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Wasn't Asheron's Call supposed to do that, but for free?

My dad can beat up both of their dads, so I don't even know why they're bothering.

I suspect a lot of it has to do with salaries too. We don't know who was getting paid what. Sometimes people get wages outside of the norm, and when layoffs happen, they're often the first to go.

This post keeps getting updated:EQ2Wire EQ2 Developer Layoffs: Lyndro, Endymion, Gnobrin, Amnerys, Ashlanne, Afista A lot more EQ2 CMs got let go.

The problem with Elidroth's initial post is that it was dismissive and insulting to the person he was replying to, implying that he knew better than the guy who ended up obviously being correct. If he had posted something like "As far as we all know, it's just a name change.", there wouldn't...

I think we're all used to Ut being wrong all the time by this point.

Any chance on Smed being a possible cut, do we think?

It's going to be weird in 2-3 years when, after shutting down all the non-profitable games (everything but EQ and EQ2), and putting those two just on skeleton crews just to maximize short-term profit (which is what investment bankers do), to have see EQ get sunsetted. I mean, sure I last played...

Lawl, geez guys, I was just making a joke. I'm aware of their kickstarter and new site

FWIW, comments over on SOE's forums and MMORPG's comments, in addition to the already mentioned Reddit comments, were also very pro-Dave. Feeling more like RR is the outlier in thinking Dave is stupid.

How are we supposed to know the real news about this without Massively to report on it?

Heh, I've said the same myself here a few times, and after getting downvoted enough for it, I stopped saying it. There's several indie MMO titles that do the things people crave they want, but it's a niche market comparatively, and won't/can't have the funding level of the AAA titles. There's a...

Thought this was interesting from the EQ2Wire thread: So EQ and EW2 still make money. I wonder what the 3 failed EQN attempts were, and why this one is considered a "successful" launch.

So I'm not alone in feeling that canceling SOE Live was less about "oh we just had the buyout and need to save money and focus on the game" and more "we don't have shit to show", am I? I mean, I'm sure the answer is not one single thing (it never is), but I feel it is much more of the later...

Hell yes, the thread is already turning against them. That was quick!

vs Crowfall: MMO - Throne War Simulator Edit: FWIW, I'm 100% not on the hype train for this one. I'm going to read in my downtown at work like I typically do, and I'll keep an ear out on what the game is doing, but that's about it. But I think this game will actually be released and...

Sorry this is a serious PVP MMO for serious people who play seriously, go back to WoW you WoWtard and if there's shoulderpads or dress-up I'm canceling my $3 kickstarter donation and instead mailing Brad a new cheesestick.

Has there really been a relevant MMO in the past decade? WoW happened, and the industry stopped. Small refinements here and there, but that's about it. I'd say Minecraft is the next game to really take the internet by storm, and it took it a long time before it was multiplayer.

I remember when Bush was president, and it was just SOE. THANKS OBAMA.

You forgot about Albion Online! It's all about PVP, item loot, and taking territory, with an obvious UO influence. It's hype train seemed to die right when it was released for alpha players too.

I wonder how (if at all) a catchup system like Mario Kart would work in a game like this. "What, some guy is crazy powerful and noone can stop him now? Game has entered the no-fun zone? Time to make the losers find a lot more blue shells dropping next to those bear asses!"

"Crowfall isn't an MMO with a "battle ground" strapped to the end of the level treadmill. Crowfall isn't a three-way tug of war that never resets." Lawl, why don't they just say "Fuck you WoW, Fuck you GW2", haha. Still though, interesting idea.

This is going to be a fun 2-3 years of people bitterly arguing over a game that doesn't exist yet, then when it's released for everyone to post for 1-2 months about why it's failing and how it didn't live up to expectations, then be basically dead by month 3. Ya know, like every MMO released...

It's not that - at least not for me. It's just dumb to make people have to register to advertise your game. I know they want to sell me something, but my interest dies pretty much immediately if there's even the smallest step (like a 60 second registration) between me and the info. Either it'll...

Even those required you to be logged in for a while. I refuse to sign up just to view their info, like you said. Besides, Flex was nice enough to copy/paste it here for us.

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I am trying to help! But I don't own the game, so I couldn't answer your question directly. Like Vitality said though, most SOE (and most online games in general) have ways to filter chat and disable voice chat. But being an alpha thing, I can't imagine it's high on their feature list. And...

It's cool for my kids to play a fantasy murder simulator, but swear words, man, that's over the line! (American sensibilities are fucked up)

Have they said anything about if this is going to be first person, third person, isometric, etc? Some of the features, UO inspiration, and art style are making me think of Albion Online. Curious how it'll be different as they continue along.

This is the game Smed originally teased as "a love letter to SWG's crafting", correct? Anyone feel that has lived up even remotely?

I'm pretty ignorant of this game - what's the deeper game, the meta-game, or the long term goals? I've watched a few streams here and there, and it was just people looting and occasionally killing other people. Zombies seemed pretty rare. Can you actually build large structures and such, make...

I was seriously expecting this to just be an hour of fart noises. It'd probably have been more interesting.

Psst, it's possible to make a video game, in a fantasy setting, that isn't solely about making numbers go up as a direct correlation to time spent. You should feel bad for calling a video game work :P.

Permadeath can be a lot of fun if the system is done correctly. It doesn't work where character progression involves many many hours of grinding stupid stuff or getting extremely rare items. Minecraft has permadeath, and noone cares, but you can get back to decent gear easily (faster with...

Uh, feel like you're reading too much into it, heh. It's MMORPG, with RPG being a known term before the invention of MMORPG, and it eventually got dropped because people were tired of saying MMORPG. There hasn't been any other MMO[something else] acronym that gained traction, so every knows it...

Why is the game called Crowfall? There's no crows in it, and if there was, they'd fly!

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I dunno, I'd say it's very much bordering on "never in a million years" to see a MMO (that actually gets released) these days that doesn't have a cash shop.

While I get that it's fun to min/max at all levels of the game, there's absolutely zero need to actually enchant heirloom gear, since it's just for leveling. That'll save you the most money, and people decked in heirloom gear are going to absolutely trash leveling dungeons anyways.

Hey, they still have their 3 patreons, they're set for life!