Hanging My Hopes On Ac2

Just spent the day looking at up and coming MMORPG's and two look promising: AC2 and World of Warcraft. I know these are safe bets that everyone will play atleast for a short time, but AC2 seems to have made some great fundamental leaps from Ac. Such things as not having to buy comps/arrows ect to having health/mana regenerate quickly to make it easier at lower lvls. The screenshots look awesome but graphics alone will not keep you playing a game as I am sure most of us have learned. The classes so far truly seem to be unique and sounds like questing is going to take on a much more central roll. If Turbine can make a game that breaks the tedium of lvling, STOPS MACROING BEFORE IT STARTS and integrates users into fabric of the storyline, AC2 could rock. Pking is what made me keep lvling in AC and it was great fun to raid and duel. Hopefully they will have a PK server equivalent to DT and if you throw a multitude of fun quests in there it will be fun for years. The control over your char that AC has is great and is what AO lacked as well as DAOC. Things like godmode and jumphealing and simply the ability to avode war spells made the game actually fun. I cannot wait till late 2002!!

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I would have to agree that AC2 looks impressive, but I am worried about WoW. I just don't think that they will get a large fanbase such as EQ and UO, and without a large fanbase, I just don't think it will be diverse enough.

I don't think Blizzard will attract a crowd from their loyal Bneters who play WC2, WC3, and SC. And trying to coax the D2 community in leaving their high lvl accounts and start paying monthly is gonna be hard. So I think they are gonna need to develop a new fanbase which will be hard with all the upcoming MMORPG's.