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Two words for you, my friend: Personal responsibility. Most of the community here would feel bad, but most of us do not know the guy. We just do not trust him and wouldn't give him our money for a project. That in no way makes most of us less apathetic, but you are talking money versus...

As one of the biggest anti-Pantheon people from day one, I'd say the others are right and you have no reason to apologize. I think you believed in the guy and put in more support work on this project than he did. I have no idea if the failure is due to Brad being inept or just monumentally...

Great pic btw.. ha.. Actually old Brad probably could code. It was a requirement to really do anything on PCs when he and I grew up. If you are asking can Brad program today? Sure. He's a smart guy. The tools out today mean anyone with a bit of fortitude and perseverance can program. Will...

Logging and auditing are different things. Redo logs are changes that occur which are logged but that's for recovering a database gone bad and not really for auditing. Auditing is what user is doing what. Fine tuned auditing is extremely resource intensive and any transaction based database...

So, some anonymous dude shows up and snaps a pic of you in a not so great position. Then what? Do you really think anyone here will care? You'll get a 'good luck, dude' from a bunch of people who didn't know you before, and won't care tomorrow. Besides that, why does it matter what a bunch of...

Really. If some guy wants to toss down 100 bones for a Fungi and it supports the game, more power to him. It doesn't fit with the Rogean M.O. and there are a lot of other people involved with the admin side, so I don't see how it's possible. It makes more sense that Platlord just got sloppy...

Doesn't really apply here, since he didn't steal off his books. He'd actually have to have books and sold product and corporate cash to embezzle. Since he said from the get go the donations initially would go for 'backpay', and since 90% of the pay of course should go to 'Dear Leader' then it's...

The generic 'quest' has worn out it's welcome. If every MMO and expansion from here on out quit using standard quests and crappy segregate landmass additions as content, the genre would be vastly improved immediately. Fuck quests and fuck quest logs.

The duping action is code based. You can't really query to see an action on a client. You have to have some set measurable, such as gold amount, or X number of duplicate items, but the problem is if someone offloads gold to multiple alts or instantly sells duped item which probably aren't...

I haven't kept up with this outside of the cliff notes here, but at the end was the team still 9 designers, 1 coder, and a Vu? That's not a team. That's a tabletop gaming session dreaming of their own MMO.

He's exactly the same as John Romero, he rode the backs of others. It's too bad this didn't fund, or there wasn't another Ion Storm. I was looking forward to Pantheon being this decade's version of Daikatana. Outside of pining for UO or old school, what exactly do you want, Dumar? I want...

Sounds like EQ: N. My preference would to have players build the village, be the village leaders, and also be the bandits, with hired NPCs thrown in but by and large the world revolving around players and not static. TESO definitely is a letdown due to being a single playerish themepark...

Toxx answered nicely:

Outside of mods, Elder Scrolls single player games are static worlds. In TESO you can run in any direction and do any variety of quests or none and the world is far larger than Skyrim. The only thing you really need to do is the main quest which is exactly like any Elder Scrolls Game. There are...

Actually it's EXACTLY like a single player Elder Scrolls game, which is the problem. There are tons of things to do, but most of them are setup in a single player environment or a 'public dungeon. It's the same problem as the PVE in GW2. It's built around you, and you alone. These guys really...

Brad's dream was 40+ million so he could bank half of it, and pay the little people to develop a game for the unwashed masses, with of course zero investment from himself. This was never a serious venture. They didn't even have a design doc from day one, let alone any actual work done, yet they...

I'd be surprised if Zenimax does not have a few heavy hitter database pros, especially with the way their technology is setup. As far as backtracking, auditing is extremely resource heavy and not feasible with a large amount of concurrent sessions. Anyways, it shouldn't be needed, but...

Three completely different games there, ya know. Of the three, KOA is far closer to ESO than the other two. Dark Souls is pure action, with crappy multiplayer. ROS has fun multiplayer with very limited depth unless you want to bang on the loot pinata. KOA is a hoot and is dirt cheap currently on...

Polar opposites. Schilling trusted game insiders and corporate goons and thus his company ended up a train wreck. Mcquaid was one of those game insiders preying on the same trust, he just couldn't find an angel like Schilling to bilk out of millions so he had to settle for 100G from low income...

Makes sense, especially if you're still digging WOW. Wildstar is fresh and SOO is long in the tooth content wise. WOW still has a ton of content though, and alts in WOW remain a great way to spend time. Wildstar plays different enough with the housing and combat, and I think the Credd system...

Thanks for sharing that. That's a great list. I have some disagreements, but overall it's a very good write up. I'm hoping as the game matures group vs group will materialize. I just do not see it right now. I thing the PVE is decent, but as a long time MMOer to me it really gets boring...

I don't think that's true. I think most people were cautiously optimistic with a wait and see attitude due to Brad's history. I think it was more "we hope he's learned, but show us something and we'll consider it". I think things spiralled down when he announced they had been working at this...

Whats your playtimes, Quineloe? I'm doing some farming on my 60 Shaman. I'll be glad to buff and power you if you want during that time. Hit me up on Ledd. Work is beating me, but things are starting to slow down a bit. Hoping I get more time, and TESO bores me after an hour or so.

The risk was extremely high. Borderline insane that anyone would give to this project just looking at the initial discussions and team layout. Let's do Gecko's top 6 list of why pantheon was doomed from the start: They had 1 non-designer. One! They had 10 non tech people! Denaut splains...

That actually makes a ton of sense if you look at it from the console aspect, similar to how Skyrim was built. The problem is those of us in the PC Master Race want more! Also, grouping in SWTOR especially with the social choices and inter group class depdencies felt a lot smoother but I...

The biggest travesty is that 160k could have funded an actual small passionate indy developer making a nice new game. Instead it basically went to fund out of work game designers for... nothing. I think most of the forum pretty much repeated ad nauseum that this would occur, so it's not like...

I think the game is good for an MMO, I just have some personal gripes, similar to FF14, but overall this one is a better game. My main complaint is about the combat more than the grouping. I do agree grouping isn't focused enough in the early levels. it might be later, but in PVP and PVE it's...

I'm not sure I'll keep my sub going past a month simply because I hate the combat in this game. The more I play it, the more it irks me. The ability delay and animations just add to my dislike, but overall I just don't care for their combat system. It's like they took the worst of Skyrim and...

I personally hate the graphics, but I'm not a fan of stylized 'toon' stuff. The classes aren't that bad. It's aimed at the current WOW player, but the problem will be how many of those people want a game like this? I think they have a solid game, and I'm curious how their Plex like system...

In my personal comparison if you price it piece by piece with a frequent 30% off deal and add the O/S the amount always ends up more money for a self built. If you pirate the OS which I don't personally do it's closer but still more. I bought an Alienware with a 6970, i5 with 16G RAM for...

Dell Outlet does 30% off sales all the times. If you don't want to build that's the way to go. I used to build every 18 months but it's a waste of my time now that I'm older. A few years ago I got a rig with an i2400k and 6970 cheap cheap. You really aren't saving any money building your own...

Banhammer from ZOS: Community ManagerJessica Fulsomposted an announcement today of the studio's opening shots against evil-doers: "Today, we made our first major strike against those who choose to cheat inESO, permanently banning thousands. This is only the beginning of our ongoing efforts...

There's only one MMO phone.

I think the fact they have so many teams working in parallel really will help the overall development timeline, but I do think 2015 is ambitious. I'll be surprised if the DFM isn't out at the end of this month. It has quirks, but the best way to test it is to release it and get mass feedback.

The timing and competition are the biggest positives this game has, really. Wildstar won't really be taking any people and there aren't any other good MMOs in the near future. There's going backwards or looking at expansions for 10 year old games that are really stale. EQ Next will be...

The nameplates don't bother me much. The combat is my biggest issue. It really makes it feel like an Elder Scrolls game, as it's meh. I wish they had went with traditional MMO combat.

I have a lot of personal gripes, but the game is solid, and the tech works far better than their steaming pile of beta shiite. Yeah, a lot of the biggest complainers in this thread bought this game. That really doesn't mean anything, though, as we're all addicts. I'm really not in a rush...

I'm doing quests + grinding what I find + searching out Skyshards and the game is staying somewhat fresh. I seem to get a level every 45 minutes so I think it's a wash. Grinding is just boring as fuck for me without the EQ group dynamic.

Hit me up with your playtimes, if you want me to bring my bard along sometimes. I can also camp Ledd there which should make anything EZmode... I'm playing TESO, but only in small doses.

I've only done about six hours of PVP but haven't seen any bugs.. Is it pretty bad for sieges?