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Creative Director of Ashes of Creation Shares Letter with Community
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Creative Director of Ashes of Creation Shares Letter with Community
The Creative Director of Ashes of Creation has shared an open letter with the community looking back on the year that was 2019. Here are the highlights:
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Could you do it? Sure. Would it be hard? Absolutely.
The trick here is they just won't put out A1 until its ready to be shown. Sure, they may show it at GDC in March, but what they show will be what's highly polished.
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Still, good news. I hope they make it, since it's the KS title I'm rooting for the most.
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There are flaws with your logic, but you may just be misinformed. The CEO has put millions of dollars of his own money into Ashes of Creation (MMORPG) development, he is an avid lifelong player of MMORPG's. He's not an idiot, and he knows full well that the BR space has been long since occupied by Fortnite and Apex Legends as it's distant but closest competition, and that BR's are on the way out anyway. They stand to make a lot more money from subscriptions and cosmetic purchases than they do from attempting to launch an early test model as a serious BR release which would not recoup any amount of personal investment he has made. If they had really were making an attempt for the BR mode to be viable and competitive on the market then they would have put a lot more resources into it's development, and supporting it post-launch.
Even if Apoc had taken off, there is absolutely no reason to believe they would have dropped the MMORPG and if anything, it would have just served to further invest in the MMO's development not just because that is the CEO's passion, but because that is the product they promised to deliver, and their reputations all hinge on it. They have recruited a lot of top tier talent from across the industry that would most likely not join the development team for this game if they had any concerns about these things. They have explained why they made Apocalypse, and yes, they handled that roll out terribly on several accounts but these conspiracies and straight to doom misinformed assumptions are irritating and old. Alpha 1 is going to be accessible to kickstarter backers, as it should be, but I don't know how they intend to handle bringing people into it beyond that.
You think this games graphics/gui/animations are like Everquest?
When they launched the BR out of nowhere I think it threw alot of people for a loop.....Since then I haven't had any interest in this title anymore.
I strongly suspect they don't have access to the $30K funding oft quoted for the project.
Either this or their projections were off and they foresee needing more than planned.
They once said the reason to monetize the BR was to make up for unplanned stress testing back in 2018.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Much better to have no NDA so people can show the good also.
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I remember a time when "more" people paid for games as well.
And when game companies persuaded shareholders/owners that they had the next WoW. (So not the same need for money upfront from players.)
I also backed their KS. Their early days were unheard of among all the KS game projects: almost a year of preparing the project in complete silence, followed by the unexpected reveal at the end of 2016 where they actually presented some early content with a pretty well thought out concept for what the game should be and how the key mechanics should work.
Granted, a lot of the early vids were based on stock UE4 market assets, but that was to be expected when the team was only about 10 people strong and the studio had just started hiring. Such a low profile, less talk - more content, start was what the whole KS scene needed.
And then the whole BR thing happened and for me the whole game just went.... meh.
Intrepid, you want to recapture the magic and the good will of your late 2016 days - you cut the crap, remove the BS nobody wanted, you keep your heads down and labour at this over the next months and years and let your actions speak - instead of your store updates, PR statements, unwanted game modes and the rest of it... Show us your hard work, show us how the MMO we kickstarted takes shape, leave out the weed you've been showing us for 1+ years and your rationalisations, and the community will get back behind you. Like it did three years ago.