Yeah I agree when companies cheese models or even reuse the same boring animations like Rift does between classes. The only time I don't consider it to be that much of a problem is when the gameplay is far above how something looks, which is rare.
You didn't expect every server to be pvp did you? that indirect pvp is still way less careers than most games and I am sure we will get real pvp servers.The term "indirect pvp" around 18:00 into the video made me cry.
I guess to soe pvp =
Player 1 chooses to support faction A
Player 2 chooses to support faction B
Players 1 & 2 fight opposing faction NPCs to determine who wins.
Players 1 & 2 can opt in, or opt out, of a wimpy ass low-stakes game of capture the flag or a timed arena-style "pvp" mission. The winner of which is probably determined by "points".
When you have a game development cycle thats 3-5 years how do you not take tech advancement into account? Creslins point was very valid. You have to balance between the tech that is currently out when you start to what will be out when the game hits shelves. In the time this game has been in development intel CPU's alone have seen 3 new microarchitectures and 3 die shrinks bringing clock speeds way up. A 3ghz core to duo is way slower than a new 3gz Haswell clock for clock. Before this game is even launched there will be yet another complete new microarchitecture AND a die shrink making that gap even wider. GPU's have advanced even faster.
Most likely to the same ratio as old school EQ. 3 : 30 pvp : pve.
You also have to take into account the people you are selling too, I bet a good group of people that play WoW have never upgraded their computer since launch. We may upgrade GPUs and CPUs every other year or so but a large portion of the base buys premade gaming PCs from bestbuy and never goes back.
The Landmark community is pretty much the worst one I have ever encountered. There are just so many fruitcakes and drama queens. Has to be something to do with the 'creative types' that have been attracted to the game thus far.
Bro, the soe devs are taking a ton of stuff from landmark and using it's feedback to make EQ:N.
their months long claim to the franchise via Landmark trumps your legitimacy after a decade or more of Everquest. You'll play a Fay and emote with your webcam and like it.
Agreed, thought if the forums are any indicator most of the Landmark people would never play EQN they are minecrafters for life.
I doubt it, I really think the "you build the game" is a sly marketing tool to get people to play the game, even from the start I think Landmarks actual creations will be limited to only the 1%
It is in every possible sense, the roundtables, the "open" development and discussion is all PR bullshit. That was even alleged in the Omeed fallout. They're building they're game and charging you to buy user-generated content via a middleman marketplace. Thats all fine, its working and I imagine will be insanely profitable. While I don't agree with many of the aspects of design or decision making I've seen thus far at least its striving to be different from the typical MMO forumla, even this all started with a dry erase board of successful games like Minecraft and MOBA and some suit wondering how do we shit all of these together for teh cash.
