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HUNTINGTON -- Dunking is usually a sure way to get two points.
But, not Saturday afternoon. Not with Marshall Thundering Herd center Nigel Spikes in the lane.
UCF forward Kasey Wilson tried to dunk twice on Spikes and was rejected both times.
Spikes turned in a monster performance with nine blocked shots, 11 points, four rebounds and two assists in Marshall's 75-71 men's basketball defeat of UCF in Cam Henderson Center. A turnout of 5,856 spectators who braved snow and icy roads to get there roared each time the Herd's 6-foot-10 senior center swatted a shot by the Knights.
The 46.5 percent free throw shooter also made five of six attempts.
"We were desperate today and that's how we played," Spikes said. "I wouldn't back down either, but he wasn't going to dunk on me or anything like that."
Marshall halted a losing streak at three games and is 10-12 for the season and 3-4 in Conference USA The Herd won with good defense and its best shooting report card of the season at 51.9 percent against a UCF team that had won its last four and nine of 12.
Herd head coach Tom Herrion said it was a really good win against a really good team.
"We made some big plays down the stretch which you have to do against a good team in a great game, and that's obviously a rivalry-type of game with a really nice atmosphere.
"A good bounce back for our kids, and I'm proud of them."
UCF (15-6, 5-2) made its final Huntington appearance before joining the Big East Conference next season.
The game began with Marshall fans booing UCF head coach Donnie Jones, who left the Herd to lead the Knights in 2010, but settled in to watch a contest that turned into a grinding affair that had 16 lead changes and was tied 11 times.
Spikes, who scored 10 in the second half, sank four consecutive foul shots for a 58-57 lead with 5:03 remaining. He tossed in a short jump shot before taking a feed from Kane for a layup and Marshall had a 68-64 lead with 1:16 remaining.
Marshall made seven of 12 free throw attempts in the final minute.
"I'm happy for Nigel Spikes," said Jones, who recruited Spikes during his time as the Marshall head coach from 2008-10. "I'm not happy for us, but that's what I thought Nigel could become here."
Spikes wasn't the Herd's only shot-blocker. Yous Mbao came off the bench to swat three in a four-minute appearance of the first half while Dennis Tinnon and Elijah Pittman had one each.
The 14 blocked shots tied for second-most in school history.
Marshall held UCF right at its season scoring average and guarded the Knights into 41.3 percent shooting that was well less than they usually make.
"We played defense," said Pittman, who led Marshall with 20 points. "Everybody was together today. We weren't pouting or anything like that.
"We played like we needed to win."
Herd guard D.D. Scarver tacked on 16 points with one 3-point field goal and Tinnon scored 13. Rob Goff scored six from off the bench, the same as Dre Kane, the other Jones recruit still with the team, who also had 12 assists, four rebounds and two steals.
Marshall made 16 of 25 foul shots (64.0 percent) and turned the ball over just 13 times.
C-USA preseason player of the year selection Keith Clanton led the Knights with 24 points and nine rebounds. Guard Calvin Newell followed with 19 points and Isaiah Sykes had 10.
UCF had a plus-12 edge in rebounds, which Herrion said was caused partly by all the blocked shots. Several blocks went out of bounds as dead ball rebounds for the Knights.
"This is a good win," Kane said. "We got our confidence back."
The Herd, now 9-2 for games in Cam Henderson Center, takes its act on the road Wednesday at Tulane and Saturday at UAB seeking its first win away from home.
Spikes had the most blocks by a Herd player since Hassan Whiteside rejected 13 against UCF on Feb. 27, 2010.
Scarver has made a 3-point shot in all 22 games.
Mbao appeared in his seventh game this season and the first time in specially made sunglasses after he was bothered by light sensitivity related to a head injury.
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Oct. 16, 2010
VAN NUYS, Calif. - Cal State Northridge senior Lilyana Morejon finished second for the second straight year at the Northridge Invitational cross country meet held Saturday, Oct. 16 at Woodley Park.
Morejon, who finished second to Danielle Domenichelli at last years Invitational 5k run, was second to USC's Zsofi Erdelyi on Saturday. Morejon ran a time of 21:01.1 while Erdelyi pulled away on the final loop to finish in 20:52.7.
