I think what's troubling to me is it's not just that they went into it unprepared. It's that they continue to mismanage it. It's one thing to start off bad but they have had plenty of time (40 days) to try to correct it and make it a better presentation and they really haven't. That gives me real concern on the development of the game in general.
Is that a...katana he's holding?OK. Which one of you guys is this? Booze? lol
For the first three weeks they were actually on the right track. Once we got to the 4th week, they decided they wanted to have a website ready for post kickstarter funding and refocused their attention there instead of on the kickstarter like it needed to be. Again having the website ready for post-kickstarter funding before starting the kickstater would have been wise which goes back to being unprepared. Posting update #49 where they confirm that they have in fact given up on the kickstarter while saying otherwise pretty much ensured that any end of kickstarter surge would be minimal.
The point that was made yesterday was if you told me before this whole thing started that Brad was going to make a game that uses the best of EQ with some modern elements and you have the backing power of the communities of P1999/Rerolled/Vanguardat the very least, that this was a slam dunk in terms of at least reaching their KS funding goal. I think beyond that was up for debate because I did think that there is a finite amount of people that would be interested in this type of game beyond those people. Understand how bad having only 3k backers is. You can't intentionally fuck up that bad and not at least get about 5,000.
That guy may be a moron but he isn't wrong in this regard: This has become a terrible thread full of shit posters.
Sure, there's some 'shit-posting' here, but I would always prefer the mix of shit-posters, supporters, fanboys and weirdos that we have here, as opposed to some echo-chamber of katana-wielding neckbeards.
Yea, As much as I want this game to succeed, a lot of the criticism has been valid. It just feels like it's being piled on because there are so many glaring mistakes at this point. They can certainly turn this around, and I'm sure the majority of the posters here will give them props, when it's warranted.
You give him too much credit. All the best things in EQ were not his work, either. What he didn't steal directly from TorilMUD was mostly devised by underlings. His singular talent seems to be creating ever larger train wrecks. Seriously, I did not think that there could BE a bigger disaster than Vanguard, but here you have it.
