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I'm confused, isn't this vanilla WoW's death mechanic?

It wasn't people on this forum that were going apeshit, it was the KS comments page. Brad knows exactly the type of crowd he's trying to appeal to (the hardcore 'niche' EQ crowd). There are certain things that are taboo to that crowd, such as thing like radar and dungeon finder. The question...

How many times now does Brad say or do something, the community go apeshit, and another dev needs to come in and do damage control. It's been a constant throughout the project. Why say anything about radar or dungeon finder if they don't know if it'll be implemented? Why say they are playing...

IM not sure how this is going to help the backer situation, in fact it may cost a few .

Convo this only proves they don't have a clue as to the direction they want to go. They don't have any hard rules because they don't know what type of game it's going to be.

I don't get the radar thing either . That completely goes against the 'make the world feel dangerous' As for dungeon finder , I think they are scared to death that there will be very little players online and need to have a way to group people up.

I think what's going on now is you have a clash of EQ only players and vanguard only players where EQ players don't want to hear about radar and dungeon finders where vanguard players are more open to it.

Lol [?]Cyrcle 1 point 13 seconds ago Hey Brad. I met my wife in the game in Khegor's End. I accidently dropped her and killed her when using bard levitate (oops!). I have so many fond memories of the game and I just wanted to take the time to thank you and everyone who worked on it. It's a...

The natives are restless Am I reading it right? "There may be a radar that shows nearby mobs". Horrible idea. Why would there be a minimap or radar? This ain't starwars or some other futuristic techno game!

Haha this AMA is a disaster nobody can get to it unless by link and the answers he's giving are very anti old school.

This is a little ridiculous only 4-5 people are asking questions. I can't believe the radar answer, wow doesn't even show mobs on there , does it?

Exactly not what old school EQ players want to hear: [-]AraduneMithara[S] 2 points 2 minutes ago There may be a radar to show you mobs that are around you.And then we'll release continent maps and such like with EQ (paper or cloth). But no spoiler maps. I'm confident others will make...

On dungeon finder ; IF we have one, and that's an IF, the idea would be to help the community, not hurt the community. It would be something where a player wants to enter a dungeon but doesn't have many friends, or his guild is not on. He or she would be moved to the entrance of the dungeon...

15 mins in and there aren't a ton if questions so far? Edit: says they're going to use beta to determine how much crowding the servers can handle which I think is what every game does which in turn leads to crowding issues at launch .

The dungeon finder was mentioned in another interview. They said they want to promote grouping no matter what. Anyone expecting a copy paste of EQ is going to be disappointed.

He's already did that with the 'angel investor' tweet, he doesn't need a boogie interview. That tweet is code for 'we don't have enough people backing this thing'

Which is why this whole thing is disappointing, because we likely will never know. I have no doubt there is more interest than the KS indicates, but how much more? How much has the KS cost in potential backers? 3000 more? 10,000 more? Anything is a guess because this KS has been garbage...

The unfortunate thing in all this is we'll probably never truly know how much interest something like this would generate due to this abortion of a KS campaign. Despite how piss poor it is, I still expected something better than 2800 with all the talk on how there is this groundswell of...

That's an incredibly depressing tweet if I was one of this mindless fanboys on the KS page. It pretty much amounts to begging which it sounds like what they are reduced to. It's like he hasn't gotten the memo that you need to actually have some sort of product in order to get funding for it...

I agree although you have to admit, it started coming down hard like I've never seen here and I've been here around 10 years. My street was completely covered in 20-30 minutes.

I'm not really sure why any of this is a big surprise. The reality is he hasn't really done anything great (in terms of game development) in 12-13 years (if your opinion that Velious was the last great EQ expansion). Vanguard was and will always be a black mark so what else is there? So now...

Around here in Raleigh, people did the same thing they did back in 2005, all left work at the same time the snow started. Problem is it's snowing so hard the roads were covered in a half hour. Abandoned cars all over the place now.

Nobody has said this.

Best show on TV right now, bar none. I expect many Emmy nominations. The only minor nitpick I have on the last sequence is by the time the black chicks spots them to when they climb over the fence and then run to the car, no shots were fired on them. I thought for sure they were going to...

The question is did it popularize the genre, not if it influenced WoW. Everyone knows EQ influenced WoW to some degree. It even influenced in bad ways, since WoW was created to combat some of the issues that EQ players were sick and tired of. Did anything come out of that twitch stream last...

Not to turn this into a WoW derail, but this is also not true. Development in WoW began in 1999. From Wikipedia: World of Warcraft was first announced by Blizzard at the ECTS trade show in September 2001.[48] Development of the game started in 1999 and took roughly 4-5 years, including...

Not post PoP I didn't (I actually think PoP was the downfall of EQ as one of the aspects I listed, dependability went slowly out the window in some ways). Besides, isn't what people want is a glorified version of EQ pre-PoP (like P1999)? Isn't that what everyone is setting the standard as to...

EQ maxxed out at 450,000 subs at it's peak. WoW topped 12 million subs at it's peak, with probably at least 3 million in the west. During the time of EQ the typical stereotype of someone who played EQ (or MMO's in general) was still a basement dweller who had no life. Now the stereotype of...

I don't disagree at all, there's a ton of tedium in WoW as well (hello dailies). My point is simply that some are equating tedium to being difficult.

Tell me again, what you described in the first paragraph, how is that any more difficult than what you do in WoW, especially in a raid setting? Yes, most of raiding in EQ was zerg rushing, it was simply strength in numbers. I thought we were talking about difficulty not skill? My assumption...

EQ had 3 things that really defined the type of game it was. None of which was difficulty. Tedium - Corpse runs were tedious. Grinding mobs is the very definition of tedium as all your doing is sitting in one place killing the same mob over and over again, usually just so you can watch that...

That's the funniest stuff I've ever heard, paying to get into the forums on top of the money you already backed. Aradune - You have become better at begging (1)

What exactly makes you think that Pantheon if by some miracle gets made is going to have PvP like EQ? Not ever the stretch goal really talks about how it would work.

Haha nobody else rolled on the zek severs either. Let's stop pretending EQ pvp was this bastion of pvp that everyone rolled on. Hell check p99 red and let me know how many are rolling in that.

If you design a game around PvE and then you throw in a server that just 'flips the switch', you wind up with a horribly imbalanced PvP game. The game you're wanting isn't EQ PvP, it's DAoC. That game was designed for both PvE and PvP in mind.

Every game has crazy fans backing it, no matter how small it is. Some liked Horizons too.

But you are such a small minority to a playerbase that no sane developer, especially this project is going to devote resources to a PvP server going in. I think you simplify it a whole lot by saying 'flip the switch'. I think a whole lot more goes into it, it's probably one of the reasons Brad...

Uh, I expected the presentation of what they are actually trying to make would be a hell of a lot better than what we got, which is nothing. Considering he said countless times they got started in September, considering the KS was even delayed from last year. Logic tells you that they must be...

You played the wrong game. Dark Age of Camelot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I agree, saying EQ was a great PvP game simply means you never played PvP in any other game. Hell, I think vanilla WoW's PvP was better than EQ. EQ was never designed as a PvP game. DAoC was, UO was.