Poll: Which put you off WW2OL more - launch or fanboy posts?

[Vulcan]

http://discussions.playnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=6077

No flames please, just trying to show someone what impact their posts had.

[FUNKED1]

I stopped playing during beta, because it sucked and because CRS were so obviously dysfunctional that I doubted any progress would be made in a timely fashion.  Once I realized they were going to release it without really fixing it, I swore it off, because I didn't think that was ethical.  I thought about reinstalling it (Kieran gave me his copy), but from what I've seen of the community, I'll take a pass.  And yeah, the more somebody tries to push something on me, and the more annoying they are, the more resistant I become to trying it.

Also I strongly doubt it can offer a more entertaining combined arms environment than OFP mods.

[Gadfly]

Dont't know what your missing.

[thrila]

for me it was #3 poor netcoding

[Westy]

Much of it was CRS and realising the hype was shovels full of shiess.... when the release came and thier pep was proven to be the poop as was foretold by anaonymous beta testers.
  A lot was due to CRS (DocDoom and Hatch especially) continually shutting down and ostricising  (sp?) players who dared to bring  issues and problems to the public light over the course of the last two years. Constantly stating thier modelling was impeccable and beynd reporach  Look at what Kieran went through.  
 But even worse were the company sponsored fanbois like Headcase, Merlin, Fishu and many others. Having to endure them running from behind thier "closed" boards to bash anyone who's opinion and experience with WWIIO differed from thiers.  To hear them blather about how they were right and your experience was bogus, a lie or compete falsification because of the realse (God. Get over it and pick up a new tag line fanboi's. It has ALWAYS been more (and IS) than just the release!)  
 And I can't forget the implicit endorsement (because CRS did NOTHING to stop it) from CRS that the fanbois could do, and did, what they wanted with other players who strayed from the "party line."




"Dont't know what your missing."

 My opinion is that the air war in WWIIO is what the GV's are in AH - a side show but not the main event. Right now it can be a fun as a shoot em up on the ground but not for much longer long.
 I have an account because I'm bored to tears with main arena play and four years of AH scenarios being on weekends has left me looking elsewhere for an historical fix.  So I figured I'd give it whirl beyond the basic free trial and really wring it out.
 But I'm finding it tough to continue with the still unfixed con bias and host net code issues.  It blows and it's a game breaker for me. they could up the con limit to 128 and the problem would still be there. It's the net code or the host is severely ovetaxed to keep up. It's not the limit IMO.
 It's a game I love to hate. It has pluses ... until the cons wink in and out and then the whole bevy of stupid features or details that are fugged up get on my nerves and I wonder why I bother.

[Gadfly]

You sound like small children, little girls, in fact, but ain't no skin off my nose.  Personally, I don't read the boards or know or talk with the rats-I just play the game.

[Westy]

If we're like small children and your drawn to us when we talk about WWIIO does that mean you have a pedophilic streak?

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by Gadfly
 Personally, I don't read the boards or know or talk with the rats-I just play the game.

That was "D" for me. I really wanted to like this game, but with the release issues, I wanted to give it time to develope (at someone elses expense) So I waited until enough people I knew said the game was "fixed" and I grabbed a trial account. They were absolutely right, the game worked very well, even on my XP1800 with 256 RAM and a 32 Meg Gforce 2.

But man, I didn't have a good time. Even with friends who were experienced in the game leading me around, we never had much luck finding a good fight. I got a lot of "It's not usually this boring" and maybe it wasn't, but it sure was when I was there.

Flying was pretty fun, but flying the same Hurricane over and over didn't really do it for me.

Oh well, I still have friends who swear by it so there must be something to it, but I wasn't able to find it in my two weeks. I'll probably try again someday.

-Sik

[SOB]

I bought the game, but never installed it after reading the horrible reviews and the system req's.  Then, BF1942 found it's way to my hard drive and filled any need of a first person WWII ground battle.  May not be realistic, but it's fun as hell.  Plus, I've got AH for flying, & no time or inclination for more than one MMPOG flight sim at the moment.

Tardcase and Zeroass certainly didn't help the cause any, but I doubt they would have stopped me from going over and trying it if I really wanted to.  I would have just avoided them in the game.

[ra]

It was so hyped long before the release that I was already sick of hearing about it.  When they released it with no free demo I was totally pissed.  Then when I heard what a dog it was I was convinced it was a boondoggle.  

That said, I downloaded a free demo later and it was better than I expected.  Not my cup of tea but many people like it, so there you are.

ra

[Batz]

I bought the game based on all those beta aars that proved to be lies. I kept a paid account for 8 months from the day it went pay to play but never played more the 3 or 4 hours a month.

I was in a squad of 28, none play wwiiol now. I resubbed several times (i never bothered with the welcome back sucker promotions) because a couple of ah squaddies were interested in it.

When you pointed to the bugs and the reasons why it still sucks the fanbois themselves went all "crs" on us and lied about the bugs and problems just like crs did at the start. They want to blame us for not "getting over the release" but yet they pull the very same crap. Folks can deal with a poor release, other games have survived a poor release (granted none as terrible as wwiiol) but we can read their boards and see how much it remains the same.

[Sancho]

I bought it when it first came out and was disappointed by the launch; mainly performance but also the early war setup was a turnoff.  I'm willing to try WW2OL again someday, but only when the planeset has matured more.  Specifically, when the 1943-45 Mighty 8th vs LW planeset is in effect.  P-40s and Hawk 75s won't cut it.

[Kieran]

I tried the game 4 times, first time for about 8 months, then three other times for a month each. It's not for me, it simply isn't fun for me. Not enough time in my day for the boring transit.

Hardcase would be the #1 reason I would never try the game again. Docdoom is #2. Damn, here they (CRS, Rafter specifically) are again sending players out to spam boards. I think Vulcan is very tame in his response to Zeroace FWIW, who seems to have that sort of "CRS Amnesia" thing going.

Gadfly, seriously, why respond if we're just being children? If you don't read boards, how the hell did you find this post so quickly? I don't care personally who spams the BBS or not, not my board, but damn, you know what really happened here, and those guys went waaaay over the line. I did too, but I am the only part of that fight that will admit it.

Chalk me up as turned off by the mega-******* spambots.

[Gadfly]

I respond not because I want or care if you play; it is just so strange that you have so many excuses NOT to play other than:  That game Sucks.

[Kieran]

Oh, to me the game DOES suck. I know you can't hear or understand that, though.

BTW, you're not about to go "hardcase" on me now, are ya?