Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO
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spronk
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I am genuinely curious who the fuck is out there that gets their gaming info from PC gamer magazine. I don't really understand most of the people here who want an oldschool DIKU and yet are in their 30s and 40s (I intellectually understand but its not a game I would ever play), but I can't even really begin to wrap my head around someone who is a PC gamer and has a print mag as their primary information source. Hell, until this thread I thought pc gamer had died long ago along with Computer Shopper and Nintendo Power.
oh computer shopper, I remember getting a hardon reading about all those PC parts...
this is a stupid argument. of course there are more than just a few thousand people who want an MMO more in line with EQ than any modern MMO. the problem is those of us who want a game like that didn't think we'd have to pay out of pocket to have it made. if a company decided to make a MMO similar to EQ, it would have plenty of subs. not saying it would reach WoW like numbers, but hell EQ had almost a half a million players and that was before most people even knew what a MMO was. a modern day MMO modeled after EQ could easily get a million subs (if done right). i think a lot of people are still hoping for that game. and a lot of people are just hoping that pantheon can be that game. whether or not it will be is completely unknown at this point.
and i miss my '02 from FOH. '12 just doesn't have the same clout.
The PC Gamer article won't make or break anything. Miracles can be done, but it's going to take a complete shift in how they perceive Kickstarter to work.
Big Flex
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psst.. many periodicals have popular websites these days.I am genuinely curious who the fuck is out there that gets their gaming info from PC gamer magazine. I don't really understand most of the people here who want an oldschool DIKU and yet are in their 30s and 40s (I intellectually understand but its not a game I would ever play), but I can't even really begin to wrap my head around someone who is a PC gamer and has a print mag as their primary information source. Hell, until this thread I thought pc gamer had died long ago along with Computer Shopper and Nintendo Power.
oh computer shopper, I remember getting a hardon reading about all those PC parts...
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What a bummer that was. I rarely ever subscribed but that magazine needed to go on forever. I blame the Wii U.
It will be an internet article for one. Two, the magazine is very much alive, as EQN recenty got a cover story. Three, why concern yourself if you will never play it?I am genuinely curious who the fuck is out there that gets their gaming info from PC gamer magazine. I don't really understand most of the people here who want an oldschool DIKU and yet are in their 30s and 40s (I intellectually understand but its not a game I would ever play), but I can't even really begin to wrap my head around someone who is a PC gamer and has a print mag as their primary information source. Hell, until this thread I thought pc gamer had died long ago along with Computer Shopper and Nintendo Power.
oh computer shopper, I remember getting a hardon reading about all those PC parts...
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BilboFaggins
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I would certainly hope that there are more than 1500 people out there that want an old school MMO experience today. I too have looked at the 1500 backers number for Pantheon and scratched my head. I mean come on. 1500? There are literally millions of MMORPG gamers out there right now, and Pantheon has gotten the interest of 1,500 people. Something just doesn't add up.
I almost wish there was an option on Kickstarter for people to show interest with out pledging an amount for those people that like the idea, but are on the fense about spending the money just yet. At least that way, we could see how many people even want this kind of game.
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I'm surprised you're frustrated over PC Gamer, it isn't exactly the epitome of great gaming mags. Nobody should ever be shocked by what that douchebag mag ever does or fails to live up to.
here is what really sucks..... we need to get 810k... I just know that the 10k pledge is a master fucking troll waiting for the final day to bomb the total to 790k and is probably hoping for like 809.99k
pharmakos
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i'm not sure how anyone can expect much more than that at this point
the game is in its infancy
If we get over $700,000; in the last days you'll see many of the true vanboi types upping their pledges to make sure the thing funds. It's almost impossible that the thing barely misses funding. The real danger is that is fails to get more than $500,000ish creating too large of a gap for the vanbois to save it.
It's not the article in particular. It's the fact that Brad has said they gave them exclusive info. Info that could already be released and getting more backers.
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I can somewhat follow this argument but not really. More than 1,500 people certainly would be excited to play a game with this type of concept. They might even pay to fund a game with this type of concept, but it's a very different thing to ask people to fund a concept itself. So many people tend to skip this point, we aren't being asked to fund Pantheon, not really. What we are being asked to do with this kickstarter is to fund Visionary Realms, Inc. so they can hire staff and set up a company and then try and build Pantheon. For me personally that might sound similar but they are miles apart from being the same thing.
The thing with the kickstarter even more so is not everyone knows Brad or EQ or even Vangaurd. Yes around here it's very well known and when you reach out to a MMO/Gaming/Nerdy community these people are the ones who truly have to be bought into the game and we give as a whole give a lot of leeway to Brad or really any developer with games of this mindset because we loved EQ style MMO's, he can't even get many of us his hardcore supporters to buy into really, we would be the ones out being evangelist spreading the word to more casual folks to buy into this idea, but when you offer very little to those who you want the most support from the interest just isn't going to be there.
Read over the pages upon pages of this thread, just look at how quickly new posts are added here. It is proof in itself that this is a very interesting topic for many people, otherwise this shit would be on page 2 days ago. Fucking I bet quite a few people would love a Pizza if I offered it to them but if I turned around and threw them a ball of dough, some marinara, and a cup of mozzarella, and said "there you go" everyone would look at me and say "What the fuck" which is basically what's happened here.