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Erronius

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Dracula's Crew said:
I believe they stated Alpha is delayed until 2019. Its safe to assume beta 2020 and game release 2086 where I can just teleport in game and finally have sex with my halfling wife.
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Halfling wife? I think you're selling yourself short, bro

Nirgon said:
We done setting Brad up for competing with a billion dollar company while he's in alpha?
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Do you know what thread you're posting in?
 
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While there is nothing 'new' under the sun, wow they really copy and pasted EQ's Wizard, Enchanter, Magician. I thought the other class reveals had a bit more originality to them.
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Mostly pretty bland, but I noticed a couple of things that at least sound interesting. The mage summon wall ability would be great if it works as a potentially creative form of CC and isn't something I've seen. The enchanter Dream/Nightmare abilities sound like a recipe for someone to ragequit your pickup group when the rogue doesn't realize you've put lucid dream on him, the mob lives, and someone gets blown up.
 
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Watching people with a history of getting 5mill+ in venture capital, failing, and then making a new company that receives similar VC terms.

We've all seen it. Brad is a pretty obvious example by himself. It holds true. If you have a history of managing money, and failing, you still have a history of managing money. Therefore you are more likely to manage money in your next venture.
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Is the Dire Lord supposed to be a shadow knight variant? There is no necromancer and there is no shadowknight so I'm sitting here wondering where the fuck the dark arts class is.
 
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I think it's safe to say the development of this game is taking WAY longer then planned. Every testing date target I have ever heard them give, has been significantly missed. I don't think they are nearly as far along as they often imply. What's with all the pre-alpha 1,2,3,4...19 shit? Just wake me up when Alpha is ready at this point. Starting to have my doubts about this game. Getting some Vanguard Deja Vu vibes.
 
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this is from an interview on November 24, 2015. Proper funding back then was $800k.

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Even back in 2015, $800k wouldn't cover a parking lot to fire people in.

I suppose he could just ask his wife to walk everyone out to the mailbox to give them the bad news while he's in the kitchen making himself a sandwich.

How did he fire the Jesus Crew, anyways? Did he just start wearing shirts with satanic goat-heads and pentagrams in the hope they'd quit on their own?
 
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Even back in 2015, $800k wouldn't cover a parking lot to fire people in.

I suppose he could just ask his wife to walk everyone out to the mailbox to give them the bad news while he's in the kitchen making himself a sandwich.

How did he fire the Jesus Crew, anyways? Did he just start wearing shirts with satanic goat-heads and pentagrams in the hope they'd quit on their own?
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$800k wouldn't cover McQuaid's $200k/yr salary draw for the period.

Source: "Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen" Lead Developer Accused Of Taking $35k From Crowdfunding Campaign | Crowdfund Insider
 
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Brace yourself: The expectation that there will be huge changes to the art style are naive.

I know people don't like to hear that, but it's true. They do not have the time, nor the manpower/money to re-do large portions of the world. They will be extremely fortunate to have the three continents worth of zones done for a Winter 2020 launch, at their current/expected pace.
And given how badly they estimate their milestones, I'm being overly generous.
Animations and particle effects will see some tuning, but beyond that, this is what you're going to get. If people don't like it, they don't like it. Next game-- not the target demographic.
Models -may- see some tuning, but it will be slight. They do not have a full Animation Department with 20+ animators all just waiting to hand rig 8 playable races plus an unknown number of NPC races. That depth does not exist, currently nor will it until years after launch, and only if it's successful. Each playable race will likely have one major content-animation pass, at best, before launch, if similar past products are any indication.

History has demonstrated using the customer-repeated excuse line of "It's just pre-pre-alpha, it's just pre-alpha, it's just alpha, it's just beta, it's just launched" will get you exactly one thing: A very crappy product. The devs are big boys & girls, they can defend themselves. Defending bad crap gets you more bad crap. Constructive and Destructive criticism will get you a product refined by fire.
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Oh sure they do. The Unity store is willing to take your money for assets all damn day long!
 
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How many people in this thread are fans of Pan'Theon or anti-fans here to enjoy the train wreck? I expect the ratio to be something like 1 fan for every 100 anti-fans.
 
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goishen said:
Oh sure they do. The Unity store is willing to take your money for assets all damn day long!
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You know, the reason they ARENT using store bought assets anymore and taking fucking years to build anything, is because of posts like this.

Brad and Joppa are doing the old ass, Concept Art > Modelling > World Building > Post Processing, that studios do when they have hordes of artists.

Instead of just buying things, and telling you faggots to shut the fuck up, he is taking years to do anything.

He has to preserve the "look and feel" of the game, even though it's called Pantheon and there aren't any fucking gods.
 
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Erronius said:
How did he fire the Jesus Crew, anyways? Did he just start wearing shirts with satanic goat-heads and pentagrams in the hope they'd quit on their own?
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I'd like to know as well, seeing as Brad is deeply religious himself.

That had to put him in a tough spot.
 
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They trolled themselves by trying to force their religion on some gay dude or something
 
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Adinirahc said:
I think it's safe to say the development of this game is taking WAY longer then planned. Every testing date target I have ever heard them give, has been significantly missed. I don't think they are nearly as far along as they often imply. What's with all the pre-alpha 1,2,3,4...19 shit? Just wake me up when Alpha is ready at this point. Starting to have my doubts about this game. Getting some Vanguard Deja Vu vibes.
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If you look at all the current crowdfunded mmos, they are ALL taking much longer than planned. Not sure why everyone in this thread thinks that some sort of Pantheon only issue, or are surprised by it.

Think of it in a positive light. All the little ferrets in this thread can keep wasting their lives away for at least 2 more years while bitching and moaning about a game they will never play. Hilarious.
 
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