Also for the Matador women, Zitlalic Ley finished 24th in 22:05.7, Araceli Zainos finished 35th in 22:39.3, Fany Alvarado finished 40th in 23:02.1, Yvonne Castillo-Urbina finished 42nd in 23:07.2, Ana Rosales was 45th in 23:31.1, Vanessa Carr finished 55th in 24:26.9, Mallory Day was 58th in 24:35.3, Jazmin Martinez was 63rd in 24:55.4, Natalie Wollaston was 70th in 25:43.1 and Desiree Karotko placed 72nd in 26:27.4.
As a team, the Northridge women finished fourth with 124 points. UC Riverside won the women's race with a team score of 42.
In the men's 8k, Olea finished 18th in 25:07.2, Hunter Hays was 31st in 25:55.5, Michael McEvoy was 39th in 26:32.7, Gustavo Hernandez was 49th in 26:56.3, Masis Hagobian was 55th in 27:40.9, Daniel Garcia was 56th in 27:47.7, Tawei Ma was 57th in 27:59.3, Marvin Gonzales was 59th in 28:08.8 and Daniel Gonzales was 60th in 28:12.7.
As a team, the Matador men placed fifth with 145 points. UC Santa Barbara won the men's 8k with a team score of 43 just edging UC Riverside which posted a team score of 46.

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Originally posted by Sankiri
7 is a shitty score only to those who must play the best MMOs. 7 is a decent score and an okayish MMO.
Also it was discussed heavily and everyone agreed that reviewms mean absolute crap and are often paid off reviews. How do you think SWTOR got such high reviews? They were either directly or indirectly paid reviews.
8.5 seems to reflect what users are saying about the game from metacritic. So fanbois need to simmer down and accept that it's not all this and that.
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Originally posted by tkoreaper
Which they are all collect this, collect that, kill that. Steps and tiers mean nothing and can be argued as counter productive in an MMO unless your following a story.
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I know nothing about this game (almost) - so I was interested in the Gameplay > Combat > skill system etc and the reveiw did not really give me much indication of how good it is standalone and how good it is compared to it's nearest rival? Not interested in playing the game, but interested in what the devs have come up with for the core gameplay and what they've done well, added to the mix of mmorpg combat in general?
Originally posted by Ambros123
Each individual quest HAS a story... And even the quest givers themselves have a story! What about the investigation missions? Or the missions that involve using the crafting system intuitively to create items. I really think people aren't given the quests in this game the recognition they deserve.
And how is that any different to any other MMO out there? You have to complete story quests in SWTOR to get out of the starter areas, same with playing a DK in WoW - all 46 quests in that one.
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different"
bad biased review
i like TSW but terrible pvp terrible ui shallow crafting average combat
this game deserves a 7 and no higher
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Its a good game no doubt. Higher score than I would have given it though. Purely as a game its like a 7.5 maybe 8. In the context of an MMO, which needs to have a good reason for me to pay a sub its like a 6 or less for me.
Just like TOR I will wait for it to go f2p so I can go through the story once and put it on the shelf, basically like a single player rpg. I highly doubt they will have enough high quality content to keep it fresh and the only other non developer driven content is pvp which in this game is horrible IMO.
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While im loving TSW at the moment, i find the use of a scoring system which tries to predict how well this game will do in the future fundimentally flawed.
TSW is an amaaing game currently, anyone with a top end PC will tell you that the graphics and atmospherics are simply amazing and unparalelled in mmo's.
However, as has been said over and over, TSW is a linear story driven themepark mmorpg and many players have already completed it's entire release content and are now treading water in the nightmare dungeons and pvp waiting for the "huge content updates" Funcom have promised. The success of the game depends entirely on regular content updates and the first update, the big one, the one that should set the trend was woefully small. 7 new missions...7...2 existing dungeons made available as Nightmare mode....the addition of an auction house....and....thats pretty much all folks. Most have completed that entire content update already, 3-4 days (only playing casually and im done). Now what? Answer? There is nothing much to do now except complete the skill wheel (which im getting close to completing) and grind out some more gear....which i don't need and pay the unusually high subs fee for the privaledge.
