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Keep in mind that NDAs are also there to protect information that"s going to be used in marketing. If journalists score an exclusive preview, which means a cover or front-page for the game (win!), those journalists are gonna want the information that they report to actually be exclusive...

I"ll just go ahead and just say that a good game doesn"t need cheap marketing. If you, as a consumer, run into cheap marketing, well... On the other hand, this also goes back to what Zehn mentioned. Word of mouth between folks is great but what are the chances of you convincing 40 of Zehn"s...

Keeping in mind that this forum represents well less than 1% of MMO players, has the "hype" of Copernicus been "free" so far in this thread? Has Mr. Schilling recruited potential customers without scaring others off? Point being, nothing is "free." Zehn, do you play CoD4 and HL2 on the same...

Why do MMOs have to differ from all other genres when it comes to their announcement date? Many high profile games in other genres will announce maybe a year before their expected ship date and it doesn"t negatively impact them in the least. Also, MMO public betas generally don"t last over a...

I"ve yet to participate in a Beta where it was "easy" to report a a bug. I should just be able to press a shortcut on my keyboard and create a bug that will fill in the "necessary" information: offset in the world, the region (dungeon, city, etc...) that I"m in, a capture of my screen, my tty...

This can also occur between departments (art/design/coding), not just management. If you"re pipeline is ass and it takes hours to get updated art or code/code-dependant assets to the designers, you"ll end up seeing those former departments going home as soon as their fixes are verified. QA and...

A good question to ask is what you (not directed at you specifically, Moor) consider "crunch." Anything over 40? 45? 50-60+? Whether or not you have a family/relationship is also going to affect that. For single blokes like me, a few extra hours a day isn"t really going to hurt (is even more...

To get away from the military argument, here is Capp"s response via an interview w/ Joystiq: Joystiq interview: Epic"s Mike Capps responds to accusations of "exploitative" working conditions Crunch is crunch; admin, press demos, magazine covers, a simple lack of productivity...all of it...

I called Nino an asshole because I was mad at him at that point in time. I"d call you, or anyone else for that matter, the same if I felt that I had cause. It has nothing to do with someone being in the industry or not and, last I checked, it happens pretty damn regularly between individuals on...

Your words: "The economy has only more clearly defined the players" My brain: "The economy has only culled the weak, thereby making it easier for the strong, ie us, to secure funding for our deliverables." Yes, I could have easily read too much into it but that"s how it came off to me. If that...

Hi! I play baseball! Will you give me 10 million to fund a startup studio and our fledgling MMO? I swear that we"ll be more productive and successful than the studio across that block that"s been around for 5+ years and has proven that they can ship titles! While I realize that I"m being...

So what makes y"all a player in this market? Is it because you"re the front man? Because y"all have Talent? Experience? What are you delivering that the economy can"t change? Again, it"s a shame that y"all felt that you had to announce so early.

Have you had a chance to speak with Mr. Salvatore regarding his previous experience in the gaming industry and, if so, have the two of you created a better pipeline to avoid the mediocrity that was Demon Stone? Prior to beginning this project, he was more experienced than you so I"m intrigued as...

I believe that two of my producers were formerly QA/Analysts and the other was formerly a programmer, heh. On a somewhat related note, I believe that we have 8? Full Sail graduates in our studio, four of which are on my design team alone, heh. Assuming that you have the time and money, there...

I respectfully disagree; AoC"s UI was terrible, particularly it"s add-on/mod support. Feel free to note that I have no idea what it"s like these days, only what it was like the first few months.

You"re damned write he should!

That"s what you get for killing my dog.

While true, I"m not sure that it"s fair to compare the plethora of patches an MMO will ship to that of a console patch, which is required to go through a certification process that is external to the studio. Don"t get me wrong, I"m not arguing that the "ship now, patch later" attitude isn"t a...

At one point, I saw a link for all of the Gears source on UDN, although the amount of maps was limited. Never got it myself (was right before I was leaving SoE and didn"t want to raise a flag) so am not sure what was in it but I definately saw the link there, as well as links to another Epic...

"Course, if they"re using the BigWorld server architecture, I suppose that they don"t have to worry about Unreal"s server arch

A max of 64 players per server is optimized for MMOs? I was under the impression that the net code didn"t changesignificantlyfrom 2 to 3 but I obviously could have been told incorrectly. That aside, it sounds like some of the asset loading/streaming has changed from what Jerrith mentioned in a...

Yea but after posting that, I noticed thatBigWorld Technology - Gamesstill has Stargate listed. Perhaps Stargate may be using their other tools or server/database software, not the actual client.

Um, was under the impression that Stargate Worlds was U3? Jerrith around here?

Well, keep in mind that my experience is/was limited to what I saw. I"m sure that there were plenty of meetings that I wasn"t privy to and that they were much more hands-on in the early stages of the project, just not at the end. Ultimately, it comes down to visibility. I currently sit two...

Brad and Jeff"s realization never came to fruition because Brad was never around and Jeff was too busy playing WoW in his office. The only time that I ever found Jeff outside of his office and not playing WoW was when he got pissed off and would roam around yelling at people. Now, I like Jeff...

Agreed

Specifics about this? Have seen folks playing the game and haven"t noticed anythingcompletelydifferent than most MMOs. Granted, without a hand"s on, I"m obviously less than informed... ...just wondering what struck you as "omg" or "better" while playing TR If you"re referring to the fact...

Marketing would do well to set up a Flash-based "Kick Moorgard in the nuts." /hugs Moor

Someone probably mistook my post-happy arse for an artist because I"m on the design side of the character assets; don"t make "em though, just manipulate "em as much as I can get away with. Howdy Woad!

It has 16 named not associated with quests.

Didn"t notice til now. Thanks!

I usually end up ordering em from Amazon.ca or .uk, heh. Costs more but haven"t been let down yet *shrugs*

Steven Erikson"s Malazan series is the best fantasy series that I"ve read in the last decade or two, including RR Martin, Eddings, Greenwood, etc... I"ve enjoyed most of Salvatore"s early Drizzt stuff but, as I said before, his foray into the gaming industry with Demon Stone left a lot to be...

The story that RA wrote for Demon Stone wasn"t what I hoped it"d be, heh. Will have to see, I guessm!