New Sandbox MMORPG

Ancelo

New mmo that my old guild leader is making.

Here is the website. http://www.ashesofcreation.com/

 

Game Features
Currently four unique races and two sub-races per race
Each race has racial stats that affect classes
All races are faction-less with no restrictions of playing with friends
Four PvP and PvE balanced classes which are customizable with cross-class branching systems
PvP based outside of safe zones
Karma based Player Killing system
High enough karma causes guards to attack on sight
Gathered resources can be looted from your corpse when killed
PvE in the open world and dungeons 
Marriage and child system (same sex marriage included!)
Interactive environment (falling objects can kill)
Guilds can capture and control castles set throughout the world
Fully fleshed out MMO systems including mounts, pets, guilds, and more.

Combat
Multiple combat options including tab target, WASD, and click to move
Active and reactive based combat with interrupts, stuns, crowd control, and more

The World
Massive open world
Many open world bosses on a massive scale
Land and sea exploration and combat
Very limited fast travel
Resources must be transported, and are vulnerable to attack. Can upgrade guards to transport resources via a caravan system, but is still vulnerable to be attacked and looted.

Node System:
Game has no premade towns or npc areas outside of starting areas
By progressing objectives in areas in the world npc areas will begin to pop up
By progressing further, these areas will develop into larger and better designed and defended villages and towns
You can purchase land in these towns in both outdoor plots (limited) or instanced areas.
Land can be customized with homes, crafting stations, farms, etc
Design and look of towns will be based on which race contributed most to the node’s current progress stage (and can change if later stages are progressed more by other races
Nodes are PvP attackable with sieges (on a countdown timer) and resources stored in banks/warehouses/homes are at risk to be lost during these sieges (defend your homes!)
Nodes have different types that change what they can do and benefits they give
Activating a node disables nodes in the area, preventing them from progressing until current node has been destroyed.
Resources or monsters in the area may change based on which node is active and at which stage it stands

The Team
Team of industry veterans who have worked on a multitude of games and MMOs making the game they want
Funded by one individual, not a full company with an agenda and sales target numbers
Being created with input from the community to create a game everyone wants to play

Payment Model
Subscription based model, no box fee $15/month
Cash shop for purely cosmetic items
No pay to win or pay for advantage items (not eastern mmo)

 

It this game takes your fancy or looks interesting, give it a try, possibly getting in alpha/beta test by registering via website or follow my referral link:

http://intrepidstudios.ref-r.com/c/i/11916/4494327

For more info check the website or wait until this monday for the official announcement as I was privy to this info being part of the old guild. There should be a subreddit, though I have not checked.

Videos:

syeekco

Wow this game makes me slightly wet...

francis_baud

Damn... That's... something... unexpected. O.O

viney123

Epic.. Very surprising that you know the creator. ^^ Best of luck to him, and enjoy yourself in your assured alpha invite.

Mawnee

Wow. Certainly has a nice atmosphere to it

Mikeha

First time seeing this and it looks better than the others I have seen. 

Following this one. 

LynxJSA

In the future, lead with the video. The video is great. The feature list is the same trite crap that every indie MMO trots out. Once the video has the person engaged, then roll out the list.

And from seeing various reading/heat patterns on how people read these things, here is what most people will most likely read of that list:

Game Features
Currently four unique races and two sub-races per race
Each race has racial stats that affect classes
All races are faction-less .........................................
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................................ Player Killing system
................................................ guards to attack on sight
........................................... looted from your corpse when killed
............................................... dungeons 
........................................(same sex marriage included!)
....................................... (falling objects can kill)
................................... control castles .............................
.............................................................. mounts, pets..................

Combat
............................................................................. click to move
................................................................... stuns, crowd control............

The World
Massive open world
....... open world bosses ....................
...........sea exploration.......
.................fast travel
Resources must be transported....................................................

....caravan system............................................

Node System
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The Team
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Payment Model
Subscription based model, no box fee $15/month
Cash shop for purely cosmetic items
No pay to win or pay for advantage items ................

Hope that helps. The graphics look great and the game premise is really intriguing. Good luck to the team!

Eldurian

The footage actually looks good. And I do like that the features list sounds like a PvP sandbox though I know many will not. Hopefully his "karma" system is something he puts a lot of thought into and not just an afterthought, as well as his siege system. I think those two systems are the two systems most frequently done poorly in PvP sandboxes which is what runs off almost everyone but people looking for a constant gankfest.

Anyway. Keep us posted. I have a lot of games I'm watching right now but this seems like one I'll check in on again if I'm reminded of it closer to it's release.

Incomparable

Looks pretty cool.

What about building underground structures? or Inside a mountain.

Kind of like a bomb shelter, it would make more sense for houses for those that can afford it, to build in a safer way, near a city or in 1, or just underground.

Ageni

I like it, GL with this game, let's hope for interesting MMO in future! .)

