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This was in response to Flex saying 9 designers and one coder is a bad combo for a startup MMO company. This is the part that really puzzled me as I was under the belief a team should be more programmers and engineers and Oloh's take in refuting Big Flex was to say he was wrong.

I'm interested to try this again tomorrow and see if this is the case. I have a buddy who hated the game six months ago, and now just preordered it. I played a few hours last year and thought it really sucked. I'm going to give it a good, hard look this weekend and see if I've changed my...

I guess this is part of the issue I have had, in that they've been prepping this for months supposedly and had zero content to offer when they threw up the Kickstarter, in addition to the actual information page and design being weak. I do believe the base creation of the infrastructure...

They are using the base Unity engine to fuck around. The project still needs a ton of art assets, UI built <coder>, backend DB <engineer>, ingame scripting <programmer>, network tuning <engineer>, plus code for their game that makes it distinct, not to mention an actual website hooked into their...

Great post. I agree, and this sums up what has been repeated here in a very nice fashion. The only flip is as someone working in corporate America doing coding, I can't code on the side for another group or I'll get in big trouble. Just a thought, but how tough would it be to get enough...

Hey, you're preaching to the choir, man. I'm just saying what I 'think' their strategy is right now. I can't even play WOW anymore since it bores me to tears. I beta'ed Wildstar and it's fun, but it's apparent they are going after the mainstay of Warcraft's audience. Just out of curiousity...

People are still throwing money at WOW, which does not boast guild housing or action combat. The game looks similar enough and is appealing to the same demographic which is their target. I haven't had a holy shit it's awesome moment in WOW in a long time. I doubt most of the people playing it...

Which makes one scratch their head when a startup has 9 game 'designers'.. I hope the Goblinworks guys succeed. It's a cool story.

When does the beta event start? Couldn't find an exact time...

These are the same idiots who send a check to Microsoft for Xbox Live for years to play multi-player on servers they themselves pay for, correct? For the life of me I can't understand why MMO teams don't sell 'season passes' instead of subscriptions. Different wording, same milking of people...

I started playing this about 7 months ago and have a 60 Shaman and a 50 cleric. I've done a ton of content and hit most of the old zones. I am extremely casual. I haven't done a ton of raid content due to the cockblocking by TMO, but recent changes seem to be making that more doable even though...

It's not me, it's the people at Microsoft. Forgive me if I assume they know a bit more about software development than you and I. I think they felt there was an alpha product years earlier with the tech demos that were apparently staged. I personally think four years of development work and...

I have no idea what occurred during the 4 years of M$ support, but I do remember the year before Vanguard released that Brad was a madman on boards, on forums, and trying to drum up interest. Part of me wonders if he had taken that energy and fire and ran his company that way from day one from...

Ignorant is ignoring the big point I bolded twice for you. MS got out of the Vanguard situation becauseafter 4 years of development it was not even in alpha. I don't think they were aiming for WOW. They weren't even getting a new Asherons Call out of this, and yes I believe MS was more...

Quote from Brad, taken from the comments section of his interview with Boogie2988: "In a nutshell, our publisher was Microsoft and we had a deal with them to make a new AAA MMO.For about four years everything was going well and we were almost ready to start some early alpha testing of the...

Any tips on not sucking at GSF? So far I've played two matches, captured a few satellites, but despite shooting a lot of holes into people not actually managed to kill anyone, I really miss Jump to Lightspeed.The dogfighting in this is fun, but still way behind that in quality and flight...

Thanks for the help today, Moontayle. I didn't even consider multi boxing as I've been so opposed to it since quitting DAOC after doing years of it with that game and EQ, but damn if that doesn't sound like a cool idea, Tauntworth. I used to use 2 keyboards/mice and have a G15.. I may have to...

Really, am I the only one who sees the big issue here? In essence, MS has been paying for this team for four years and they aren't even in alpha? Also, this ignores the fact that according to several insiders, MS had been presented with fake tech demos and so thought the project was much...

Given their proximity to Blizzard and SOE, their current location is fine. The problem isn't where, but mainly who. As in not enough whos in whoville doing coding and art, and too many doing 'design'. Honestly, why do they need an office? Everyone on their team should be telecommuting and...

