Nice try Jon...^^ But you have more than enough experience to know what a kiss of death that death penalty would be, given the current demographics in the west.
This game is so bad arse it doesn't even need a webpage. You have to figure it out.
It owns eveything. Don't even bother trying to find the forums. It is so hardcore you can't. This game is so uber it doesn't need an alpha, closed beta or paid beta. It just launches. So play it if you dare.
Tasos even says it is the most difficult game he has ever seen. It makes his game seem like Pac Man.
Whats funny is about everyone that read it wanted it to be true lol
Man, what a bummer. I really liked everything his 'game' was going to have. I forgot it was April Fools day but started getting suspicious when I started thinking 'this has every single thing I want in a game'...
Thats awesome Jon really but alas I feel it may not get anywhere. We as mmo gamers have become a very fickle group of sub-humans that feel everything that can and will be made will never be
HARDCORE
enough for our tastes.
But i wish you all the best.
Always remember Jon, funneling investor funds into an offshore bank account is never a bad thing to do in the mmo biz. Just incase things go tits up.
MMORPG.com's Jon Wood uses this week's column to announce his new position as head of Procrastination Studios, and reveals some of the details of the new MMO they are working on.
Well folks the day has finally arrived. As of today, I have decided to leave MMORPG.com to officially take the wheel of the ship that is my very own MMO development office, Procrastination Studios.
Procrastination has actually been up and running for close to a year now, having actually quietly started pre-production on a game that I've wanted to make for years now. It's called Lands of Oberon, and before anyone starts in on me about genre, yes it IS another fantasy game. Let's face it. Fantasy is what people know, it's what sells.
Some of you may be sitting there reading this wondering how I managed to raise the capital to start my own MMO studio. Well, I have a confession to make. After working for five years as a top MMORPG site, I will say this: It certainly pays to have "positive" opinions where generous MMO studios are involved.
As the owner of the company, I am free to discuss the details of some of the features that we’ve already got going:
Ha, I can't believe some of you started to buy it!
I got as far as "my very own MMO development office, Procrastination Studios". The first sentence in. Too easy. I come from a family where there have been some EPIC April Fool's jokes in the past, from putting Saran (plastic) wrap under the toilet seat, covering the bowl to duct-taping the trigger on the sprayer (hose) to the kitchen sink. So I spot these a mile away. Child's play!
I still get a good laugh to this day thinking about the poor schmuck who took a dump on the Saran wrap. God, that's funny stuff.
If you wanted your commentary to be believable you should have made a death penalty that matters. This game would be way to casual for the average lurker on these forums :-)
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I'm really bad when it comes to April fools pranks, I normally have trouble distinguishing it as fact or fiction but the death penalty just gave it away. After reading it was about fantasy I was getting ready to bash you for not thinking of giant robots (mechas)! But yeah..that death penalty...gave me a good laugh.
I feel sorry for your make-believe investors who will lose all of their make-believe money when all those make-believe hardcore players find out that paying non-make-believe money every month for harsh death penalties is very different from whining about wanting harsh death penalties on forums.
But overall, it was a funny April 1st joke. Though it would have been much less of a joke about getting the capital to start a MMORPG a couple of years ago, look at the millions given to idiots like Richard Garriott or the bozos behind Stargate Worlds. At least the industry may have learned about throwing around money to clueless morons posing as game designers.
Sounds like a very promising game. However the 48-hour death penalty sounds weird. What would prevent people from log of for 48 hours (or even be logged on and do nothing) and then get zero death penalty?
Think you will have problems balancing that. But other than that, the game sounds great. Not yet another cookie-cutter themepark crap.
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Nice try Jon...^^ But you have more than enough experience to know what a kiss of death that death penalty would be, given the current demographics in the west.
I feel really stupid...
I fell for it. I forgot today was April Fools Day!
Arggg! I was all sad and majorly disappointed and I was about to post how sadfaced I was...then I saw the forum posts.