LynxJSA

DMKano said:

It uses UE4

Is noone in this thread aware of horrible scaling and performance issues when UE4 is used in MMOs with lots of players in one area?

I guess not.. heh

I remember the same being said about Unreal 2/2.5. Then Lineage 2 happened. We'll see how it goes. 

SEANMCAD

Ancelo said:

this video after I pushed it forward to the actual content took me about 10 seconds to be disgusted.

nope. same old normal shit this game looks like to me

Bellomo

I would throw some cash at it

Scorchien

Looks promising , good luck to the devs , ill keep an eye on it....

botrytis

LynxJSA said:

In the future, lead with the video. The video is great. The feature list is the same trite crap that every indie MMO trots out. Once the video has the person engaged, then roll out the list.

And from seeing various reading/heat patterns on how people read these things, here is what most people will most likely read of that list:

Game Features
Currently four unique races and two sub-races per race
Each race has racial stats that affect classes
All races are faction-less .........................................
.........................................................................................................
.........................................................................
................................ Player Killing system
................................................ guards to attack on sight
........................................... looted from your corpse when killed
............................................... dungeons 
........................................(same sex marriage included!)
....................................... (falling objects can kill)
................................... control castles .............................
.............................................................. mounts, pets..................

Combat
............................................................................. click to move
................................................................... stuns, crowd control............

The World
Massive open world
....... open world bosses ....................
...........sea exploration.......
.................fast travel
Resources must be transported....................................................

....caravan system............................................

Node System
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The Team
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Payment Model
Subscription based model, no box fee $15/month
Cash shop for purely cosmetic items
No pay to win or pay for advantage items ................

Hope that helps. The graphics look great and the game premise is really intriguing. Good luck to the team!

Would rather have B2P than sub. I know people on this forum like subs, but they are waste -  180.00 per yr vs one price. Sorry 180 USD a year is a lot to spend ON ONE GAME. In 5 yrs that is 900 USD. I can buy more games for that price. Netflicks is cheaper and gives you more choice than ONE GAME.


Sub games are the past, not the future.

SEANMCAD

I would rather play ....anything else.

it looks unbearably dull folks

Lemure

botrytis said:

LynxJSA said:

In the future, lead with the video. The video is great. The feature list is the same trite crap that every indie MMO trots out. Once the video has the person engaged, then roll out the list.

And from seeing various reading/heat patterns on how people read these things, here is what most people will most likely read of that list:

Game Features
Currently four unique races and two sub-races per race
Each race has racial stats that affect classes
All races are faction-less .........................................
.........................................................................................................
.........................................................................
................................ Player Killing system
................................................ guards to attack on sight
........................................... looted from your corpse when killed
............................................... dungeons 
........................................(same sex marriage included!)
....................................... (falling objects can kill)
................................... control castles .............................
.............................................................. mounts, pets..................

Combat
............................................................................. click to move
................................................................... stuns, crowd control............

The World
Massive open world
....... open world bosses ....................
...........sea exploration.......
.................fast travel
Resources must be transported....................................................

....caravan system............................................

Node System
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The Team
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Payment Model
Subscription based model, no box fee $15/month
Cash shop for purely cosmetic items
No pay to win or pay for advantage items ................

Hope that helps. The graphics look great and the game premise is really intriguing. Good luck to the team!

Would rather have B2P than sub. I know people on this forum like subs, but they are waste -  180.00 per yr vs one price. Sorry 180 USD a year is a lot to spend ON ONE GAME. In 5 yrs that is 900 USD. I can buy more games for that price. Netflicks is cheaper and gives you more choice than ONE GAME.


Sub games are the past, not the future.

Subs are fine with me as long as they release new content often and regularly, and have a non p2w cash shop

this game looks awesome, especially for a First Look

Vermillion_Raventhal

botrytis said:

LynxJSA said:

In the future, lead with the video. The video is great. The feature list is the same trite crap that every indie MMO trots out. Once the video has the person engaged, then roll out the list.

And from seeing various reading/heat patterns on how people read these things, here is what most people will most likely read of that list:

Game Features
Currently four unique races and two sub-races per race
Each race has racial stats that affect classes
All races are faction-less .........................................
.........................................................................................................
.........................................................................
................................ Player Killing system
................................................ guards to attack on sight
........................................... looted from your corpse when killed
............................................... dungeons 
........................................(same sex marriage included!)
....................................... (falling objects can kill)
................................... control castles .............................
.............................................................. mounts, pets..................

Combat
............................................................................. click to move
................................................................... stuns, crowd control............

The World
Massive open world
....... open world bosses ....................
...........sea exploration.......
.................fast travel
Resources must be transported....................................................

....caravan system............................................

Node System
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The Team
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Payment Model
Subscription based model, no box fee $15/month
Cash shop for purely cosmetic items
No pay to win or pay for advantage items ................

Hope that helps. The graphics look great and the game premise is really intriguing. Good luck to the team!

