Im sry if this is off topic but.. well the forum doesnt have a "IS THIS BETTER THAN WOW? SECTION"
lawl... im a noob just answer my Q's PLS
Is the game as "fun" as WoW??
ive been playing WoW for a while now, but its expensive!!! is this the free maybe better alternative?
Any game's official forums that belong to their developers (or anyone closely associated with them) are always heavily biased. This particular forum is also heavily censored. Typically, majority of PS players hate WoW and often throw insults towards its player base. That seems to be a popular thing to do around here due to WoW's success.
WoW is leaps ahead of PS in every aspect, including RP, even if you only compare the open betas.
I've been playing PS for about six months, so that's a fair amount of time to be able to evaluate the game. I honestly cannot recommend it as a fun MMORPG. Numerous persisting bugs that don't get fixed for months (and years, according to some posts), constant server issues, lack of implemented skills and content are quite evident. The developers seem to be preoccupied with implementing "penalties" before implementing the solutions for avoiding them. For example, a stamina recovery penalty was implemented before the availability of mounts, portals or any other means of travel, besides your feet. The death penalty (your stats are halfed for 30 mins, while you have to navigate a maze) was implemented before a portal to the Death Realm is put into the game (consider that DR has quests and trainers in it). The initial idea was to half the stats for 6 hours... And so on.
While WoW has more non-RP oriented players than RP-oriented ones, there are still more RP types than in PS because of the sheer number of people that play the game. And the RP in WoW is much better than in PS too. I have personally not experienced anything special about RP in PS. Most of it usually revolves around using the chat system to compensate for and invent things that the game mechanics don't support. And those mechanics don't support quite a lot. In fact, the local idea of RP seems to be more of a "poor theater stage" or "school play" without any elements of the G (game), while the actual in-game experience is a grind, which encourages power-leveling.
Many quests require leveling various skills, which take a long amount of time and large amounts of money to raise. If you aren't ready for those quests, it's often too late because you can't discard them or you can't get them back in the future and taking more than a single quest often bugs other quests. That, in turn, prompts a lot of monotonous grinding. In addition, majority of quests revolve around doing menial "to- and fro-" tasks between NPCs for trivial rewards. Many of them are severely bugged as well.
There is only a single level, out of eight, in PS, and even that is not fully implemented. However "expansive" it may be in settings, it is not expansive at all in practice. There is also a Death Realm, which is far from complete. Many races and genders are missing a 3D model, so you have to use a substitute. The interface is very clunky and nothing like what you're used to in WoW. The graphics quality does not correspond to the game's framerate at all, even with fairly modern computers.
Contrary to the local belief, WoW is not exclusively filled with "l33t pwnz0rs" and PS isn't a wonderful magic place filled with "friendly community" and "RP loving crowd". The fact that some people here use an excuse of "you've been hanging with the wrong crowd" proves that many RP'ers here aren't as great as the sticker says. The "RP crowd" in PS is often filled with elitists trying to out-bicker each other. I found the moderators and community here to be rude and unprofessional. Some "fans" seem to be in an almost euphoric state raving about and praising various penalties and trivial things in the game, and attempting to insult anyone who disagrees.
The aforementioned "poll" is from October 2007 and only 102 people have voted in total (only 72 voted for Roleplay). Does that prove that the game is dying? Where is the touted 150~200 players online at the same time on average or is that 48~98 non-RP'ers that did not vote? Where is the option of "Nothing at all"? WoW has millions of people playing with a much larger RP base than that and it's not difficult to find them. As far as polls go, there is a poll of the most voted and most popular MMORPGs on MMORPG.com, both released or still in development. Not surprisingly, PlaneShift isn't on that list. That does prove something, doesn't it?
You get what you pay for.
