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  1. Bruman

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Pathfinder did the tech demo KS first, yes.
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    Vanguard - I don't give a fuck if it's dead, It's still brown as fuck (Download link in 1st post)

    Main FTP restriction is gear. Lots of your quest rewards and dungeon finds won't be usable unless you purchase unlockers or sub.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Interesting that compared to yesterday it has the same amount of backers, but only a little over half of the money pledged. I wonder if like a $3k person backed out.
  4. Bruman

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    GUYS DAMMIT NO, DO NOT START THIS! STOP IT NOW WHILE YOU CAN! AAAHHHHH!!!
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    There's enough bullshit conversations in this thread; can we not have the age-old "which is more difficult: WoW or EQ?" one? It's a broken question from the start. Who would win a fight? The death star or Unicron?
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    No, they'll fall short for having a shitty Kickstarter by a team that couldn't prove they could actually deliver.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I'm trying to be nice to other MMO buddies that still want to see this get funded. They're still willing to put more blind faith into the team than I am. It doesn't make a lot of sense, no, but that's my reasoning. As to how they would know? Because they read this thread (and others). I've...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I'm effectively out. I'm not going to pull my pledge right now, to be nice. But near the end I'll remove it, as I don't have faith that they can actually deliver anything. $100 at the end won't make/break the KS, but at least it won't show it dropping for my miniscule drop in the bucket today...
  9. Bruman

    EQN:Landmark Beta Starts March 26th!

    It's live? Can't wait to hear feedback. Especially regarding claim size. I can live with the claim size being what it is if there's easy enough ways to get more claims - not if it's "$10 for another claim!"
  10. Bruman

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Wow, thanks. Again, more proof - all that matters is your ability to execute.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Also - I know I'm being super negative, and I'm sorry for that. I love Brad's game ideas. I love almost all the ideas they've talked about. I dig their artist - even though most of what they've shown is recycled art. I dig Vu's existing dungeon designs. I'd love to see these people involved in...
  12. Bruman

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I guess it can be? But I don't think that's the main use. The person(s) who want their vision to come to life should be able to make that vision come to life. The funding allows a variety of things: -People to quit their day jobs to focus on whatever Their Vision is -To show if Their Vision...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    That's what gets me. They do not currently have the people to make the game. The "guys this is just for initial funding to be able to start the studio!" is a horrible thing to put your money towards. Vaporfunding seems an applicable term. I can't tell if this is sarcasm you're directing...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Ditto! I'm just a slave To The Man. But hey, gonna pay off my house next month (at 32, in a typical suburb), and I get to spend my evenings with my wife and child doing whatever we want. Okay, whatever the kid wants. I have passion, just not in creating software these days.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I don't know that grass roots means what you think it means? It's an excuse for not having money - absolutely. It's not an excuse for lack of professionalism and inability to inspire confidence - which 10 industry vets should have tons of.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    There are proper ways to show off development and be transparent. And there are improper ways. You don't do a public demo of just farting around in the tooling. You do have a public demo with specific things to show and explain. I demo software "publically" at least every two weeks (end of...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    If the KS doesn't fund, I'd say they're dead. End of story. They might limp along with "looking into other funding sources" and what-not, but long term I don't think the game would ever happen at that point. What they'd be best off doing is trimming the fat on some of the idea people, find...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Grass roots? The only thing they have going for them is how they're all "MMO industry vets" who "totally know what we're doing". This isn't their first foray into things. Hell, this is Brad's third of fourth company that we know of.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    How can this be stunning? They came to the Kickstarter with thoughts and ideas, didn't even have them formally typed up for christ's sake. Most other Kickstarters, especially MMO ones, are mostly started by the actual developers who create and produce, and they have an actual beta engine to...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    It's not the stream. Look at the mouse cursor - it moves smoothly in all the nuanced ways. It's just slow to render as he's moving and spinning the camera around. I had to shut it down - if anything interesting comes out of it I'm sure somewhere on the internets there will be bullet points...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    That shit is so choppy on Vu's computer. This is nauseating. And it's all just flipping around and not doing much, and he's not really talking about what's going on. I'm not sure what they're supposed to be showing.
  22. Bruman

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Well, given how it's 7 years later and Vanguard *still* suffers from chunk crashing and issues just crossing chunk lines, it's obvious there were serious issues with the technology that would've never likely been fixed.
  23. Bruman

