Greed Monger

Akulas

I might regret asking but what happened to it?

JamesP

I was wondering when a new thread would be created. I would love to keep you guys updated on what's going on so hopefully this thread doesn't get locked!

Our KickStarter backers now have full access to GM. We are still a little ways off from an official Alpha however we are close enough that we felt comfortable allowing our KS Backers in. Our only base System we have yet to implement is crafting which I'm working on this week and will be releasing an update with it this weekend. After that we will have to flesh out the systems and just start adding a bunch of Content. Our World is being redone in order to optimize it so we can keep performance up when we page the terrain into the Client. 

Development has been a little on the slow side this month while I dealt with the Death of an extremely close friend however now things are picking up once again.

Below is our final Dev. Blog of 2014. I'll be uploading a new one this weekend with the release of our next update.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zTiOxq7-eU

GwapoJosh

Originally posted by emperorwings
I might regret asking but what happened to it?

Much drama.. Appleton threatened to sue this website and everyone on it if they said anything negative at all about his game.  He also told the mods on this site that they need to censor any negative posts.. So MMORPG.com decided to remove the game.  It's not likely to ever be listed here again.

JamesP

Originally posted by GwapoJosh

Originally posted by emperorwings
I might regret asking but what happened to it?

Much drama.. Appleton threatened to sue this website and everyone on it if they said anything negative at all about his game.  He also told the mods on this site that they need to censor any negative posts.. So MMORPG.com decided to remove the game.  It's not likely to ever be listed here again.

I basically run the day to day operations of GM's Development now so I doubt you will be seeing Jason coming around here until he starts dealing with the Community again once our full Alpha is released.

DarkFail

Never heard of this, after clicking the link I can see why.

JamesP

Have any suggestions or feedback for us?

Harkyn

It was a scam, there will never be a game, and if they do decide to release it at some point, it's gonna be 100x worse than mortal online.

 

I feel sorry for the people who backed this project.

JamesP

lol That's not exactly what I had in mind for feedback... But thanks none the less. I'm dedicated to releasing a great game with Greed Monger. But believe me if that fails for whatever reason I'm keeping all my options on the table. I'll be upfront like I always am... At the start we made some huge mistakes on the PR front we ALL know that. But hey we were a young team and we have learned from our Mistakes. Like I say all the time we are moving forward and trying to make the most out of the situation. 

I'm not here to argue or debate anything with you guys. I'm just here to keep you guys up to date on our Progress and to take your Constructive criticism and see what areas we can improve based on it.

Acidon

Thanks, JamesP.

I, for one, appreciate the interaction and updates.  Whether or not I'm interested in the game is irrelevant.  It's just nice to see.

 

Best of luck with everything.

Boneserino

Originally posted by JamesP

lol That's not exactly what I had in mind for feedback... But thanks none the less. I'm dedicated to releasing a great game with Greed Monger. But believe me if that fails for whatever reason I'm keeping all my options on the table. I'll be upfront like I always am... At the start we made some huge mistakes on the PR front we ALL know that. But hey we were a young team and we have learned from our Mistakes. Like I say all the time we are moving forward and trying to make the most out of the situation. 

I'm not here to argue or debate anything with you guys. I'm just here to keep you guys up to date on our Progress and to take your Constructive criticism and see what areas we can improve based on it.

Is this meant to be a PvP sandbox game?

JamesP

Originally posted by Boneserino

Originally posted by JamesP

lol That's not exactly what I had in mind for feedback... But thanks none the less. I'm dedicated to releasing a great game with Greed Monger. But believe me if that fails for whatever reason I'm keeping all my options on the table. I'll be upfront like I always am... At the start we made some huge mistakes on the PR front we ALL know that. But hey we were a young team and we have learned from our Mistakes. Like I say all the time we are moving forward and trying to make the most out of the situation. 

I'm not here to argue or debate anything with you guys. I'm just here to keep you guys up to date on our Progress and to take your Constructive criticism and see what areas we can improve based on it.

Is this meant to be a PvP sandbox game?

