Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

[ForeverLost]

Originally Posted by stormlord [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

- Thoughts?
... A might have been. The game never got a chance to shine. Bad execution. Wrong expectations.
- Worth a try?
... To see what might have been, maybe, but that's depressing.

This is so true. Vanguard was going to be the very best MMORPG, after EQ. It had very interesting and unique class designs (I played a bard and a blood mage), a vast and beautiful landscape, great lore, and new and fun approaches to game mechanics. But Microsoft was pushing Sigil to rush the product out the door, unfinished and far from being polished. So Sigil went to SOE, in hopes that they would help them to release a better product. SOE pushed them to release too soon, too, and when the game was released it would not run well at all on 95% of PCs, and had horrendous bugs that practically made the game unplayable. This killed the HUGE buzz about the game, and in about 3 months the population was starting to drop quickly.

The PvP servers were all merged into one, like in EQ, and finally they killed that server too. Once that had happened, there was absolutely no reason to play anymore. Now there's just the one blue server, and the game really is a grim reminder of what could (and should) have been. Corporate greed killed Vanguard before it could really shine.