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Yes, because artistic style means it will be a direct WOW-Clone. If anything, I applaud them for taking the sensible route with their art direction, as EQ2 and EQ1 were fucking terrible for the majority of their lives art direction wise. The guys who work for the company, sans the ones that made the soga models for eq2, have been pretty bad at character model design for at least 8 years when they lean towards the "realistic" look. The leaked picture looks like DnD 4th edition more than it does WoW, which is A-OK with me.
Stillfucking suckhaving drops in the game world you have to use the 'special payed key' for, having to deal with multiple weird currencies knowing that one is made to rip you off, annoying in-game ads for premium ways to spend your real life money, pay to win is god awful.
There's little reason for not offering both a P2W server and a regular sub-based server, the facebook generation is quite used to P2W but most of us are just too old and grumpy and we don't really want to deal with that stuff, if we can avoid it.
We could run a Poll but I really believe most old school EQ'ers would gladly pay a sub if the game is really good.
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The pauldrons are excessive, but my one consolation there is that, so far at least, the large shoulders we've seen in screenshots and concept art have all been on heavy armor, where itkindamakes sense (at least with the slightly exaggerated art style).
As long as robes and leather jerkins aren't coming with 747 wings strapped to the shoulders, I think I'll be fine with it.
As long as robes and leather jerkins aren't coming with 747 wings strapped to the shoulders, I think I'll be fine with it.
I think its more likely that this is art from when they made the WoW clone. And they since scrapped that.
Oh yeah very good point. Dave Georgeson said they scrapped like an entire year of development saying "it was going to be justanothermmo"
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Nirgon
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The shoulders don't make me mad but here's what will.
Green, blue, purple, orange item classification.
items with +1agil, +1stam at lvl 1, items with +50agil, +50atm scalar at lvl 50.
Things like this will quickly lead to me getting max level, doing some end game raids and leaving in the middle of the first content patch. But maybe that's what is considered a "succesful subscriber" these days.
Green, blue, purple, orange item classification.
items with +1agil, +1stam at lvl 1, items with +50agil, +50atm scalar at lvl 50.
Things like this will quickly lead to me getting max level, doing some end game raids and leaving in the middle of the first content patch. But maybe that's what is considered a "succesful subscriber" these days.
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It being another WoW clone :/
Once that one facet is in the game, everything else seems to follow
Frankly, I'm pretty sure we're not seeing anything close to what Jacobs is going to try to do in his DAoC spinoff (read: remake)
I don't expect to be building castles out in the frontiers brick for brick with amazing destructible landscape in this thing.
All I want is to be proven wrong :/
And no, the items aren't what keeps me, its the killing players and looting their items and vice versa. Interaction that is made up of real consequence and meaning.
Once that one facet is in the game, everything else seems to follow
Frankly, I'm pretty sure we're not seeing anything close to what Jacobs is going to try to do in his DAoC spinoff (read: remake)
I don't expect to be building castles out in the frontiers brick for brick with amazing destructible landscape in this thing.
All I want is to be proven wrong :/
And no, the items aren't what keeps me, its the killing players and looting their items and vice versa. Interaction that is made up of real consequence and meaning.
Nirgon
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Yeah I don't expect to see a sharp dagger of the owl (thank god..)
But I would hope like we've all said that a certain hard to pull/manage room in a dungeon has a mob that spawns that drops something you use for at least 10 levels and you feel lucky to have one.
But I would hope like we've all said that a certain hard to pull/manage room in a dungeon has a mob that spawns that drops something you use for at least 10 levels and you feel lucky to have one.
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Yes, but scrapping mechanics doesn't necessarily mean scrapping art assets. And that screen Smed posted on twitter is fairly consistent with both this kerra artwork, and with the screens and concept art they had shown us from EQN's previous incarnation.
It also says "previously unreleased" which could mean that it's from the same time period as the bald guy, and those concepts of Gfay and Freeport. Based on the SoE live presentation last year, those things are supposed to be obsolete now. Could just be a throwaway concept from an older iteration. Maybe when they were making WoW 2.0 and scrapped everything?
EDIT: Nevermind. I don't much read very good. Someone already said that...
EDIT: Nevermind. I don't much read very good. Someone already said that...
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I really love that we are extrapolating game mechanics from a single piece of concept artwork that shows nothing but a furry in plate with mildly exaggerated shoulderpads. Clearly this is the WoW clone the haters have been dreading, and it is here to drink deeply of their despair. Or, it is pretty inline with the "leaked" desktop picture showing ingame assets and mechanically the art style has little to nothing to do with how the game turns out. Except to, you know, make the people who want more shit-tastic EQ2 style character models shit themselves in a worrisome rage.
Serious battered wife vibes among the jimmies being rustled haha.
Serious battered wife vibes among the jimmies being rustled haha.