07-17-2008, 08:38 PM
Quote:... I get the impression that HG:L had no more problems than WoW did on its release. Correct me if I'm wrong. WoW on release was almost unplayable and it took 6+ months to really fix a number of its core problems.
Your impression is not even in the same ballpark. WoW chat at the beginning of phase one beta was at least 5 times better the in game communication that was in HGL at least during the first month or two of release. The game had a major memory leak that was causing client crashes very frequently, usually requiring a system reboot to clear.
In my opinion there was also more variety of what players were going be able to interact with in Goldshire, Redridge and Duskwood that I ran into when doing the first 3 acts of the game. I understand that there was not much more variety even after that till they released a patch that had Stonehenge in it. Also those 'stair traps' that were in the D2 release were back in an even more brutal case that they were in D2. There had been several times that I had to give up a progression quest to exit the game and server so that I could try again and hopefully have a clear enough area (2 zones out from a station) that I could even get a start on for doing the needed quest.
Bolty if I had to rate HGL release to WoW beta phase 1, the WoW beta quality would have won hands down from my experience.