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You pick classes at creation? Already doesnt sound like TES before you enter the game world. D&D Online was(is?) an okay-ish game, I think you owe it an apology. As someone who did not even register for beta because I dont see how TES and MMO go together, we get it. We really do. You should give...

GW1 wasnt considered an MMO, not even by Anet. Their own FAQ even adressed that back then iirc (See GW2 forums for GW1 player tears because the sequel is a different genre). Path of Exile uses the same setup GW1 does so that's an MMO too? But actually both of them are closer to what I think an...

EVE invasions are kinda rallying calls anyway. Doesnt make it less sandbox. However, all the name-calling and nagging has now convinced me to take the $100 I had earmarked for this and spend them on something worthwhile. So i bought myself aspaceshipinstead. Thanks everyone for making me...

That's the situation I am in really, all I know about post-TBC comes from this forum and FoH before that. If it turns out too boring to play through the expansion I'll quit again but I'm thinking for a first timer the zones are still interesting. If the leveling is really *that* fast maybe I...

That's easy to solve, have nobody from Azeroth-Prime that is important to the story taking place on old Draenor even step through the portal. Then they wont meet themselves. You have the same person exist on both sides of the portal but I dont consider that a problem, after all Onyxia existed in...

He usually does it for a quick troll, so that counter-question doesnt reflect too well on you

Spot on, anyone thinking Blizzard does not pick the right release date to screw the competition is living in happy rainbow land. Look at the MoP release and the timely small patches that drove the early MoP story forward, all during the first months of GW2. After the playerbase settled a bit...

As long as I can make them less intrusive (GW2 style colored borders are fine imo) the telegraphs work for me, and they dont cheapen PVP either imo. I do agree that kills need to take a bit longer. A bit, not 5 minutes per mob. maybe 30 seconds for a single mob where depending on what the mob...

Someone prepare a Daenerys "Where is my kickstarter" picture so it's ready to go when the 3 weeks are up!

You got that all wrong: Once the coat is done we get it for free, just being allowed to play with the yarn costs $100... I guess we have alot of kittens here =)

I agree, alpha squad was a much better offer. I think my previous post said the same though. I'm not going to spend an hour finding out if any "big house developer" has done it before, I refered to games in general including indie or whathaveyou. Most prominent would be Star Citizen I...

Perception matters alot, and what Dahkoht wrote is exactly what I thought when I first read about this. Mind you, if Trion had put out word about their game first I would be thinking the same about Landmark, but the announcements of forging ahead into a new genre mix so close together had me...

How could them using a practice that's been in use for years be considered precedent anyway? Kinda funny to see people acting like pre-relase buy-ins are a brand new idea in the F2P market. I have to say though the package is pretty lame compared to what PS2 alpha squad got you. I'm still on the...

Wild guess would be it's abysmal failure drove the company to the brink of collapse and had negative repercussions for all their projects (End of Nations and that korean import MIA/retooled, people laid off, etc). I think they are floating solely on F2P Rift right now.

Accessability removed interaction with non-guildmates. In EQ I prefered grouping with the guild over randoms, but when that wasnt an option I turned to random groups. In current gen MMOs, I turn to solo progression. That's just one piece of the puzzle mind you. Another would be that in ye olden...

Damn I'm not that much into whoring myself out for a key but I want on that spiffy list. Let's see... If I got a key I could drop the thought of resubbing WoW, so if you want to keep WoW subs low throw me a key? That enough, Bondurant?

Would be interesting to try and work up a definition of "MMO" and sticky it. I'm just chalking this up as being in the wrong forum and leave it at.

I think they started their company before the gaming landscape was changed by browsergames/WoW/tablets+smartphones/F2P and had a loyal base of whoknowshowmany subs throughout their run so far. They released the game in 2003, that's a decade ago and an entirely different premise for starting up...

From their own FAQ: I would say, No this isnt an MMO and belongs in other games. Same for Star Citizen. Both of them are working hard on blurring the lines but ultimately the ability to solo play, make closed multiplayer copies of the entire world or in the case of Star Citizen run and mod...

Having a vision and implementing good mechanics to match that and be a fun game at the same time is a hurdle you can take when you have secured financing. My concerns come into play much earlier, when the visionary designer? tries to get the money to even start the project. My fear is that...

That's ok, everyone makes their own choices. You're coming across a bit like Utnayan here trying to make everyone realize the truth and the evil of in this case EQN.

