i do enjoy the fact that the comments elsewhere have finally become as bitter and venomous as what youd find here.
I'm pretty sure this is how it all goes down as well. When this fails to fund at KS they plan to go with a method that offers no protection to their "fans". They will start taking money immediately and the end result is going to be nothing. They don't have any investors lined up. He is asking if anyone knows any on twitter for fuck sake. So the thousands they will milk out of the insanely gullible will just end up going in their pockets and there won't be a final product. They can just come back later and say that they tried, and that all the money they got from donations went into paying them for what little work they did do. Easy money when you think about it.
If their intention is to scam people out of their money then this is the worst run scam ever. Seriously there is no reason to doubt that they intend to make a game and using the Unity engine certainly gives them the tools necessary to make this game for a relatively low budget. However I think rather than trying to take money on their site directly I think they would be better served by trying to try another, much better organized and presented, kickstarter a couple of months from now. They want to have a have smooth transition from kickstarter to post-kickstarter funding but I think they jumped the gun and did that too soon.I'm pretty sure this is how it all goes down as well. When this fails to fund at KS they plan to go with a method that offers no protection to their "fans". They will start taking money immediately and the end result is going to be nothing. They don't have any investors lined up. He is asking if anyone knows any on twitter for fuck sake. So the thousands they will milk out of the insanely gullible will just end up going in their pockets and there won't be a final product. They can just come back later and say that they tried, and that all the money they got from donations went into paying them for what little work they did do. Easy money when you think about it.
I won't pretend to be concerned about people getting robbed though. I think the people who are acting like they want to save people money are full of shit 99% of the time. If you can't see the writing that is clearly on the wall then you deserve to get taken. Donate to their game, buy a monthly sub to their forums, make regular payments to them over the next year or so because you "believe". It just makes it more hilarious for us when this thing reaches its inevitable end.
he wont break the 9999 dollar threshold on his website so he shouldnt have to worry about the irs
Dude whatever , he has some serious investors "lined up" , and is making this game 100% certainty even if the Kickstarter doesn't fund , didn't you hear him say that all along? Done deal and all................
Not sure what you're expecting with Landmark, that shit's going to be all over the place and actively encouraged. SOE would have done itself a favor to remove EQ from the title altogether, Smedley seems to think as much himself. I'll be fucking around in Landmark for a while, but I certainly won't be looking for any form of cohesive epic world experience.
Was it ever suppose to be a epic world experience? I haven't kept up on EQN since it was announced, but I thought landmark was just their version of minecraft. Just a tool that people can use to get creative and make silly shit with. If someone makes something amazing SOE might use it in EQN. Am I wrong on that? Landmark and EQN are too different things. If you want to goof around and make shit go play Landmark. If you want to play a high fantasy MMO go play EQN.
Yeah, you're right in all of that. Maybe I worded it weird, but that's the point I was driving at.