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I am the first to admit I am an idiot, but...

They reduce the EQN/Landmark workforce, and drop working with Storybricks hoping to handle it in house.

Doesn't that mean more work than before? (and less people to do it)?

Aside from storybricks being dropped which so far was smoke and mirrors, was anything of value noted? Maybe not F2P doesn't count.

gogojira_sl said:

Aside from storybricks being dropped which so far was smoke and mirrors, was anything of value noted? Maybe not F2P doesn't count.

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no, the rest was fluff.

I wish they didn't always act so stupid and snarky on camera, it's like watching a human videogame blog on camera.

Too bad, Storybricks was one of the features I was hyped for (2 years ago). I hope someone picks up on it to build it into an MMO. As in, someone besides Anet because those guys will just half-ass it as usual.

Our only hope is they come to their senses and at least put the trinity back in. No offense to anyone who likes GW2, but that game blows with no trinity. We need some heals in this game.

Transcript from official forums:


Here's what was said:

Dex: Are we still working with storybricks

Terry: The answer is no, we made the decision that it was in the best interests of the game to take that work in-house. They did a lot of work for us and we're going to be utilising that. It's not like any of that is lost. But we no longer have a working relationship with storybricks

Dex: What are the plans for AI and what we've talked about with AI in both Landmark and EQN?

Darren: So, AI and the construction of AI... let's talk about the user generated content first. That is still very important to us. We are still committed to making that happen so that so that you, the players can create content for other players to enjoy. and building Ai and making those NPC react and act in a way that you would like them too is still a part of this. We're definitely doing that.

Internally, we're going to be developing all the things that we promised, all the things we talked about, those are still our goals, those are still our plans. Nothing's changed.

Terry: Just the people that were working on parts of that. That's all.

Darren: I mean, one of the things that really important to remember... and I know that, that as a non-developer [interuption for mic handover by Dexella]. As a non-developer I remember ascribing the success or failure of a game to a certain person, right. "If this person's not here it wont work" or "or if th..." and that's not really true because it's such a team effort. We make so many... you know... we... make huge games and there's no one out there that you saw earlier that we could do this without [refering to the team outside of the window at the start of the stream] um.. and everybody's involved, everybody's a part of this.

Terry: Yeah, everybody's an integral part of the development, and that's just the truth.

Steve: And that's actually both sides of the AI question right, I mean when people say what is the future of AI for the games, umm, they really mean two different things. Or several different things - one of them is the, umm, how to NPCs behave, but the other part is the proceedural content system, right, which a lot of people lump under the category of AI. We also intend to persue those things aswell. We have a lot of perameters(?) on the team that have done tons of AI work in the past - you know.

Terry: And that worked with the systems we're working with now.

Steve: Yep

Terry: So, yep.

response:

Following up from the stream again -- we are still committed to having an emergent AI system. It's now being worked on internally, and we are keeping previous work that was done up to this point. We're moving forward as planned.

The only part that has changed is we are not working with Storybricks (the company) as a partner. The AI work will now be done by our internal Dev team.
~Dexella

Don't really see an issue with that. Why pay for shit you're partially doing yourself anyways. I always liked the SB guys, they're about as blunt and honest as it gets. But I'm sure Columbus would rather not pay other dudes for stuff they can do themselves at this point.

Still screams of the clusterfuck EQN became by throwing every potential idea into a bag and saying "AIGHT WE'RE DOING IT ALL."

Just get them to tell you and you can vaguely tell us everything.

Flipmode_sl said:

Our only hope is they come to their senses and at least put the trinity back in. No offense to anyone who likes GW2, but that game blows with no trinity. We need some heals in this game.

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I like GW2 and your comment doesn't offend me. Lots of room for variety in the marketplace.

Pretty tired of the trinity to be honest, but afaik nobody has come up with a better solution. GW2's version of gameplay works but I wouldn't say it is better.

I really hope they let Storybricks know soon....
http://www.storybricks.com/games.html

Bad news usually on Friday, I wonder if they told them right before the podcast?

But on the cheery side...

MAYWEATHER V PACQUIAO!! MAY 2

Convo_sl said:

Yep!! I'm already booked for vegas but it's sounding like I have no shot on tix. Best seats 5k and worst is 1k. They are not expecting much if any availability to the general public

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Yeah, I used to live there and have been to many fights with both fighters. If I remember the MGM garden holds 15k ish, and I heard they sold all the rooms already (5000ish).

Going to be a madhouse.

edit: sorry for the derail...back to EQN