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I didn't present my case well: Absolutely Brad and Co. need to be on every media venue, gaming podcast, website with a forum, etc. On this we agree completely. What I was trying to impart, though, is that during this time, everyone can use a safehouse (bzzt!) to come back to when they need to...

Welcome to 100+ pages and two years ago. THE CAKE IS A LIE!!! Not that I don't agree with proselytizing, but based on a sojourn around the internet today, this is the safest and most supportive place I have seen for the VR devs. Despite comments like the one above, this is the spiritual...

And this is why they should have stuck with concept art: Unrepresentative of the final product and ammo for trollbait

This isn't to impune Brad or Ben at all but if everything had been worked out perfectly ahead of time, there wouldn't be 20 neckbeards in this thread telling them how to legitimately improve their chances of getting the game we all want funded on KS.

The reason for them trying to kill twinking is the same reason they had time sinks/investments such as long med times, etc: The longer it took you to play though to max level, the longer you were likely to stay subscribed. That was the name of the game. WoW took a completely different...

Look at all of you Johnny-come-lately's! Tuco, Abe, and others (me!) were giving the good advice yesterday! F'n 14(th)ers. Seriously, I will do the lifetime sub tier but thank you thank you thank you for getting out there and starting to make improvements. Seriously, do another video that...

If this tops 15k backers I will be surprised and 20k I will be shocked. Star Citizen only got 34k during the KS. It's not a troll but I would expect to see some fine tuning on a number of items. Here's the thing that I would have expected to have been better presented: No one is going to...

This is the kind of thing that theyshouldn'tdo. There isn't any reason to be that specific yet. They need people who want trains, and people who don't want trains. They need to appeal to everyone's fond remembrances of EQ: "Remember discovering MMOs? Remember when we all took those first...

Look at the dailies for those: It's exactly true. I mean, we are only 6 hours into the first day, and there are more days in Pantheon than for those others but look at everyone's first day on those graphs. These are really interesting choices for examples, btw. Ignore Star Citizen, however, as...

The way it reads, it's other heroes from these worlds' pasts. You gather their power and abilities as you level up/grow in the world. I imagine Ranthar the Mighty will be a quest NPC for whom you must kill 1000 orcs; then he will give you his Mighty Cleave ability, which you can slot on your...

Nope. It's all billed at once to whatever payment system you elected when the KS successfully reaches its goal at the end of the funding period. If you pledge $150 today through Amazon, in 39 days Amazon will charge your payment source that full amount. I assume that once they start to get...

If we are talking about stuff we dislike, the lore has already lost me. It's not really a world, its a collection of "fallen" planes where god-kings roam looking for adherents: Terminus. Seriously? I would have much preferred a D&D campaign style backstory for this. You need to hit people in...

"Verily, the moon hangs low like a testicle on the horizon." It's going to be a long three years. I don't really partake too much of any of the above but have no cares if others do, just FYI.

I would guess that Blizzard decided that the several hundred thousand instances of players accidentally attacking their own guards, dying, and becoming frustrated/quitting/etc outweighed the benefit of the freedom of attacking your own faction. Lore-wise, there was/is much less ambiguity to the...

Rift the idea was amazing. Allowing you to define a role you wanted, tank/dps/healer/support/hybrid/mangina/whatever and then build a skillset within the four classes to do that. Rift the live game with over-nerfed, whipsaw-balanced, and FOTM due to dev whim didn't live up to the promise and...

It was awesomely fun and unique. It was always a great way to pass the time until my friends/guildies got online. Running around in CS with the wyverns? I didn't mind it at all but anything can get old. One of my worst corpse runs ever was when I lagged out on a kite and ended up dead out in...

Just air, bros.

And dangerous, higher level mobs in lowbie zones. "Who is Froon? <smush>", Varsoon the Undying and Holly Windstalker, D'vinn and the griffin in the Commonlands, etc. all added to the sense of danger and excitement, as well as place. Even the low level world was dangerous. The whole dynamic of...

LOTRO had/has something like this where you gain a small bonus to dmg, etc. after killing so many of certain mob. Really more like an achievement than anything else.

As long as people keep overusing the word to justify whatever they want Brad's new game to be until the waveform collapses, so be it.

braaaiinnns.

Three years out and already I am sick of "niche". Which is to say "make it difficult/hard/unpleasant enough so that playing it makes me a hipster".

Wait, I thought the mantra was everyone was making "WoW-clones"? I didn't get this week's memo and am now so confused.

I want to highlight as was pointed out earlier, instancing only came about because in a game with 3K people online, you cold have 3% occupying all the high end spots. It was a way to make content available and cut down on both unhappy customers for all the reasons Quaid mentioned and CS costs...

I would agree with this and Quaid's ideas about fog of war uncovering basic terrain mini-maps as you explore. Something else I have to mention, and with zones it should be in issue but I want to be on the record as saying this: NO POP-IN MOBS. You should be able to see everything at a...

This is really at the heart of what a lot of folks above have indicated: Don't split the playerbase into hard-coded factions and have multiple interlocking factions with complex relationships. I don't think any game has equaled Everquest's nuanced faction relationships. Obviously dungeons are...

I am great with the latter point but not the former across the board. Lots of quests in EQ gave XP (tumpy tonics ho!). I think what I would agree with would be an end to quest hubs, a QuestMart location where all quests in a region can be gathered and turned in with a single drive-by. If...

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Welcome back and congrats on a new venture! I would say only talk about the past as it informs your way forward. Best of luck with the KS and the new game.

Whoa.

Dude. I didn't know it was trolling to say that economics and the market didn't really favor smaller niche MMOs, which is really what Mughal was saying, in his opinion. I would agree, insomuch as lots of folks are going out of their way to avoid the MMO label entirely due to the baggage...

Iron Man is awesome and has more costumes than you can shake a stick at. He is one of the characters I didn't have a strong opinion about before the game that I really enjoy playing.

Look, this game is not being made for me or my playstyle but I am in on the KS probably for 3 digits because if this beats the odds and succeeds, we all benefit.

EDIT: Hey, look, its a new page and somehow I managed to reply to a comment that the conversation had long past by. How do these internets things works agains?

I am not really "one of the guys with photoshop" but here are the still images you posted above combined, first being mine, the second using the auto-generator: Post the full .gif and let's see what can be done.

Can we talk about the 1-15 game yet or is the NDA still in place? I have a ton to say about my limited time with it but don't want to hurt myself or the generous soul who gave me a stress test key.

anyway, they continue to add things to the alpha; in the latest build that I have (0.0.6) they have added levels and more levels of difficulty to the existing biomemes, as well as more terrain and flora features. Again, coming from someone who never played/watched more than 10 min of Minecraft...

Except, in haste, I guess, you negged me.

Sinatra knocked down more ass than Godzilla knocked down buildings in Tokyo. Agreed on the homage; he set the standard in so many ways for half a century, from teen heartthrob to the Rat Pack and on into his elder years. So much crazy talent in that clip.

Indeed, as we approach the yawning void in our lives that will commence with the end of Netsmas!, thanks to everyone for participating in what has been a fantastically great time. We came, we saw, we bonded, we shared, we +nets. Here is something I stol^H^H^H wrote with absolutely no outside...