They have a couple of programmers (for different tasks) listed on the kickstarter page and they plan to expand the team post kickstarter, at least that's a plan they have outlined. I think there is an outside chance that they can pull it off but am glad i didn't back - not really my type of game.
Right! Because all those experienced MMO developers have been churning out such great quality MMO's and content over the past decade that there is NO chance these guys can do it!
That reason is called "delivering what your whiny, silver-spoon-fed player base will shell out cash for and removing the things that they find too hard". Invasions were awesome.
That design got scrapped because of the publishers. The lead designers of that are the ones who are creating Revival, based on many of the original ideas of RIFT that got canned so it could be a more WoW-like game.
The two lead devs are going about it on their own. Revival is no longer associated with Illfonic. Illfonic gave the assets to the devs that were let go.
There IS magic. You just need to discover it. Rumor is the it will be somewhat of a hidden mechanic, like unlocking Jedi in SWG prior to NGE (though hopefully not that much of a grind).
Yup this game is aiming hard core so I assume some weird jedi mechanic of having to play every way in the game that makes you want to murder goats and then suddenly you know it.
