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About 6 weeks after Wildstar release sounds about right for a good release point. That would also put the pre-release patch around Wildstar open beta I guess? Business as usual.

.. world is destroyed, titans come check it out and their leaders are crushed by the Old Gods who start to swallow up more titan-terraformed worlds, Titan (the "canceled" project) is revealed to be in full production and will really be WoW2.0 but you play as titans (new alliance) or legion (new...

I agree that EQ was harsher then current-gen games, so dont take this the wrong way, but: Your whole argument boils down to the path of least resistance in EQ was fighting mobs a few levels below you so thats what people did, while in newer games the path of least resistance has you fighting...

I mentioned mechanics I want back earlier, but the big point is what kind of game this will be. Others have brought up similar ideas: I want it to be an immersive world first and foremost. That comes with a few stipulations that would be seen as a step back by most players: 1. First person...

I think "water not yet in, tech hurdles" is from SOE live? I never took it as 'we wont have water' but more as 'the napkin with our plans for water environments is not finished'. Planetside 2 doesnt really feature water either now that I think of it, except as map borders. Although they picked...

As long as a game isnt obviously incompatible with just 'going red' I would say make a server for it and be done, zero special code outside of the needed additions like actually using attacks on players, how/if you can loot them, etc. No level-based cuddling either. You can still branch out into...

Want: Respawns and crowd control. As fun as some encounters in current-gen dungeons are, they are usually isolated encounters, I miss the suspense of trying to crawl through challenging dungeons while staying ahead of or dealing with respawns (EQ example, my group usually crawled Charasis...

Usually in this kind of game the places you arent meant to get to are empty, but dont let me curb your enthusiasm. Personally I hope they manage to mask the fact that every explorable bit is planned and accounted for well enough that it doesnt take away the illusion. And to Carbine, please...

Do you have any numbers for that, or like a list of what "most MMOs" encompasses? Because tbh I do not believe that. I can think of a few fails that might have performed worse (that "Pirates!" the MMO thing, Tabula Rasa maybe, etc) but I would never say most. Out of pure, baseless speculation I...

Pretty much this, banking your own project on Blizzard doing someting in any reasonable time frame is lunacy. They'll need this kickstarter, and two more in 2 and 4 years until this arcade thing finally comes in 2017, unless it gets titan'ed then all bets are off.

About as close as Easter... and to turn this into an analogy of the thread activity, I dont really care about Easter with Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up and all. This is still the most anticipated upcoming MMO for me but what is there to talk about? That hasnt been said ten times, anyway.

Didnt read but has to be a WoW clone, seconding that Ever, Jane will be superior.

I put both at 3-5, I'm sure they value honesty about the beta and convincing a new potential customer over someone that will buy it anyway!

I wouldnt consider a game you can run on your own server, play single player (assuming offline) or mod to your liking an MMO.

He is the George Lucas of RPGs is that what you're saying? And is that a good or bad thing?

It is 5vs5 pvp game, thats as far from mmorpg as it gets without going single player. I play a bit of Bioshock and Tomb raider from to to time if that counts? (It doesnt)

Werent behind-the-scenes ties to SOE rumored/inofficially confirmed in the first half of this thread? Too lazy to look really. Until there are details that confirm this is going to be a world first and game second I feel kinda meh about it because it's really the only shot at an immersive world...

Pistols at dawn, you beef-witted lewdster! I will not stand for suck talk here.

Elidroth is the SOE liaison for McQuaid's upcoming project and his use of SOE assets, you heard it here first!

If you look at the other side of this, from the development team side, maybe not everyone *wants* to go back and spend a few years on something they already accomplished a decade ago. I dont know about Garriot, he's up there with Molyneux on my bullshit-o-meter, but I'm sure whoever makes the...

That class unlocks after you beat the campaign once, supposedly because it would be difficult for a brand new player to make a good build without being overwhelmed by too many early options due to that placement.

Free T1-fit cruisers for life in EVE would be sweet regardless of more powerful ships existing, so even with that caveat lifetime insurance might be very good once the game comes out. That aside you could pump hundreds or thousand of dollars into this for bigger/better insured ships, and still...

If you know someone trustworthy that backed the game early enough to gift him the package you buy he can upgrade it to lifetime insurance, then gift it back to you. This works until some point in November, after that everything comes without lifetime insurance. Nobody really knows how important...

Wow did they go full retard and added weapons you can only buy with station cash? I am not really up to date with the game since like May because I was playing other stuff but kept it earmarked in case the FPS itch comes back. Weapons you cannot obtain without buying station cash would make me...

He agrees, that seems to be the point of the post, duh. He's right with it too, tapping late-twenties/early thirties is a good move for a mainstream product.

Still the same odds to get them, but the price on the TP has tripled. However they've been mentioning another way to obtain is coming (been saying that for half a year, I figure it'll be another half until we get that).

It's belly-up like any MMOfail, and the F2P conversion is terrible. Playing for hotkeys is a new low imo. That said, it IS free to play so unless you are on limited bandwidth I'd just run the download and try it. The Star Wars flavor is there in many parts, I had fun playing through the smuggler...

AE mez, unlimited targets, duration increases with targets hit. I would buy it just for that skill.

A poll on this would be interesting, just make sure it's neutral and has as many choices as you can cram in.

Yea nice and all, but if you "massively shit the bed" that's all worthless because you fucked it all up TORtanic style. "Bioware storytelling, Star Wars IP and unlimited budget, what could go wrong" was a common opinion on TOR. "genre-changing storybricks AI, groundbreaking voxeltech and the EQ...

Let's at least try to be objective here. Unless they massively shit the bed TOR is going to be absurdly successful. I dont think the comparison is out of place. I think it's unlikely though because despite their mediocrity throughout the last decade SOE can probably do "MMO" much better then...

Whenever you want to ask what class to pick for wharever part of the game to do well, the answer is warrior. Well except fun, if you cant stand warrior gameplay try something like guardian or mesmer

The best thing this game can do is slap wizards silly for their stupid handling of the MTGO software. It's a license to print money and they let it crawl along on shitty software made by amateurs.

Back in summer when they announced the plans for the rest of 2013 they mentioned new skills. I'm hoping they realized that emphasizing roles more would be healthy for the game. They dont need to go retool the game into full trinity but somewhere between that and the current GW2 is a sweet spot...

That doesnt even look good on paper, it'll be GW2 all over in reality.'You wont switch to other campaigns unless you choose to' means you can switch (obviously, we knew that) and combined with 'Keeps, Scroll ownership, emperor status, and where you are in the world don't get reset. It gives a...

Funny how opinions differ. For me, pve-wise exploring the outdoor areas and just looking for hidden stuff was a blast. Instances are okayish but nothing new, kill a few trash packs, a boss, trash, another boss. Fun but predictable. The outdoor areas (until you've done them a few times) really...

For the more advanced wang towers you need some components that you can only buy with station cash. After you cough up that entry fee, feel free to go wild!

I wouldnt worry about spending karma and just buy the things that are decent upgrades, no need to get every +1 power item though. You might want to start getting stingy with karma in the 50s or so, because you might want to buy alot of stuff once you reach 80, but otherwise karma has never been...

Agreed on both counts. For me ideally you wouldnt ever "finish" a character. The game should have some kind of diminishing returns AA for stuff to advance your character even while you help some strangers complete a quest or dungeon. If your character is only advanced by top-tier loot, doing the...

I think what he means is dont make seperate NA, EU and Asian server boundaries that cannot be crossed, and moreso dont flag servers for specific regions/nationalities/languages. I have to say I did prefer that setup back in EQ. Our guild was a mix of EU and NA people that had a fairly wide raid...