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Most people are not going to pledge money to a game when the game itself hasn't been shown in any form yet. Throw in the '3 years away' and this is what you get. They've been told numerous times they need to advertise that alpha is next year but that hasn't been done yet. They don't have any...

I think he may have a bigger audience if he was aiming more for the vanilla WoW crowd (which includes a lot of EQ vets) then simply the P1999 crowd.

Have they fixed the damn universal chat system yet? Thanks, for nostalgia we'll probably head to city of mist first. That was a fun zone back in the day.

I brought that up when this thing first started. Yes, there is a sizable amount of people that played EQ/VG but what percentage of those people have moved on to other things? The telling sign of this is not the interest on this forum, but everywhere else. There is no buzz, no discussion...

I'm not talking interest from a gamer point of view, I'm talking from an investor point a view. Lets admit that the stretch goals seem pretty far off now and even they themselves say 800k isn't going to fund game development. Which means it will need an investor outside of funding. That...

Got the wife to start playing with me again. She went Pally and I switched to a shaman that I copied over. We're both 41, for leveling should we do hotzones (burning woods) or straight to the hole at this point? Shaman's name is Rebalex btw.

Diapers are such a money sink it's not even funny. It was a great day when we she was fully potty trained. Also great was when she finally transitioned fully out of bottles because washing those was a pain in the ass.

Even if it does barely get funded, it looks like they are going to have to do this anyway because I think it's pretty safe to say that it's not going to reach any of the stretch goals. I still go back to what Brad says about this KS proving to the industry (and potential investors) that people...

Not that I disagree, but this was also done in EQ2. They took Freeport and Qeynos and split it into districts and depending on your race you started in a certain district.

Why is it that a game that's targeted at a niche crowd needs to have 1999 game mechanics? You know, there are modern advancements that don't kill the type of game everyone wants, LFG window is one of them. I also find it amusing that some want a direct copy/paste of EQ circa 1999 as if EQ...

I dunno, EQ2 had the exact same thing. Nobody communicated at all on the island in my experience (back when it launched).

Pretty slow day today in terms of funding. Outside of class reveals have they said of anything else coming up? I still think this notion of getting the information out in drips and drabs is hurting more than helping the project.

Have they talked about mounts and other speed enhanced spells/items as far as how they plan on implementing those? My opinion, I think mounts should be high or max level only and very expensive. The fear is that with a smaller population, at some point a vast majority of that population will...

I'm trying to think of the last blowout like this..giants/Baltimore?

Oh wow, what a catch

What an ass kicking

It's keeping Peyton off the field, I'd say that's pretty competent.

The only direct communication you are losing is the spam lvl 60 wiz LFG. After that everything is taken to tells/invite anyway. I think you have a very glorified view of what the LFG channel was in EQ. It was a spam channel where people typed the same thing every minute. There wasn't any...

Again, what is the difference between doing a /who lfg and seeing the results in a chat window vs. seeing the exact same information in a UI LFG window? It's the same exact thing.

I don't know what's the difference of having an LFG window and getting an invite vs. typing LFG (whatever your class is) and getting an invite. Both actions are accomplishing the same thing, getting you in the group. The discussion from that point is happening within the group, not in the chat...

I don't understand how certain classes are able to bind wherever the hell they want. How does that benefit anyone but the caster? Why not make it like vanilla WoW without the meeting stones, group dies and everyone hauls ass back.

Considering that we don't even know if crafting is in, I wouldn't count on that. And inefficient soloing is the equivalent of 'log off' because nobody is going to beat themselves over the head with a hammer if they can help it. Just because you're game is hardcore doesn't mean they'll put up...

I don't see anything wrong with a grouping mechanic. Sorry, there are going to be times where it's 2am and not a whole lot of people on. The answer shouldn't be 'log off' at that point if you can't find a group via chat.

That's one thing I don't think you're ever going to recreate. At least not on the level that it was in EQ. Back then, people played the same game, on the same server, for years. This allowed reps to be built. I don't think any MMO, including this one if made, is going to get that kind of...

If your going to incorporate something like boats, what about flight paths then? I'm not saying go to the length that WoW went but make it limited points around the continent (read: not next to a dungeon).

This whole discussion may not mean a whole lot depending how they are dealing with mounts. We already know they are giving away a mount with tiers so already a certain segment of the population is going to not be running around from right off the bat.

Except that completely is opposite on how he's described this game so far. Wants players to be able to play in 1-2 hour increments. Wants to have movable camps. Both of those go against the notion of being in one spot for long periods of time. I'm sure there are going to be camps in the game...

Just had an amazing comeback game in arena. Was down 23-1 on turn 7 (me playing hunter, them playing druid). Somehow, someway was able to comeback and win the game. He basically had no cards in hand by turn 7, I was able to throw down two taunts and he couldn't break the wall. He was dead by...

How often are the chat channels down on test?

Well if we're talking about early EQ, a lot of what you did solo was dependent on class. There were certain classes that just could not solo effectively, especially at lower levels. This game is being marketed as putting grouping first and foremost (to encourage the social aspect). It's a...

You guys understand that not having any sort of grouping mechanic flies in the face of the comment Brad made that he wants casuals to play in 1-2 increments. Adding time sinks goes against that. I think population needs to be a factor as well. If it's a small player base and most of the...

Didn't LDoN have an LFG mechanic way back when? Everyone seemed to love that. You still had to run to the dungeon though.

I don't think you should put things into this game just for the sake of making things 'hard' or 'timesink' simply because EQ had that mechanic. I do think that what EQ had that this game should incorporate is dependability on classes/players. This isn't a single player game, it shouldn't be...

I think LFG is fine as a grouping tool to form groups but I don't think it should be used to port you to the dungeon or wherever the group is, regardless of how many times that player has been there. Go that route and you'll eventually end up with the WoW syndrome of everyone hanging in town...

Trickle is the right word. Because if they average that the next three weeks, it barely puts them over 3k backers. In a week that's had an AMA interview, a Boogie interview, class and race reveals, addons, etc., that's not a great number over 5 days.

I think the disconnect is '3 years from now'. It's not like there is anything on the KS that resembles the game itself in any way so it's hard for the average person to say 'that looks like something I want to play' when they are not seeing anything. On the funding side, it looks like...

He's not marketing it like that though.

You can say the exact same thing about this project, can Brad make a game that's like EQ with technology from today. It's also not a 1 to 1 comparison, I've always thought of Garriott as a dev and a businessman (didn't he practically run Origin?), who has a long history of popular games...

I agree , I think the pool of interested players is smaller than people think, they just don't want to admit it because it invalidates the 'everyone wants EQ again' narrative. I do think people would play a game like that, but many can't envision that 3 years down the road . Interested in...

If I was the team, the most concerning thing to me was that they did a good number today in terms of dollars but they still are not bringing in the backers that it needs. That means a majority of the money came from the addon's, which let's be honest is not going to fund this thing to goal...