Recent content by Neric_foh

Oh my god! Now please put this into perspective. When did you start playing EQ? Did you ever play in Blackburrow, Runneye, Unrest, CT, Sol A/B, Guk, Kaesora, Kanor, Sebilis or Chardok? The whole concept of EQ was based on STATIC dungeons with STATIC spawns and groups moving from one STATIC...

It was a trap and you fell for it!

I think I know the guy. We actually exchanged a few tells when Raging Fury was first at something and he was monitoring our progress. Must have been during GoD if I remember correctly. Anyways, he seemed to be one of the cool devs, so even though EQ is way over the hill, it"s still a big loss...

This is the reason why EQ had a community while WoW does not. If people have to rely on each other, either to share the content or to deal with antisocial behavior, they will form an alliance of some sort.

I hope you have considered picking up this engine:Project Offset - Main Haven"t followed the development lately, but it made a huge impression on me a while ago. Rumors are, there is a leaked video on youtube

Grats Curt! That was quite an interesting series. I had the impression that the Rockies always came up like 10 inch short on everything. Some balls that got almost hit over the fence, some balls that were just caught and some that just dropped out of reach combined with a pisspoor performance...

That"s true, but once you find out you should honestly think about making it a feature instead of fixing it. Those EQ bugs turned out to be pretty good for the game after all.

Darkfall is an interesting project and it seems that Vanguard was trying to emulate just that. If you look at the similarities in content, it"s very obvious. Now the fact that Vanguard wasn"t successful with it doesn"t mean much, it failed because of the piss-poor implementation of these...

The first thing I would do as a company study would be to analyze why Vanguard failed. For this I wouldn"t rely on McQuaid"s own analysis (marketing, hardware), because it is designed to make their performance look better than it was.

You can be sure that they dress like each other for Halloween.

Dude, that"s a nice posting, but you have an obvious advantage in information. Point is, there are lots of things going on and the customers do not have this info. They have to take a more or less educated guess and glue pieces of info together. Once you spot an error you come down to earth...

All I am saying is that it isnotimpossible. There have been cases in the past where people were paid to shut up at shareholder meetings, so sometimes there is a certain interest to keep the bad press to a minimum.

I mean theoretically speaking banning critics that can potentially endager a multi-million-dollar project isn"t that stupid of a move. If someone spends millions to get good press, doesn"t it make sense to spend a few bucks and press a few buttons to avoid bad press? So overall it"s not...

The human brain is trained to look for patterns. Some people look at the stars and see a Pegasus. They can even draw lines and make it appear. Still, there is no Pegasus. The pattern is there, but it really is coincidence. I don"t blame Utnayan for drawing the lines, because it fits nicely...

You can be sure that the reaction on this board blew everything out of proportion. Group dynamics on message boards and especially those all-against-one situations can and will lead to bizzare soap operas every once in a while. Blaming just one side for it is simply wrong.