Convo
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I asked. Only One concept guy on team and it appears he can't afford to quit his day job.. Don't expect much art..
Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO
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Was honestly wondering that, too. I know some of the team is still freelancing to pay the bills, but James Rochelle is completely silent in every regard and outside of the Dead Vault and Oranthel image, I'm not sure he has any other contributions. I wonder of this has turned into the freelance project and he straight up isn't providing art at the moment. At this point, it's all mostly driven by the Deviant Art guy and we have no class or race art save a couple of icons.
Honestly I agree with Ut when it comes to that last minute spike. I really don't think you can give enthusiastic fans the credit for those. I think it often comes down to shady business. As they start to near that minimum limit I think the guys running these big kickstarters take steps to make sure they secure all that backer money. It really wouldn't be hard to convince a potential business partner (like a publisher) to invest $100,000 now, and as soon as that $800,000 is secured from kickstarter they get their investment back immediately. They have nothing to lose and a business partner gets funded.
With that in mind you can see how Richard Garriott's kickstarter was never going to fail. All he had to do was milk backers as best he could for a month. If the fan enthusiasm pushed the kickstarter over the limit then great. If it didn't he could use a fraction of his millions to push it over the finish line to insure he got that money. I imagine Brad is going over his options as well. If there is $600,000 sitting there on kickstarter in 24 days he isn't going to let it go easily heh.
With that in mind you can see how Richard Garriott's kickstarter was never going to fail. All he had to do was milk backers as best he could for a month. If the fan enthusiasm pushed the kickstarter over the limit then great. If it didn't he could use a fraction of his millions to push it over the finish line to insure he got that money. I imagine Brad is going over his options as well. If there is $600,000 sitting there on kickstarter in 24 days he isn't going to let it go easily heh.
BilboFaggins
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popsicledeath
Potato del Grande
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Yes, their writing skills pretty much suck ass.
Flavor, hrm? How about the undead aren't healed by heals, but hurt. Then the tables can be turned and your clerics will have to sit on their asses as your wizards become the main healer for your undead main tank.
Whidon
Blackwing Lair Raider
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This has stood out to me the whole time. Ben seems to not eb cut out for his position on the team. For marketing, and tiers ect.. Brad would have been better simply crowd-sourcing decisions from this thread. They have simply sucked in this department.
What sucks is the more I actually read I like the project more and more. Even if it is clear they are making it up as they go along. Personally for me having "real shit" on the project is and never was soo important as the idea itself. Way I see it the game is so far out anyways any info is massively subject to change and this would be the case for a game that had been worked on for a couple months beforehand or eitherway
Whidon
Blackwing Lair Raider
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So Reddit tomorrow and Mr. youtubes #1 neckbeard on thursday.
I can't see it happening. But in my bank robbing dreams Brad just fucking nails the AMA. Rallys the Reddit gaming community, and then Mr Boogie just basically tells everyone to give up tha $
Nemesis
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glad he's learning from the 200 viewer twitch feeds and scheduling this stuff during a time when the majority of us are able to tune in and pay attention...
oh, wait...
nevermind...
Whidon
Blackwing Lair Raider
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I don't pay much attention to live-streaming/twitch or w/e. So maybe this is me being ignorant.
But we are talking about an interview here. Is being able to watch is live really important? I mean won'y 99.5% of people just watch is on Youtube whenever?
Mr Creed
Too old for this shit
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Those tweets and the resulting KS presentation scream VG more then any of the trolls here.
Jimbolini
Semi-pro Monopoly player
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Is it too early to mention it should be "@Boogie2988 and I"?
jk, let's hope this works.
Ugh. The only thing that someone from the Dev team has posted in the KS Comments in the last 18 hours was to tell some guy to stop being so negative. Sad.
That's what it feels like (add in Vhalen) and probably is. Vu wasn't even on the original team, either. I think Jason Weimann made about one post total before going dark and outside of the first week, there was never really much involvement from anyone else. I understand having to pay the bills but it does seem odd that the majority of the people behind the vision are noticeably absent, which is obviously why shit like concept art for races and classes are nowhere to be seen and that one zone was lifted from a two-year-old drawing.