Would rather have B2P than sub. I know people on this forum like subs, but they are waste -  180.00 per yr vs one price. Sorry 180 USD a year is a lot to spend ON ONE GAME. In 5 yrs that is 900 USD. I can buy more games for that price. Netflicks is cheaper and gives you more choice than ONE GAME.


Sub games are the past, not the future.

I don't mind if it's on going adventure.  Part of the problem with themeparks is stagnate nature of the content. Do I want to pay 15 a month to repeat content for a year.  If sandboxes has on going player and developer seeded content than I am fine.  

Eldurian

In terms of viability Freemium > Sub Only > B2P.

Buy to Play is only a viable model when you have a world that's scarce on content and does not receive frequent updates or when you go the ESO route of basically gating a Freemium MMO behind a Buy to Play wall.

There is a reason why everyone loves it, and it's essentially the same reason that everyone would love every game to be free to play with no paid subscription or cash shops you can use to get any advantage. Buy to Play just gives people the illusion they have actually paid a fair price for the content of an MMO that has ongoing development costs.

Until Unicef get's into the MMO business you will never see a good Free to Play or Buy to Play MMO.

Ancelo

LynxJSA said:

In the future, lead with the video. The video is great. The feature list is the same trite crap that every indie MMO trots out. Once the video has the person engaged, then roll out the list.

And from seeing various reading/heat patterns on how people read these things, here is what most people will most likely read of that list:

Game Features
Currently four unique races and two sub-races per race
Each race has racial stats that affect classes
All races are faction-less .........................................
.........................................................................................................
.........................................................................
................................ Player Killing system
................................................ guards to attack on sight
........................................... looted from your corpse when killed
............................................... dungeons 
........................................(same sex marriage included!)
....................................... (falling objects can kill)
................................... control castles .............................
.............................................................. mounts, pets..................

Combat
............................................................................. click to move
................................................................... stuns, crowd control............

The World
Massive open world
....... open world bosses ....................
...........sea exploration.......
.................fast travel
Resources must be transported....................................................

....caravan system............................................

Node System
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The Team
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Payment Model
Subscription based model, no box fee $15/month
Cash shop for purely cosmetic items
No pay to win or pay for advantage items ................

Hope that helps. The graphics look great and the game premise is really intriguing. Good luck to the team!

Thank you for the heads up, hehe my first time talking about this mmo since they approached me to help "spread the word." Yeah I think it will be something to follow to see more details.

Grimula

How can people laugh and say 15 Dollars per month is A lot of money for entertainment ?? Don't you make more then 15 dollar in 1 hour at your job ?

$15 per 30 days is not a lot of money for doing ANYTHING hahahah

Grimula

I bet you throw away more then 15 dollars worth of stuff every month ...into the Trash hahahah

Grimula

you pay 30-50 per expansion plus the 15 a month .....that's Normally how it works Mr . Kano 

guess you never enjoyed playing Everquest games  its always been like that for Everquest games

Grimula

and everquest is one of the LONGEST running mmo's in history

Ancelo

DMKano said:

Grimula said:

I bet you throw away more then 15 dollars worth of stuff every month ...into the Trash hahahah

I do - far more than $15 - but you completely missed my point - I wasn't laughing at the price, $15 is nothing - I was laughing at there be no other options of generating revenue.

Imagine you are a business owner - and you own a store - where each person is only allowed to spend $15 a month - and if they want to spend more, the only option is to wait for another month, or maybe pay in advance for several months.

What is the obvious flaw above - yeah the hard limit on how much each person can spend, right?

It's a HORRIBLE model from the business perspective - putting a hard limit of how much each person can spend is just absurd as disposable incomes vary greatly and some people can afford to drop $1000s every month and not even blink an eye.

A pure subscription model is unsustainable in todays market in vast majority of cases - unless it is supplemented in other ways (like cash shop, DLCs etc...) - because over time playerbase #s decrease - which means without other sources of income - the model only loses money over time - hence unsustainable.

The proof is "in the pudding" as no game has stayed with 100% pure subscription model - all of them have added cash shops, etc...

That's what I was laughing about 

"Cash shop for purely cosmetic items" There will be one, though I hope it won't be as overpriced as the costumes were in BDO. I'm sure to a lot of people $30 a costume is nothing, but man that hurt my wallet lol.

Wizardry

Obviously i know VERY little of this venture but from the little i see,i like what i see and anyone that knows me,i don't give praise too often.
I love to hear stuff like action/reaction/stuns ,i also hope there is accuracy but my only issue is it seems like 100% manual aim which i am not a huge fan of unless a fps type game.
However combat looks to be no spam,that is a huge plus in my books,i hate all the garbage game design i have seen of late,spam spam spam ; ;

So i can carry a similar applause and wish him luck and hope the game continues to look promising.
Subscription based ,yep another plus,i can't nor do i feel like posting 3 paragraphs as to why subscription and ZERO cash shop is the proper way to go.