Sounds like a milestone once funding and ALOT of other goals have been met, like Star Citizen does it. But as I said I dont see him getting that far and other things are far more important at the early funding stages. For example, I would put weather and seasons as more important then your...

I think your vendetta against this pricing/scalping model is a couple of years late. As others have noted early access selling is pretty widespread for any F2P that manages to get some publicity before going open beta. Your other point seems to be that corporations are going to take advantage of...

Unless you are independant financially that seems to be a difficult goal in this business, moreso then for a restaurant or the like. Nobody is going to tell a specialty restaurant that McD makes alot more money (no shit sherlock), but for video games the suits dont think that way, here...

I think there is a basic disconnect between the terms alpha/beta in their original meaning and what they represent today. Maybe I'm wrong regarding Landmark but I'm guessing servers will be mostly up, for example. I would not have expected that from a B2P game in 2001, not even in a beta much...

I think many people would do that (me included) but that'd have to be the game that I want, down to the details. Given the scope and expectations for this project, I'm at $10 or less for a single or two character longterm interest. I'll happily raise that up if there's a game I can properly...

Well the "option" of subscribing doesnt stop the problems you describe. To reduce those issues you need a sub, no if and but. That's why I am in favor of starting at a lower monthly amount but without F2P. The 1999 reasons for $10 or more just dont exist anymore, bandwidth and data storage is a...

People take these offers for vastly different reasons. Mainly I want to try the game even if incomplete earlier, second reason for me would be the gimmicks (skins, flag, etc). If the $20 pack had early open access only, I would still pay for the alpha even if that pack didnt have early open...

You have to jump some hoops to do that, and run the risk that they later change their log-in / server / IP-detection in a way that makes it impossible for you to log in. Even opening the website with an EU IP refers you to pro7 when you try to make an account, although its obviously easy to...

I want the game to be subscription based but without a box price. I believe the audience he is adressing is looking for a longer commitment to one game and a sub would mean a reliable revenue that would help the development of additional content. I would not mind a cash shop for additional out...

This a good point really. Hell I even want different things from the various stages of EQ that I know back, and thats only 2000-2004, and (I know you hate the thought) I also want some things from newer games added too. Example: Everquest had some faction rivalry themes, featured prominently...

Convo, you sound like you havent bothered games that were build as F2P games so far (as opposed to sub games that switch to F2P), but "buying the game" to play early instead of waiting for it to go open beta is pretty standard. I paid the $100ish to get into MWO early because I wanted to play...

I think there is room for 'MMOs with pvp' and pvp 'MMOs' both. This game is looking to have the same pvp options as WoW from what I gather, plus the guild vs guild thingie. Although WoW could easily copy that in the next expansion since the build-your-base sidegame is pretty much the foundation...

They are probably running out ideas for a weekly or however often they them video. Maybe they finally realized that the closet full of napkins isnt going to turn into a game within a few months just because they want it that way and are now starting some programming work, who knows. About...

I doubt Landmark is in any way set in Norrath, unless you think that spacesuit is everquesty. A better description would be you can build whatever the fuck you want including a recreation of a crashed ISS, but sometimes they'll have contests for EQN-specific content on limited tilesets when they...

I very much want this, without going back to an exact copy of EQ. 10 minutes downtime after killing blue is excessive no matter the class imo. I liked food/drink as a concept in WoW, assuming the time from nearly empty to full is tuned suitably (which for me would be about 2 minutes). You're...

I havent dealt with much LFD, but cant you add a [CC] as another thing to queue as? In the example we're talking about the dps classes would get the primary cc function so it shouldnt cause more waiting. Depending on the type of CC given out to reduce the "only dps" syndrome you wouldnt even...

I think graphics are decent actually, although some could use some tuning ofc. Then again I dont mind WoW/wildstar graphics either. And I wasnt talking about the actual spiderman movie, I made one up in the post above similar to how SOE makes up an entirely new world/lore and uses names from...

They could rebalance the game towards also requiring crowd control for level-appropriate medium and hard content again and make the current "dps only" classes be the best at that. I'm sure some of them could be made tanky too.

I agree that rebooting was needed for a new Everquest title. I think the question is what does rebooting a franchise mean for you and what do you consider a good reboot. Shitty analogy again, but the described EQ reboot to me is like rebooting Spiderman, but the new movie has spiderman be an...