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Originally Posted by LexarkT11  so have they merged the servers or something?
I used to be on seradon and I only quit because the population was so low and people were sparse  |
They merged down to 5 servers.
Few weeks ago, I looked into playing VG again. When I first played, it was already a bit after release, and a bit before server merge/soe takeover. The game was in a rather decent state, but I was happy I had a good computer because it wasn't running THAT fine. I quit however because the pvp server was full of cheaters/dupers which made it rather boring, and I didn't feel like rerolling on a new server.
So I looked into VG, but eventually got caught into playing lotro instead. I read the forum a few days ago and it was like a storm of whinning about the new patch that broke tons of stuff. However amidst that storm, I read that since soe took over, they fixed a lot of classes that were totally shitty back when I played(monks disciples mostly) and made a lot of good changes(travelling and code/stability).
If I had to give my opinion, VG and LOTRO are rather similar only that where vanguard has a bigger world, more classes/races and some very interesting systems(I loved diplomacy/crafting, even though it was way too grindy after the first few hours of it, also loved casting while moving, or the hybrid classes bloodmage/disciple), LOTRO has more polish on about everything, from quests(both in variety and lore) to classes.
But is it worth checking out? Definitely I'd say. If you're bored of wow, vanguard currently might be the next best thing, along lotro. Just that vanguard totally failed its launch contrary to lotro, so the name is soiled. Can see the first replies in this thread, they've been censored, but you can imagine the type of shit it was.
AoC is coming soon, and as far as I'm concerned, it will just go into that category too. Games that are decent, but not good enough to dent wow's market share, and that you might like if you test them. AoC launch will probably end closer to VG's than LOTRO's though, so you might want to wait a few months, and VG would be good to fill that wait.