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Sure there is: no copies of the Star Wars prequels or the Matrix Sequels will survive the coming Asteroid Armageddon - so while future generations will know blood, sweat and toil as they work to recover our now lost civilization and culture, they will remain blissfully and forever unaware that...

Which is pathetic because all most people wanted was just EQ + A little better graphics + Storybricks. Clearly Voxels are the Devil's Playthings designed to suck out the innovation from all other aspects of the game.

Lifetime and Unlimited Subscriptions are out... Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen - Advanced Forum Detail Topic - Change to Pledge Packages

Stranger things have happened: seems like the most likely outcome remains nothing gets released, but I suppose now there's a chance that a bug ridden monstrosity could emerge - unless Brad rolls 00, gets Psionics and an EQIV equivalent emerges. It's interesting you mention Microsoft: if those...

What's to be perplexed about? EA bought Origin and pretty much killed all of Origin's franchises: sure Ultima Online limps along but then again there are folks out there still using aol email accounts.. Thinking EA would save EQ is ridiculous.

Got it. Looks like they did get some money from somewhere if this post is any indication: Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen - Advanced Forum Detail Topic - How to upgrade my Pledge now? Curiouser and curiouser.

So true. I thought EA's Ultima XI through XXII were the best Ultimas.

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen - Wikis Profile - About Us According to the website (edited by the second Chris) he is entrusted with preserving and developing The Vision (TM).

Brad needs to admit he's a terrible project manager and hand the reigns over before anyone should give him even 50 cents. I saw the recent video - he's making the same mistake, over and over and over again: investing too much in art before the combat and classes are set. Tom does not approve.

I'm pretty sure a playable Pantheon is one of the signs of the Apocalypse.

You and NPH

Kudos. Worst post in a pretty shitty thread. Also, Noah was a terrible movie; Aronofsky is an overrated director who is only decent with extremely focused material (like The Fighter). When he tries to get all mystical he flat out sucks: Pi, The Fountain, Noah: all shitty movies.

It is now, only at the end that we see: EQNext was only ever a mirage. A shimmer in the desert leading thirsty men to despair. * * * Yeah, I think you're on to something: the current version gets trashed. Landmark might see an actual release.

Time to start raising the troops for the Butlerian Jihad I see.

Call me when a climate belieber model prediction actually happens or when beliebers stop trying to use character assassination of skeptics to make their case instead of, you know, science. You talking about Carbon Dioxide? The thing that those funny greenish things we call plants need to...

In answer to your thread title: Singularity in 2200ish or Butlerian Jihad in 2100 or Sweet Meteor of Death in 2028. Basically you're all engaging in a Black Swan fallacy thinking that what's happening now must continue to happen in the future and that something isn't going to come along that...

You're right. Fuck.

There's only ever one timeline. With respect to the ending, it was obvious what was going to happen as Cage dipped toward the exploding Omega below (happy ending time reset) but since it worked within the logic of the movie (Omega or Alpha blood turns you into Mr. Time) it worked: no Deus Ex...

Wasn't Ranger Newbie armor ingame for TLP?

Does anyone actually think at this point that EQNext will be anything but this?

I'd want a source for this - I've never actually heard they ever started development of WoW2: I just assume Blizz being Blizz would have something simmering. They stopped development of Titan, which wasn't WoW2.

Color out of Space is wonderfully creepy as is Herbert West Re-animator, but you can't go wrong reading everything.

I don't play WoW for the same reason I don't play Risk or eat McDonalds: I'm not twelve anymore. Risk is a fab game and McDonalds French Fries are the best when you're twelve, not so much when you're thirty-two. More specifically, WoW, except for a brief shining moment in early Vanilla, has...

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You mean the 10-K from March 2015? Yeah, I'll get in my Time Machine and get that for you right away.

From the November 10-Q I'll go with Blizzard would certainly consider a WoW2: generally companies want earnings to be going up, not be going down. Edit: 10-Q, not 10-K. Mea culpa.

And yet look at EQNext - did they do the one zone and work on combat route? Nope. They've spent most of their time on art.

You'd think that right? But AFAIK, no one has copied Blizz in the one thing they did absolutely perfectly - build one zone and then spend your time getting your combat engine and basic class mechanics working right in that one zone - and do not fuck around spending money on anything else...

I'm aware of that and Blizzard is wrong - if someone every creates a WoW clone but instead of copying everything Blizz did including its mistakes, only copies the good (smooth engine, art style with longevity) and replaces the bad (hard 2 factions, gear resets, yada yada yada) with better...

I read this as simultaneously and serendipitously an ad for Birdman is going on to the right of the post in which a muted Michael Keaton seems to be screaming "Yes!. Yes!" and fist-pumping. Seems like the Internet AI approved of your post. In other news, I'll pass on this Progression server...

Pretty much this: which is too bad because an MMO that just fixed WoW's problems would be reasonably nifty. At one point, didn't we all agrees that WoW has the best (aka most fluid) combat engine? But things like the DPS nerf/boring itemization, gear reset, quest running all the time and too...

Pre fuck-you-for-actually-understanding-the-game-better-than-Blizzard nerf items.... and original AV? That's actually... interesting. Edit: WTF, I'm downloading the client and will roll on it when it opens.

I think most of the public info came from some Jeff Butler interview as part of the Early EQNext marketing - I can't find it now - but IIRC the gist was EQ III was aimed at the EQ (not EQII) "hardcore" playerbase. I know a few people who talked with Butler at SOE '13 about it and there was some...

Mage Pets are OP. Death Touch is (was) OP. Don't bother logging in on Day One, it'll be too packed and you won't get any mobs. Otherwise I enjoyed it for the short time I played. I gather the 3 month lockout on the current progression server is a huge pain in the ass.

Is this because you think Blizzard has 0 overhead?

I think we've long established that the MMORPG market is saturated with crap fantasy games which is a far cry from being saturated with games, and, if you really want to split bamboo shoots, has little to do with whether or not the market is saturated with EQ IP games anyway, as we have also...

Level based systems are better than skill-based systems for MMORPGS for all the reasons already discussed, but I'll repeat a couple, time being a flat circle and all. 1. Clear advancement mechanism. "I dinged" vs. "I am now 5% better at mansplaining" 2. Significantly easier for devs to...