Oh, I know you will be paying money...and I already know you are a fool just by your time at their forums. I still love seeing all that salt because you know the truth. Thsi shit isn't ever going to be that successful. That's right...cry those salties as I lick those tears.
So you're on their forums reading my post.. Which I hardly post so not sure what you're talking about.. you're either a stalker or a closet fanboy..Oh, I know you will be paying money...and I already know you are a fool just by your time at their forums. I still love seeing all that salt because you know the truth. Thsi shit isn't ever going to be that successful. That's right...cry those salties as I lick those tears.
Triple A studios can't even pull off 250k long term anymore and you expect me to even entertain that some no name fan made game will? Brad's competitors are not going to be AAA studios. He's going to be competing against EMUs. What EMU out there is even in the same ballpark as 250k?
Are you fucking retarded? If all these new games are so great, then why aren't you playing them? You and draegan, and the rest of the band of limp dicks spend every second posting here and not playing all the games that you claim are so god damn great.
See right there's the problem. You think anyone playing a game should not have time to do anything else, like post in a forum. They should be camping shit dammit, or waiting for a boat, or better yet sitting on that boat and chatting. But they best better not have enough time to post their opinion about games on some gaming forum!!!
total box sales? total players? 25k is about what i'd expect if this game actually launched and had positive reviews. More if they launch F2P free download, maybe approaching 100k.
The difference comes down to a respect, almost a deference, to the consistency of the amount of hardship the world presents itself as. This level of hardship dictates almost completely by itself the immersion factor of the game. Frodo didn't click a menu and insta-port to Mordor - there was hardship involved, and through that hardship, whether reading or watching the story, you became immersed in Middle Earth. There's no middle ground with this fact of human experience -- you can't give someone the ability to port around via dungeon finder queues and expect them to have attachment to your world or the people in it. That's what we want back, and that's what this garbage industry, Blizzard especially, has taken from us.
Actually, I feel like if anyone could make their own MMO using EQEmulator's server code but with entirely new assets, it'd be immensely popular.
10k has been talked about as the target size by the Dev team...they can maintain the game and develop additional content with that amont..20k they have said would be a dream and anything over that is just gravy
Aren't you the guy that thought EQN was going to be a hardcore pvp sandbox?? lol
no?
As long as the game is good, people dont give a fuck that brad got hooked on pills. People outside of rerolled are fairly forgiving about this kind of shit.
That's always been the approach on other forums. It really depends on execution by the team. Carrots need to be there and that 1-10 content has to be engaging. The free for the first 5 or 10 levels approach would help them too as it allows easy access. If the game runs like shit it will get a ton of uninstalls in 30mins. Pretty simple but hard for most companies to execute.
There are only a few games that have become real ghost towns and those are the ones who have shut down. SWTOR makes boatloads of cash. RIFT still has a lower-end of a healthy population. FFXIV? Real healthy. Archeage, Elder Scrolls? All good. Aion just had a major expansion. Not very popular in the West though.
Also those people, at that time, basically bought every new MMO that came out regardless.
That's a good point. I did not but a lot did. Most people now are much more cautious. Most of those peopl had at least a clue about the game and it's state, tho.. I don't think pantheon will dupe anybody, I think the free access will allow the game to live and die on its own merits.
But that doesn't sound very well done. You mean, they botched the timing and execution of the launch, the underlying tech, and the implementation of content? Oh, was that all?
This is where vanguard excelleD from a content perspective. If we consider every 10 levels a "tier" , each tier had not 1, but nearly 10 dungeon experiences across the world with exceptional loot where you have to use all the skills you have learned and leverage others to complete. Sure you could solo but th e premier content was these dungeon experiences. I have never played a game that had more dungeon content per tier other than single player D&D titles. It is what kept me ALT-ing in vanguard so much.