SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

Vitality · Feb 10, 2015

Elidroth_sl said:
Landmark has VERY SIMPLE combat. Think of it as just a prototype to make sure things work at all.

Yeah that's a little more than "Just Code" my man.

Agraza · Feb 10, 2015

I don't see an issue with it. EQL has bitch slapping, and EQN has or is working on a full mitigation/avoidance/accuracy model to represent whether your bitch slap was of a significant value.

Utnayan · Feb 10, 2015

If this company tanks the EQ franchise I am going to buy it - along with Forgelight. I am then going to make a fun MMORPG modern day skill/ability game with a fluid UI and quick response times for combat. The content of the entire game will be going to the same/updated locales of the original EQ, making fun of SOE design decisions, employees, and culture at every turn. You will still go after heavily sought items, but there will be MANY said items. Want to increase your travel speed by 25% on foot? I am going to place the Ancient Cyclops on a 7 minute timer 100% guaranteed and have him shout random variables from what we all thought back in the day. "Remember when it took 17 hours for me to spawn!?!?" ... "Try to kill steal me, I dare you." and anyone that attacks the Ancient Cyclops after the first character, gets automatically DT'd by Cazic Thule who appears out of thin air. "VITALITY! You are the denizen of evil!" Bam. You are dead. In fact, it will auto teleport you to the other side of the world.

I would make all Hill Giants drop 1 copper in retaliation for being farmed for plat. Especially Gornit.

Gornit says, "Vitality, just take my money." and he drops sacks of coins on the ground once every hour and otherwise is un-killable.

I'll have naked human males running around the world screaming, "THE ARTIST ISN'T DONE YET" in Random locations.

I'll have a large idiot with a pony tail selling used horses in a corner back lot.

I'll have random character named bosses like, "Jiff Mutler" who will run the new EQ casino. Give him 1k plat, and you'll get back 1 copper and an empty box every time.

I'll have some of the toughest bosses in the game first drop cloth caps, and as everyone is about ready to jump off a cliff, Warder00 says, "Hah! Just kidding. Here, have some loot" and then another loot window opens and provides some awesome drops.

It will be like EQ revised meets Eternal Darkness Pranks + Trolling the entire player base. And there is so much content and play mechanisms to do it with.

Time to get on it. Russia, hurry up and bury this company so I can take over.

Sithro · Feb 10, 2015

The company that bought SOE is Russian? Well, after seeing what they did with the Olympics, we're fucked.

Kuro · Feb 10, 2015

Playerbase must elect 4 players who must remain logged in standing on pedestals to keep the Sleeper from waking up and wiping all the raid zones continuously.

Vitality · Feb 10, 2015

Look UT you called Sense Heading "Sense Direction"... I don't think Smedley is going to sell you the franchise. Atleast not without a life time supply of mozerella sticks.

If it was called Sense Direction - I'd send each SOE employee a pin to wear with a picture of the Sense Direction macro being pressed. Just to keep them on task.

Utnayan · Feb 10, 2015

Vitality_sl said:
Look UT you called Sense Heading "Sense Direction"... I don't think Smedley is going to sell you the franchise. Atleast not without a life time supply of mozerella sticks.

If it was called Sense Direction - I'd send each SOE employee a pin to wear with a picture of a quarter jammed into the Left Arrow key to keep them on task.

I am losing my memory at old age. How can I remember Gornit, but forget Sense heading...lol nice edit. Now there are two ways to keep them on task. God knows Georgetron and Jiff Mutler can't.

Vitality · Feb 10, 2015

Utnayan_sl said:
I am losing my memory at old age. How can I remember Gornit, but forget Sense heading...

You've purchased one too many Minivans my friend. For each one you lose 6 years of random memories.

Kuro · Feb 10, 2015

Who needs Sense Heading when every sword in Norrath is highly magnetized?

Rogosh · Feb 10, 2015

Utnayan_sl said:
If this company tanks the EQ franchise I am going to buy it - along with Forgelight. I am then going to make a fun MMORPG modern day skill/ability game with a fluid UI and quick response times for combat. The content of the entire game will be going to the same/updated locales of the original EQ, making fun of SOE design decisions, employees, and culture at every turn. You will still go after heavily sought items, but there will be MANY said items. Want to increase your travel speed by 25% on foot? I am going to place the Ancient Cyclops on a 7 minute timer 100% guaranteed and have him shout random variables from what we all thought back in the day. "Remember when it took 17 hours for me to spawn!?!?" ... "Try to kill steal me, I dare you." and anyone that attacks the Ancient Cyclops after the first character, gets automatically DT'd by Cazic Thule who appears out of thin air. "VITALITY! You are the denizen of evil!" Bam. You are dead. In fact, it will auto teleport you to the other side of the world.

I would make all Hill Giants drop 1 copper in retaliation for being farmed for plat. Especially Gornit.

Gornit says, "Vitality, just take my money." and he drops sacks of coins on the ground once every hour and otherwise is un-killable.

I'll have naked human males running around the world screaming, "THE ARTIST ISN'T DONE YET" in Random locations.

I'll have a large idiot with a pony tail selling used horses in a corner back lot.

I'll have random character named bosses like, "Jiff Mutler" who will run the new EQ casino. Give him 1k plat, and you'll get back 1 copper and an empty box every time.

I'll have some of the toughest bosses in the game first drop cloth caps, and as everyone is about ready to jump off a cliff, Warder00 says, "Hah! Just kidding. Here, have some loot" and then another loot window opens and provides some awesome drops.

It will be like EQ revised meets Eternal Darkness Pranks + Trolling the entire player base. And there is so much content and play mechanisms to do it with.

Time to get on it. Russia, hurry up and bury this company so I can take over.

