Cinge
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It's good for SOE bean counters, sucks for the genre if this becomes normal practice from big developers/publishers.
EQN:Landmark Beta Starts March 26th!
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That *is* awesome. Holy shit. Imagine that rainstorm, and stumbling blindly upon Froon and friends at their camp. Or having to take shelter against a tree trunk if you were taking damage while it occurred.
Not only that, but once Alpha actually begins, many people that have been holding out will cave and purchase one of the two Alpha packs.
Lenas
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You're just not a creative person, man. It's okay. Smed said during his AMA that he hates building but he is still looking forward to the launch and actually actively plays right now during development.
Probably because it's extremely resource intensive when you aren't only looking at 3 trees and low resolution landscapes. Imagine that happening in the center of a busy MMO hub town with 50 players running around. Talk around running in the mud, you're gonna feel like it.
Grabbed myself a founder's pack now that we're close (I hope...) to alpha release !
So count me in for any guild activities / building or whatever
So count me in for any guild activities / building or whatever
Madikus
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My wife, too. Not usually interested in games, but loves to build and create - she played the fuck out of sims, spending all her time making houses.
Lenas
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Fair enough. I don't exactly want to come home from work every day just to program some more applications. You can still explore in Landmark, but maybe you personally would be better-off waiting for EQN proper.
Anomander Rake
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You know, I wouldn't be surprised. When I worked in law enforcement, when I came home and people were watching law and order marathons I wanted to get out of the room as fast as possible.
Anyway, the appeal to me is that the creation tools look amazingly more powerful than minecraft, and I love minecraft. Now add in the fact that it's an MMO and everyone will be building cool stuff everywhere and it sounds like the kind of game I'll have endless fun exploring. I don't think it's something thats for everyone, but I do think it looks amazingly cool for what it is.
Soygen
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Why does it suck? Honest question. How does it negatively impact the industry? You get people testing the game who were willing to shell out money and, thus, have a vested interest in actually testing/improving it. You can still pay absolutely nothing until the game is released, just like you always could since the dawn of time. It's not really changing anything if you don't want to spend money on untested product. Crowd-sourcing isn't going anywhere and it's only going to become more common.
Cinge
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Which is fine for small teams and companies or individuals. But for big huge corporations? No. Imagine if EA did this shit or Activision, people would be shitting on them all day about being the devil corporation. And I can guarantee they are seeing this and will end up doing the same thing because why not, get idiots to pay to alpha test your game. People bitch and complain companies have no respect for consumers and just are out for the all mighty dollar, yet they turn around and purchase and support said behavior.
Big companies have been doing this for many years. It's called pre-order to play a game early. The only difference is one is F2P and one is B2P.
Soygen
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So those same people who bitch are the same ones buying the alpha access? I would agree that's hypocritical. But a very large portion of gamers don't really give a fuck and just want to play and enjoy games. If the end result is still a game gets released as (mostly) promised, I don't really see the problem. It's completely voluntary and doesn't affect anyone who doesn't want to pay for this early access, alpha-testing, preview type scenarios.
Cinge
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Yes and people threw a fit when SWTOR took pre-orders 4 months early, calling it a cash grab. Now look where we are and what people accept and it will probably just get worse. No big deal, players just can't cry foul anymore when they see companies monetizing every aspect of games.
Skanda
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There's a difference between announcing preorders and waiting 4 months until release day, vs announcing preorders and being able to play the game as it is made and in some way also facilitate the development process.