[MUD-Dev2] [OFF-TOPIC] A rant against Vanguard reviews and rants

[Vincent Archer]

According to Mike Rozak:
> 4) Within the first 30 minutes, I should have had a ride on a flying
> beasty, even if it was an inflatable raft filled with helium. Again, show
> me the USP! You don't have to give me the dragon mount right away, but show
> me the potential. This is important for every game, but INCREDIBLY
> important for a downloaded game. In download games, you only have 15-30
> minutes to hook a players, 20 hours of which have already been taken up by
> downloading vanguard!

Regarding this, Blizzard did a far better job with their expansion. As
a starting character, when you're around level 10 on the Eredar island,
you're asked to warn various NPC (all of which you encountered before,
so
you know exactly where they are) of an impending attack, and prompty,
so you're handed a temporary fast running mount (15mn only), which lets
you experience the player mounts of later.

In the expansion, within 15mn, you're thrown on the saddle of a flying
mount, and sent on bombing runs over ennemy positions, which prefigures
the day you have a flying mount and paradrop on top of unsuspecting
opponents (pvp) or ennemies (mobs) :)