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• • So I tried the veteran trial. Dazed and Confussed.

  • Originally posted by Obee

    Hell, the former lead designer of SWG, the guy who came up with the NGE combat system, recently posted on his blog that the only reason the NGE failed was because the folks in marketing dropped the ball.  He still thinks the NGE game is great and that we are morons who need to "eat a dick" and go fuck ourselves for not being able to understand how great it is.

    LOL, can I get a link to this?

  • Posted: 7/06/08 12:24 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • The Perfect Star Wars Galaxies Replacement (Pre CU)

  • Originally posted by Hauken
    

     The game is NOT 2-3 years away from launch. Its ready to enter the alpha stage. 

    
     

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    Hauken, please don't take this as an insult, but I get the impression that you either haven't followed many MMOs before they were released or you are simply way too trusting. In either case I feel like I should tell you that the "alpha" stage for most MMOs is the point where the game is still ATLEAST 2 years away from release. Yes, I know you think that you have spoken to the developers of this game and that they have made promises to you that the game isn't that far away. These were lies. The developers of Shadowbane made the same promises to me seven years ago when they claimed that Shadowbane was in "alpha testing" stages but would start beta "any day" and would be released within six months. Shadowbane was delayed multiple times after that and took another two years to release. Even once it was released it was still quite far away from actually being "finished" by any definition of the term.

    For a more recent example of what I'm talking about look at Darkfall. The developers of that game have been talking about beta testing for something along the lies of three years now. The game is still nowhere near release. All they have to show to even prove the existence of their game is a bunch of outdated screenshots and a few blurry gameplay videos. There is more evidence to support the existence of big foot than Darkfall. And right now this "Crusades" game seems to be in the same boat.

    I'm not a "nay-sayer" nor am I trying to bash your game. I'm just trying to do you a favor here and stop you before you get too wrapped up in this game which I promise you is still MANY YEARS away from release, if it ever sees the light of day at all. Alpha testing means the game is still 2+ years away from release, at a bare minimum. If the developers of this game have told you otherwise then they are liars, plain and simple. MMO developers are some of the most notorious liars in the known universe, no matter which company they happen to work for. Don't trust them. And don't help them hype their vaoprware.

    And if you still don't believe me then ask the developers of your game this question: If its ready to enter Alpha Testing, why does their website have only concept art and no screenshots? If the game is ready for alpha testing then it means their graphics engine is working and there shouldn't be any reason why they can't post screenshots to prove that. Right?

  • Posted: 7/06/08 5:31 AM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Atlantica Online - Initial Thoughts

  • Maybe you guys are thinking of a different kind of  "turn based" than I am.

    If its Final Fantasy style turn based then yeah, that would be a total joke.

    But I was of the impression that since it says you would control up to nine characters that it would be more of a strategic turn based type of game, such as Vandal Hearts for the playsation (I really hope I'm not the only person who still remembers that game) or like the Tactics Ogre games. I'm sure you guys know the type of game I'm talking about. I know that sort of combat may be a little to slow paced for some people but I have always preferred strategy over button mashing and if this game can deliver that then I say more power to it.

     

    To avoid grinding, I would do something along the lines of what Guild Wars did where you gained levels very quickly and the level cap was set rather low, so you could only become so powerful through grinding and after that you had to attain more skills and develop new tactics in order to become any better at the game. They already said that for this game you would have one main character and the other characters you control during a battle will be people you "hired" to fight for you. Perhaps it would only be your main character who levels and the "hired goons" could be just red shirts who have set skills and when they die you replace them. That would make sense to me.

     

    But yeah, its an asain MMO. I'm probably asking for way too much here...

  • Posted: 7/04/08 11:00 PM
    Atlantica Online
• • Atlantica Online - Initial Thoughts

  • I think that its very bizzare that a game which was just announched is claiming to be released THIS MONTH (July 2008, posted right on the front of their website). Perhaps they did it to avoid the fanboy hype that gets so absurd with other MMOs. But maybe they just spent very little time in development.

    Asian developed MMOs (Korean ones in perticular) are famous for massive amounts of grinding. Although the idea of a turn-based combat system in an MMO sounds amazing to me, I'm worried that if this turns out to be a grinding game then the grinding would only be made that much more painful by the slower than normal combat. (Imagine it, instead of killing 100 rats to get to level 2, you have to plan a massive three hour long battle aginst the rat king and his 3000 soldiers to get to level 2!)

    And do we have any information on the payment scheme yet? Will it be subscription based or will it be "FREE" with some kind of sinister catch? Will players be able to purcahse in-game advantages over other players using RL money? This sort of setup has become all too common these days, even more so with quickly developed asian MMOs like this one.

     

    Assuming that they avoid grinding, have a fair payment scheme and deliver on their promise of unique turn based combat, this could be a great game. Fail on any one of those counts... and we have another awful MMO in a sea of awful MMOs.

  • Posted: 7/04/08 2:43 AM
    Atlantica Online
• • The Perfect Star Wars Galaxies Replacement (Pre CU)

  • I have to say.... I'm not that impressed with this game after seeing their website.

    The FAQ is very vague at best.

    You can't even see the "Character Classes" without logging into their site. (Perhaps someone who has an account on that website could tell us if there is even anything worth registering for to see on that page?)

    The fact that there even ARE classes seems to conflict with their claim of  "Versatile 'Be What You Want To Be' Role Playing with an open ended Storyline"

    And most suspicious of all, there are no screenshots or videos of the game in action anywhere on the site. I find it pretty hard to believe the game is in alpha testing if they have nothing but concept art to show for it.

    I have to agree with the guy who said the game was atleast 5 years away. I call this vapourware. (Even Darkfall has some screenshots to prove it exists and most people still call it vaopurware.)

  • Posted: 7/03/08 7:02 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies