Embers Adrift Will Hold a Free Weekend January 27-29th, With Community and Streaming Events | MMORPG

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Embers Adrift Will Hold a Free Weekend January 27-29th, With Community and Streaming Events | MMORPG.com

Embers Adrift  will hold a free weekend from January 27-29th. The subscription-based game will be able to try out for free, and Stormhaven Studios is planning some events around the promotion.

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giantessfan

Free weekend already. That was quick

SenbonFan

People are making fun of Pantheon for how it looks, but if this is a fully released MMO in the modern day with a subscription maybe people should be careful about casting glass stones.

Yes, Graphics are not everything, but lately they help immensely with first impressions...for better or worse.

losthewar

No pvp no Play

Dattelis

giantessfan said:

Free weekend already. That was quick

My personal opinion is that it should've been at the max b2p and no sub for at least until actual launch to get more people in the door. Honestly if someone has to pay for a sub and box price for 'old school,' they have better options for a sub alone, like classic wow and eq 1/2 timelocked servers just to name some.

Raagnarz

Since there is no magic classes they will never get me unless they add them. Sorry I don't want to be running around with a one hand weapon and a stupid flag in my offhand.

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OG_Solareus

PVP by summer

Tokken

OG_Solareus said:

PVP by summer

I say game is DEAD by summer.

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Brainy

Tokken said:

OG_Solareus said:

PVP by summer

I say game is DEAD by summer.

Define dead.

I call it dead now, when you have 50 people concurrent or less thats pretty much a dead game to me.

Kyleran

Brainy said:

Tokken said:

OG_Solareus said:

PVP by summer

I say game is DEAD by summer.

Define dead.

I call it dead now, when you have 50 people concurrent or less thats pretty much a dead game to me.

Servers taken offline a la Crowfall and some others most recently.

KnightFalz

giantessfan said:

Free weekend already. That was quick

They did some prior to release as well, so I wouldn't read too much into them doing more of the same. It seems their marketing approach of choice.

KnightFalz

Remali said:

5 ppl to kill a forest animal my kind of a game
NOT

It depends on the forest animal. There are plenty one can kill solo.

KnightFalz

Brainy said:

Tokken said:

OG_Solareus said:

PVP by summer

I say game is DEAD by summer.

Define dead.

I call it dead now, when you have 50 people concurrent or less thats pretty much a dead game to me.

A dead game is one shut down with no intention to reopen. So long as Embers Adrift can avoid that the game isn't dead.

Brainy

KnightFalz said:

Brainy said:

Tokken said:

OG_Solareus said:

PVP by summer

I say game is DEAD by summer.

Define dead.

I call it dead now, when you have 50 people concurrent or less thats pretty much a dead game to me.

A dead game is one shut down with no intention to reopen. So long as Embers Adrift can avoid that the game isn't dead.

So its currently undead?  LOL its limping along as a zombie.  Not quite dead but feels like it.

KnightFalz

Brainy said:

KnightFalz said:

Brainy said:

Tokken said:

OG_Solareus said:

PVP by summer

I say game is DEAD by summer.

Define dead.

I call it dead now, when you have 50 people concurrent or less thats pretty much a dead game to me.

A dead game is one shut down with no intention to reopen. So long as Embers Adrift can avoid that the game isn't dead.

So its currently undead?  LOL its limping along as a zombie.  Not quite dead but feels like it.

Is is alive until not.

hyllyh

the good side, you just need 6 players to make a full group and run the game ^^

dunno about population atm but it's a niche game.

i got interrest at launch but B2p+sub was just a no as i got ff14 already and another game.

the very con if there's no paywall: the "i hit a mob and i got the time to clean my house before it died" lack of some nervous move

Scot

KnightFalz said:

Brainy said:

KnightFalz said:

Brainy said:

Tokken said:

OG_Solareus said:

PVP by summer

I say game is DEAD by summer.

Define dead.

I call it dead now, when you have 50 people concurrent or less thats pretty much a dead game to me.

A dead game is one shut down with no intention to reopen. So long as Embers Adrift can avoid that the game isn't dead.

So its currently undead?  LOL its limping along as a zombie.  Not quite dead but feels like it.

It is alive until not.

Alive until dead, but that is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die. Like the Unchained, Unlimited etc MMOs.

Slapshot1188

Scot said:

KnightFalz said:

Brainy said:

KnightFalz said:

Brainy said:

Tokken said:

OG_Solareus said:

PVP by summer

I say game is DEAD by summer.

Define dead.

I call it dead now, when you have 50 people concurrent or less thats pretty much a dead game to me.

A dead game is one shut down with no intention to reopen. So long as Embers Adrift can avoid that the game isn't dead.

So its currently undead?  LOL its limping along as a zombie.  Not quite dead but feels like it.

It is alive until not.

Alive until dead, but that is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die. Like the Unchained, Unlimited etc MMOs.

Well those I would says are more akin to the Unborn.
Embers has been born but it's gasping.  I'll hop back in during the test and see how it's coming along.

Kyleran

Brainy said:

KnightFalz said:

Brainy said:

Tokken said:

OG_Solareus said:

PVP by summer

I say game is DEAD by summer.

Define dead.

I call it dead now, when you have 50 people concurrent or less thats pretty much a dead game to me.

A dead game is one shut down with no intention to reopen. So long as Embers Adrift can avoid that the game isn't dead.

So its currently undead?  LOL its limping along as a zombie.  Not quite dead but feels like it.

I think to the Princess Bride meme well covers it, the game is "mostly dead."

losthewar

No pvp = No Play

user298

I just looked at Twitch. There are literally 0 streamers at this moment. Earlier today there was the paid shill "Elloa" streaming it, but even that paid shill's stream had very few people interested in watching it. There are much more people streaming and watching original Everquest, despite Everquest having much worse graphical fidelity.

This game is done for by now, and no amount of "free weekends" or recruitment of more Twitch shills will help it in any meaningful way.

KnightFalz

user298 said:

I just looked at Twitch. There are literally 0 streamers at this moment. Earlier today there was the paid shill "Elloa" streaming it, but even that paid shill's stream had very few people interested in watching it. There are much more people streaming and watching original Everquest, despite Everquest having much worse graphical fidelity.

This game is done for by now, and no amount of "free weekends" or recruitment of more Twitch shills will help it in any meaningful way.

Elloa is their community manager. It's part of her job to be publicly enthusiastic about the game. I don't see how that counts as shilling for it, unless you see all community managers to be doing so in the course of their work.

KnightFalz

Kyleran said:

Brainy said:

KnightFalz said:

Brainy said:

Tokken said:

OG_Solareus said:

PVP by summer

I say game is DEAD by summer.

Define dead.

I call it dead now, when you have 50 people concurrent or less thats pretty much a dead game to me.

A dead game is one shut down with no intention to reopen. So long as Embers Adrift can avoid that the game isn't dead.

So its currently undead?  LOL its limping along as a zombie.  Not quite dead but feels like it.

I think to the Princess Bride meme well covers it, the game is "mostly dead."

Quite possibly, though I don't know if that state will be so easily cured as in the Princess Bride.

Scot

Kyleran said:

Brainy said:

KnightFalz said:

Brainy said:

Tokken said:

OG_Solareus said:

PVP by summer

I say game is DEAD by summer.

Define dead.

I call it dead now, when you have 50 people concurrent or less thats pretty much a dead game to me.

A dead game is one shut down with no intention to reopen. So long as Embers Adrift can avoid that the game isn't dead.

So its currently undead?  LOL its limping along as a zombie.  Not quite dead but feels like it.

I think to the Princess Bride meme well covers it, the game is "mostly dead."

That's what those fans of crowd funded MMOs are going to look like down the line.