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lol... his definition of emergentGAMEPLAYis designing things outside of the game. EQN fails.

Lol, same.

Never mind. Not even Metallica can save this. EQN is doomed.

Metallica is playing. This could turn it around for EQN....

Yeah, this isn't helping the "SOE is too gimmicky to make the EQN they're promising" thing.

From the article: Translation: "We're waiting for EQN's reveal to see if there are any great ideas that we can execute better than they can."

I'm skeptical of the guy too, but he comes off much more genuine than Barnett ever did. I think Georgeson actually believes he is about the change MMOs. Barnett didn't know what an MMO was.

Uhh....a three-year-old Macbook Pro Not bad. Trying to decide if I should buy one like that or build one so I can leave plenty of room for upgrading later on. Also, not a huge fan of the weird looking cases...and neither is the wife.

How much is a PC that can run this thing well going to cost me? Educated guess, of course.

With all of the talk from SOE about it blowing your mind, I think I'll have a pretty good idea if I'm at all interested after the reveal. Probably won't even bother with the other stuff.

Developers don't make games for consoles so that you can use a keyboard and mouse. If they are going to make it work on the console, they're going to go the whole way. This is where F2P becomes a real double-edged sword. A lot of people will try it out because it's free, but they also have no...

Yeah, come join everyone else in the Next Gen Console thread letting me know that... Truth.

Two reasons: 1) it will affect the design of the UI--as people have already mentioned it often times leads to horrendous outcomes--and, 2) I'm going for the XB1.

Here is the fullschedule, but the EQN reveal is Friday at noon.

First Dungeon Maker garbage and now PS4? Things are not looking good.

Flip is famous!

Since we know EQN is using the Forgelight Engine, is it safe to assume the minimum system requirements are going to be similar to PS2? Or...is that not at all how the whole engine thing works?

That one is for the MMORPG Prophets among us mere mortals.

Excellent idea. Let's pick a guild name and end this debate about who has more inside information in one shot. One point for every correct answer (or for whoever gets the closest), and whoever has the most points gets to name the guild. Ready...Set....Go!

I much prefer the team approach to the RZ approach. Of course, the RZ approach is probably more "sandbox."

Shorties, Elves, Humans, Darkies

I'm confused as to why you would have to argue about it. If you have inside information, just post it and walk away. I'm sure there are plenty of people that are lurking and/or not involved in all the bickering that would love to see it (e.g. me).

Yeah, I'm sure players will get a cut. Probably the same 40% they get now for designing and selling stuff in other Player Studio games.

Yeah, I was just trying to figure out if he was profiting from pessimism or if he goes off of real information.

Just out of curiosity, are you a part of the games industry in some developer/media capacity?

PS2 has entered the Player Studio realm.Not surprising at all of course, but an interesting read in light of EQN. Sounds like they are going to be pretty strict about what is approved; it has to "have a purpose" and fit within the overall design of the game. Oh and they are going to...

If we get nothing more than a few screenshots or some gameplay footage, I'm going to take that as a white flag from SoE. In fact, if I hear anyone from SoE say "we can't talk about that yet" even a single time, I'm just going to assume EQN is a steaming pile of crap.

I have to say, I have found the pre-release to this generation of consoles to be hilarious. People seem to have attached to one console or the other very quickly and there is more animus than there has been in the past between the two groups. Add to that thecrazyrumors that spread like wildfire...

I can't decide if that was their way of rubbing in everyone's face that they got to see EQN before us, or if they mean it and are really that excited about it. All I know is,ifthere is a huge negative reaction to EQN, those people should lose their jobs. We get enough false-hype from developers...

I don't think he will single-handedly tank EQN, but I can't say I understand the decision to put him in charge. He doesn't seem to have experience designing the kind of game that EQN is suppose to be. It seems the biggest title under his belt is Planetside. I've never played, but I've heard...

Assuminganycommunity manager would unnecessarily bring disappointing news seems like an even poorer assumption.

It was the Alpha Squad Package. For $40 you received $40 worth of Station Cash, entrance into the beta, 6 month XP boost, and some unique items. Not a bad deal. First, never forget who it came from. Second, they have since walked this back. I still say it's going to be SoE Player Studio...

Meaning you prefer tighter restrictions on items?

I think it will be some creation tool. Either SoE Player Studio or the EQN version of Dungeon Maker. Beta will be announced as "later this year" only to be delayed into next year.

Not sure how else to explain this; I'll try using your example. If you are running through the Karanas and decide you want to put a keep down, then you should have to have the skill to build it along with the necessary resources and then actually build it. Alternatively, you could pay an NPC or...

The difference between 1 and 2 isn't instance and non-instance. The difference is whether the changes in the world come about organically through playing the game or whether they are made by a developer (paid or player) who decides "oh, a building would look nice there, I'll just click this...

What's the difference? (Genuine question.) Based on my limited knowledge of each, it seems like the only real difference is that Project Spark lets you create a wider variety of things and it allows you do so while in game. My real problem with this kind of player-created content isn't that...

Many of the XB1 games already announced use the Kinect in some way. Just because a game doesn't use Kinect exclusively doesn't mean that it's not using the Kinect at all. The little bit that it adds here and there alone makes the price worth it. Add to that all of the games that use Kinect...

I still use my Kinect from time to time. My wife (who is not a gamer) uses the Kinect all the time. Have I switched exclusively to Kinect games? Of course not, but the thing was only $100. We have gotten that much value in entertainment from it a few times over.

More evidence of Dungeon Maker type garbage coming in EQN: Someone on Reddit posted that he was concerned about player-made content in EQN because of what he had seen in games like Neverwinter and EQ2's Dungeon Maker. SoE employee then runs in to provide comfort by basically saying, "don't...