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Ashes of Creation Developer Mutually Splits From Publisher My.Games, Will Globally Self-Publish MMO
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Ashes of Creation Developer Mutually Splits From Publisher My.Games, Will Globally Self-Publish MMO
Intrepid Studios, developer of upcoming MMO Ashes of Creation, announced today via a blog post that they will be self-publishing their MMO globally, parting ways with current EU publisher My.Games.
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If Ashes of Creation wants to be successful, it should stay away from corrupt Russian crooks like MY.COM who can't even bother to afford better servers for their games despite clearly having the money to do so. Also they will make sure they will turn Ashes of Creation into a P2W shitfest that will only ruin the reputation and prematurely kill the game, completely negating any potential it may have.
Good call. I approve it 100%.
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Ditching My.Com and self publishing the game is a win win situation as not only you have total control over your product but you keep away one of the worst/greediest publishers in EU.
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Must be good to sit home and play games, ppl still have to work tho. covid or not.
On the other hand after Intrepid failed to self-launch Ashes of Creation Apocalypse into open beta in 2018, then failed to launch it into early access in 2019, they could have really used expertise brought by working together with a publisher.
Yeah, Because my.com has such a stellar record for launching games into greatness. Can you name me One game that my.com has made great?
Joined 2004 - I can't believe I've been a MMORPG.com member for 20 years! Get off my lawn!
Good is they won't be giving a % away of their profits which imo will barely be enough.
Bad news:This was to save money,i highly doubt they will add any staff to make sure there is good customer support,not that we as gamer's are used to good customer support anyhow.
Customer support has been well below sub par and across the board.
I have not had one good experience with ANY dev since the days of EQ2,go figure a struggling business was the last to offer great support.They used to have GM's pop right into the game and try their best to solve issues as well seemed in no hurry to get out of there,was the best support i have ever had in gaming.
So EQ2/SOE support was like AAA
All others they get no A's only a garbage rating as in trash.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
That being said they have added alot of staff lately obviously on the development side of things. But I see no reason atm he will not do what he said. He is being very transparent with the whole development of the game, both for the good and bad.
I suggest people watch more recent videos/interviews on their development. I was writting this game off after the apocalypse fiasco, the mmo now actually looks extremely promising. People are still judging this game based off videos from over a year ago. From comparing what I seen with the other big games in development, this one probably has the highest chance of success.
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We get it, all your posts are about you telling us tales of how much you miss EQ2 or your vision for imo a boring mmorpg (you know, the part where you say pvp is bad for mmorpgs).
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