LOLWUT?

[symbioidlj]

The following ports are what EA/Mythic tells you to open for Warhammer:
# Conversely, make sure the following ports are opened in your router's security settings:

* UDP port 1024-65535
* TCP port 8040-8049
* TCP port 10622

Yes. 65535 is the last port on a router. They are telling you to open up UDP ports 1024 to the very end. What percent is that? 80 percent open? They want you to open 80% of your UDP ports?

Is there something about UDP that is safer than TCP? Can they possibly use all 60+k ports? That's fucking stupid. Seriously, who designs a game like that?

Comments

[vesicular.livejournal.com]

BTW if you want to play a unique MMO that is actually interesting, try EVE.

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

EVE is the tl;dr of MMOs

[vesicular.livejournal.com]

Yes, but if you're honestly curious of new play mechanics, etc, that is where you want to look. It's so f'n deep.

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, true.

I respect it for what it is and what I've read about it. But demoing a game like that is kind of futile. You won't really get the depth and complexity, I think. Of course, reading about it really helps to get that sense of emergent gameplay.

I understand you're point.

I do hope they still make the WoD game, and that, even if not exactly like EVE (PvP, blech) -- they incorporate some of that depth somehow.

But yeah I guess when it comes down to it, most MMOs are sort of based off of EQ and such (which of course were based off of MUDs and hence DnD, etc...)

I don't want a game where I *have* to belong to some guild in order to just survive. Which I think EVE tends to be. I could be wrong.

[vesicular.livejournal.com]

WoW was one of the first where you didn't have to be, you could solo the entire game (until the very end game). I think this is why it's been so popular. Just about every other MMO is, well, an MMO.