I wouldn't get too worked up about the inclusion of an exclusive pet
with the CE version of WoW. Only Hunter's can tame pets and learn skills
from them to teach to other pets. The pet you get with the CE version is
for entertainment only. You can buy a pet Cockroach in the Undead city.
He's only good for doing tricks. The CE pet will be the same, just
something you can only have if you buy the CE version. It really won't
provide you any advantage other than a "Hey, I haven't see that pet
before factor". You can buy pet cockroaches, cats, drakelings,
mechanical chickens, etc. for the novelty. :)

Rhodenator wrote:

>I think you guys that dislike WoW should share your Beta account with us to
>test :) I'd love to try it out...
>
>Unlike the majority of you folks (I'm assuming), I loved AR, but
>there are other games out there. I'm not looking for another AR, I'm looking
>for a game that just sux me in and makes my wife Divorce me :) lol Not
>really but I do want some game that really captivates me. I looked at EQ
>when it first came out (5 years ago?) and I wasn't impressed. I gave it 5
>years and am trying it again. The graphics are pretty cool, especially for
>it's age. EQ2 looks like a brillient piece of eye candy as well, but I want
>a game I get soaked up in. I felt like EQ was missing something, maybe it
>was no story-type line...but I'm not into going ALL over a map, back and
>forth for quest, items and such as much as making my character better. I
>like to fight harder and hard mobs / creeps that take me deeper and deeper
>towards some dark "force" or side that I must attempt to eliminate. I played
>MajorMUD (MM) and Rights of Passage (ROP) among some other Text RPG's, and I
>LOVED THOSE GAMES TO DEATH! I actually liked MM and ROP better then AR
>personally. I just wish someone could take whatever it was I liked about MM
>and ROP and put them together. I think it's somewhat like a book compared to
>movies for most.
>
>I think the book uses YOUR imagination, so it will almost ALWAYS
>overcome the Hollywood look -n- feel. I don't think there will ever be an
>RPG that captures my attention and desire to play as much as text bases
>RPG's, but then again... I just hope that either WoW or EQ2 are worth me
>playing.
>
>Back to another partial topic: FABLE: I rented Fable last week and
>wasn't really impressed. It could be fun, but I'm not a hack-n-slach or
>Action-RPG kind-of-guy. I'm more of do the work for me and I'll tell you
>what Attack spells to cast and what weapons to use. Summoner (though it
>wasn't an Action-RPG) is the only Action-type RPG I liked...and it took me
>forcing myself to finish it because it just wasn't good enough for me...
>
>and then back to another topic, WoW and things like the Collector's
>Edition including a Pet: I think that the pet may make some sort of
>Advantage at the beginning, but it's probably a level 1 pet or something of
>the likes (at least I hope). I agree that physical, real money should NOT
>give a player an advantage. Might as well let rich kids (no offense to
>anybody wealthy here) beat the game for us and take all of our fun away. I
>don't have, nor want to give money out just for things like that. I'll
>admit, when I saw that the pet was going to be included I decided I'd HAVE
>to buy the collector's edition, there's no way I'd start a game without it
>(my pet).
>
>To tell you the truth (I think I've been reading my Bible too much
>:P), I believe that EQ2 and WoW both have great ideas in them, but they both
>have drawbacks as well. I suppose it's a different crowd that each is based
>after, but they both should be good none-the-less. I know that the reason I
>liked ROP, was because there was a good and evil side, take your pick. You
>could fight near your side, or wonder out further for better creeps and
>items, at a chance of being attacked solo or raided. This made the game more
>interesting, because it wasn't just let's get a party out and go fight some
>creeps that won't attack unless we attack them (or something of the likes),
>it's also what the freak do we do after barely killing a mob and some
>opposite sided character or raid party comes up and starts killing. To make
>things even more interesting, you'd lose your items, unless a friend picked
>your items up (looted you) and was able to escape with it (or you just had
>cheap stuff so the opposing side left it on your corpse). The problem I saw
>with EQ2 was whiners (or I've heard about). There was no real reason to PvP
>unless you were a cock (bored) or you thought someone stole something of
>yours or what not. So Admins would ban you or kick you out temp. or what
>not. I think that WoW's direction, being that it's fair game to kill kill
>kill the other "side" is GREAT. I WANT to know I am at risk of being
>attacked, dying AND losing my EQ). That makes me play differently... I'm not
>worried about an NPC killing me.. I know that Star Wars Galaxies is
>supposedly like this...but I'm more Old Skewl RPG then Light Sabers and all
>that other stuff.
>
>PS: Forgive me if I'm incorrect in what I say about anything above. I
>haven't read about the latest updates / changes to EQ2 in a while and I want
>to say that you can pick a good and evil side, but I don't think they are
>meant to be played against each other like I know WoW is setup. If it is
>setup for PvP (Which is not what I've read), then perhaps EQ2 will be better
>then I think. Once again, they are both great games!
>
>PSS: I thank anyone that had the patience to read this whole, long, boring
>blah blah blah speech of mine :)
>
>THANKS!
>
>Daniel Kristian Rhoden (DTM)
>Daniel--ZoomEmail.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Burget [byock_--hotmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 3:45 PM
>>Subject: Re: Player ages and Country
>
>
>
>Uh, do I have to admit that I was on Lower lights?? :O I went on lower
>lights, harrased people, got banned, opened a new account. Light Keeper kept
>
>letting me back in, go figure. ;-)
>
>I am on the closed beta for Wow, and have not been all that impressed. I
>liked Dark Age of Camelot, but they are all missing the "AR" alignment.
>
>Dan
>
>
>
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