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Can anyone else think of a project that was still at the stage of showcasing pencil concept art EIGHT years into its development? Duke Nukem Forever and Star Citzen were far more complete at this stage.

Yeah. Remember when Vanguard was announced and came out there was no TLP or even Project1999. There was post-Depths of Darkhollow EQ, WoW and EQ2. And DAOC was way past its prime by that stage. Vanguard was the only thing at the time that could really scratch the "Hey remember oldschool EQ...

It had terrible numbers right on launch. Well before people could find out how crappy the release was. The fact is most of the people who were interested in it in 2015 just didn't give a shit about it any more.

This is a real problem that Crowfall faced recently. Crowfall was announced in 2015, largely trading off nostalgia from the DAOC/Shadowbane crowd. A person who played DAOC back in the day when they were 20 was 34 in 2015. Crowfall came out in 2021. The DAOC players were now 40. How many of them...

So mobs are going to have their difficulty artificially inflated so they undercon from level 5 upwards. The whole 'mobs at your level are much stronger than you' thing is a leftover from EQ1 designers not really knowing what they were doing at the time, it isn't a desirable mechanic. There are...

Just started on Finalizer. Seems a very healthy playerbase.

Blizzard weren't showing off that screenshot as an example of their "beautiful scenery", though.

I can't get over how crap the roads look in their latest video: They've literally just used the hard brush in the Unity terrain texture paint tool and drawn a line. No blending with the other terrain textures, no variance in pressure, no raising/lowering the terrain to make embankments/cart...

Because the trees are just reacting to a standard Unity windzone. They haven't developed a new wind system for other assets, it's just the Unity trees shader. I can't believe they're showcasing this as some sort of revolutionary new system.

Ten years of development to make a video announcing a day/night cycle. That looks worse than Vanguard in 2007. Also "there will be flowers that only grow during moonlight" are they taking project management tips from Peter Molyneux? Is this some elaborate performance art to see how far...

Everquest is serious business.

Yes it's perfectly possible to find people who can code who can also do things like class design. ALovingRobot's interviews have shown that people were perfectly capable of doing multiple tasks in the EQ1/2/SWG/Vanguard teams. That's before we even consider the fact that Pantheon's class/spell...

Did you know that the company name for 'Sigil Games' was based on Brad's guild ('Crimson Sigil') in TorilMUD? http://www.torilmud.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=1159

In which case they should be pulled off those teams to join the teams that are clearly struggling and lagging behind. Wizard spell tree and class-design minutiae can wait until they have a functional world ready for testing.

Why are they spending time reworking class/spell design when they don't yet have a functional world and server system? These are things that should be tweaked in beta.

What's with the Disney/Dreamworks style art aesthetic? When did WoW cutscenes start looking like this?

So the EQOA Emulator service is now in a semi-playable state. With some mobs populated and combat working. Has anyone been playing?

Is there ANY financial incentive to release, or even move the game closer to release, when they're still getting crowdfunding money? The moment the game releases, crowdfunding ends and it has to stand on its own two feet. In MMO terms this means it could potentially be dead within a month (SEE...

How far are the quest lines developed into the original (non Isle) newbie zones? Is it possible to level a noob on Kojan currently or would you run out of finished quests?

TorilMUD itself actually has an ascii map built in now