LoL thanks man I needed that laugh today

mkopec · Feb 10, 2015

Kuro_sl said:
Who needs Sense Heading when every sword in Norrath is highly magnetized?

Or the clouds always move the same direction.

Mures · Feb 10, 2015

Byr_sl said:
i had a friend get into eq2 recently, he only needed to buy the sub and the latest xpac. total came out to around $50. If you want extra shit like mercenaries, you need to pay extra.

Now that you've skimmed the post you may want to go back and actually read it.

The "features" expansion was one of the stupidest ideas they could have come up with and its fucking pathetic they charged $40 to test their new features for upcoming games and they still don't include those features with the latest expansion. And it is just plain bad business to sell a customer an expansion for full price when you already have a release date for your next expansion next month which includes the previous expansion. You are willingly preying on your customers hoping they are too dumb.

Bruman · Feb 10, 2015

Jackdaddio_sl said:
Gonna co-sign this.

You see "Why can't we go back?" all the time when people talk about games. Not only this site but there are a lot of sites where people profess to be "old school players", bring up EQ, and everything else back to Pong.

Then you see them head straight for the AAA budget games and then the games that are indie made that actuallyhavethose features in them like The Repopulation etc, get largely ignored. Even on this site you can see just how many people push those threads up to the top while TOR, WoW, and the other gene pool recessed games are spiking. Those indie games don't hold a candle to the AAA ones in terms of polish or many times, just features. But they give more of the "EQ" experience than the mass games ever could and when you throw in they even look better and have more potential than EQ had/has, you wonder why they don't have vets beating down their doors because in actually, it's exactly what they've been crying for.

It's because money talks, bullshit walks for most players. They'll talk it up but won't back it, won't play it, won't stick with it.

Don't get me wrong; I actually liked TOR and FFXIV but I harbor no illusions about "going home again" whenever this nostalgia is rehashed. Let's call it what it is; a bygone age that only lives on in memory that pops up every once in awhile like menopause or a period every three months.

Heh, I've said the same myself here a few times, and after getting downvoted enough for it, I stopped saying it. There's several indie MMO titles that do the things people crave they want, but it's a niche market comparatively, and won't/can't have the funding level of the AAA titles. There's a lot more choice out there than people see, but they dismiss every title because it's not new, or it's buggy, or the UI isn't polished, or it doesn't have as nice of graphics, or the community is terrible. You can't go back. It's just how it is.

Vitality · Feb 10, 2015

To be fair here I wrote up the better half of a weeks worth of experiences for The Repopulation in it's thread. No one really seemed to care about it.

Big Flex · Feb 10, 2015

Vitality_sl said:
The Repopulation.

No one really seemed to care.

yup.

Silence_sl · Feb 10, 2015

Elidroth_sl said:
Landmark has VERY SIMPLE combat. Think of it as just a prototype to make sure things work at all.

If after 6 years of development all they have is a rough prototype, then EQN is well and truly fucked. Michael Myers on that one video taken last month said that EQN is still a long ways away. Seriously, WTF is he still doing there other than wasting vast amounts of money.

Agraza · Feb 10, 2015

I don't think 6 years of development is honest. In '12 Smedley said they rebooted the project. That puts it down the 3 years on the current concept.

Silence_sl · Feb 10, 2015

Agraza_sl said:
I don't think 6 years of development is honest. In '12 Smedley said they rebooted the project. That puts it down the 3 years on the current concept.

If after 3 years of development all they have is a rough prototype, then EQN is well and truly fucked. Michael Myers on that one video taken last month said that EQN is still a long ways away. Seriously, WTF is he still doing there other than wasting vast amounts of money.

bwuceli_sl · Feb 10, 2015

Utnayan_sl said:
If this company tanks the EQ franchise I am going to buy it - along with Forgelight. I am then going to make a fun MMORPG modern day skill/ability game with a fluid UI and quick response times for combat. The content of the entire game will be going to the same/updated locales of the original EQ, making fun of SOE design decisions, employees, and culture at every turn. You will still go after heavily sought items, but there will be MANY said items. Want to increase your travel speed by 25% on foot? I am going to place the Ancient Cyclops on a 7 minute timer 100% guaranteed and have him shout random variables from what we all thought back in the day. "Remember when it took 17 hours for me to spawn!?!?" ... "Try to kill steal me, I dare you." and anyone that attacks the Ancient Cyclops after the first character, gets automatically DT'd by Cazic Thule who appears out of thin air. "VITALITY! You are the denizen of evil!" Bam. You are dead. In fact, it will auto teleport you to the other side of the world.

I would make all Hill Giants drop 1 copper in retaliation for being farmed for plat. Especially Gornit.

Gornit says, "Vitality, just take my money." and he drops sacks of coins on the ground once every hour and otherwise is un-killable.

I'll have naked human males running around the world screaming, "THE ARTIST ISN'T DONE YET" in Random locations.

I'll have a large idiot with a pony tail selling used horses in a corner back lot.

I'll have random character named bosses like, "Jiff Mutler" who will run the new EQ casino. Give him 1k plat, and you'll get back 1 copper and an empty box every time.

I'll have some of the toughest bosses in the game first drop cloth caps, and as everyone is about ready to jump off a cliff, Warder00 says, "Hah! Just kidding. Here, have some loot" and then another loot window opens and provides some awesome drops.

It will be like EQ revised meets Eternal Darkness Pranks + Trolling the entire player base. And there is so much content and play mechanisms to do it with.

Time to get on it. Russia, hurry up and bury this company so I can take over.

I'd play that.

Iadien · Feb 10, 2015

Full production on Next won't even begin until Landmark hits open beta. Look at how long SWTOR, ESO, Wildstar, etc. were in production for. It's unrealistic to think that an mmo that is trying to innovate should be finished after 3 years.

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