I would imagine these guys getting inspiration from FF11 and not FF14. It had some pretty hardcore elements to it.
At this point I see five guys sitting around a table in dead fucking silence just staring at each other.
You know what both of those have in common? They are both based off an existing (and very popular) IP. I disagree about WoW vanilla being a eq clone, at least I never thought that when I started playing it.
Wish they would put one of their garage meeting up on twtich, would be pretty fun to see how clueless shit really is.
They've failed because of the nature of MMO's. MMO's, unlike other genres, are meant to be played in a perpetual state AND at the exclusion of other MMO's (Think about it, people RARELY play two MMO's at once.). Their specific nature makes their market a captive one, because population in game provides a huge number of benefits to the consumer playing the game. For example: If someone else were to make WoW, in almost the same way, with the same stuff, and even more content? It would still probably fail just due to the fact that more people play WoW, so more systems in WoW will work better thanks to more population (Dungeon Finder ect).
Kickstarter has resources to help people run successful Kickstarters. It should not take a fan to tell them the right way to do things.
It's a great pitch for a niche project. They did have the advantage of 1.5 million to get to where they are, which certainly helps. I think I'm going to back the project tonight, though, because it sounds awesome and like they're worthy. I'd never got involved in KS, but the more I do, the more I find there are a lot of other projects I want to allocate my yearly charity/entertainment money toward....
Agreed... i've already preached this... Not only are those resources available but this isn't the first time an old, nostalgic name attempted to raise money for a MMO to bring back the past in old school fashion. Not to mention one in particular raised his money and raised over 2 million.
I agree with you, especially the last paragraph. The sad part is I think if Brad pitched this game like you just did, I'd think he'd have a ton more interest despite how horrible the ks has gone.
Uh, WoWISa EQ clone, especially when it released. All they did was fix up the ui, make quests more relevant for leveling, and make the game run smooth on any crap machine (very important to a game's success).
