How do you guys protect your customers and in the case that a customer is banned for buying currency on your site, how is this dealt with?Įxcellent question. There's a pretty good post-F2P release review of it on (BFF Report).After the formal introductions and the rolling out of the welcome mat for him as a member of the GBAtemp community, the interview began. It is an incredibly solid MMO for a free to start playing game, I had actually bought the game in 2007 when it came out because I was bored with WoW. Private servers don't always have the best set up for people who enjoy storyline/lore though.Īnyway after all I've said about WoW, I'd have to recommend Lord of the Rings Online too because they did go free to play recently (but I don't know if they fixed the Europe distribution issues yet). Or just enjoy the thousands of quests, try multiple classes, or try different races/factions. If you feel comfortable in your role then go ahead and do random dungeon groups often so you can practice at it. Use the WoW forums as a resource to study your class if you don't have a lot of people to talk to about those things. Try to do dungeons with people you know if you're not familiar with grouping.
Keep in touch with friends who can give you advice. It's easy to avoid having it directed at you it until you actually hit max level though. The elitism among the higher levels does exist (it happened 4 years ago too, there was just a MUCH smaller percentage of active raiding population ridiculing the undergeared). It takes an awful lot more machine to run the game than it did 4 years ago, but I was also happy playing it at 1024x768 4 years ago.
Also, a fully updated install of WoW is ~22 gigs at the moment (though it may take up more space if you save your patching files).
Recent modifications were made to a couple parts of the graphical engine (most notably, water rendering) so the game looks nicer than ever.
I don't know what their status is at across the board since the last huge pre-cataclysm patch though, I haven't messed with WoW private servers since late summer (to play w/a friend who couldn't afford his sub).
They are nowhere near as fun as live, nor as stable, but if you can't afford more than the free trial you'd be able to try private servers. People seem to forget how prevalent private servers are for WoW. I have played WoW off and on since 2006 (and I'm currently semi active), but would not be able to play with you in game unless we connected to a private server together (European WoW clients cannot connect to US servers, and vice versa). Pretty sure you can map phrases or symbol chats to them too, but I can't test that.
This game is moderately difficult without a gamepad though, and nearly impossible if you've always played the game with a gamepad and suddenly don't have one >.> I also never knew how to use the shortcut buttons until a couple months ago though I've played there off and on for years! The shorcut buttons are very useful, basically all you do is highlight a spell/item in the menu like you were gonna put it on your palette but press the corresponding number key instead. For players of the Blue Burst version cheating is strictly banned and it's not possible to enter games with players of other platforms who are allowed to. It's an excellent game that doesn't have high system requirements and it's managed actively by a community. PSO Blue Burst schthack server is still alive and kicking though, and I do play it occasionally but my boyfriend lost interest. I briefly considered getting an XBOX 360 so I could continue playing it, but there's no way I could stand to pay to have to rebuild a character and she was only like level 64 Fortegunner. Phantasy Star Universe for PC/Playstation2 has been permanently (officially) offline since March.