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Anyone play the MMORPG Runescape?

Nope.

I do play Dark Age of Camelot and in the past have played EverQuest (EverCamp, rather), Shadowbane (if Satan programmed an mmorpg, this would be it), EVE (stunningly beautiful, amazingly boring), City of Heroes (all dressed up and no where to go), FFXI (wonderful game, hideous leveling penalties, but I'm still freaking cute as hell as a tarutaru bard/white mage) and Star Wars Galaxies (so much promise, so much betrayal).

I'm not playing anything very seriously right now and sort of biding my time until World of Warcraft comes out.

Anyone play the MMORPG Runescape?

Yes, and my hatred of the game and it's tedium knows no bounds.

Yes, and my hatred of the game and it's tedium knows no bounds.
You play it but you hate it?

Hmm...well, I was going to play Warhammer online. Which was supposed to be ready this summer. But those bastards cancelled the game on june 21st. After 2 years of promises and pedelling Warhammer merchandise to the fans.
Now I'm thinking about getting WWII online. If I can find it in the stores.

Why are so many looking forward to WOW? Does not look to have anything special with it? Is it just because the RTS was so popular? WWII Online was canceled too?

You play it but you hate it?

Yep. A few friends play, so I join them off and on. The fact that there is no way to have "party" still sickens me.

WWII Online was canceled too?
Not according to their official site. According to that it's up and running. Already having updates. It's just hasn't been released in my country yet.

Why are so many looking forward to WOW? Does not look to have anything special with it? Is it just because the RTS was so popular? WWII Online was canceled too?

It's a couple of things, at least for me and the people I play with. Blizzard tends to turn out good games. Sure, their support for them is crap and if this turns into another Diablo hack-fest I'm gone like a shot, but it's sort of a reputation thing. Also, there's the hope that they're going to do what the others have failed to do correctly. Player vs. player is big to my group of friends, and as it stands, DAoC is all that really offers that in a playable way. The hope is that WoW will take a lesson from DAoC's mistakes and make sure their PvP is balanced and well thought out, not spot fixed by nerfing classes to hell and back when someone figures out an exploit.

There's always a certain amount of anticipation when a new MMORPG releases. For awhile, Horizons was the big thing, until beta and the testers generally agreed that, if you liked doing nothing but crafting, then Horizons was the game for you. Then WISH was a big sell, again until the beta when people discovered that chasing a chicken around for half an hour and still not being able to kill it was probably not a good way to spend $15 a month. Then Dragon Empires was going to do it all right, but it's apparently fallen off the map before it ever even really made it into beta.

I think the big sell, though, is the name. Instead of a start-up company coming out with it's first MMORPG, Blizzard has a lot of gendre-influencing successes under it's belt (Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, etc.), so the hope is that finally someone will get it right.

Plus, I kinda like the idea of playing an undead.

Oh.