[Drop-Bear]

After reading the review/preveiw I can see the reviewers points. Most MMO's start out exactly how the reviewer says and with WAR's focus on RvR maybe the starter zone needs to direct players to the RvR zones sooner so new players get a look at what the major point of the game is going to be. At the very least maybe give them an option within that first 10 minutes to travel to the RvR zone and have a look see.

I would like to know what class the reviewer got to play because the zone sounded like the Dark Elf zone being dumped by a big ship but the attacking options of throwing an axe and punching don't sound like any Elfen class Dark or otherwise that I can imagine.

Anyway a bad preview is still worth taking notice of especially if it points out a reason that new players of the genre may not continue a subscription after the first month. It's no good telling them look wait for another 3 months when you get to end game thats when it all becomes good if someone is not enjoying the experiance after playing the game for an hour then there isn't much hope of getting them to come back. Blizzard got around 3 years of subscriptions out of me because of that first hour of playing the game was pretty awsome. Several other games have gotten a couple of months out of me because of the first hour being pretty tight but lost once that first hour lost it's shine. Others have been uninstalled after the first hour because I didn't find them fun in that first hour or I hated a particular mechanic that I found in the first hour and I could see bugging me throught my time playing the game.