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Ashes of Creation - Why I’m Excited, But Avoiding Hype - MMORPG.com
SBFord
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Ashes of Creation - Why I’m Excited, But Avoiding Hype - MMORPG.com
Enter Ashes of Creation. Here is a game that is marketing itself to someone in my exact shoes; people missing that wonderment and immersion and most importantly the sense of community that comes from grouping being a primary means of getting things accomplished. A part of me would love nothing more than to run into an area and should ‘camp check’ like my days of yore. Despite my own misgivings I find myself excited at the prospect - which is why I simultaneously try to and try not be.
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Chi puo dir com'egli arde é in picciol fuoco.
He who can describe the flame does not burn.
Petrarch
I honestly don't understand why Ashes of Creation is going to be better. The creative director has no experience in making games, its just recently they managed to recruit a lead designer and they aren't remotely close on having an AAA budget. The living world is something lots of others have promised and none of them have ever delivered on it.
Why is this game going to be different?
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
Usually what happens with these games, promised features either don't make it in at release or never do. So they can talk about the game all they want, but it is just hot air for now.
If I want a world in which people can purchase success and power with cash, I'll play Real Life. Keep Virtual Worlds Virtual!
"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
* Feedback is important in any creative process, but I'm not a believer in 'design by community', so if the Devs don't have a clear vision of what they are creating, and / or aren't smart enough to solve their own problems in good ways, the game probably isn't worth the text editor it's written in.
I am sure Sharif wants to believe he can 'rebirth' a multi-billion dollar genre just like Xango revolutionized the health food industry with 40$ a bottle orange juice.
Crap, I just miss the days I could walk into a software shop.
yep I remember around 1983 walking into a Computer Store and their little 1 shelf of games and seeing Wizardry 2, and getting so excited, I never even knew they were making a second one
Game development has always been an iterative process and the idea of genius developers that can have full control over everything doesn't exist for big games unless you can find someone feeding you $2M every month for 10 years.
Are you basing this statement on the Kickstarter funding? Because that's just the icing on the cake. They stated several times that the game was fully funded before Kickstarter. The Kickstarter campaign was only to allow the community to be a part of the game and to include additional things beyond the base game. These things may have been something that got added later, but the KS campaign enables their inclusion when the game goes live.
Of course, developer's never lie so I can see why you have such strong faith on its delivery.
"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
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
Now I just troll sites like Humble Bundle and Steam or GoG looking for games but it is nowhere near that tactile experience looking for games once was.
You had to either return to the store for another copy, or once they stopped accepting returns wait for the publisher to ship you a new disk or disk set.
Some games had 8 or so disks, greatly increasing the chance of one failing, CDs were a huge improvement in game delivery.
"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