Roleplaying games

Ok, now I see why this game is falling apart. Read the following common story:

An evening playing EQ2:

“I logged in and of course nobody is looking for group, as always, despite being a healer. Fine, I go to loping plain to finish some quests, since they give really a good boost to XP. I travel there…. travel… run by horse, that’s 24% running speed bonus! …still quite slow… running… I am almost there! ah but must climb that loooooooong wall in butcherblock mountains, great, another 5min gone… running… now take the griffon… running… zoning… now running again to avoid the monsters to reach the zone - but wait, someone is calling for an healer to do Karnor Castle! that would be great XP and loot, so I ask to join. They accept! but… now must travel back! ;_; well ok, I can make it, Call of the Overlord to teleport back to Freeport, then I take the boat to Kylong Plains and I arrive there, great, only another 15 min wasted, not bad.

I zone in, and an idiot puller make me die twice in a row. He can’t make it, really. Keeps pulling 2 monsters at once, and I can’t heal him fast enough since they hit him for 2k at once…! I go out deciding to quit, but they convince me to wait, they want to do an instance in Loping Plain. Great! just where I was only 15 min ago…!

The druid creates the portal and I click to enter but… great, I didn’t harvest the special bush to be able to travel there!! that’s where I decide to say goodbye, and log. I downloaded Istaria, I’m going to try that, since I am really fed up with EQ2 and its insane wasting times. Sony should realize that not everyone has the time and patience to waste 15-20 min EVERYTIME they want to group or do anything!!!!!!!!!!!!

After my previous unsuccessful attempt, I decided to give Codemasters MMORPG another chance and tried to download the Archlord client. After 1.4gb download, and another 2-3 h of patching, I finally was ready to login. I tried to login about 10-15 times at 4-5h of distance and this was always the result:

I’m starting to wonder: does ANY of codemasters MMORPG actually work!? they look so promising but if I can’t even get the chance to play them… It’s a real pity, I wonder where’s the problem, since I can regularly play WOW and EQ2, so surely isn’t my pc!

Will try again next days before uninstalling even this game…

No I don’t refer about the game itself. Read on, you can have a laugh maybe:

Last week I had finally some free time from my job, so I decided to try DDO:Stormreach.

I heard that there was a 10-days free trial key, so decided to try it. I went to the site and requested my key, then downloaded the client. 1.7Gb isn’t a joke, even with a DSL line (I have a slow 640kb one, took about 7-8h). However this wasn’t a problem since most MMORPG now have insanely big clients.

Finally, when the download ends, I am being told I must click on the link in the email (the same that contains my trial key) to access the account system to create my username/password.

I fill the LONG form with all the data, then I see the “submit” button isn’t active. I wonder what the hell is happening (is a graphic button, so I can’t do anything if doesn’t work). I decide to refresh the page, losing all the data I’ve entered, and fill the LONG form again. Nothing. I can’t submit this form, so I can’t create my account!!

I decide to try logging in from the account site homepage and make it: manage to register myself and create my user/password. Then I start the DDO client, to discover that it needs more patching! What I just downloaded the client, and is old ? why they don’t update it? I don’t know how much data it was, but at least another 200-300mb of downloads.

Then AT LAST I am at the game login screen. I type user/password. A pop-up windows informs me that “user or password is incorrect”. What !? I try again several times, but nothing. Then I try logging in the web account server with my user/password and works fine.

So, WHY on the website my user/password is ok, but in the game no? why I can’t log-in?! I activated my serial since I see it under the active subscriptions, so that’s not the problem!

Result: I GAVE UP . I’m probably going to try WoW or go back playing EQ2. I wasn’t really able to try DDO, despite wasting almost 2 days of my time. I wanted to try it badly, but I couldn’t win against such terrible forces of evil!

I wonder how many potential customers are losing every day by acting in this way… I have no words!!!