Shadowbane.
Joined a Shadowbane guild six months before launch, lived and breathed the game for 4 months in closed beta, then played it for almost a year after launch. Definitely not the best game I've played.
But I made more good f…
Anticipation is 9/10ths of the fun, right?
Wait for years for the next 'big' MMO. Play it for a few weeks, maybe months. Then it's back to hardcore waiting. That sums up almost seven years of MMOs for me.
But it's different now. I don't wait. I…
They said UO could never be matched.
They said EQ could never be surpassed.
They were wrong.
Wow has been out for almost five years now. That's a millenium in MMO years.
Time will kill WoW, not SWOR.
Long live Bill Roper!
Twas a sad day when he left the Blizzard team.
Although... I will admit his post-Blizard efforts have been underwhelming to say the least.
Maybe it has more to do with throwing a heap of money at a game, and a whole lo…
Darkfall launched, true.
There was a time, not too long ago, when that seemed highly unlikely.
Someday it might even be available to everyone who wants to sign up.
Originally posted by Master_Razor
So what can developers do? How can they prevent making incomplete games? Everyone needs to work together. The designers have to know the limits of their development team and set realistic goals for them. The compan…
Shadowbane had 30k subs to start. It started to decline rapidly after the first month, but was still decent in the first year.
Darkfall will do well to match that.
Originally posted by SignusM
"Ultima Online was at least fun to play at the beginning and allowed all who wanted to join in. "
Hmm, spoken like someone who was not there for UO's release, which was very, very rocky. Lag up the wazoo. Vir…
Originally posted by ougarit
Originally posted by hoopty
I cant wait to see when Taoes and Company over charge the players..Hang on i feel it coming..
It is going to be fun when all subscribers are going to pay the 1st month of subscribe a…
Originally posted by Chubbyjesus
They're given rough estimates and due to the lack of maturity in the followers, they rarely even give those. Because people call them LIARS and MURDERERS and RAPISTS...
~Chubby
I just want to go on record…
Good call.
Have to respect Aventurine for this. A greedier company would have just grabbed the over-capacity subs and then threw their hands up in the air on the 25th.
If I recall correctly, this is what happened to Blizzard in the first week of…
Originally posted by heartless
Originally posted by kedoremos
His truth is worth exactly 27 posts. That's not much.
I guess this guy is lying too, right?
Taken from Forumfall.
The game as it stands right now is a mere shadow of what…