Vanguard Saga of heroes - Page 2

Bruman · #1 10-07-2013, 02:23 PM

I played at F2P launch, and chunk crashing that kept ruining my crafting WOs (three nights in a row) pissed me off so bad that I quit at like...level 19.

I just fired it up again this week, having fun again. This time instead of bothering with crafting though (my goal was to make my own armor since most quest rewards weren't F2P-usable), I'll either just sub or buy unlockers. I still have some station cash left over from EQ.

It just seems whenever the game gets even a little bit of attention, all sorts of bugs and crashing and stability issues come back, which is a shame. F2P launch was really the last hope for the game, and they botched it.

I still recommend the game for people who have never even tried it. If you like EQ, you'll probably love it, provided you get a stable experience. Just realize that yes, there are the boring WoW-style bear ass quests, but you can easily ignore than and just level in the huge amount of awesome dungeons that the game has. Also has excellent classes.

Sularus Oth Mithas · #2 10-07-2013, 03:45 PM

Went and tried it a couple months ago. I played for a week, didn't see another player and have not gone back since.

Dullah · #3 10-10-2013, 09:19 AM

They rehired McQuaid to do a relaunch around the beginning of 2013, but he was only there a couple months. I'm guessing his ideas were probably out of scope for SOE as they've never given Vanguard the resources it needed out of fear it would be more successful than EQ2. They pretty much bought it out just so they wouldn't have to worry about a real studio making it into the best mmo ever.

Right now McQuaid is putting a team together for a new MMO tho. Only thing on the distant horizon that is currently peaking my interest.

Mandalore93 · #4 10-11-2013, 12:26 PM

Thought the game looked great, but just like EQ2 the fact that it's completely empty was pretty bad. Would have loved to play through the dungeons though, they looked sweet.

citizen1080 · #5 10-11-2013, 09:46 PM

U can start free but you will end up subbing..that Orange gear is too sexy to let rot in your bank. I have a raid geared bard..but just not enough pop to keep my interest

Cyph · #6 10-13-2013, 11:16 PM

I tried (once again) to get into it before returning here. It is a good game although the biggest issue is the population, especially during off peak hours. The whole floating ! quest system (and the sheer amount of quests) was a turn off, as was the graphics; for some reason I really dislike them.

Aenor · #7 11-07-2013, 04:31 AM

Excited about Brad's new MMO. Vanguard was a blast. I played through beta and until the PvP server merge with Ascendency, which merged with Xanit K'Ven. For whatever reason, it was about a year before the first raid zone was introduced. So many players had reached the level cap by that point and sat around waiting for it, then burned through it quickly and there was nothing left to do at the high end. They made an amazing game but couldn't keep up with the pace at which players burn through content.

This was absolutely the successor to classic Everquest and the only other game I've played that I truly got lost in. I would still be playing today if it had a population.

k2summit · #8 11-07-2013, 11:19 AM

I player for a while shortly after launch, but went back to EQ because of bugs / system req's at the time. Couple months ago I resubbed 2 accounts and boxed a bear sham and a drunken monk. Getting to 55 was fun as shit honestly. Every single dungeon is cool as shit imo. So at 55 I joined a raid guild with the monk. They did APW clears once a week mainly for nostalgia purposes, which was cool at first cuz I hadn't seen it in my previous stint playing. They did all world bosses too. Herein lies the problem for me. It stagnated very fast. There simply wasn't enough content. Now, there are devs, and they do rollout new content occasionally, but it just wasnt enogh for me. Overall 7/10, and still a really solid game.

Weekapaug · #9 11-13-2013, 04:15 AM

I played for a bit a couple of months ago as well as a couple of years ago. Yes, there was a bad release and, yes, the game still manages to be super buggy, but I gotta say that SOE as well as the small but dedicated community have done a lot to tune the game for having low populations, offer support, etc.

I very much would love to get a toon to high levels and see what I've never gotten to in the past. The only reason I stopped this time was because I found out a friend was playing EQ live and he talked me into coming back and checking out the new stuff, so I did. Otherwise I would still be playing.