11-14-2007, 01:19 AM
Quote:Just wondering something. WoW was also a complete friggin mess when it was released. Is HG:L even worse?
The main issues I remember with WoW were with server connectivity and network stuff, some of which was pretty bad. As far as that's concerned, despite some occasional network errors (and leaving aside some serious subscription/billing snafus) HG:L is significantly better (as you'd expect for an instanced game). But while I don't have any major difficulties playing HG:L, the game itself feels much less polished and more incomplete than WoW was, even at release (its unfinished talent system notwithstanding). Furthermore 90% of the bugs and annoyances in HG:L are things that were reported over and over again in the (highly compressed) alpha/beta, but still didn't get fixed. FSS should've spent at least a couple more months fixing up the game for release, but maybe they couldn't afford to wait any longer.