hehe, no matter how the conversation goes here, or on FOH, or any board for that matter, the same things are going to happen.
1) Danuser and Roberts are going to wince up until, and sometimes after, reading my posts.
2) A sect of people are going to hammer whatever I say
3) A sect of people are going to be excited about what I say
4) A sect of people are going to utter a quote almost exactly like this "Shut the hell up. You talk talk talk and haven"t shown us anything, don"t tell us anymore until we can see a full blown live playest on youtube"
5) A sect of people are going to say "Ya but I hate R.A., he"s a hack and he sucks"
6) A sect of people are going to say "Ya but Todd McFarlane is involved, it"s going to suck suck suck.."
7) Two sects of people are going to oppose those in points 5 and 6
8) Someone is going to give me 733T PWN U business advice in one of the following quotes:
A) Don"t publish your game until it"s finished (as if I didn"t already know that)
B) Don"t have quests, they suck, Exp sucks, everything sucks but especially WOW, don"t make it like WoW, or EQ, or EQ2, or AOC, or etc. etc.
c) Take my advice, hire the folks on this board, we are so much smarter than the people in this industry it"s funny
D) Don"t try and beat WoW, you will screw up if you do
E) Don"t make another fantasy MMO
etc. etc.
All of that will in some form or another, continue to happen as I interact in these forums.
This is all I can really tell you. As a gamer, I am in no way different than many of you. I am deeply passionate and deeply devoted to playing and enjoying MMO"s. I"ve been playing them since the early UO days so I think I know a little bit about the genre and about what"s been good and what hasn"t, it"s not really rocket science to see how many people are playing what games. I have been adamant since day 1 and told this to anyone that will listen. I am NOT making MY GAME. With that being said I am not throwing my cash on the table and telling a group of people I didn"t know "Go make a cool game" either.
You have no idea how much I want to share right now about what we are doing. I have however, been taught by the Danusers, Roberts, and others of the world what can happen if i don"t listen to them in crucial spots, and believe it or not I KNOW I am nowhere near the smartest guy in the room (except when it"s a 1-1 with Danuser).
My family here has achieved, they"ve produced, most more than once. I trust them and I think they trust me to lead them. Leading them is about creating an environment that facilitates them doing way more than they ever dreamed they could, and from a first hand source I can tell you it"s happening.
Yes that"s a tease, and for now that"s all I have for you. I won"t and can"t tell you how our class/race/skills/world/PVP or any of that is working or thought of because there is a TOTAL NO WIN in having those discussions with people that aren"t "eyes on" this stuff 24/7.
There will soon come a time when people outside this studio will lay eyes on our product to begin giving us vital objective feedback and we have industry studs to organize and oversee that process.
At the end of the day someone here really did put it best. I"ve been blessed enough to be in position to go from thinking about making a game, and talking about making a game, to putting my money where my mouth is and actually create an IP that has its core focus as an online Fantasy MMO, and damn if that isn"t cool as hell.