I am compelled to write this because I have a feeling Variguard: Saga of Heroes is going to receive an unfair review and be rated much lower than it should. Especially after I read some shortsighted reviews and saw that V:SOH got the “Ugly” in your April 2007 issue’s “Good, Bad, and Ugly”, Ironically V:SOH was never really meant as a WOW killer as WOW players were not its target market. The only bad thing about the timing was that it was difficult to get ad space with all the WOW stuff up advertising The Burning Crusade.

Now I’m no “Vanboi,” but I do insist that when someone reviews a game they play it thoroughly and give it a fair shake. Nobody can deny that the game is riddled with bugs and that is unforgivable, but you also have to see what the active piayers see…the future. If you look past the bugs, the actual game itself is really fun.

I can only hope that if it does get a bad review the reviewer points out that it would have received a much higher score if it wasn’t so buggy. There is so much great stuff in the game from character creation, diplomacy, breathtaking graphics, boats, flying mounts, and so on.

It would be a shame that some people may not even give it a chance. Once the game is mostly bug-free (which they are diligently working on fixing with weekly patches) it will truly be a game I will enjoy playing for a long time. I hope that maybe people will check the game out in the future and not dismiss the game forever [because of] bad reviews based mostly on bugs that will be fixed. It is actually much better today than it was at launch.

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