Hey Look, Atmospheric Flight (Finally)

Sovrath

Originally posted by TUX426

Originally posted by Sovrath

They are probably adding the content precisely because it is closing down yet they have several months to do "something".

Essentially they have the content, the money has already been set aside in their budget and they are essentially going out in style. You forget, the money they are using for SWG up to the closing has already been set up in a SWG budget.

I'ts more of a Public Relations thing and thanks to the plaeyrs than anything else and they aren't really losing a lot of money going out with a bang. At least as much of a bang as they can go out in.

And as I said, since their station pass is getting a bit light it's very possible, per one of the community managers, that they will add a bit of something to Vanguard.  At least something that might invigorate it for a few more years until they decide to "sunset" it as well.

Rumor is Vanguard will be sold (or that they are TRYING to find a buyer). With EQ3 in production, they'd be silly to continue to compete against themselves. Vanguard hasn't been developed for ages as it is.

As far as adding atmospheric flight...

It was my understanding that it's been possible for some time, just REALLY buggy, as in, character destroying and unrecoverable damage to your toon type bugs. I think it's unfortunate that they demo this now on the eve of the games closure - a feature that has been requested and for 8+ years and could possibly have changed the course of the entire game that is now shutting its doors.

It's great that they can do it...just sucks that no resources were ever directed at it 7+ years ago when it is, imo, a game changing feature. Instead, resources went to CU, NGE, TCG...not improving what they had...always trying to add something WoW had.

/shrug

If that rumor is from people inside the industry then I might be more inclined to believe it. I don't generally trust rumors from gamers.

Such as the guy in vanguard who, in general chat, complained that sony didnt' announce anything at fan faire as they said they would.

Which they never did. At all.

as it stands, there was some sort of interview at fan faire where they indicated they were going to update Vanguard twice in the next year. Though no time table for those updates.

so at least for the next year, Sony will own Vanguard and it will bolster their station pass as SWG will no longer be a part of that.