I’ve been through enough of these (haven’t we all?) that I’ll wait until I see it to truly believe it.

Yes, the Adventure Packs are what i was referring to when I said this. I couldn’t remember the correct product name, and I am unfailingly lazy. =)

They could have easily made any of the zone-changing world events optional, and most importantly, only available via quick-purchase prior to login.

Disciples 3 is a great example. They are purposefully not including 2 of the 4 major playable races which were all included in the first two installments (1 of which is very popular) and announcing they will be in the expansion before the “vanilla” is even released yet.

I could be wrong, but the first 3 or 4 expansions of EQ felt like they were “honest”. They had that “for the fans” kind of feel to them. As if they were designed after they realized people liked the game, and not before, and certainly not with the primary intent being to squeeze just a little more cash out of people.

Every expansion after this, as well as the whole of EQ2, does not feel this way to me. EQ2 feels like an unfinished game in almost every respect to me, and all the other expansions of EQ1 feel cheap, tacked on, and hollow.

A long time ago auto parts were one-time purchases that were well made out of quality materials and they worked practically forever. This put a lot of mechanics out of the job, though. Nowadays most mechanical things are “built to break”, all in the spirit of consumerism. It seems like the gaming industry is rapidly going this route (or has already arrived and is unpacking its things).

It feels like pretty soon all games will have a Steam-like interface where you purchase the “sandbox”, engine, models, skins, maps, titles, races, lighting effects, sound effects, NPCs, gear, and classes separately with varying prices based on quality and uniqueness.

Haha
OMG, this is starting to feel like Deja Vu. The only difference is WAR is cutting content BEFORE launch, while AoC did it AFTER release..

We call that biting off more WoW than you can chew.

I already played Warhammer. It was called two-sixths of World of Warcraft.

LoL. I will do that. Will I gets me’s Epix gearz? What color…BLUE?

I has RAIDS!

“Ok, well, why does part of that PQ have me chopping wood, then killing 5x foozles…thats new…NOT!”

Actually, Foozles are pretty tough, you might want to get a raid together.