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I actually liked the TESO footage and presentation, but it definitely was curbstomped by the EQ Next information.

The siege of Halas explanation was really cool. I like the Rallying Calls. This game is like nothing I've seen before. It's too bad it probably won't work.

I love the emergent AI and the destructible landscape. I like the exploration and sandbox ideas. Boy, do I hate the graphics. I hope they grow on me.

Cool article to read.. better than the idiot sketching http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/everquest-next-preview/

Dittos. Har at the insiders who missed the boat completely.

When did Bethesda hire Ron Jaworski? Demo dude could be his twin. Online Demo live and the game is available to be played at their Quakecon booth. Game is similar to Skyrim. Any class can use any weapon and any armor. Fast travel is in. Game plays similar to Skyrim. No floating...

The leaders of the projects are recycled because those ideas are likewise reused. Innovation is almost never rewarded in corporate America, and even less in the gaming industry as a whole. I'd be willing to bet many shops would love to do something altogether different, but can't due to the...

For some reason, your inside knowledge reminds of this: <br>

My OCed 6970 with my i5 @ 3.4 got ~8000 at 1920x1200 so that sounds about right. It defaults to a lot lower resolution, I had to manually change mine. I'm not super interested in the game, but the benchmark was absolutely gorgeous.

Blizzard hopping on the bandwagon too, announcing to the media today that they soon will have an announcement.. har http://uk.gamespot.com/news/blizzard...mescom-6412292 Blizzard Entertainment will make a "special announcement" during a Gamescom press conference on August 21, the World of...

My eyes... but still, can't stop looking. So, will today's broadcast be worth watching, or should I just check out the cliff notes tomorrow? I'm still holding out a sliver of hope they'll can the EQ2 combat system completely...

Cha ching http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/07...ore-in-action/ World of Warcraft'snew item store is currently on the test server in preparation for its release with Patch 5.4. Instead of waiting until the store goes live in the game to check it out, you can get a sneak peek at the...

I think splitting should be a fundamental part of the mechanism of an MMO, just like Crowd Control used to be. A lot of WOW people keep talking about the 'trinity' of healing, tanking, and DPS. Back in EQ days, DPS was a given, and CC was what one needed in dungeons. Monks gave one another...

Some of these threads are way too fucking much about Ut, and not enough about games. Would the mods give him his own fucking forum so he can piss on TESO, EQN, and talk about who is banging whom and why Jacobs is the anti christ there solely?

You really don't have to kick a player in the nuts to add a sense of danger. I hate to use the Dark Souls example again, but there it is. You spread the playerbase out by having a huge, sandbox, open world. Not by a bunch of draconian rules.

Actually, they should. They provide real insight, and not made up bullshit or fake 'insider' information. Give me PR spin over some angry guy carpet bombing a product he pretends to know something about any day of the week. It won't happen because Draegan can't see the forest for the trees...

But, Mark Jacobs lives for that community interaction stuff. I'm curious if MJ is bringing back one of his original Camelot Herald peoples, or if he has a new hot 20something community manager. If the latter I get the feeling she'll be wearing two hats. Literally. lol

For some reason that reminds me of Tomb of Giants from Dark Souls. I like being forced to use a light device, and making choices. That game had such amazing atmosphere, and really is the opposite of the 'stylized' cartoony graphics look. I run the same mods on Skyrim and they make a world of...

Why would it be hard to copy what everyone else is doing? LoL, DOTA, Rift<free>, GW2<free>, and other games will continue to eat into their sub base. Say they have 2 million NA players who played 6 months last year. If those 2 million are only playing 3 months this year, and 1 month next...

Why would a kickstarter funded game that's early in development hire a community manager? Not the greatest allocation of funds. I bet Mark has more venture capital lined up. I disagree that this title will be vaporware. It'll definitely ship. Whether it will suck or not is the bigger question.

