Silius that you? You are right, it certainly is player entitlement to expect the game you bought and played for a year and half or more to remain roughly the same instead of completly changing in the wrong direction despite the overwhelming opposition of the player base. Fuck me for wanting to be able to start a character in its racial starting area, right?
Yes, see a few pages back. Hopefully he just sticks to crafting this time.
maybe. depends on their agenda. maybe it worked -- they did remarket vg with iod. maybe that did boost enough subs to warrant keeping it afloat.Silius that you? You are right, it certainly is player entitlement to expect the game you bought and played for a year and half or more to remain roughly the same instead of completly changing in the wrong direction despite the overwhelming opposition of the player base. Fuck me for wanting to be able to start a character in its racial starting area, right?
Runneye was the first zone I stood at the zone line and thought to myself.. "Wow, do I really have to go in there?" We weaved around until we found the other side and actually passed people leveling and pulling the eye for the staff quest (I think). We zoned out and thought it would be clear sailing and you zone right into a maze. Just a cool zone, a cool experience, and it was right between two major areas of the game. Just the overall map and layout of the EQ world was awesome. It may have been pure chance but everything was conducive to the experience.
I don't know. I don't work for Sony, and I don't know Brad or Silius. But remember this. Even Silius has a boss. You ever consider that the decisions made regarding Vanguard may not have been his? Name one thing after purchasing the game they have done to ensure its success. Haven't you always felt Sony wanted the game to just fucking die? I have. Only reason they bought it was to make sure no one else did and it became competition for the SOE games.Silius that you? You are right, it certainly is player entitlement to expect the game you bought and played for a year and half or more to remain roughly the same instead of completly changing in the wrong direction despite the overwhelming opposition of the player base. Fuck me for wanting to be able to start a character in its racial starting area, right?
Different world. Everything is data mined now. I would love to have cartography as a skill though. I will never know zones as good as I knew eq ones. Give players the ability to explore every inch and make notes and sell those maps mits been expressed before, but --
one of the coolest things about EverQuest was how unknown everything was. no in-game maps, let alone GPS. no spell descriptions. barely any spoilers for quests, and the player-created spoiler sites that were out there had more misinformation than correct information. it was very much an open world without linear rails for progression.
in real life, the unknown produces fear. but in an MMO, it produces wonder.
really hoping this game brings back that sense of wonder.
There's no boss that tells you to be an ass online to your customers, okay maybe Kotick, but he's the exception. The bottomline is Silius is hated as much, if not more than SOE, by a large number of ex-VG players. You don't get to that status easily.
I think a lot of the awe and wonder we experienced was because we were seeing stuff like this for the first time. I doubt Pantheon can recapture that feeling, but if they can make a way for us to go, "Hm. That's pretty cool!" every time we go into a zone for the first time without making it cheesy, then they might come close.
Dude you're just trolling at this point. You're making an assumption about VG based on a comment by Brad in an entirely different game and set of circumstances despite the fact that pretty much everyone on this board who has played the game when Silius was lead dev has stated he was an ass. Get the fuck out and back to whatever galaxy you're from.
I've definitely seen frustration towards him, but no form of damage control will be needed for Salim nor will his name make the Kickstarter not get funded. If any name is going to grab attention (and it already has), it's Brad McQuaid. Pantheon's Kickstarter launches soon and the pitch needs to be convincing enough for people to look over any doubts they may have.
This... Seen the day EQII gave experience for discoveries I thought this same thing. Especially if you could somehow work ships and navigation into the game, could you imagine how cool maps, compasses, and other tools would be if they were essential to survival and quality of life?
I'm going to agree that dislike of Salim might not be the reason Pantheon doesn't get funded, if it doesn't get funded. I'm going to disagree about the need for damage control. Mainly because if Salim starts doing his snarky little posts on the Visionary boards during development people are going to get really pissed.
you make a good point about modern data mining. i hope, though, that the Pantheon team comes up with a good way to obfuscate things. not procedurally generated content, because that usually ends up being lame. and some sort of intelligent design that is intuitive without being easily reduced to numbers and algorithms.
I meant damage control from his past, but I certainly wouldn't condone anything like that for this project. I think we still agree.