8.5 on first month content, ok.
Currently? With no content left? Definitely can't be an 8.5 im afraid.
Cancelled my sub, not because i don't like TSW, let me be clear, i LOVE TSW, but there is nothing left to do. I'll be back when they add the promised content, sorry Funcom, but as predicted, you have failed so far to provide the one thing your game desperately needs. Im not surprised, it's a massive promise to try and keep, but i wonder why they made it knowing they couldn't fulfil that promise.
Like many others im left hoping the tiny content update was due to them concentrating on the AH and the next one will be far more substantial, a full sized complete new zone is the least they should be aiming for to retain subs.
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Originally posted by Ambros123
You are "clueless" sorry, but YOU are following a story, thats why the tiers are there for..and yes a magnitude of the quest can be described as you said,, you HAVE to care for the TSW lore or you only will only end up describing it like this..
If you walz in and play TSW just like "any other MMO" i think you will get dissapointed, you can do that, but it will only make you confused ..There is a reason behind NOT letting you take more than a couple of quests at a time for instance..
Originally posted by TheAncient
If you'd actually play TSW, you'd know the questing is far from being similar to WoW or any other game for that matter.
Originally posted by tkoreaper
SWTOR had great stroy also to their quests and saw how that ended. Story means nothing when the quest themselves are the exact same ol' same ol'. After a while people get bored of yet another story and just wanted to get the xp or AP or whatever. About halfway through Kingsmound I was jsut "hurry up and give me the quest." The problem I had was it was too solo and isolates the player which gave me flashbacks of SWTOR. A CoOp game nore than an MMO.
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Originally posted by Ambros123
They are? I must be playing a different version of TSW. I am well into Egypt now and while there are quests that are like that there are plently that are not. Even as early as Kingsmouth there are plenty of quests that are no like that. Examples are: Something Wicked, Men in Black Vans, The one where you follow the crows, the one where you have to figure out how to fly a remote plane with a web cam over a location, the list goes on.
There are missions where you are searching for clues in total darkness trying to sneak around enemeies, there are missions where you need to tail someone and listen in on private conversations or sneak into a hidden lair, there are missions were you have to avoid and disarm traps.
So, ulitmately, thare not all as you say, not even close.
Originally posted by thark
I think his comment just comes down to a "learn to play" issue. It's not so much about knowing how to use your character or move around... that's not what i mean about play. The true definition of "learn to play" is, to be blunt, learn to have fun or enjoy what you have. The user clearly doesn't care about the game itself and only wished to be rushed through or have their hand held to get to the end. This game has no place for those kinds of people.
I bought it & played it. It's the first MMO I've stopped playing before the first months paid subscription kicked in. I still have paid time on the game until the 11th.
TSW is one of the most underwhelming, clunky, bug ridden games I've played in a long, long time. It's too short and derivative to be a single player game, and a broken chat sytem does not make an MMO.
Originally posted by thark
Not so clueless as to know it has no more story than the quests in WoW just without the voiceacting. While the story concept is nice it get's old quick. My biggest gripe with this whole story driven mechanic is that it makes players isolated and was one of the pitfalls of SWTOR. People come to an MMO to play an MMO, not a single player game with CoOp features. That is the impression TSW left in me.
I'm a converted DE supporter so no matter what I will likely never see the old quest mechanics in a good light anymore.
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PROTIP: it doesn't. Not flamebaiting whatsoever, just making a point.
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The only gripe I have with TSW is it needs more pvp options. However the game is stunning. People who dont like it usually tend to be extremely biased, cartoony graphic loving, easy-mode based MMO player. I am having a hard time myself convincing my guildies to start a division in GW2. At first, everyone was down with the idea, but now? not so much... we are all in our 30s and up... We have all gamed for 15+ years, we have done it all, and love doing it.. theres got to be more to my guild wanting to focus on TSW.. not because it sucks, but because its good? all I see here is just sheer hate for a successful product lol.
Originally posted by tkoreaper
Ahhh yes, the people who will try to discredit anyone who differs in opinion to their game. Not I did not rush through all the quests and actually sat through the voiceacting and listened to the story. Like I said, the game does well in the story dept but the quests down to it's core are the same old quests that people are tired of. TSW did the same spinoff SWTOR did on quests.
