Just to reiterate, the current assets they're using are not found in the Unity Asset store. Look at something like Saga of Lucimia, that garbage is Unity Asset store.
The background is really nice in that SS. The foreground looks like complete ass and needs their architectural artist to make a redo. The lantern posts on top of stone pillars is off-putting especially with 3 almost on top of each other. It's like a kid with a new toy putting it everywhere. The dock looks like it was half built and then just abandoned and adocking pier is enclosed to where you can't get out.Sure, I sound anal but I really do hope they have someone that does critical thinking on their areas like this.
With that said, they have shown a lot more than EQN but that ship is about half sunk at this point.
That's a little unfair. This is a small team with limited funding in the first year. You gotta temper your expectations a bit.
How many places did not make it from the original EQ Map? Looking at this map, it looks like a modest and realistic goal in terms of content. In the Game Design class i'm teaching this year we were given Unity Pro for Education and it's amazing how quickly content can come together with 3-5 people who really put forth effort. Not that world design is the most time consuming or difficult piece to the development process but I think their world can be made within a reasonable amount of time. If nothing else they can post fly-throughs of all their zones/areas to give us something.
With high profile names like Brad, Salim, and <ex-SOE-dev_01>, the money should have rocked in.
I think it was just a really bad miscalculation. I don't even think that statement does the oversight justice. It might turn out to be a blessing in disguise tho. I think some of the original members just lacked passion for the project. People can say what they want about Brad, but he doesn't lack passion. The dude loves this style of gaming. I do wish some more of the old team would return tho. Guys like Vu and Tony for instance.
It has chances if they nail the combat/network code of game. Especially the network part since they wanna do non-instance + raid. It needs to support lot of players in the same place at the same time.
He certainly lied to all of us but did so pretty passionately so I guess I'll give you that one.
Fortunately, between the exorbitant amount of funding they have and Brad's impeccable reputation, they'll have no problem drawing the top-tier developers they need to build that out. You can rest assured that the people responsible for this aspect of the game were hand-selected from the best of the best.
