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Lol And since we're theorycrafting again: If you're trying to push the boundaries then an MMO needs to solve the following problems (in no particular order): - Content. Content for the guy who can only play an hour a day, the guy who can play 3-4 hours a day but only on weekends and...

I don't trust you to make a good game Ut only because while you might be a wiz on what's wrong with MMO development houses I can't remember the last time you discussed the goodness and badness of actual MMO mechanics.

Thumbs up for getting rid of levels 51+: worst thing SOE ever did for the game. Thumbs down for this suggestion: I'd actually recommend the opposite nerf the items that were added later to put them in line with original itemization. Return to the original slower leveling - which made those...

Won't happen. As was obvious on the original Pantheon thread: Brad refuses to recognize that he's making the same mistake he made at Sigil: scope creep, art before class/combat are well defined, disposable lore.

The pissed off 100 people are idiots: a good manager/director makes a company/game/film a bad one breaks the company/game/film. SOE/Daybreak is in the shitty position it is today because of Smed. The 100 people get to take credit for their participation in helping make the great...

What's wrong with mad? Are you a sanist?

Lol. You mean all the ideas that didn't originate in whatever games you're talking about? If we're going to go to original sources then the Estates of Tolkien and Gary Gygax should be getting money from every Fantasy C/RPG and Gygax arguably every C/RPG since he came up with the whole RPG...

Sad.

Yep. @zzeris Brad is the guy in the room talking about all these great ideas (some of which are his) but who wants somebody else to do the heavy lifting - now that's normally fine, because let's face it part of being a good manager is having someone else doing the heavy lifting while making...

In other words, they are every other MMO company ever (except Blizz in its heyday).

FFXIV reboot has done okay, if not great. I gave up on Smed after the VG fiasco: if you're going to buy it then you also need to shut it down (excuse me; funset the original version), spend a year fixing it and then relaunch with a fanfare.

You are not. I thoroughly enjoyed my time in VG despite (and in a few cases - such as with the bugivator - because of) the bugs, lag or chunking. Offensive/Defensive Target still the best MMO combat targeting design.

The scope being large was caused by the management problems relatedly the lag issues could have been addressed if the scope hadn't been so large and if Brad had done the smart thing and focused on the engine instead of spending 30 million on Art when the engine was still fubar.

That's a big reason VG was so buggy at release: far too large a world, too many systems.

Not into all-PvP, all-the-time. Hope it does get completed for you and those who do though ;-)

Brad has got a more playable MMO-in-development right now than Smed. Which, frankly, I would never have believed 6, 12 or 24 months ago, given that EQNext has been in development (in various forms) since 2008. I mean seriously - WTF?

People get on Brad for his puffery and braggadocio but Brad has nothing on Smed; which is why I've advocated for shitcanning Smed for years but was willing to engage with Brad in the early days of Pantheon, and would again if Brad would just one time admit he's not a good project manager. -_-

You clearly didn't Myspace enough: however for the sake of eyeballs, and to avoid an infraction, I won't post an example SS. Edit: Kids these days with their Facebook and nice-looking websites - in my day we had glitter fonts exploding on pink and black backgrounds.

I think so, but emphasis on "some VC" - you have to assume the pledge shop will be back: just without the lifetime/unlimited sub premium.

Sure there is: no copies of the Star Wars prequels or the Matrix Sequels will survive the coming Asteroid Armageddon - so while future generations will know blood, sweat and toil as they work to recover our now lost civilization and culture, they will remain blissfully and forever unaware that...

Which is pathetic because all most people wanted was just EQ + A little better graphics + Storybricks. Clearly Voxels are the Devil's Playthings designed to suck out the innovation from all other aspects of the game.

Lifetime and Unlimited Subscriptions are out... Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen - Advanced Forum Detail Topic - Change to Pledge Packages

Stranger things have happened: seems like the most likely outcome remains nothing gets released, but I suppose now there's a chance that a bug ridden monstrosity could emerge - unless Brad rolls 00, gets Psionics and an EQIV equivalent emerges. It's interesting you mention Microsoft: if those...

What's to be perplexed about? EA bought Origin and pretty much killed all of Origin's franchises: sure Ultima Online limps along but then again there are folks out there still using aol email accounts.. Thinking EA would save EQ is ridiculous.

Got it. Looks like they did get some money from somewhere if this post is any indication: Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen - Advanced Forum Detail Topic - How to upgrade my Pledge now? Curiouser and curiouser.

So true. I thought EA's Ultima XI through XXII were the best Ultimas.

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen - Wikis Profile - About Us According to the website (edited by the second Chris) he is entrusted with preserving and developing The Vision (TM).

Brad needs to admit he's a terrible project manager and hand the reigns over before anyone should give him even 50 cents. I saw the recent video - he's making the same mistake, over and over and over again: investing too much in art before the combat and classes are set. Tom does not approve.

I'm pretty sure a playable Pantheon is one of the signs of the Apocalypse.

You and NPH

Kudos. Worst post in a pretty shitty thread. Also, Noah was a terrible movie; Aronofsky is an overrated director who is only decent with extremely focused material (like The Fighter). When he tries to get all mystical he flat out sucks: Pi, The Fountain, Noah: all shitty movies.

It is now, only at the end that we see: EQNext was only ever a mirage. A shimmer in the desert leading thirsty men to despair. * * * Yeah, I think you're on to something: the current version gets trashed. Landmark might see an actual release.

Time to start raising the troops for the Butlerian Jihad I see.

Call me when a climate belieber model prediction actually happens or when beliebers stop trying to use character assassination of skeptics to make their case instead of, you know, science. You talking about Carbon Dioxide? The thing that those funny greenish things we call plants need to...

In answer to your thread title: Singularity in 2200ish or Butlerian Jihad in 2100 or Sweet Meteor of Death in 2028. Basically you're all engaging in a Black Swan fallacy thinking that what's happening now must continue to happen in the future and that something isn't going to come along that...

You're right. Fuck.

There's only ever one timeline. With respect to the ending, it was obvious what was going to happen as Cage dipped toward the exploding Omega below (happy ending time reset) but since it worked within the logic of the movie (Omega or Alpha blood turns you into Mr. Time) it worked: no Deus Ex...