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I don't think "stock animation from stock models" counts as "early combat system". Actually showing the things they're talking about working (but without all the polish) is an early combat system. We've seen nothing with active/reactive abilities, skill chains, OT/DT, etc.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    If they can do that, it'll prove what Bertox and Denaut were saying about them not having anyone capable of, ya know, writing code on the team, and would do a lot to strengthen up my loss of faith in the team as it currently exists. Show us some in-game classes, races, early builds of the...
  25. Bruman

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Nah dude, their lineup of idea people and designers will totally manage to crank out a game and not at all just burn through funding while producing nothing but word documents and repurposing some existing art. Seriously guys, you're making me agree with Ut here
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    So, does the team have people who can create a game yet, or still just several dudes who want to collect checks for their "cool ideas" plus one engineer?
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    That's actually what has me worried - this ISN'T a true Kickstarter funded game. They've said so themselves many times. This is just to get the project started - the rest of the money (and by Brad's own estimates, another $7.2 million) comes from a different publisher or investor. Ten "industry...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Both Denaut and Bertox have said the same thing, which scares me a lot. I've seen the same thing on projects I've been on. Too many idea guys, who ultimately just argue and the result is different - not statistically better or worse than if you only had one or two idea guys. Meanwhile, your...
  29. Bruman

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    In this latest Q&A, why did they cut Brad off mid sente--
  30. Bruman

    Vanguard - I don't give a fuck if it's dead, It's still brown as fuck (Download link in 1st post)

    I'm torn - on the one hand, I was planning on playing VG all weekend (or at least trying hard to). So why bother? On the other, that's still 5 months to play and explore, and the odds of me having interest past that, even if it wasn't sunsetting, are very low.
  31. Bruman

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    For PVP at least, there's at least good reasons why PVE people hate the even mention of it. WoW is the poster child for screwing up PVE due to PVP concerns. That's most people's experience with it. Also, the target market for PVP is much, much smaller, so when things have a very limited...
  32. Bruman

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    If that's all you do, sure, it's boring. But whack-a-mole isn't exciting either, just more carpal tunnel inducing, and removes the ability to form social bonds while adventuring. There's a happy medium in there somewhere, and is what Brad and crew are going for (provided the project happens).
  33. Bruman

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Nah, but it made it sound like all quest items would be no drop (EQ had a mix). All quest items being no drop was a trend started with WoW, so that's what I associate it with. There's no real reason for me to assume that's what he meant - just one of those gut reactions that scares me.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Not sure if I like this. I don't want to see "you can't get a quest drop until you've accepted the quest". That shoves you back onto the rails, and hurts against the "feels like a world" thing. I really enjoyed EverQuest's "hrm, this guy dropped something, what the hell is it for?" aspect. I...
  35. Bruman

    Vanguard - I don't give a fuck if it's dead, It's still brown as fuck (Download link in 1st post)

    Yeah, it is going to $15 - I haven't paid SOE a dollar in many a year, and holy shit are they some fuck-ups, but that's still an amazing deal. $15 / month for SEVERAL online games you can hop around. Not sure on timing though, I thought I had read it was going to be April or something, but I'm...
  36. Bruman

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Welp, now we begin the long ass wait. The next 27-28 days are going to be boring. Pledges are only going to come in at a trickle, with maybe a little bump here and there when/if they get any more articles published on big gaming sites. Then we'll finally be at the last 2 days, where many...
  37. Bruman

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    They started answering the funding question, but I still would like to know what the contingency plan is. How committed are they to seeing that this project, and our dollars, end up in a game? Are they will to 100% make sure the game happens, even if it means late nights for no pay, after the...
  38. Bruman

    Vanguard - I don't give a fuck if it's dead, It's still brown as fuck (Download link in 1st post)

    FWIW, they already have the sub-one-sub-all thing. It's just $25 (or something). If you think you're only going to play a month, then there's no harm in doing a one month for $15 sub. That said, I haven't subbed either. I'm waiting to see if I can find groups and such this weekend, and not...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I don't see why people are using the trend to guess whether or not it funds. So many damn Kickstarters get a huge bump at the end. There are definitely concerns about it funding - but trends, average daily pledges, etc, aren't that important when there's absolutely no way to predict what...
  40. Bruman

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    Wait...to show that the internet is positive about the game, you recommend to look at FACEBOOK and REDDIT?! They wouldn't allow their FB page to voice negative opinions, and Reddit is known for over-zealous mods making sure nothing but rainbows and sunshine happen - it turns into fanboy...