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So pass?. Make a tranny thread and be done with it.

Georgeson: "You know how we spent all that money over the last few years?" Suits: "WE DO." Georgeson: "Well, how about this: We will make two games. One is the actual 'sequel' to Everquest." Suits: "GO ON." Georgeson: "The other is this: We will turn the new dev tools into a Minecraft game...

The above is a great summary. Watching the replay, there is so much potential with Landmark in ways I never considered. To me this is uber-exciting. One of the thing Georgeson just mentioned was a list of things that could be done "outside of the box": Art teachers could reserve plots for...

Put me in the "no joy" camp. I seem to remember going 7 or 8 on that question for that very reason; are they looking for someone who's interested or are they looking for evangelists? Either way, nothing wrong with no getting in; just saves that extra special first time until later, right...

I went Trailblazer, too, for a number of reasons -While I am not normally one for Alphas post-Champions Online, I am excited to watch this take shape. -Closed Beta to Open Beta will be a wipe; I don't expect they will wipe again from Open to Live. -There will be a huge premium on starting...

Doh, I guess.

I really want this to be good. I hope the Oracle gave you some good news.

I personally despise hard-coded factions in most cases. It forces a ton of duplication of content, it's a lazy way to generate conflict, can be a nightmare to balance populations, and unnecessarily (again, totally imo) segregates the player base. That being said, I agree in principle with...

Reading that, it just makes me even more sad that they are taking the wide-open Elder Scrolls world and forcing hard-coded racial factions on the whole game. How much better would have in-game faction choices guiding open-world pvp have been? And there is tons of lore going all the way back to...

Going to put this here because on the subject of Wildstar, I am a 1.5 trick pony. I have really gotten excited about the game, other than the hard-coded two factions, which is a bane on the MMO genre. I can't wait, though, to walk around on and explore Nexus. And by that I mean going places I...

Tebow H., stop writing about conservative positions. Its a combination of strawman and stupid so wrong it makes my brain hurt.

^^Someone needs to tell him da truf: Not that there is anything wrong with that.

I would own the Dallas Cowboys. Football is again in ascendancy nationally; it's the sport I know the most about. The Cowboys franchise prints money, is loaded with talent, and would probably win a Superbowl if the owner would stop trying to be a coach. Another plus is that it is Texas...

Holy. Hell. Just off the top of my head: -It had literally the worst first day of any MMO Launch ever. One of the first to use web server auth but no one at the company knew how to build a cluster to withstand the load. Less than 10 people logged in first day or something. -DB issues for...

When I saw the first pic, I figured the Axe must belong to his boyfriend. I once dated a girl who thought that taking her pants off made her a slut, so she would only pull them down to her knees. That rationalization made us both happy.

Parting with our icons, one at a time.

Same here; Back when you had to actually go somewhere to see movies, I saw it 50-something times in the theater, over 4 releases and re-releases in the original '77-'81 runs.

There is only one answer, patriarch.

I am thinking 15, 15, 15, 15, and time already served.

What was step 1 again?

Hardcoded factions really drain a game of its allure for me; set up factions and let people pick their own sides. If the sides become unbalanced, you can offer incentives and let population rebalance itself without folks having to roll up alts. From what I can tell there is literally no...

You know, I started to post a lengthy list of how I think many of these suggestions are wrong and rose-colored but then I realized A) this isn't my thread; its yours B) Even if such a game was to be made, (and here's to Brad making it, hopefully) I don't have to play it. Someone pointed out...

Which is a shame, because I seem to remember back in the old days there was a fair amount of Dev involvement, right up to Curt being run out on a rail. Not that those guys didn't have some measure of something coming but the sheer vitriol pouring out of people (t)here? Sheeeeeeeeeeet. Given...

I know you aren't saying this exactly, Couloir, but everyone bagging on SOE folks for not saying much: Given the level of nerd-rage over the things they have said, can you imagine what the blowback would be if they said something would be X and then they had to walk that back to Y? Shields...

Look, I don't have anything against Brad; he was a driving force behind making a game we loved (and loved us black and blue back), he had some troubles, and now he is working again. I sincerely hope he makes a great game. Anyone calling on him like MMOheyzeus, though, needs a serious...

While I enjoy a good rant-fest about a game 18 months+ out as much as anyone, the thing about the lore right now is this: they are rolling back the clock somewhat and resetting the players but we don't know where they are going to go with it once it gets going. I would expect to see Cazic, etc...

yes and VVVVVVVV

I think that EQN will launch much better than it would have without Landmark. I think releasing the tools as a separate game is part of the genius of this relaunch of the franchise; I don't think it will monumentally speed up launch from an April '15 launch, although it may pull it forward to...

Chris has indeed spoken about how much further the money goes when you don't have to satisfy a publisher. I think the total they are looking for is 22ish million, which they think goes 3x as far or some figure without publisher strings.

Georgeson is growing on me, I think. That or he is starting to get the hang of this whole P.R. thing. Or I am just learning to not mind him, I am not sure. It really does have to be a tough job to go out and the face of the next iteration of one of frothiest nerd franchises in PC gaming...

Except that they scrapped that game, and then maybe what came after that, before coming up with the idea that they presented at SOELive. I think between some inartful word choices, some wanting to please people, and some pure-D hucksterism, they are way out in front PR-wise than where they...

There isn't an evil race YET. These just aren't the twisted-by-Innoruuk Dark Elves, though, and there isn't a Neriak, the ogres aren't cursed, etc. THEY AREN'T REMAKING ORIGINAL EVERQUEST. The lore, which along with many factions, multiple starting areas, and the overland world was one of my...

Let me explain, then. This is *before* the Ogres were evil; they are just the biggest race in the Combine empire at this point. Everything we think we know about them from EQ is either untrue or not come to pass in Everquest Next. So it isexactlylike saying Anakin couldn't be a Jedi ever...

"But Anakin can't be a Jedi, he's a Sith!!11!" This takes place before such lines had been drawn, when ogres and trolls were distasteful but not much more than those smelly humans who eventually go live in Halas. I think it would/will be awesome; a great draw to play early as the game will...

This may be the thing I hate most about WoW. I played a couple of chars to max level after launch but before TBC. After that first run with it, I never went back mostly because I couldn't be assed to download/update 2 dozen freaking UI mods. Well, actually I hate hardcoded factions more but...

I am all about new systems and not being beholden to the past but this post reflexively stirred my inner rolx/supertouch.

Don't deny the joys of workout to our Ogre bros, bro. If squats and clean and jerks work for Big Flex, how can it be wrong? This is a fantastic idea on which I would only put a slight twist: Not rediscovery but the time before the Everquest we all know. The start of EQN is Before the FallT...

One thing that is definitely reversed on the Curse map is the Commonlands and Desert of Ro. Sailing up from Kunark, its probably easier to escape Ring of Scale notice by moving to the other side of TunariaAntonicaAnadril, story-wise; metagame-wise it allows you time to expand east and set up...

This is Magneto and Professor X working together before the inevitable split. I can see everyone as uneasy allies for a while until this become more "crisp". I am sick to death of hard-coded factions in games. Its just so much wasted space. You might not be able to start in Freeport but...