Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

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Hateyou

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God damn I hope smedley buys this piece of shit. It started with mozz sticks and it should end with mozz sticks. Adebisi Adebisi where the memes at?
 

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Smedley tipped his hand a bit with this secret Amazon game he's heading up. It's going to be cross platform including phones. It's an MMO. And he's going to finish what he started with EQNext but SOE sucked and didn't have the cash to take insane risks. Name dropped Jeff Bezos giving him the greenlight to do something crazy with an open checkbook. The other guys all talked about bringing old school challenge back to some extent, Smedley is firmly in the EZ mode-casual friendly camp. I'm curious to see the insane risks he said he's taking with his game, but I'm fairly positive it's going to suck.

Thought Joppa held his own on that panel at least though, talks too much, but he didn't hide the fact that he wants to bring original EQ back.
 
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Nirgon

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It's fully funded, no one needs to buy it.

Love this thread. Not for the same reason as most of you.
 
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RobXIII

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Err, how many on the team are getting paid? I remember from the original Kickstarter B-Rad took like 80% of it for personal 'expenses'.
 

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Kilsin confirmed in this thread, in May 2019 that developers "are not working for free".
The math doesn't work out otherwise, but their claim is that angel investors or companies are throwing money into the bottomless pit to allow the employees to pay their mortgages.
To be clear, it's impossible they're gaining enough donations per month, from "teh c0mmun1t13z", even with whales, to pay even minimum wage LLR/FLC for 20+ full time employees, for ~6.5+ years.
And of course, the recurring argument that you can't/shouldn't/wouldn't pay a 'veteran' developer minimum wage, etc, etc.
 

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Smedley tipped his hand a bit with this secret Amazon game he's heading up. It's going to be cross platform including phones. It's an MMO. And he's going to finish what he started with EQNext but SOE sucked and didn't have the cash to take insane risks. Name dropped Jeff Bezos giving him the greenlight to do something crazy with an open checkbook. The other guys all talked about bringing old school challenge back to some extent, Smedley is firmly in the EZ mode-casual friendly camp. I'm curious to see the insane risks he said he's taking with his game, but I'm fairly positive it's going to suck.

Thought Joppa held his own on that panel at least though, talks too much, but he didn't hide the fact that he wants to bring original EQ back.

Playing Eve Echoes right now has totally convinced me that its possible to have an MMO through your phone and it not be complete shit. Ive actually grown quite fond of playing Eve simply because of its portability. If we ever get to the point where games/applications can be the equivalent regardless of platform, instead of having to do things through blue stacks/nox/whatever, then we'll be into the next gen step.
 

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Are we going to be able to play this game in a browser?

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We will see who is laughing when they cross the finish line.

 
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yerm

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We will see who is laughing when they cross the finish line.


I like your optimism in thinking the finish line will eventually be crossed. Personally I think the game is just going backwards and the devs are purely busyworking a job until its over without a thought to finishing. The whole climbing thing is just making more obstacles to be overcome to avoid doing the hard stuff of actually delivering on a working product.

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Nirgon

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Lot of butt rustlin every time a piece of content or working system is revealed
 
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Yeah, I stopped looking into any "updates" and am confident this will never make it out of pre- alpha 82457.7 - still love the thread though, some of the gifs I've watched loop for 5+ minutes straight.

 
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Ikkan

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How long was EQ in development and with how many people?
I believe once they actually began development and went past a basic proof of concept it was around 3 years of development time. The entire team(devs, writers, animators, etc) was still pretty small but larger than Pantheon's by the end of development, however iirc it started with 4-5 developers total once they partnered with Smed.
 
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