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Yeah bros. All I saw was a flyover of a castleish structure on top of a mountain. That's what? Like .01% of a working MMO?

Ah, EQ:OA. Now here's an MMO. It's a shame so many people missed this great gem of a game because of bad marketing and it being on a console. Did you like Everquest? Did you like World of Warcraft? Than you would have liked EQOA. It was a hybrid of the best traits of the two. Fantastic...

Which you know they totally did. No collection of imaginary ships is complete without a Javelin.

I read an article that CGI sold out 200 Javelin class destroyers earlier this year for $2500 a pop. They were all gone almost immediately, so they probably could have sold for a lot more. Now the Javelin seems like a pretty badass ship, but Wow, it makes me think an attack carrier similar to...

I'm already looking forward to the expansion, Rock of Savior.

I doubt Derek Smart is genuinely mad. This is what he does. Doesn't really need a reason. He might have finally met his match in Chris Roberts though, someone possibly as narcissistic and megalomaniacal as himself.

Here's a pic of Chris Roberts' wife, Sandi Gardiner. She looks a little like a Filipino transexual hooker to me. Don't get me wrong, she's several orders of magnitude more attractive than Chris Roberts, which is what this is all about. The story goes she was an intern that Roberts met as a...

Looks like Elite Dangerous is eating Star Citizen's cookies.

I'm a bit in awe as well. You have to admire the business model regardless of how funds are being (mis)managed. The game has gone from a 4 million dollar kickstarter success story to a 90+ million dollar crowd-funding/micro-transactions empire. That's a neat trick.

There's so much vested in this. If this project crashes and burns I just... I mean Jesus... the saltiness of the tears. It will be like the Dead Sea.

I would guess the equity is managed under the auspices of Cloud Imperium Games since they're the beneficiary of the kickstarter. Within the company though, who knows? Many millions of kickstarter money being spent with no oversight in a company with a distributed development model with high...

That's been the case with all virtual item markets. Star Citizen is interesting because the items they're selling haven't even been developed yet as far as I can tell. Just some pretty pictures and a list of specs. Maybe a design doc if we're being optimistic and BAM $500. I think Roberts...

Maybe they'll start selling planets next.

On the upside, this is shaping up to eclipse Sigil and Vanguard for MMO drama. The board is set. The pieces are moving.

I think it's silly to think MMOs succeed or fail because of a single individual, as if Scott Hartsman is a hero from Might and Magic. But EQ2 made an impressive turn-around while he was in charge, from a failing dull life-less crapfest to something fairly engaging. I would say Rift was the...

The game is a ship.

Yes. Too many "ideas" in the MMO industry. Not enough execution. It's the rare individual who can do both that makes a difference.

I've been more entertained from the drama around making MMOS than actually playing them these past 5 years*. *Exception: The Secret World.

Derek Smart is a troll that goes way back. An evil from ancient times my friends.

I side with CIG on that issue. It's silly to think a company will just disclose financials because of accusations. They don't for a myriad of reasons. Unless it's the FTC that is asking, any company will tell them to fuck off.

You should always keep some Vicodin handy. You never know when you might need it in an emergency. On the topic at hand. I read through the article, and it's not setting off my bullshit detectors. Sadly, I think it's mostly true. I hope it turns out being baseless rumors, because this is...

I read Moby Dick for the first time a few years ago to catch up on classic literature. For a century-and-a-half year old story, it's actually pretty good. It's like a piece of escapist adventurism on the high seas. I can imagine it being the Harry Potter of its time. Captain Ahab is the...

Cool movie. The atmosphere was gritty and noirish. It reminded me more of True Detective than Traffic.

I know them feels. I grew up in a household with a single parent with kind of a crappy job, so I lived in a lower-class poor neighborhood. Almost every single one of my friends was either being raised by a single mom or a latin family. Being poor sucks. It did however give me a resolute...

The changes to his lifestyle are still catching up to him. Back when he had 50 million dollars he could say whatever the fuck he wanted.

Repeat after me, making MMOs is hard. Repeat after me, the last thing the world needs is another bog-standard generic fantasy MMO. This particular project looks like it was conceptually flawed, and throwing 10x as much money at it wouldn't have made any difference. It was doomed from the...

Screw you guys. I'm going to live forever.

Co-signed. Whatever the next great MMO is, it will be great because it sets a new standard for immersion. Now I don't know what form this will take, whether your character will have to dig holes when it needs to take a shit or what, but in my mind, this future MMO will need to make significant...

Yeah, I loved Dragonlance as a kid, but I doubt any of it would hold up now. Well, I think the Legends trilogy would still be decent. Chronicles and the rest would seem juvenile now. The books don't have the timeless quality of the The Black Company, Hyperion, etc.. other books from that time.

I've been on countless raids of all shapes and sizes. I think the perfect raid size is 10 srs. Big enough to feel like a party. Small enough where every person's contribution matters. And right on the threshhold before raid size becomes a logistics nightmare of scheduling/waiting. I had...

Smedley should name his new company Nightfall.

Hahaha. The worst financial decision out of an impressive list is still paying 1 mil+ to RA Salvatore for his contributions to the "lore." My memories of Kingdoms of Amular's story are somewhat vague, something about evil faeries waging war on the world? But I clearly remember it being on the...

I don't have anything against Smedley. I've always appreciated his willingness to engage with the MMO community, and in his various posts he has come across as a decent person, but SOE's record of lackluster products during his reign(other than the big EQ) give no reason to believe in any new...

Nothing new here. EQ1 had Sullon Zek. Neverwinter Online should do the same thing and create a prison server named Carceri.

Damn, I didn't know it was the same director as Chronicle. I really liked Chronicle. An understated superhero origin story for F4 like Chronicle isn't a bad idea, and I would have given it a higher than average probability of succeeding. Ah well. C'est la vie.

Yeah, Tom Cruise is in his 50s and shows no signs of slowing down. Matt Damon is just hitting his prime years It's sometimes good to be a man.

I love how people think it's a big mystery why Fantastic Four movies keep sucking. It's because the comics sucked. True story. These are the most uninspired lazily-written superheroes with this level of exposure. Pure hackwork. I could construct a better team of superheroes with a box of...

It's very rare for me to see a movie twice at the theater. I think the last time was Dark Knight. I'm going to be seeing this movie twice I think. Fun fact: the only movie I've every watched 3 times at a theater is Fellowship of the Rings.

Mt. Everest heroic mode.

Really depends. The movie looked like it was filmed for $50 using family members and friends.