I think it's ridiculous to say, "X-Com didn't have a market, but its success obviously proved otherwise"! Well, duh? That's why it was made? There was enough obvious interest to justify green-lighting the project. All games made have enough of a market interest to justify their cost, yes. All games not made, don't have enough market interest to justify the cost of making them, yes.
Spend time outside of this website and tell me thats a relevant bit of snark.
Am I being thin skinned by thinking this might be directed at me!? I assure you, it's not that... I've been called it all on here from backing Brad lol.
Eqclassic. Eqemu. YouTube. In game. Plenty of places where people talk about old ever quest.
Even if true, when EQ came out, the entire video game industry was struggling with how to convert tried and true classics across the genres to use 3D. The Nintendo 64 is widely regarded as one of the best console systems of all time because of its contributions in this front. Miyamoto catapuled from legendary to probably the best video gamer in the history by his conversions of the Super Mario series, Zelda series and Metroid series from 2D to 3D.
Doesn't matter. Bitches will be bitches. They know that they lost this community so playing us off as the villains fits with what their fanatics already think.
Not directed at you. More directed at the posters who think they can bully opinion. When an opinion that's positive Pantheon comes out there are certain posters who will jump on it. I was just trying to say that when positive news does happen, I'll be here reporting it and they can kiss my ass.
Come on, that's silly. You're attempting to prove a negative. Even extensive market research has been proven to befantasticallywrong. TakeNewCoke, for example (And I assure you, their market research was extensive proving people liked the new flavor and it would sell well). This is like econ 101 stuff though, capital constrains proving problematic in producing innovation and exploiting new markets is an actual thing in economics. Capitalism deals with it far better than other economic systems, but it's still a huge problem--and market research is not nearly good enough to abate said problem. The fact is that numerous markets face this problem---it comes down to convincing very rich men whether to hand over money or not, and their decisions are NOT always correct (In either direction)--even if they have extensive market research.
No, they do not have a crystal ball to tell them how well their titles are going to do. Games and movies bomb and lose money all the time. Greenlighting the XCOM remake was seen as a gamble to the people who fund these things, even though it's obvious to serious old school gamers that XCOM would sell. The proof is the complete lack of strategy games made in the last decade, not to mention the other XCOM title that they turned into an FPS. (did that even launch?)
This is all the group that did not move on though, which is not the group being discussed.
How would any of that make him a genius DESIGNER? You have an argument for being a good programmer there but nothing that helps argue his title of God of MMO Game Design.
The problem is how long will that last? Let's say there are 4,000 people who so fondly remember EQ they pony up 300,000 total dollars. Then what? I doubt he'll find a publisher, so he's left hoping an angel investor is out there, unless he self funds which seems highly unlikely. The pace of the past 4 months has not given me faith that any sort of alpha will be playable within a year, and that 300k won't go much farther divvied amoung 10 people, including the backpay through last August he promised.
Prove it? When the supposed hero of EQ steps up to the plate and says I want to take you back, and 3k people say sure while the rest say no thanks, you've got a lot of work ahead of you.
I hate that they are doing backpay when they claimed all along that this was pro bono. They lied plain and simple.
I could actually believe in the success of a plan like that, except I feel like the publisher would just say "so you're trying to hit us with another VG again? Fuck off."I hate that they are doing backpay when they claimed all along that this was pro bono. They lied plain and simple.
This game will not be made unless some sort of publisher comes on board. My guess is that the crowd fund money will go towards the demo to which they will try and sell to a publisher. That is the only reasonable course of action so Im prolly 100% wrong
In my opinion the argument that people left as quickly as they could is as flawed as the 'EQ had 500k subs yay' argument. Yes in 2004 many people jumped ship, after 2-5 years of playing EQ. I dont have many games I'd play that long without leaving. I doubt people would've gone back to an EQ remake in 2005, WoW was still fresh and the big hit among non-gamers. EQ had its peak, was killed driven off by the younger lion and faded away. That's normal, happens to everything eventually.