 

It's a Crafting focused Sandbox. Our Starting Land mass will have a large PvP Zone but the rest of the continent will be non-pvp. However the Ocean will be full of Procedural Islands that can be explored and fought over. 

The reason the entire starting Continent isn't Open pvp is because players have to actually buy their plots of land with real cash and we didn't think it would be fair to paying customers to have them be on their land they paid for and be attacked and killed loosing it all. The Volcanic Lands however will be full PvP enabled.

JamesP

Originally posted by Acidon

Thanks, JamesP.

I, for one, appreciate the interaction and updates.  Whether or not I'm interested in the game is irrelevant.  It's just nice to see.

 

Best of luck with everything.

Thanks always nice to read encouraging posts like yours. I will keep you guys updated as long as we can keep this thread open who knows how long that will be though giving our track record. 

Boneserino

Originally posted by JamesP

Originally posted by Boneserino

Originally posted by JamesP

lol That's not exactly what I had in mind for feedback... But thanks none the less. I'm dedicated to releasing a great game with Greed Monger. But believe me if that fails for whatever reason I'm keeping all my options on the table. I'll be upfront like I always am... At the start we made some huge mistakes on the PR front we ALL know that. But hey we were a young team and we have learned from our Mistakes. Like I say all the time we are moving forward and trying to make the most out of the situation. 

I'm not here to argue or debate anything with you guys. I'm just here to keep you guys up to date on our Progress and to take your Constructive criticism and see what areas we can improve based on it.

Is this meant to be a PvP sandbox game?

 

It's a Crafting focused Sandbox. Our Starting Land mass will have a large PvP Zone but the rest of the continent will be non-pvp. However the Ocean will be full of Procedural Islands that can be explored and fought over. 

The reason the entire starting Continent isn't Open pvp is because players have to actually buy their plots of land with real cash and we didn't think it would be fair to paying customers to have them be on their land they paid for and be attacked and killed loosing it all. The Volcanic Lands however will be full PvP enabled.

Ok got it, well best of luck with your project!  I think you have the right idea with the PvP.   Open world is just a disaster.

Dakeru

Originally posted by JamesP

I was wondering when a new thread would be created. 

 

Yeah - no threads about this game in weeks (months?) but then someone posts about it again and you answer within 2 hours.

 

Coincedence

JamesP

I just happened to do a Google Search this morning for Greed Monger like I do just about every day for anything new in the last 24 hours and it came up... No I don't have multiple MMORPG.com accounts and NO I have no idea who the OP is...

JamesP

Originally posted by Acidon

Thanks, JamesP.

I, for one, appreciate the interaction and updates.  Whether or not I'm interested in the game is irrelevant.  It's just nice to see.

 

Best of luck with everything.

Thanks for the PM. When ever I attempt to reply to it I get a Captcha error so I'll just respond here.

The Last Dev. Blog WAS a mess in both places you mentioned. I rushed it out as I was getting ready to leave for Christmas. Also my dev. blogs are live streamed to youtube so there isn't much room to edit them. I will however be working toward improving their quality for 2015. I'm in the process of putting together a Intro and ending. I may also have to start recording them so I can do the editing needed instead of live streaming them. I'll let you know though if we do need some one to take the time to edit them.

Acidon

Originally posted by JamesP

Originally posted by Acidon

Thanks, JamesP.

I, for one, appreciate the interaction and updates.  Whether or not I'm interested in the game is irrelevant.  It's just nice to see.

 

Best of luck with everything.

Thanks for the PM. When ever I attempt to reply to it I get a Captcha error so I'll just respond here.

The Last Dev. Blog WAS a mess in both places you mentioned. I rushed it out as I was getting ready to leave for Christmas. Also my dev. blogs are live streamed to youtube so there isn't much room to edit them. I will however be working toward improving their quality for 2015. I'm in the process of putting together a Intro and ending. I may also have to start recording them so I can do the editing needed instead of live streaming them. I'll let you know though if we do need some one to take the time to edit them.

Yeah I was getting that same error.  I notified mmorpg.com as it stated, so hopefully someone will look into it.  Took many tries to get it to go through.

