Reht
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Ashes of Creation
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xzi
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That's my one great worry to be honest. Everytime something like this is implemented like when GW2 first launched, when the event of the zone was over it just went back to the default zone with no trace of a giganto-fuck dragon wreaking havoc across the land. Was just a bunch of shitty yoked wolf rats in tent 10 minutes later
I usually don't back but for this one I will. They say the cash shop won't be P2W which I hope is true
Reht
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I agree on the upper tiers, but the lower tiers are pretty fair in my opinion considering there is no cost to buy the game, just the sub.
Ukerric
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With the increased visibility from the kickstarter comes some more lucid views.
Ashes of Creation : nouvelle arnaque via Kickstarter ? | Geekzone.fr
(in french. Quick summary follows)
- First, for a funded game before kickstarter, the team is light. Pantheon-sized. Yea, they promise to go from 12 to 24 this fall! That's why they need your kickstarter, guys!
- The people have worked in the industry, but when you're told that they have FORTY years of experience combined, you know they got little experience. The Lead Game Designer was working as... International Customer Relation Liaison at SOE. The technical director was designing... payment solutions.
- Steven Sharif is an experienced Multi-Level Marketing guy, that's how he made his money. Wondered why there was MLM in the game? That's why.
- The demo videos are considered relatively easy to make with the power of Unreal 4. Wondered why the presentation of the node system working was all done using sprites on a background drawn map? They didn't had time to fake that amount of system stuff.
- Speaking of video: the first twitch stream:
No UI (save for a static HP/MANA bar that never moved)? No interaction, no combat? "Thanks for testing" for a 8mn walk around with the devs talking about how awesome all of it was and lots of things happened (but not here, unfortunately, the node next door)...
- And of course, the forum. Looks like the cheapest software they could find.
Summary: Caveat emptor.
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Teekey
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Obviously have A LOT of development to do. Everything they discussed was just theory, but they tried to play it off as if it's going on in their little test realm as they were speaking.
I bet a lot of these features get really watered down once they face actual implementation.
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Every game listed as "experience in the industry" was universally regarded as shit or mediocre. Everquest 2 was listed a few times, Planetside 2, and Everquest Next (LOL!). Let's not also forget the guy who helped on Duke Nukem games for the Playstation One. I mean come on. That's like me going to Google and saying I can code in BASIC. It's irrelevant.
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He funds the game more or less himself (the 30mil)? Kickstarter money is on top of that? He is a "true" MMO gamer/enthusiast and is quite good with money (selfmade multi-millionaire)? He hates p2w? Sounds like a dream come true for MMO gamers. Lets see if he really knows what he is doing and if he can deliver on the promises... i hope he will.
Ukerric
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Yep. It's called lying.
I wouldn't be surprised if they did an EQN on us and the NPCs we saw moving around were in fact other people animating them.
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Cinge
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Ukerric
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