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Originally posted by Ambros123
News flash, FFXI 2 is not coming out... the days of old force grouping is over. People simply have jobs. The option to team is very much there... but if you dont want to or have the time to, the game allows you to do that. SWTOR cinematics were stale and the quests attached to them sucked. To say that SWTOR and TSW are similar is laughable
Originally posted by Ambros123
Something I'd like to point out which I feel needs to be said. I feel that SWTOR is a single player game first and foremost... which was a huge turnoff for me. However, I strongly feel that TSW isn't the same. In SWTOR, the story was centered around you... YOU were the hero or villian... YOU made the decisions (As insignificant as they were)... You could play the game entirely solo and learn the whole story. The same can't be said about TSW... The stories told in the dungeons are immense and the zones can be difficult enough to need groups. That can't be said about SWTOR.
In SWTOR, you're the savior or villain... In TSW, you're working together with the other factions/players to solve and fight back an epidemic that has struck the world.


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I agree we have experienced a dwindling middle class, but I thought Obama claimed he would right the economic ship. Why is it that these same 1 percent folks did not do the same damage when Bill Clinton is attributed with influencing our economic growth? And if you claim that the 1 percent is so greedy that they only serve their self-interest, isnt it to their self-interest to grow their businesses which, in turn, benefits the economy and improves the income of the middle class?
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The three highest officer holders of the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce have resigned from the organization's board of directors due to disagreements with other board members. President Dawn Holshouser, Vice-President Crystal Vaughan and Board Chairperson Lesley Y. Catron issued a joint statement, saying …
"With heavy hearts we felt it was the correct action for to resign from the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. As there is a strong difference of opinion as to the direction that the chamber should be taking in order to benefit its business members, we felt that we would no longer be able to benefit the chamber in the way we had hoped.
We wish the chamber and its members the very best in their future endeavors."
The disagreements between the three departed members and the remaining members of the board came to a head during a discussion over the use of $3,000 in grant money received from the now defunct Hillsville Voluntary Rescue Squad.
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I cant remember when I wasnt a Notre Dame fan. It started out being my mothers fault, as she was a lifelong backer, following the team from the early 1920s when she was a young teenager and continuing to age 92. In the 1920s her all-time favorite coach, Knute Rockne, was in his initial years at Notre Dame. I remember going with her to see the movie Knute Rockne All American, starring another of her favorites, actor Pat OBrien.
She never got to see the movie, Rudy, about a dedicated wannabe player who sat on the bench until his last game and was a walk-on in the final action. How she would have loved that!
As she had indoctrinated us with bedtime stories about The Rocks record of three national championships and word-by-word renditions of the Win just one for the Gipper speech, she almost always had company listening to or watching the play-by-play. (George Gipp, by the way, was played in that movie by Ronald Reagan). Mary Lynch, the epitome of a quiet lady, was known to shout at the top of her lungs and jump up and down on the living room sofa something that was absolutely verboten to her children during close games.
Thats why I knew for sure that she heard me in heaven when I shouted the house down myself last week when Notre Dame beat Oklahoma 30 to 13. More excitement came later when the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) standings came out and unbeaten Notre Dame ranked No. 3. The first time mom saw a Notre Dame game in person was when we lived in Atlanta and the Irish took on Georgia Techs Ramblin Wrecks. In the fashion of the day, she attended the game in heels, hat and gloves and sported a fresh corsage on her coat. Sitting in the Tech section with a lot of friends, mother enlivened the afternoon by cheering for the visitors who won.
Notre Dame is in South Bend, Ind., located across the Dixie Highway from St. Marys College, the girls school I attended.
For me it was the perfect location and the place I met Jim when he was an ND student. Mom and Dad made many trips up from Atlanta, especially in the fall, and she got the thrill of her life to see her team in their home stadium. My brother Mike is also a Domer (so called after the Golden Dome atop the campus Main Building as well as the glittering football helmets) as are three of his children.