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Guys! I'm hopelessly lost in a mountain of mole hills! Them damn moles!
ZING!
1st of april is so hard for us dumbies
good luck in your new venture 
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Whats funny is about everyone that read it wanted it to be true lol
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Guys! I'm hopelessly lost in a mountain of mole hills! Them damn moles!
This game is so bad arse it doesn't even need a webpage. You have to figure it out.
It owns eveything. Don't even bother trying to find the forums. It is so hardcore you can't. This game is so uber it doesn't need an alpha, closed beta or paid beta. It just launches. So play it if you dare.
Tasos even says it is the most difficult game he has ever seen. It makes his game seem like Pac Man.
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REALLY tempting to implement it a la Kingdom of Loathing!
No no, the game not him leaving :P
Man, what a bummer. I really liked everything his 'game' was going to have. I forgot it was April Fools day but started getting suspicious when I started thinking 'this has every single thing I want in a game'...
Thats awesome Jon really but alas I feel it may not get anywhere. We as mmo gamers have become a very fickle group of sub-humans that feel everything that can and will be made will never be
HARDCORE
enough for our tastes.
But i wish you all the best.
Always remember Jon, funneling investor funds into an offshore bank account is never a bad thing to do in the mmo biz. Just incase things go tits up.
Well you had me going. The game sounded interesting save the races and of course like everyone else the death penalty.
Gikku
It may be an April Fool's joke, but it'd be the kind of game I'd actually be interested in. *shrugs*
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LOL! Don't quit your day job
Well done...and start pitching this to indies - ya never know!
Had me going until I read "leave MMORPG.com"!
T
Well Jon, I'd like to leave you with the wise words my parents said to me when I moved away from home.
Unfortunately those words were "Goodbye to bad rubbish", which I don't think you would appreciate.
So instead I'll just say Happy Feast of Fooles Day to you too and leave it at that.
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It is a shame it is April frist as it really sounded like a fun game.
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Ha, I can't believe some of you started to buy it!
I got as far as "my very own MMO development office, Procrastination Studios". The first sentence in. Too easy. I come from a family where there have been some EPIC April Fool's jokes in the past, from putting Saran (plastic) wrap under the toilet seat, covering the bowl to duct-taping the trigger on the sprayer (hose) to the kitchen sink. So I spot these a mile away. Child's play!
I still get a good laugh to this day thinking about the poor schmuck who took a dump on the Saran wrap. God, that's funny stuff.
Your fail comment, failed.
If you wanted your commentary to be believable you should have made a death penalty that matters. This game would be way to casual for the average lurker on these forums :-)
Our spirit was here long before you
Long before us
And long will it be after your pride brings you to your end
I'm really bad when it comes to April fools pranks, I normally have trouble distinguishing it as fact or fiction but the death penalty just gave it away. After reading it was about fantasy I was getting ready to bash you for not thinking of giant robots (mechas)! But yeah..that death penalty...gave me a good laugh.
Nice one, gave me a good few laughs.
Ok, good joke, well played. Even if you were joking the MMO you described actually sounds quite interesting and innovative.
I feel sorry for your make-believe investors who will lose all of their make-believe money when all those make-believe hardcore players find out that paying non-make-believe money every month for harsh death penalties is very different from whining about wanting harsh death penalties on forums.
But overall, it was a funny April 1st joke. Though it would have been much less of a joke about getting the capital to start a MMORPG a couple of years ago, look at the millions given to idiots like Richard Garriott or the bozos behind Stargate Worlds. At least the industry may have learned about throwing around money to clueless morons posing as game designers.
Sounds like a very promising game. However the 48-hour death penalty sounds weird. What would prevent people from log of for 48 hours (or even be logged on and do nothing) and then get zero death penalty?
Think you will have problems balancing that. But other than that, the game sounds great. Not yet another cookie-cutter themepark crap.
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