Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

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fanaskin said:
There's things in here to read? it's just pissing and moaning when I don't post

Also to cotinue with evidence



this is funny because all of the icons were copy/paste eq icons before the reworks
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I still believe Nick's firing had more to do with not getting enough work done, rather than over "copying EQ".

Love the guy, but at the pace Nick was working it was clear to everyone that EA was several years away rather than what might be a year or two.

"Put some guys working with Nick to finish the classes" isn't a valid suggestion when he was more focused on finishing draft beers. I believe copying EQ was a secondary reason, and likely something that had been brought up during meetings. But ultimately "copying EQ" doesn't matter because work on the classes had completely stalled out for 2 months (some people from early alpha would say things were stalled for 2 years). They had plenty of grounds to let Nick go from class design outside of "he's copying EQ".
 
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Lol he still lives. React spotted!

FWIW it always seems like he had a bunch of ideas but was pretty much either hamstrung with tech and art not existing and having to piece together unique playstyles from a super limited pallete of existing spells and what little could be strung together with database shenanigans. Not to mention whatever pushback was going on from the back office committees. EG the pretty extreme initial racial stats from him and then getting what we ended up with.

Still miss his M&M streams tho.
 
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Pasteton said:
Where is Rothold and what level range? Is it a mini dungeon or more like bt bay?
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Not sure how to compare it, but it's bigger than anything I've seen so far judging by what Shawn showed on stream. It's somewhere in the deep, but since the connecting zones won't be in yet, there will be an npc that teleports you there for the time being. The level range is 30-45 or so.
 
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bolok said:
Lol he still lives. React spotted!

FWIW it always seems like he had a bunch of ideas but was pretty much either hamstrung with tech and art not existing and having to piece together unique playstyles from a super limited pallete of existing spells and what little could be strung together with database shenanigans. Not to mention whatever pushback was going on from the back office committees. EG the pretty extreme initial racial stats from him and then getting what we ended up with.

Still miss his M&M streams tho.
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On a "small team" you can't be an idea guy without having the means to pull off your ideas.

He was / is a "Founding Investor" right? So he was, more than likely, in that back office discussion as well.

The follow-up remains, why didn't they keep him on as a Marketing person / CM? His streams always drew an audience, he was / is very personable. I always saw him as a more relaxed version of Stephan Frost (Wildstar):



I dunno what behind the scenes drama went on but having him not doing promo and Q&A for the team while the rest of the team works is a loss overall. Hell, without knowing his technical skill, they could have had him be the "Compile the notes and field the Q&A guy" at least, til it became a bigger thing.
 
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