Our own kids are South Carolina college grads and we have a Cougar, a Tiger (BCS No. 13) and a Gamecock (BCS No. 8) in our family, and this gives us all a lot to cheer for in football and Cougar basketball as well. But we all have our traditions and my heart was first won by those Blue and Gold boys from the Midwest, the Fighting Irish, and they will always be a favorite.
At this writing Notre Dame has but four season games left, and with fingers crossed and many appropriate Hail Marys to be offered up for Notre Dame, aka Our Lady, my last words just before the amen are as always:
Go Irish!
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I noticed the mmo community for some reason cheered Anet on, when they announced no Raid Dungeons in Guild Wars 2. Well I want to ask. Why is Raiding so unpopular now days to the MMORPG community?
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Unpopular?? I wish.
The most popular games are based of raiding. What are you talking about?
Personally, I've never liked raiding. Its repetitive, and unadventurous.
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Originally posted by Golelorn
Well I remember people cheered the fact that Anet doesnt want Raid Dungeons. Lot of people said they hated Raiding. Well why? Raiding fits the Massively Multiplayer element of PvE in MMORPG. Why is it so Unliked? Rather have 1v1 PvE or something?
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Personally myself i don't have a problem with raids as a feature. The biggest issue i can see is how they are done.
1 guy/girl/demon/dragon whatever is attacking the main tank while 30 other people are throwing fireballs/ice or whatever else at it for 30 mins.
The problem is most raids end up this way.
If you change up how the raids are done then it might not be so bad.
Have a group of 20 3 doing a mini-game to keep a sheild down, 2 more trying to coordinate the end game point and the rest trying to hold off the wave upon wave of enemies being sent (of varioud difficulty) until the bomb or whatever is the objective is complete then that might be a bit more interesting.
When people think raids they think of classic style you'd see in similar titles lik EQ or WoW rather then what can be done with raids.
Have multi group encounters, one goes after a reactor, another a prison district all in hopes that it will make the part, overthrowing the fortress and winning the day.
Once they change up how raids are done behind the simple kill the big guy at the end all the time (every now and then is fine, nothing wrong with the mechanic) the word raid might not sound so bad. Some people have just gotten bored with the same style of doing raids.
Plus you also have the added feeling that you have to do it over and over and over and over again to get the better gear. Not sure myself how you fix that one.
Removing the feature all together ala GW2 is an option but i don't like removing options of play just cause people may not like it. Just makes the game seem a bit less complex and less stuff to do.
Personal opinion and views of course.
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It's not "doesn't like raiding any more". It's "never did like raiding and still doesn't".
Having to schedule your life around a game is bad.
Needing to farm peculiar gear with no use outside of a particular raid is bad.
Having to do the same raid a bunch of times in a row in order to get up for the next is bad.
Being unable to do the content you want because you're waiting for a raid lockout to end is bad.
Having to worry about losing all of your progress if your guild breaks up is bad. Especially when game mechanics seem designed with the intent to create guild drama and try to break up your guild.
I'm not against playing a game with others, whether a few others or dozens of others. But I want to be able to log in when I want to, and then jump in and play. The reason solo content is popular is not so much that people want to solo, as that people don't want to deal with a bunch of other garbage instead of getting to play the game, and in many games, soloing is the only way to do that.
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I think it's still popular by a mile. But I don't prefer it what so ever. I feel it kills community and friendships rather than build them. Bicker about loot, bicker about who goes and who doesn't, bicker about who is performing and who is not, and there is always 1 guy ... most people can't stand but he remains in the guild just the same irritating the shit out of people on raids. And let's face it, there is always a core group of people, you either go along for the ride or GTFO. To top it off, running a raid for 2 straight months or more is rediculous. I've been part of some pretty decent raid guilds but it's always the same song and dance ...
Originally posted by MMOExposed
Ok...You seem to be missing the point....
Other games = Solo till end game with the option to occasionally go with small groups. THEN Raiding at end game.
GW2 = Group with the option of large multiplayer battles levelling up and end game with the option of Harder dungeons for 5 people.
Now What is raiding?
Isnt it "large groups in the process of doing PVE content" ?