I'm surprised it's this active now. My guess is this thread will go even more batshit insane after the info dump on Friday. The WOW fangirls have yet to join the fun.

I don't doubt Acti-Blizz showed record profts with MOP, D3, and many Activision titles. Blizz will continue to make money, but the brand isn't what it used to be. D3 was not D2. There is no WOW expansion on the horizon. Subs will continue to bleed. In addition, Acti-Blizz just borrowed 4 Billion...

I think it's safe to say the upside of simply dumping EQ2s combat system and putting EQs on top would far outweigh the NGE perception. My guess is the technical limitations of the game prevented it. Their heroic system was awful, and the skill bloat made it obvious whoever designed the game...

Who is the chief architect behind The Vision of EQN, and does he/she actually play MMOs and RPGs.

Nothing has officially been revealed yet. Until August 2nd gets here, most of what we know is just guesswork or people repeating things they've heard.

I never played on Darktide, but the UO crowd tends to look at it's PVP through rose colored glasses. I was on Pacific from day 1. UO was a gank ridden, bug ridden, shithole in regards to PVP. It's big claim to fame was its innovation at the time which was groundbreaking. The reputation system...

As far as 18 months, it's not like SOE is starting from scratch on the MMO Wheel. They can use their resources from their 50 other MMOs with its code base. I agree instanced PVP sucks, but like others I'm more interested in PVE. The only game that got PVP right was early DAOC with Frontiers...

Flipmode's description sounded better than I expected. I don't mind the F2P setup as I think it'll get the game more populated early. I am concerned about the combat system, and the crafting. Either way we'll find out on Friday. Since TESO and Wildstar are going to be < 90 day playtime games...

Sez the guy pining for UO2. I do think you're right, but why dash what small amount of hope we have? I don't see people going crazy, but cautiously optimistic and ignoring the fact Smed is incompetent and SOE is, well, SOE.

That does not make any sense. It's run by the same parent company, similar to SWTOR and Bioware/EA. Yes, the 'leadership' is different but if they aren't leveraging a lot of the same underlying resources, I'll be very surprised. They both report to the same CEO at Zenimax Media. They both are...

Well, at least Ut left the TESO thread for a while. That said he added nothing about EQ:N that wasn't already known. Also, nobody gives a fuck who is banging whom, and never did. Holy soap opera silliness, Batman. Fuck static world MMO content and paying for quest hubs.

I don't doubt it since Asians are the lions share of their subs. However, that quote tells us nothing about what's really happening. The bigger question is how many of their subs are NA/Western subscriber ones vs the cafe ones? 2 Million? 1 Million? 500,000? We know most of their numbers are...

Source?

My theory is <was?> EQ2 was not designed by people who actually game, but more by suits, and self important types. I always got the feeling with early Blizzard and Bioware that their games were things they played and loved. I did get that somewhat from EQ, although it was more an homage to AD&D...

C'mon Ut. You know you love The Scamps.

To this day I still do not understand why Smed and staff dug in and didn't ditch EQ2's gawdawful combat system. The many, many bad design decisions for EQ2 as well as the nature of PS2 really kills any sense of optimism I have for this title.

I wonder what Blizzard is banking on for next year. I hope it's not D3 on consoles. I'm curious how the recent F2P MMO changes are impacting Blizzard's western subs. My guess is they are still about the same in China, but bleeding western subs, although that's totally a guess.

Acti-Blizz were independent anyways. This just makes it official. Those sub numbers are worthless as we don't know the Asia/West split <as usual>. The only thing that matters are the financials, which really shows their actual numbers. Kotick seems to be catching up to Gabe Newell weight wise...

I may be in the minority but I find actual class limitations refreshing.

I'm hoping EQ Next proves you wrong, but history is definitely on your side. Just out of curiousity, why are you excited? I'll buy and play the game and I get the feeling it'll be polished and fun, but is there anything particular that has you hyped? It has some neat features, but nothing...