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I really like everything about EVEs design, since Privateer and Freelancer are two of my favorite games. EVE just is not fun to play. I don't like the Flight Modeling, and the gameplay. Everquest had great community, but it's just not what many of us are looking for. It's more of a...

EVE is a completely different animal. Darkfall likewise does not promote group vs group combat and also is catering to a far different crowd than the DAOC RVR one. If you want me to simplify it more, EVE is a space based trading open world sandbox game. Darkfall just sucked. Something you won't...

The engine portion worries me less than the design part, due to what's available out there and the amount of talent one can hire cheaply, especially overseas today. Denaut, essentially he's delivering DAOC 2, focused almost solely on the PVP portion with a few additions. The problem he is...

Fortune 500 companies actually pay and have great ROI. Game studios by and large are not that profitable, and most of their money is invested in people to create things, and not in manufacturing, physical products, or resources. I had an opportunity to work for a game company in the 90s, but...

C'mon man, at least tell me you'reKilroy! On a side note, why I like the CU videos, I really hate their kickstarter campaign. Their tiers are such a crappy design, I wonder if they spent 20 minutes inventing and bundling this garbage. If someone donates $1250, they should be staying in Mark...

Not at all? The average person doesn't care about writers, or even actors. Sean Penn is batshit insane, and people still go to his movies. What'll hurt it at the box office is the fact it'll probably suck.

I'm an avid reader, but I've morphed into preferring games having the depth of story and presentation of Dark Souls. Let me research it if I want, but throw me in the fucking world and make me the story.

Who was that chick who ran the Herald? It'd be amusing if Ut was actually her.

Actually, Ut has been totally consistent with his praise of Rob Denton and pushing that Jacobs/Firor/rest of Mythic were inept. I'm curious regarding his source. It seems Denton and him are at least friends, if not the same person. I do find it funny that he's slamming a post by a person who...

I like the cat and mouse concept, but really that should be doable by world design like you insinuated and not using either a Romulan Cloaking Device or Ring of Power. I think stealth should never be pure invisibility, ever. Likewise, a camo version shouldn't be invisibility past 10 yards, or...

That looks like a great single player game video.

While I generally get a good vibe from a lot of their videos, I'm not on board with their stealth one. I really wish they'd have designed a small, non invisibility version of stealth a la camouflage, or maybe looked at Guild Wars 2 implementation for a good alternative, instead of having the...

+Aliens2 I love Blade 2, but it's not at the same level of the above.

I LOVE the concept of the Rift. My point was more so if game companies can't even create a game that uses the Kinect correctly, I don't have much faith in them doing so for this.

I personally don't care for the the cash shop design. What I want to pay for iscontent. I'm not interested in silly hats or strange oversized weapons. I want more things to actually do in a game. If the cash shop funds a game for me to play, though, I'm cool with that. I just don't like any sort...

A niche game sold on the things that attract me to MMO PVP gaming from someone who has actually delivered games is far more enticing to me than a VR headset that I see performing in a similar manner to Playstation's Move or Microsoft's Kinect. I personally won't prepay or crowdfund either. I...

Ut, I think you are confusing a dash of hope with blind faith. Grim's post below reflects my own opinion, so to save time I'll just repost it:

Well, I'd prefer a holodeck, you know... He's making a niche MMO game on a very limited budget. What do you expect him to do?

Personally, I'd say original DAOC Frontiers with none of the crap PVE, but Realm Ranks, planned relic raids, good viable small team combat, and a few other hooks. If they could incorporate Darkness Falls in a non PVE manner, that'd be great, but I don't see it possible in a PVP focused game.

Given the state of the MMO landscape, I doubt there is a single actual expert out there. I'm also baffled about the statement that CU is just a projection of what old time gamers would like to see in an MMO. That seems a good idea after .38S being a projection of.. nothing? and SWTOR being...

On an aside, I think we've found a new potential job for Curt Schilling: head of Paramount.

The first sentence is true about any Kickstarter project. The last sentence is merely a personal attack and again makes me curious about your personal beef with Mr.Jacobs. It's a slow work day, break out the stories! I personally like what the guy is selling, and hope the game is what he...

I like Jacobs approach for this. To be fair Curt's approach with 38S was to be super secret and hush so his rule the world game could suddenly take over the universe. I thinkCamelotChained is aiming for similar success as DAOC. This and Star Citizen are tempting me to donate via kickstarter..

That Cars figure does not surprise me. Look at the coin Thomas the Tank Engine brings in. I'm not sure you can really compare that to comic book movies, though, unless your demographic is 5-10 year olds. I always hated DC when I was younger, and loved Marvel. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green...

Like Draegan said, it's everything. All the toys, movies, licensing, etc. If you've ever been to Disney, and seen the hordes at Star Tours, the Indiana Jones show, or any of the other Lucasarts tie-ins you can see this is a very good purchase for Disney. I'm hopeful they'll do for Star...

I'm glad they were funded. Defense Grid is quite a lot of fun. It definitely is priced correctly, though, as it's not really a big game.

Shadows of Yserbius on Imagination Network wasn't a MUD, though. It actually had some crude graphics. I did a few MUDs, and was really into Doors and BBS systems in the 80s. Holy fuck I feel old.

I tried for about 8 hours to get KB+M to work with this, and while it's playable, the game works far better with an Xbox 360 Controller. I can't recommend enough to nab one to play this game on. One thing I've noticed playing this through on the PC, is that 1/2 the invaders seem to be...

I'm sure it's on the Kickstarter site, but what happens to the dinero if they don't reach their goal and shut down everything?

Is there any actual reason to resub if one is just leveling and playing through storylines? I loathed the endgame at release, and really just want to eventually finish every story. I'm happy to exp at a slower rate.

There's hearing a guy is a dick, but to me you seem to have absolute contempt based on your blasting of him here. Sounds like there's a pretty good story here to be told. As an aside, how many good Execs and Senior people are there in the MMO world at large? I've worked IT in Fortune 500...

Yeah, I love everything they are promising about this game. I just can't support a former VP of EA getting my cash via kickstarter anymore than I can support crowdsourcing of Garriott's next space trip. At least I expect Jacobs to launch a product and make cash, even if I bet it's meh. I...

Whatever happened to the Earth and Beyond license?

I went in thinking I'd hate it, but I actually really liked the gameplay. I'm going to nab it.

The one thing that would make me consider donating to Star Citizen is remembering how Microsoft changed Freelancer and threw Chris Roberts out the door. The one game I want most to be developed is a real successor for Privateer. They are hyping Star Citizen to be that game. That said, even with...

Same here. It's like the web version of Dark Souls.

You have a good point, but it doesn't change the nature of kickstarter being a flawed and poor mechanism for 'investment'. As I mentioned above I'd prefer to see crowdsourcing actually BE considered an investment instead of a preorder, where those who contribute actually get a stake and with the...

You've piqued my interest, I'll take a peek and see if it's better than it sounds. I guess it's good to get out of my action, drama, fantasy nice little triangle I tend to stay in. It has to be better than 'The Shack' my sister convinced me to read a while back.

The hilarity quotient from that link is extremely high. If you drop $250 you can actually get a printed game manual! If you drop $450 you can get a signed Cloth Map from Mark Jacobs!

Rhode Island disagrees with you.