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I want people discussing what the news is and adhering to it not the mental hospital this place is. Cynics, pessismists and lots of downers in general. You guys think your so important than when one of the "people who have jobs" the developers release information all your circle jerking will come to an end, then whos the fool. BOOM.
Market trends? You mean like being able to see the public numbers of how many customers games have? Google is your friend. I'm not claiming to "know" people in the biz or whatever.
Who do you know in the industry? What games or accomplishments do they have? I know people in the medical industry, doesn't make them or me the go to source to cure disease. Unless these people you know can predict the future, they don't know anything more than someone that can put two and two together.
No clue how or what titles I'm taking away from.
Clearly you are full steam ahead on the EQN hype train and I wish you luck.
I've been online gaming for over 20 years myself and again sorry to break it to you, we are not significant. The "majority" are not us.
Maybe you could point out how I'm killing the genre or everything that is wrong with it, but seems like a bit of nonsense.
Honestly don't know if you are comprehending what I'm even saying with how you respond. I'm one of the few EQN fans on here, doesn't mean I'm a blind fanboi that thinks EQN is 100% going to be the bestest game ever and will rain happiness from the sky.
Talk is cheap and at this point they don't even talk much. Lets see what actually happens before getting too excited.
Discussion of news, you say... First of all, there's barely any news out there about the game worth discussing. What little bit there is, has already been discussed to Hell and back. The same circle-jerking you criticize would be happening anyway.
Second of all, no one (except, again, a select few) thinks their thoughts matter more than what the developers say (or don't say). What you're doing is giving power to the same people you're criticizing. Twenty-eight years of age (at least) and you don't know how to ignore that which you don't like?
Lastly, your comments are bordering on fanaticism. I'll wish you luck with that. Hopefully, the game you're defending so valiantly will release in the form it was first advertised in. Believe it or not, that's what the majority of people want, a stellar game. It's just that not everyone believes it'll happen.
"Refuse to go down"? It's not a battle. Ugh....
1. The Lead Programmer and brains behind SB AI Quit and left SB
2. For some reason SoE no longer needed or wanted to keep SB contracted to help them finish the AI. I think its because SoE didnt have access to the lead programmer.
3. SB trys to buy SoE to save them selves with their own set of investors.
4. CN buys SoE
5. SB closes their doors.
6. The now DGC announces their separation from SB and takes the project in house with their own programmers.
From what I have dug on the net, SoE had no need of SB before they became DGC. With the lead programmer gone they were just as well equipped do finish the AI in house as they were with SB help. At that point SB had nothing left to offer. A finished AI they did not have.
Did the company promise they would get more resources as a result of the new ownership just 2 days before they fired half of the company, yes.
history suggests you are wrong.
IIt isn’t in their best financial interest to come tell fans about massive cuts, problems. At least without something to give hope elsewhere.
Sorry, but what I posted is very plausible and fits the situations very nicely.
Based on what?
Daybreak cut Storybricks and nearly 50% of the company at the same time. Are we to assume they didn’t need or want those employees either?
Trying to suggest that after firing half the company, Daybreak thought they were somehow better off working on Story Bricks themselves makes no sense and sounds like denial.But people are and have been discussing the news about the game (and lack of). The problem seems to be you don’t like what people are saying and seem very invested in seeing EQN succeed. To the point that you think the entire MMO genre depends on it and anyone not supporting it is ruining everything.
Relax mate. The hype didn’t die because people want the game to fail. The hype died, because the game looks like it is failing.
Also H1Z1 may have sold 1 million copies, but it has only retained about 50k players (5%). The game sold on hype, but failed to deliver. Hype doesn’t help as you are putting it. A company overselling and under delivering is what is killing the genre. Players not wanting to pay and spend time in an unfinished game isn’t the problem.
As for EQN or whats left of it I would scrap it and rebuild it from the ground up. I have not seen too many happy with the character or graphics in general. I like stylized graphics but the pics from EQN seem lacking. Does not seem like story bricks or even the voxel idea is working and I dont think they have the knowledge to fix either one. I say scrap what you got and give us something more traditional with a few innovations
If you don't know what you are saying, time to step away from the keyboard. Just video games.
Don't base a game and hype around something that doesn't exist.
Would of made all of this a lot less silly.
"And on the EverQuest Next front, I announced on the Workshop Show that this week started our process of internal play tests and usability tests for the combat for EQN. Yesterday was the first time members from other teams inside of the company were able to sit down and kill some monsters for the first time and we're collecting great feedback to help us hone in on our goals. Initial responses have definitely let us know that what we have is fun and engaging in the ways we wanted. We will continue to have internal play tests over the next several weeks as we incorporate feedback and continue to polish the systems up." - Fairan
Sounds like it's not vaporware as of September 4th. It's just hush mode because I think they learned they announced stuff too soon and smed ruined the hype factor.
If I want a world in which people can purchase success and power with cash, I'll play Real Life. Keep Virtual Worlds Virtual!
There is plenty of hip-hop MMORPG'ing going on. Why hang out here in this flytrap.
The Baby Bells are coming. Go find one and open your thoughts up there.
It could still end up as vaporware, but they claim development is still continuing so hopefully we will see something more than concept art in the future.
Though context is important. This is the same combat system that a few months ago the producer said was just a concept and they had no idea if it would be fun or even work.
Also in the same workshop as referenced in your post (last weeks), the developers said they are still deciding on how to build the world. So that isn't done yet either.
It sounds like nothing is done and mostly concepts. World, classes, combat, AI, characters races, cities, npcs, quests, etc.
Just based on the things the developers are saying it doesn't sound like they had anything they could hype even if they wanted to. Ignoring all that to conclude that there is some they are now protecting and that is what caused the communication black out appears to be nothing more than wishful thinking.
Food for thought.
How were they able to show video of combat 2 years ago, but they are just now testing combat for the first time? Something doesn't add up. Any ideas?
Now, with the very recent Landmark downtime (and subsequent video explanation) while they separated Landmark and EQ:N onto distinct code bases, the statement that SOE/Daybreak had a functional internal EQ:N game server than no-one had seen are shown to be a similar falsification.
No one outside Daybreak has a clear idea of exactly how far along EQ:N may be, or what features it contains or doesn't contain. While I think there's still entirely too much of EQ:N that is at the conceptual stages, the separation of the code bases actually appears to be a positive step in the life of EQ:N.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
There will be nothing in Landmark that is EQ:N because they have separated the complete development. Most likely because Landmark is a failure and not much more than a novelty Minecraft type building simulator for a few people with an extreme Lego fetish.
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