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Might be the most egregious case of lack of context and selection bias on this board since Hodj and Kentucky. Bravo.

This. It's one of the reasons why KS campaigns abuse social media. Because they don't have a product that is readily deliverable and so they can't do a ton of convincing through advertising or even from their KS site. People have to go to the site already pretty pumped and the site needs to be...

Yep, and I like the fact that they would have faction issues. Outlaws should have benefits and cons to existing outside of society. One of those cons should be the lack of interaction with a lot of conveniences that normal "citizens" have.

Supposedly, in the Korean game, one server actually had a powerful pirate guild that the whole server payed a 30% tax on cargo to. So yes. That was the last one, unfortunately. I mean, there has been darkfall and a few other poor implementations. But that's it (And of course discounting EVE)

Brad finally dropping regular media and going to the social media commentators? That's a good move, hopefully it's a trend. These guys that have the youtube channels or large social media following have a much higher trust quotient that most media sources, people take it more as "word of mouth"...

Sounds great, can't wait for the beta. Seems like Sandbox is the new buzzword--hopefully this delivers on it....Because people who like Sanboxes haven't had a game in about 10 years.

hah, lawless? The Italian legal system is the only one, in an industrialized nation, more fucked up and broken than the U.S.

LOL, I thought of cheers too, at first. Ira: Awesome, thank you. That's it. I wonder why I thought of a show opening when I heard it, hmm.

Yes, it was written by her in 1973 to commemorate the death of her friend. It was the self titled track in Hikoukigumo (And was one of the less popular songs of the time, supposedly.) But for some reason, the chord progression sounds SUPER familiar. Again, like I used to listen to it at the...

Yep, now this is driving me nuts. I don't know why, but I get this image of a TV show opening in my head when I listen to it, like that's where I heard it, in a TV show opening.

Smed is too busy explaining to his niece why he killed her virtual dog by shutting down free realms. He can't be bothered with a KS!

Best part is that's in pounds. So it's actually 500k dollars. heh.

They've failed because of the nature of MMO's. MMO's, unlike other genres, are meant to be played in a perpetual state AND at the exclusion of other MMO's (Think about it, people RARELY play two MMO's at once.). Their specific nature makes their market a captive one, because population in game...

Yes, I agree. Reward players who want to do the hard mode with much faster gear acquisition. You want it to be easy? Fine, bring a bigger army. But you'll get less gear per person. This way, the actual trophies people win won't be diminished. Someone has theTooth of the world killer wyrm...

I don't think he was talking about progression. I think he was talking about how difficulty is meaningless without scarcity. Its the core of Capitalism vs Communism, really. Can you makedifficultyworthwhile if the reward is easily obtainable by everyone? I And I think the answer is--there is...

This is the opposite of homogenization. Homogenization is making disparate classes all bring the same things to the table. So, if you had a Warrior, Paladin, SK and they all each had their own little buff, but said buff did the same thing and didn't stack? Homogenized (While conversely, if each...

Bane weapons, as in the silver bullet? Are essentially the same type of Mcguffin (IE lazy design) in horizontal game systems as they are in stories. There are so many options for good horizontal systems out there. The key to a horizontal system is changing the way a player defeats an encounter...

Well, he is the proper pronoun assumption for ambiguous or undefined in English (IE if you don't know the gender, it defaults masculine). If we were using a language that specified unknown in withfeminineand I had no way to prove my gender and I was posting in a community that had issues with...

The reason people are saying stuff like this is because on two occasions, a person said they were a woman, rose to the ranks of power with their fake vagina and then almost killed the community during their subsequent outing (Literally almost killed it. Once they used their mod powers to mass...

I agree. Well, on most points. It's more than a glorified lobby because effects in the world will be universal. So if you destroy a piece of the countryside, it affects everyone (And everyone can see it). The biggest thing I dislike about this kind of "seamless mega server" infrastructure is how...

Shroud of the Avatar is using Unity--and, as I said earlier, they are going to he "one giant world" route with seamless phasing/servers (Like WoW recently did.)...So in essence everyone plays on the same shard, but they are phased in as it becomes less crowded or based on a set of parameters...

Well, not women's heads...but who didn't have a chest full of the heads of his enemies? When I finally got my tower, I put that shit up on my wall.

Me too. I didn't work on online games, but when I was in college I actually worked part time at a hobby shop, which happened to have a really big nerd community so there were all kinds of table top gamers who hid their hobby from the world by playing in our back room (And the owner raped them on...

It's like I'm working for the government again

Brad beat us to the punch

The Diablo reference was to having an online/offline world, not about the nature of the online world. The online world is persistent and always there for everyone. It's always the same from every person and what you do in it is universal for everyone logging on. The only difference is in...

Essentially, from what I've read is you have offline and then "online friends" and then "Online Multiplayer". Online Multiplayer will essentially be an MMO. The world remains persistent in regards to locations and structures and events. So if you own a house, everyone knows it's your house. If...

Their online mode is essentially an MMO, right? From what I understand, it will work like Diablo. You can play offline, but those characters can never interact with the online mode--online characters though exist in a persistent world, it's essentially an MMO.

Problem is always engineering. It's the same in the actually industry from what I understand, actual coding and engine manipulation is a pretty difficult skill set--it's been growing as things like Unity become more use friendly but it's still a skill set that's in demand. But hell, I'd work on...

And this really shows, too. I said earlier in the thread, KS donors might not be investors, but it's useful to look at them like theyareinvestors (And Donors). And you don't handle investors through the typical AD Campaign--normal advertising takes time, multiple sources and focuses on the...

1/18 1/20 1/22 It's not just about the PC gamer article, "a lot should happen Monday" has essentially amounted to a vague class release, an anemic dungeon picture and I think a minor Q&A that avoided any specifics and once more focused on very, very vague assertions. People are now hoping...

Ask yourself if any current MMORPG has delivered a long-lasting RvR experience. Would you like to help create that kind of experience? Our backers will be part of the creation process right from the beginning with our private forums andaccess to the development team. What we can do together over...

Well, that's a big part of it. The fact is, what do we really know about the game? It doesn't even really have a solid concept. It's got some lore, and some vague philosophical direction and right now, two very generic classes, one of them being Batman. Jacobs Kickstarter came out with a ton...

False dilemma. There are a billion choices between those two. Like, really wanting the game to be made but not wanting to be a sucker? Also, how do you know no one else wants to make this game? Brad found 10 people who do. He found a few hundred people to back him already. There are shades of...

It's certainly apathy, and not the history with this particular developer. Nope, definitely apathy. Sarcasm aside.... I was more shocked at the sheer amount of support Brad actually got. To me, that is pretty convincing that people are desperate for this kind of niche MMO. The fact that 200k...

Research is everything in marketing. Even the most brilliant social media pro bounces his ideas off people, or they hire another company to do so. Granted, you typically want statistically relevant surveys--but doing a few passes against a decent, but closed off population? It's something I...

Heh, I love the hair splitting on "investor". Yes, the investopedia entry will tell you kick starters are not investors. And that's correct, they are not. However, the precise definition of what they are isn't as important as how they need toviewed. Since there is no product to speak of, what...

It seems like they are doing a text book ad campaign. Restricting information in order to get articles in bigger publications out and get more eyes on. But those kinds of campaigns have a lot of faulty aspects for fund solicitation--the biggest being that they don't have a product which can be...