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Trials of Ascension: Phase Two KickStarter Begins
SBFord
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Forged Chaos has announced that the KickStarter campaign to fund the next stage of development has begun for Trials of Ascension. Last year, the team successfully completed its initial fund raising effort to bring a playable demo of ToA to the world. Having released the demo, Forged Chaos is ready to get working on the next phase.
Players and backers of the initial KickStarter are invited to try the closed demo that features several basic game systems: Melee, crafting, harvesting, construction to build a house, and spell casting.
If Forged Chaos manages to raise the $600,000 it seeks, the plan is for both Alpha and Beta to be completed in 2016 and for final release in 2017.
The KickStarter page contains several videos, some in-game screenshots and tons of concept art as well as detailed descriptions of the intentions of the developers, game systems and information about the sandbox environment that will be created.
Check out the Trials of Ascension KickStarter page for more information.
Watch a settlement constructed in this time lapse video.
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So, did ESO have a successful launch? Yes, yes it did.By Ryan Getchell on April 02, 2014.
**On the radar: http://www.cyberpunk.net/ **
>kickstarter
>good game
>f2p
pick one
I'm a gamer and I play games, not virtual vending machines.
If you read the KS page, you would have found in the section "About Us" this:
There's more, but you get the idea.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Cobat concept look fun...
I try not to panice... not to panic
Now everybody gets the idea,like they should
So, did ESO have a successful launch? Yes, yes it did.By Ryan Getchell on April 02, 2014.
**On the radar: http://www.cyberpunk.net/ **
So you dont like Mount and Blade, SotA, Star Citizen, Camelot Unchained?
mmorpg junkie since 1999
M&B = not terrible, but small.
SotA = $500 for a virtual house? LOL!
Star Citizen = Doesn't exist yet.
Camelot Unchained = You mean "concept art online"?
Please provide examples of actual games. Thank you.
Joined 2004 - I can't believe I've been a MMORPG.com member for 20 years! Get off my lawn!
See, you know... I do have a heart in me. I understand the claim to have a great idea and "no one understands". Historically it's akin to Cassandra Complex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_%28metaphor%29 and I've even felt it at times myself. Please believe me when I say I'm not diabolically attempting to crush dreams out of hand. This particular project, however, has too much abject history.
Just looking at the message in the second part of your post, I feel there's an unnecessary appeal to emotion. There's humor about timeframe, specifically dinosaurs, but I don't want humor when you're asking for funding, I want you to be serious. There's an appeal to the effect that, "we're just the good guys being kept down by the man". Further, there's an appeal that, "the reader may be our last chance". These are manipulative angles that likely would make me register an outright negative response for anything short of a sandwich for a starving man. What the hell is wrong with you and your idea that you need to make emotional appeals to ply money from complete strangers? Get some sense and dignity, put together something tangible, substantive, worth our time, demonstratable. You've had over a decade and you have nothing but, "this is what we want to do" and a roadmap.
No. Just no. The more it's presented to me, no. The different ways it's worded, no. Anyplace I can put my opinion, the answer is no, and I'll say it again and again, no.
Provide me examples of any decent game without a kickstarter?
I would say Darkfall was amazing, MO i still alive and doing fine. Lets say CCP also got loan when they were making EvE cause there were no kickstarter. Crowfall is going to use it.
No kickstarter MMO has launched yet. Not one. I can point to dozens of really good solid MMOs that had no crowd funding. This company seems fishy. The word on the internet is they surface every now and then and ask for money and between that nothing. No word on how the money is being spent. Seems off.
Alpha, Beta, and day-before-life rewards are all listed with an estimated date of February 2017. Do they have a timeline on their site or forums that gives a better idea of what their actual road map is?
And, to make sure it's clear, because whether they meant to do so or not this is an actual marketing trick, that is two years from now. I can guarantee there are many who looked at that and thought one year.
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Ummmmmmmmmm, ok, tell me about an MMORPG that went into development last year, or even 2 years ago, that's released today.
Fact: MMORPGs take TIME. That being said, there ARE games in Early Access which were initially funded with Kickstarter. SotA, The Repopulation, PFO, Star Citizen. There are others (Shards Online) which will probably have a quicker turnaround than most games funded through KS (including mobile games).
I do agree, though, that people should be cautious with their money and not invest in games that seem too good to be true.
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There is zero chance this game will enter alpha in bit over one year, hit beta in 1.5 years and full release in two years. Its not going to happen.
MMORPG's with 100s of employees can't do it with a themepark, how exactly do you expect three guys being capable of doing it with a sandbox.
As they stated, they will use the KS money to hire people. It's not just 3 guys.
Once upon a time....
$30k a year, 10 employees for 2 years, still not going to happen.
Sure can. Remember, they aren't building a bunch of quests with special stuff in them.
They aren't going to have a bunch of races at release, just 3 and 2 of them won't wear gear and such.
Once upon a time....
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4/13/15 > ELE has been updated look for 16-04-13.
http://www.dereksmart.org/2016/04/star-citizen-the-ele/
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