That said, I totally understand about the Dev Blog.  In addition, I didn't know you were live-streaming it.  My personal opinion, you're on the right track with recording them, editing them, then uploading them to YouTube.

And yeah, let me know if you need someone.  I do a great deal of video editing, streaming, recording and uploading.

 

Anyway, best of luck.  It looks like Greed Monger is coming along.

Acidon

Originally posted by emperorwings
I might regret asking but what happened to it?

Never regret asking questions.  Especially questions that make the other party stare at you blankly, considering the validity of your sanity. 

Life should be FUN!  Live it!

Superman0X

Originally posted by JamesP

lol That's not exactly what I had in mind for feedback... But thanks none the less. I'm dedicated to releasing a great game with Greed Monger. But believe me if that fails for whatever reason I'm keeping all my options on the table. I'll be upfront like I always am... At the start we made some huge mistakes on the PR front we ALL know that. But hey we were a young team and we have learned from our Mistakes. Like I say all the time we are moving forward and trying to make the most out of the situation. 

I'm not here to argue or debate anything with you guys. I'm just here to keep you guys up to date on our Progress and to take your Constructive criticism and see what areas we can improve based on it.

James,

Developing a game, and publishing it require very different skillsets. Perhaps you should mention to the team that they should concentrate on development, and get a publisher to take this stuff off their hands. This might result in both a better game, as well as a better customer experience.

JamesP

Originally posted by Superman0X

Originally posted by JamesP

lol That's not exactly what I had in mind for feedback... But thanks none the less. I'm dedicated to releasing a great game with Greed Monger. But believe me if that fails for whatever reason I'm keeping all my options on the table. I'll be upfront like I always am... At the start we made some huge mistakes on the PR front we ALL know that. But hey we were a young team and we have learned from our Mistakes. Like I say all the time we are moving forward and trying to make the most out of the situation. 

I'm not here to argue or debate anything with you guys. I'm just here to keep you guys up to date on our Progress and to take your Constructive criticism and see what areas we can improve based on it.

James,

Developing a game, and publishing it require very different skillsets. Perhaps you should mention to the team that they should concentrate on development, and get a publisher to take this stuff off their hands. This might result in both a better game, as well as a better customer experience.

We have had some publishing offers however I am not at liberty to discuss them. We are just holding out until we have alot more to show so we can see what our Options are. Until then we have had a Community Manager who handled game update announcements, our Social Media accounts, ect. but he moved on to follow his Political dreams in his local community and no longer had the time required to help us so for now I'm stuck doing the updates.

sunandshadow

Originally posted by JamesP
Have any suggestions or feedback for us?

Ok, looking at the Dev Blog, here is a small piece of feedback - male characters should be able to be made much skinnier.  The bottom end of the adjustments in the character creator was still bigger than what I'd consider to be an average build, much less a slender build.

Talketzanto

JamesP seems like a decent guy trying to do the right thing....its too bad he got caught up in a bad situation with mr. appleton

JamesP

Thanks for your feed back. I'll look into seeing what can be done about adjusting the min. max values for character creation.

Amana

Just some quick notes about this. Yes, the game listing was removed due to things already mentioned in the thread. I am not going to lock this automatically since there is some discussion going on. However, guys, don't rehash the past incidents or take potshots at the team from here forward. I've removed a couple of posts to reflect this.

Myrdynn

I just am here to mention, that while the other dude quite possibly ruined the efforts behind this game, James has been nothing but cordial, intelligent, and open about everything.  Don't doubt what he says, or question him posting here, he doesnt deserve that, even though unfortunately most of us will always be jaded by JA and Greed Monger.

I personally like the direction the game is headed, it could be fun for sure, but I won't give any of my money to play it as long as JA is associated with it

We as a gaming community dont need people like him.  James on the otherhand, is a welcomed contributor who I wish the best for

JamesP

Thanks for the Kind words. I really do hope that you will give our entire team including Jason a chance to prove that we have grown as a team and as Game Developers.