Nine of their eleven original people are 'designers'. Not programmers. Not artists. Designers. I'd guess a big reason why their KS was so terrible at the start is nine chiefs and no indians means they were waiting for us to pay for them to hire their actual worker bees.

Haha, probably. The irony here is I'm from San Diego originally and now live in Ohio. I do have a science and coding background.... I think the surplus of idea men versus actual coders, artists, and engineers is my biggest concern. If you check Camelot Unchained or Shroud of the Avatar, you...

I'm still baffled why VR has 10 game designers. I'd think they'd need more coders, artists, and tech people. Someone should ask Brad about this, and if it's a good use to pay for all these idea people versus implementers...

I've done two characters to 50 without paying a sub. It's a bit slower, but very doable. I'm about to sub just because I want to play through the Hutt content and also because I'm enjoying the game far more than WOW or other F2P games, and playing more. I'm on Ebon Hawk. SWTOR has a /played...

Have they upped exp at all? Leveling was fairly slow and I'd play through this again, hitching and all, if it were for a good cause. I wonder if we can guilt Smed into doing 10x EXP for the last few months or something...

I can't either. The bigger tragedy will be if this game gets funded and half the idiot, tedious ideas promoted in this thread get implemented. LFG tools are a good thing. Making groups wait for 45 minutes so they can all run over terrain they've done frequently before is not good design...

It's the Mythic guys.. Mass nerfs incoming by week three. Repeated again at month two, and every three months afterwards until no fun remains.... Tarrant, my point was more about you lecturing your friend about how he shouldn't like a game he likes. While the game has some convenience...

Dude, it's not New England or Pitt. So, it's a win.

boom.

Chili Peppers look like they belong on an episode of cops.

Never heard of him, but he's sort of a morph between Michael jackson, Elvis, and Otis Redding. This is far better than them rolling out some 90 year old rocker or shitty rapper again.

Game over before halftime. The funny thing is Manning has almost single handedly given the game away. Wilson did his usual game manager deal, playing smarter than Manning.

The server has been on Kunark for over three years. Most of the players you see are alts, or have small groups of friends. The best bet is to join a leveling guild and try and find some regulars. Europa has tons of alts and are really cool to new folks. They play on Euro time, mostly, if that...

This is the vibe I'm gtting also. I enjoyed GW2 but it had fairly meaningless objective based PVP. Archeage has PVP with various purposes in more of a sandbox setting which is intriguing. The crafting system is far more open ended as the game has more of a focus on economy vs raiding, which...

Bummer. The guy was amazing in most of his roles. We have too few great American actors under the age of 80. It's sad to lose another big one.

Er, so he enjoyed himself, but since you know the game is bad, he should agree with you? Not really following, but your reply sounds very Utnayenish in nature. Game is not on hardcore rails like WOW or Rift. One can gripe about the combat or graphics, but it's not a WOW clone. Are you in...

What server are you on? Free to play is fine for the stories and leveling. I've got two 50s, and probably will resub this week. I'm enjoying this far more than my free week of WOW. I just can't get into WOW anymore. This is my go to game now when I get the MMO itch.

Given the market for MOBAs vs the market for MMO PVP, I believe there are more actual 'fair', 'Frontiers' PVPers versus the UO Krazy Klown gankers longing for the days of camping dungeon entrances. The problem is the gank FFA types tend to be the noisiest, because that group as you said isn't...

I was going to friend you, as I play on Ebon Hawk also but couldn't get the special character inputted. My Sith Marauder is Aonita.

The visuals in Tron 2 are stunning. The CGI used for Jeff Bridges is cool. Other than that, I agrree with Caliane. The story was really awful. Still, it was fun to watch. The first movie is a classic and was way ahead of it's time, plus the story was superb. Are you really fucking...

The interesting thing is before they bought Mythic and fucked them up, they had bought Origin Systems and screwed them up, likewise. They currently are destroying another of my favorites, Bioware. I tend to give people bought out by EA the benefit of the doubt. Vandyn, the Ultima crowd are...