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Ashes of Creation End Of Year Stream Reflects On 2022, Introduces New Devs And New Studio | MMORPG.c
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Ashes of Creation End Of Year Stream Reflects On 2022, Introduces New Devs And New Studio | MMORPG.com
Ashes of Creation's latest stream is a special one, as the team at Intrepid took a look back on 2022, as well as introduced many of the new faces brought into work on the upcoming MMORPG.
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Hopfully this isn't a scam because I really want to play this game
Bad news, this has been a real game since the start. Only real problem with this project is the owner and lead dev likes to give misleading time lines. But anyone that have followed MMO knows you cant make an MMO in 2 to 3 years from the ground up when making unique assets.
Correct in the past, wrong in the present. You brought up a good point and this has been resolved. Intrepid is currently NOT giving any timelines for testing A2, release etc..
This project has evolved over the past 5-6 years and looking forward to the future.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
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These guys would make great game show hosts, but awful video game developers.
Fishing on Gilgamesh since 2013
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The kind of progress I want to see at this point, is a release date and hitting that target date with a good game.
Never a truer word spoken.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Sandbox means open world, non-linear gaming PERIOD!
Subscription Gaming, especially MMO gaming is a Cash grab bigger then the most P2W cash shop!
Bring Back Exploration and lengthy progression times. RPG's have always been about the Journey not the destination!!!
So whenever there is a question about the future, I always look back to the past for an explanation.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
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Buy jpgs!
Look at Star Citizen. In "development" forever, given over half a BILLION dollars, and still in "alpha". These games add a new model or 2 a few times a year, and claim they're still in "full time development". How many millions has AoC gotten now, and they can't seem to get past the alpha stage either.
It's just like the plethora of "Early Access" games on Steam that have been abandoned or worse, continue to try to sell a game that development has stopped on. Seems like the fail rate of EA titles has to be over 50%. And at least for me, this trend has started to completely kill any trust of professionalism I has in game developers. It gives the impression they're all a bunch of scammers.
I don't think most developers that put their game in early access are scammers. I think that most of them have very little business sense and some of them aren't really developers. Many EA titles are being made by a group of friends who mess around with RPG Maker for a few weeks and think, "I played D&D, I can make an RPG." Big hopes, big dreams, and very little knowhow on what it takes to actually make a game. And we willingly give them our money.
You have competent developers that know how to make possibly a good game but have no experience with PR or marketing.
The ONLY thing that the lead developer brings to the table is his experience in PR and marketing from his Xangojuice MML days.
Well, that and his seed money
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
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Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
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I suppose they will first have to make a good game then I will be able to judge.
I wouldnt say they are bad with PR or marketing. They seem to excel at those actually. They have strung along a customer base for 8 years with basically nothing to show. They have been voted most anticipated game multiple years. PR and marketing can only take you so far, at some point they will have to make the actual game.
The only reason they are even starting to get bad PR is because the game has yet to deliver anything worth seeing. Even still after 8 years their PR is effective, there are still people buying their BS. Every year saying how much amazing progress they have been making LOL.
6 years of amazing progress yet we still cant get into Alpha. If the dev team was half as good as the PR team we would have a world class game.
Jesus you guys are something else. If you have followed the game at all you know Steven not only has the passion and drive to create an entire dev team from scratch of which he has spent a large portion of his fortune on. Also the world and story is his own creation and the entire game is his vision. Also you would know how happy his employees are with his leadership which is plain as day in these videos. The man lives and breathes this game 24/7. But sure, keep attacking his character with the same old bullshit. He has said many times he was recruited to join xango early on and had some success with it but the vast majority of his money came from investment and realty.
He brought experience in PR and marketing to the company from his time making millions selling xangojuice in a multilevel marketing company. It was in response to someone posting that the devs had no experience in both.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
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Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
Very good post, I agree with all of it, except I think the failure/abandon rate of EA games is much higher than 50 percent.