So why bother when you can do that with the player number scaling dynamic events? There are your "raids" By raiding, they meant that there will be no WoW type raiding where you and a large group go into your personal instance. Instead, it is when you and a large group of people take part in a dynamic event.
Then they just made the hard dungeon contents for 5 people or whatever.
So no there is no typical wow raiding but there IS large scale cooperative pve encounters. Now why are you whining again?
MMOexposedI find comments such as these very distasteful o.o "Well why? Raiding fits the Massively Multiplayer element of PvE in MMORPG. Why is it so Unliked? Rather have 1v1 PvE or something?"
Especially when at the root of it, raiding is still there. Youre just not raiding dungeons, but partaking in dynamic events that can be "Raided". Grab 40 of your friends and do them and itll scale accordingly.
Edit :
Just because there are no raid dungeons, that doesnt mean there is no "raiding"
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Originally posted by MMOExposed
Fixed, as it's obvious the raid mentality is popular in MMO's, just not here on this site. I personally don't do the raiding thing, or dungeons in general at endgame. However there are so many raiding guilds out there I have a hard time seeing it as an unpopular thing. It seems a large chunk of players are in it simply for raiding mechanics, the whole live to raid mentality seems a strong one.
Don't mistake this community as the overall popular view for MMO's, it's basically the opposite, as the anti-mmo ideal is pushed hard here.
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Originally posted by whilan
It's not 'removing some content from a set pool of content', it's 'having different types of content instead'
Or do you feel SW:ToR is less complex with less stuff to do because of the lack of swimming and free-form space flight?
I don't.
... but hey, maybe you do.
Every MMO makes choices as to what types of content they want to have. There's such a huge pool of 'types of MMO content' that it would crush a company to try and include them all (In any usefully polished fashion). Even Bioware. :/
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If you have never raided in WOW, then you wouldn't understand.
If you have ever raided in WOW, then you wouldn't have asked this question.
I don't know how raiding used to be, but raiding today can be a big waste of time if you are not a dedicated hardcore player with a solid guild with people who have a lot, and I do mean a lot of free time on their hands.
First issue is having the right gear. To do most raids these days (in WOW) you need the proper gear to get in if you dont plan on doing some serious wiping. Sure, you can pick up a PUG, but unless you have a crap load of gold to repair armor every hour and the patience of a priest, this is a futile gesture. Getting the proper gear can take up a whole bunch of your time, especially if you have to to PUG dungeons.
The second is the ANNOYING COMMITMENT TO WAITING. Yes, you have to be committed to doing nothing every night for hours. For example:
Your guild raids at 10 pm every night. It takes til 11 pm for 20 of 25 people to get ready. Now you are short tanks and haelers, with a butt load of hunters. So, everyone starts asking around for LFG through their social networks. By 11:30, you find the last 5 people and by then, 3 others have left. By 12 am, you are finnally ready, then....
Everyone bitches, points fingers, you find out 4 people dont have vent so they get booted, 2 more people leave and the search goes out again.
By 1 am, you give it another try, managed to wipe two more times before you actually clear one wing. Everyone quits for the night, promises to meat tomorrow, but then your guild leader calls you to a side chat in ventrillo and explains what you did wrong. He tells you to go watch you tube, read the forums and understand all the fights coming up for the week.
He gives you advice on how you should play, on what armor you need.
Next day. Rinse. Repeat. And another talk from your guild leader about how you are supposed to play a game.
That's why I hate raiding.
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i think a lot of people get put off raiding,when you hear something like experienced people only all the time..and must haver this gear for invite.i remember once on wow the content had only been released that day and this guy was asking for experienced only,he got slaughtered.i play conan and i,m lucky enough to be in a guild that does,nt mind that i,m not the greatest player and they will take anyone into a raid as long as they are prepared to listen.and we have a great time and a laugh.some peeps are just scared they will screw it up and not be allowed back,by that i mean get on a blacklist of somekind.imo anyways..i maybe wrong.
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Originally posted by MMOExposed
Have you ever read a fantasy book where there were 30 people attacking one guy and no heroes?
Where did this notion of raids even come from? In EQ it was a joke. Half the raid force could go afk, and it wouldn't matter. At least, today, only one or two DPS can afford to fall asleep.
