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As one of those "casual gamers" they want to target (albeit a bit older than most) let me say Disney is dropping the ball. I'm not a hard core MMO fan. I've never played Everquest or WoW or any of the others. This was my first ever--supposedly the customer this is geared for.
Forget the easy game play.
Forget the rather repetitive lame missions.
What is killing this game is the laggy, buggy nature of it. I have died yet again because one second I'm searching a barrel where it is all clear and right out of Star Trek 3 guards teleport in to stop me. They were no where in sight before. Just "poof" and there they are.
Same thing at sea. Get into a 1 on 1 scrap with a Frigate in clear waters and BAM I'm suddenly in the middle of the freaking Royal Navy with war Frigates raining fire down on me.
I don't mean they caught me unawares. I mean they simply popped into existence. I can't play the game if things are going to suddenly pop into and out of existence. Graphically, the game isn't that intense to justify the extremely poor network coding this game exhibits. I have horsepower with an Nvidia 8800 GT and a Quad Core processor with 4Gig of RAM so it's not my system. I've got 15Meg download and 2 meg upload so it isn't my bandwidth.
I thought this might be a good game for my son and I to enjoy together, but not in this condition. They need to seriously fix the truly poor coding in some aspects in this game or all the shiny new weapons and uber quests won't mean a thing.
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