Recent content by Flc_sl

Agreed. The latest update to Landmark has actually given me a lot of hope for EQN based on many of the improvements. What I can glean from it: 1. The choice to link minor character trait improvement to achievements is genius. In the EQN context, achievements are going to have a similar...

If I wanted to do that, I'd talk about how LotD has bled members for the past decade, including most of the individuals that made the guild competitive back in the day, still pretends to be among the elite PVP guilds out there when in actuality it's a shell of its former self, and with its only...

No offense, Valor, (and I agree with both your broader point about EKs in this post and appreciate you getting information from the developers) but it's been quite a long time since LotD went into a game and "just fck'd people's shit up." Weren't you part of that fail alliance in GW2 along...

Which begs the question why the fuck he didn't leave a week ago so that his salary could be freed up for someone else that was laid off.

Most of those jobs have been on there for weeks or months. Think the EQN job listed has been on there for six months+. Who knows if they're still actively hiring or if they just haven't updated their website yet - which would be my guess, given that everything is still branded with SOE.

Wouldn't be the worst idea. Diversity at a game studio is a good thing with a bunch of side effects, one of those being that it presents moronic "jokes" like this.

You're either joking or an idiot. Hoping for the former.

That healing song was OP as fuck. I used to just sit back and sing it while a party full of warriors and swashbucklers and conjurers just blew shit up.

Also, fun fact: Guild Wars 2's Living Story was modeled after the system of storyarcs created by Wes Platt, who ran OtherSpace MUSH and was hired on later as the Creative Director for Fallen Earth - a game that didn't go anywhere because of funding, but had some strong design choices behind it.

I had a few characters in various iterations of the game (Sojourn, the Duris split, the TorilMUD era, etc). A bard, Lyrith, was my primary. Played several other MUDs as well, including Faerun MUD which was far superior in implementation and used a pretty remarkable Circle-derived codebase...

Though Brad McQuaid does havesomegood ideas. I hear in Pantheon you can be a WarWizard!!!!!!11111!!!! Speaking of Pantheon, Smedley is friends with Lorraine "Sparkles" JesusLove on Facebook. I find that hilarious.

And here's what's amusing: Warcraft's design and code is far more differentiated from EverQuest, than EverQuest's from Sojourn MUD. Keep that in mind the next time you hear the argument that EverQuest was the truly innovative game and Warcraft just took their ideas and made them more casual...

Terry is still Senior Producer, meaning he creates the roadmap and is in charge of all of the various development tasks coming to fruition. He's EQN's Matt Firor. Darrin McPherson is the Lead Designer, so all major aspects of gameplay and content fall under his direction - combat, classes...

I actually think Paul Sage is a fairly talented design mind - far more than Butler - but some of the design decisions at the core of TESO were just fucking absurd. You have one of the greatest open-world sandbox franchises in history and so you focus your efforts and finances on porting over...

That's interesting - I'd like to hear more about that (re: Georgeson's behavior) because I've heard the opposite. The narrative I've been told is that EQN was a trainwreck and it was Georgeson who hit pause and said: "Let's do something radically different." None of the ideas - fully...