Like someone else said these raids require far too much personal time investment for a game, imo.
However, to say raiding is unpopular to MMO gamers is like saying pepperoni is unpopulat to pizza lovers, because some people don't like pepperoni.
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It sucks when you *have* to get on to play a game..... it doesn't feeling like playing anymore which for a lot of people it defeats the purpose.
If you have a lot of free time "having" to be on isn't that big of a deal. When you come home from work and you're exhausted the last thing you want to hear is a little twit telling you that you're not doing enough DPS for his liking.
Also lets face it... raiding is just trial and error... then it becomes the same ol same ol. Imagine if the end game was more dynamic in these games.
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Raiding is very popular, the people that hate it just post more on forums.
Remember Old School Ultima Online
Ill repeat the most relevant part of my last post :
Why need raid dungeons when you can get alllllll your friends together, even if there were 60 of you, and you can do dynamic content and the enemies will scale to your number accordingly?
So the "massively multiplayer" aspect youre talking about can be done in guild wars 2. And not just at end game. You can get 100 of your level 1 friends and go "raid" those dynamic events and it will be a LOT more fun than "ok d00ds lets grind to max level then like...lets split into 2 groups of 40 and 2 groups of 10. The 40 people groups go and raid this and the 2 groups of 10 can go raid that! ok alright? lets go go go grind to max ppl!"
Edit : Just because there are no raid dungeons doesnt mean there will be no raiding.
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Originally posted by EndDream
They have time to, lol, they're not raiding.
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Originally posted by Malickie
Yep... and honestly I'm not a huge raider or anything... I've done it and its OK but all of the bitching we hear on forums is by the minority most of the time.
Remember Old School Ultima Online
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Originally posted by Castillle
I'm not a follower of GW2 by any stretch of the imagination so i could be wrong here, but i think one of the fans said that they only scale up to at the most an X number of people like 10 or 15, so 100 would just zerg it and kill it easy.
Maybe someone following GW2 closer then i am could shed some insight to this.
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Originally posted by whilan
Smaller events have a max number, yeah. Like 'Fight off the level 2 boss at the town'.
The big world bosses like The Shatterer (Well, even though he's only like a level 35 boss, but whatever) require a lot more people. The minimum is higher, and the maximum cap is considerably higher. Ten people would most likely just bounce off of it.
That also has a lot of other events going on attached to it... like protecting a supply caravan that is bringing in supplies to fix the artillery... which people can then man and use to fire from range with heavy weapons.
That's a nice thing about having a big event happening in an open world, as opposed to within an enclosed dungeon space. You can have people moving in and out, and pretty far ranging off-shoot events for smaller groups of people to do.
(edit: Actually, in a previous post about raiding, you mentioned stuff like that. That's the kind of stuff I like myself, things that have big groups split organically into smaller groups, all working towards a bigger goal. Hopefully the even bigger world bosses will have a lot of it.
Will they do it right? Dunno, but the engine definitely allows for it, and the developers have talked about it a bit. Implementation is key here, and without a full copy of the game or even full access to beta (Which isn't out yet), it's really just guesswork.)
Originally posted by whilan
Actually no, most events scale up to 20 people (which the devs said is subject to change) initially, most of them were supposed to scale up to 10.
But there are still a number of events that scale up to a maximum of 100 people.
Edit :
And its not that raiding is unpopular. PEople tend to like large scale multiplayer stuff. The main problem is barrier of entry caused by WoW style tiered raiding.
If you looked at kings quests in Fiesta, that is busy ALL the time. Why? Because its accessible from level 5 and it gets progressively more complex. But by the time it gets to that point, people already know what to do in raids, unlike in WoW where its "omaigawd Im soloing!" then "omaigawd Im grouping" then "omaigawd Im raiding"
In fiesta, its "Omaigawd I just finished the tutorial!" then "OMAIGAWD iM RAIDING!"
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You may return or exchange your jewelry within 60 days of purchase if you are not satisfied with it. The jewelry must be returned in its original condition for a refund or exchange. Engraved, personalized, photo, monogram, name and initial, chocolate and clearance items are not returnable or exchangeable.