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Xevy

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Dave noted that that was just the model they were prepared to show at the show, and that when it comes to the Kerran as a race they'll have a great deal of variety in the form of many feline species (Cheetahs, Cougars, etc.).
Boom. Nailed it.
 

Tuco

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Exactly. It's supposed to be released this winter, so I'm assuming that we're like 3 months away from that. Figure 3 months of beta and then they release around March.

That's six months away and they've shown us very little. Even the info they've released smacks of "we're making it up as we go".
Yeah sorry, I thought you guys were only talking about EQN. If there's not much released on Landmark then it's time to be very worried.
 

Dandai

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I wonder how recently they decided to make Landmark a full fledged game, though. They basically admitted that they had no plans for a Landmark-type title until the dev team was bringing in their creations and flexing their world design e-peens.
 

Jarnin_sl

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This is the third iteration of EQNext, and it's a long way off. They recently laid off a bunch of people. If I had to guess, the higher-ups told them to get a product out before the end of the year and Landmark is what they came up with.
 

overbyte

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Does the dark elf concept art remind anyone else of that race from Avatar? Both the coloring and facial structure seems similar.
 

Abefroman

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Does the dark elf concept art remind anyone else of that race from Avatar? Both the coloring and facial structure seems similar.
Not really. First time I've heard this comparison. I did hear that Bryan Cranston is gonna be Lex Luthor though.
 

Dahkoht_sl

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This is the third iteration of EQNext, and it's a long way off. They recently laid off a bunch of people. If I had to guess, the higher-ups told them to get a product out before the end of the year and Landmark is what they came up with.
I honestly think this is along the right lines. They were told to salvage it and be allowed to continue at all , they had to ship something in a timeline that was impossible to actually get the working mmo part out by , and chose to go this route.
 

Dandai

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That's definitely a likely explanation for Landmark, but I believe the reported layoffs were mostly (exclusively?) from QA and CS, no? You don't need many Quality Assurance or Customer Service people for dead/dying games with ever-dwindling populations.
 

Dandai

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The plot buying and selling worries me. Too much room for corruption
My buddy always told me he wanted to work for an MMO and put a hidden quest in like the kiala nut in Ocean of Tears or whatever for easy currency/exp and sell the rewards for cash. He's quite the conspiracy theorist, but he swore devs did shit like that all the time to make money on the side and only fixed the "bugs" or exploits when they became public knowledge.
 

Mellent_sl

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That's definitely a likely explanation for Landmark, but I believe the reported layoffs were mostly (exclusively?) from QA and CS, no? You don't need many Quality Assurance or Customer Service people for dead/dying games with ever-dwindling populations.
i thought that information came from some two-year-old report on SOE having layoffs. i may be wrong though because if they're going to fire off anyone, that makes the most sense.
 

dechire

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I like it I'm a tranny.
Ya got me. I actually like the art style. Sorry guys. I'm curious about customization of the player model, items et cetera. I already like the environments. I hope land is vast and travel takes time or class abilities. I think it would be interesting if massive guilds like the goons perhaps who owned awesome pieces of land and using those funds for sexual encounters. (<3). There is a lot I dislike and that I'm concerned about, art is not one of them.