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He cheats, he has an art staff.

Correct. But to make money faster, copying an already existing model is the path of least resistance for a new game.

In EQ you did know or were at least familiar with people, guilds had rivalries, the first player to 50 or 65 or 70 was a neat thing, the first guy with the Sword of ZOMG was something to talk about. You KNEW what players were fun to group with and which ones sucked. People had a virtual...

I think the one big thing WoW missed on was community. I don"t know 99% of the people on my server and they don"t know me. Back in "the good old days" of EQ people knew who a lot of other people were on their server even if they were in different guilds. You were occupying the same dungeons at...

Was going to post what 1of1 just posted above. The offline stuff really is just a leveling mechanic, you still have to put some time in mining/trading/whatever to make the cash to buy the higher level skill books. That does take time, although you can mine a lot and move stuff around with a...

Many people are always going to see a big * next to his name regardless of how this all turns out. Does he really want to go the Pete Rose route? People are a lot more forgiving in this country if you make a sincere apology after a screw up. Granted its a screwup that (if true!) will permanently...

Immersion is not the same thing to all people.

When you see the single largest money maker in the industry constantly reusing art assets over and over, its hard to really expect more from smaller companies. There are mines that are almost identical other than the window dressing from the original WoW continents and to what we saw in Burning...

I think Tuesday was going to be a travel day if the Rox had been able to send the series back to Boston anyways, so House would have been on tonight anyways!

They did. And last night they beat my Rockies, again! :[ Tomorrow could be a miserable baseball day, high of 49 and fog/snow/rain projected tonight into tomorrow in Denver.

I have yet to see where not having BOP/Soulbound really would mean squat in a game. Just use it for super rare/uberpowerful items. everything else should be tradeable.

Repeating the exact same content over and over and over and over (and over) to get items that you can"t trade for the items you want == Loot should be more randomized and you should be able to trade more items than most current games allow.

Well considering who the other big names are, its a relatively safe bet their first product is going to be a fantasy MMO, or maybe a horror/fantasy MMO. We"ll learn soon enough, the game is so far away at this point it really doesn"t matter at this point if they are designing a Dilbert MMO. Hmm...

Man, Curt is putting alot of effort into his blog for someone with two full time jobs. Good stuff

Everyone is an undefeated champ in spring training/training camp, right? As a rockies fan, june is about where the season ends for me, i"ve usually had any hope of playoff nonsense beaten out of me by then due to their constantly inconsistent pitching. :[ As far as the gaming development...

I agree, its not good business (or even very nice as a person) to just bash your competitors mercilessly. However I couldn"t resist since they are neither to me, and there is no world wide brand bigger than Star Wars, except for maybe coke or mcdonalds... However, the release and failure of the...

You could have just said Star Wars Galaxies!

Here is something I"d like to hear from you in a year or two: Are sports fans more nutso than MMOG fans?

There is a huge difference between taking potshots from your PC at home to actually conceiving, developing, and finally implementing a huge project like an MMOG. That said I do think the customers have a right there voice on issues, the problem is that with an MMOG you have a MMO type community...

I thought he had posted here since then or am I imagining that?

I see your point. Off topic but I guess as a former member of mailing list that Curt occasionally particpated in I didn"t see this as much of a stretch for him, especially after all of the EQ related stuff that his name has popped up with over the years. I think its good to have some new...

Why is it too wierd? As I stated previously in this thread, he already has another game company, called Multi Man Publishing.

I think he is assuming you are hiring the same people that gave us games like SWG, EQ2 (before the massive changes), Shadowbane and countless other steaming piles of crap over the last 6 or 7 years. I have no idea either way, but I *think* that is what he was hinting at.

I"d really like to see a skill based progression game without "xp = level" but where skills determine your level. Kind of like how Dungeon Seige does their leveling, just more indepth. In fact, a full 3D dungeon siege fantasy mmo would be pretty kick ass if they expanded on the skill systems and...

Quests are definitely the way to go to hide the time=xp factor. It makes it more enjoyable to level when every so often you get a burst of XP all at once for turning in a quest (or several!) , feeling like you"ve accomplished something. Raise your hand if you"d rather do the EQ grind 245,000...

No doubt. The MMO industry is littered with the corpses of shadowbanes and Asheron Call 2"s. How far away is any kind of announcement on the title or genre ? Any answer of "More on this soon" and McQuaid might sue for infringing on Sigil"s trademark :P

I guess if you feel like you have some bizarre right to grind an axe with them I could see acting like a wounded duck all the time. Its entertainment, if you don"t like their game or think they lie to you stop paying and playing them? Voting witih your money is the only way to have a say.

Assume the genre is going to be fantasy ? If so, why? There is room and untapped markets for quality MMO sports games these days I think, along with more sci-fi and racing style games.

This is his second game company, he is a major partner in a company called Multi-Man Publishing that makes addons and scenarios for Advanced Squad Leader.

Definitely internet style chris farley type ninjas.

What the hell. How did i miss this gem of a thread?