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Article #88827Re: WoW Pay to Play
From: Julie d'Aubigny
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:30
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:30
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tom@no.com wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:02:54 GMT, Julie d'Aubigny > <kalimagdalene@comcast.net> wrote: > > >tom@no.com wrote: > >> > >> And YESS, i will never forget Bethesda Software with Daggerfall. > >> Excellent previews, a rpg game released while anything past > >> hour 4 wasnt programmed yet. Amazing. > > > >Did you actually play it past hour 4? > > yes. it was the 2nd big quest i think at hour 10 or 20, dont know > anymore. it was impossible to get a puzzle straight. luckily i had > an internet connection and could get the patch some days > later, but.. there were lots of patches coming and each readme > detailed lots of bugs affecting the possible progress of the > storyline. > > so it was basically like playing a game that was still in development, > while constantly getting patches from the net. Of course, you could play it for days without touching the main quest. There were a few bugged random quests, but saving before taking each one would resolve it. > i know blizzard wont do such a crap, but i am still reluctant to pay > for an online surprise in advance. So wait. -- Elizabeth D. Brooks | kalimagdalene@attbi.com | US2002021724 Listowner: Aberrants_Worldwide, Fading_Suns_Games, TrinityRPG AeonAdventure | "Dobby likes me!" -- Smeagol -- http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/view/6856
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!news5.aus1.giganews.com!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F4BD286.48E8FC71@comcast.net> From: Julie d'Aubigny <kalimagdalene@comcast.net> Organization: Grave Robbers of the Unknown X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.games.warcraft Subject: Re: WoW Pay to Play References: <bi2m9i$qr8$1@news.gate.net> <lJG1b.51$Ix4.49@newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net> <3f48adb0.5848444@News.hansenet.net> <3F47D7A6.EFC65B53@comcast.net> <3f4e3da3.2445093@News.hansenet.net> Lines: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.225.170.176 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net 1061933404 12.225.170.176 (Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:30:04 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:30:04 GMT Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:30:04 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit