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Actually, I don't think anything was misleading. They pretty much straight forward said give us money that we'll pocket and we'll continue to work on this project that we were going to work on anyways, but can't due to the fact we want to be paid even though it's our fucking company and we have...

That is just ridiculous. Creed, I disagree. They are trying to pocket a bunch of money and then go and try to sell their game and get more money to pocket. These guys didn't have a single piece of original art when this thing started. What the fuck were they doing Pro Bono? Choom room round...

As far as I can tell, There is no linear questing. You can run in any direction, kill anything you want, skip anything you want, do treasure maps, chests, or just craft. I'd say the lack of linear questing last weekend was good, since half the quests I tried to do were broken.

How tough would it be to use the Vanguard or EQ backend which I'm sure they have a very good handle on and shoehorn it on top of Unity? As easy is programming is today compared to when I started <doing Fortran and Structured Cobol>, I'd argue if you can script, you can code. I'm not quite...

The problem remains they have 9 designers and 2 actual worker bees. Denaut had a pretty good ratio in one of his posts, which essentially pointed to a small studio needing one or at most 2 designers. As long as they have too few worker bees and too many vision/community guys they will be on...

I do, since unlike others he appears to actually have played the game. Fuck those people with too much time and google fu. I'd rather have a shill who actually has access. The only guy I actually trust in this thread is Psykel. I really wish we could see some PS4 screenshots and feedback...

DAOC's servers were very stable. The game, however, was not even close to being done. Hibernia 30+ was not itemized at all. They had placeholders for the gear. Classes weren't balanced very well. The first two months nerfs were abysmal. They had too many levels and not enough content, also, for...

Hey, Grave.. Good to see you posting again. In relation to the conspiracy crap, nobody except Ut and a few Utnaughts are spouting that. Most people either like or hate the game based on the limited content. All of us agree the game was way too buggy last beta weekend, though. I personally...

Why not just ignore Ut? Nobody here outside of trolls takes him seriously. There's a reason he was banned at FOH. I'd ignore him, but when he's not into his faux super insider role, his comments and discussions are actually very good. It's a shame he can't tone down his rhetoric and just...

Damn NDA. GW2s WvW with real objectives and a real class based system is a huge win. The siege videos look good to me, too. Zenimax should buy the guys who made Medieval: Warfare and steal a lot of that system, IMHO.

Tangent time.. So are MMORPGers ruined?

There are good and bad Asian games. The problem isn't the developer location, it's simply those two games were absolutely terrible. I'm with Quaid. SOE has released several games I've enjoyed quite a bit. I've never felt 'lied' or 'betrayed'. If you feel this way about a gaming company not...

There were multiple Blizzard people playing on The Nameless from day 1. Ariel was guild leader of LOS back in 99/00. That was Rob Pardo.

I like what I'm seeing from Smed: The Sandbox MMO | johnsmedley My belief is simple - the content driven model is not where we should be aiming as an industry. Why? It's unsustainable. When we first began making these kinds of games 18 years ago there was nothing to compare our games...

Interesting.. Half way in they show the PS4 special features.

All these freebies and AAs and yet P99 remains 1000 times more fun than EQ Live... My hope is in a few months I won't be thinking Skyrim is more fun than TESO...

Marketing BS. It was Ut's proclamation <again> that TESO is using the Hero Engine, or Hero Renderer, or whatever the fuck he's talking about.. I could care less if it does or does not use the Hero Engine, personally. The graphics and game look fine to me. The bigger issues seem to be phasing...

'The Elder Scrolls Online' is not using the HeroEngine http://www.examiner.com/article/the-elder-scrolls-online-is-not-using-the-hero-engine "We started ZeniMax Online from scratch, with no employees and no technology," Game Director Matt Firor explained in a Game Informer interview...

It's not. They've explained it was used solely for prototyping. Get the fuck out of here, you beta imposter.

I know next to nothing about the game. I have ~25 hours in n00bland playing a Templar and Mage. This has me intrigued enough to preorder if, and only if, I feel the bugs are squashed enough for the game to be playable. My grouping experience was in the first three areas solely, and I'd love to...

Is there any reference to the soft caps, stats, and skill totals besides the confusing single calculator I've found? I know there are skill resets, but I have no idea where I should be putting health, magica, stamina etc based on my fly by the seat of my pants beta build, or even how those...

This is resolved in an easier fashion. Why don't you just message Rescorla ingame?

Red has how many people? It's dead and has no draw. That's the point. The same was true for EQ. The same for WOW, but to a lesser degree as WOW had no penalties for PVP or real consequences and a much larger pool of players. Most gamers do not like PVE/PVP hybrid games. Most of us bitch that...

All three of you are wrong! The millions and billions of us are right!

Psst, that was a joke.. You know, Asians and Blizzard. WOW's initial success wasn't a surprise due how good the game was to most of us. The big surprise is how many people are still playing it, or still pay for a few months each year. I'd love a breakdown of what subs are from NA/Europe and...

Generally I find it the opposite. The small minority of overtly vocal pro PVP people want the ability to gank on demand and if they don't get it, they are mad. No, no Frontiers! We want item loot! We want to cause pain! Generally, if people really wanted to PVP, they'd go play LOL or DOTA...

The problem is they aren't 'making' anything. I can write down a ton of cool copies of AD&D/DIKU derived classes on a napkin. That does not mean you should be writing me a check. Break out some original concept art. Break out some early alpha footage. Show me the high level design document...

Thanks. That makes sense and kind of mirrors what's going on with people I know and my feelings. I think there's enough content for 3 months. I play far less over the summer, so the timing of this game kind of blows for me. I'll probably buy it, too. I'm still on the fence, but the game is fun...

Dude. Ut is a shill due to some personal beef. BAYR is pretty consistent dating back to his FOH days. He generally actually has points, even if they are just trolling... Anyways, break down what's going on at SA. I haven't been there in forever, due to it being a shithole.

See, I equate better PVP to having world objectives and actual goals. Shadowbane had what I consider the best PVP design document ever created, but the game just was garbage. EQ had ganking, but no rep system like UO, and also the class system really made PVPing weighted towards certain...

My understanding of WOW was it was doing slightly better than EQ until Korea and China realized Blizzard had made an MMO.... On a different note, I personally hate AAs. I think they're terrible. Asta, the game you are describing has very little in common with original EQ, also.

I consider EQ to be a terrible PVP game. I loved EQ and played it longer than any game, but it can't compare PVP wise to UO or DAOC which were built for and had actual good PVP mechanics. It was built to be PVE and having a meticulously crafted AD&D world alone to me doesn't lend itself to being...

SWTOR with it's social rewards comes to mind. It's better and far more rewarding to group in that game. It's something that game does very well. I agree with Kedwyn's points. The linear non-group quest setup is a big disappointment. My hope is the game later on opens up even more with...

Brad + Stylized Graphics + Pantheon + Pandas = at least 8.5M Chinese 'subs' and at least 3k NA ones.. That'd match another popular game...

They need some SOE people to start rolling out expansions every six months. Omens of Galactic War, incoming!

You mean like a random cave with a big, bad boss at the back with no quest or story attached in a small hidden area, that dropped a nice blue sword for killing him in one of the early zones<after he stomped me twice, and I brought back a few friends>? The game has those, and other non...

My experiences differ. There are plenty of spots with tons of mobs and you can actually power through levels fairly fast by just mass killing. I actually did a test and killing Werewolves and Zombies at level 12 got me to 13 quicker than pure questing did 11-12. I prefer questing because I...

My first 80 was a thief, and he played fairly meh in PVE. The steal skill was crap and there was very little class advancement after the initial few levels. I didn't do a lot of dungeon runs and really didn't care for the ones I did. The combat and world was very rote, and the quests were...

Yeah, this is why I'm avoiding this so far. I figure the best part of the game is watching Georgeson's twitter feed...

You pretty much reaffirmed my point. Classes in GW2 in my mind sucked. The leveling which was long and tedious sucked. Downleveling areas to add content sucked. Itemization sucked. Exploration was great. Group events were ok, but not as cool as public quests from Warhammer. Sure, it was...