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Pathfinder Online: Early Enrollment to Open December 31st
SBFord
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Backers and fans of Pathfinder Online will be pleased to hear that the Early Enrollment process will begin on December 31st. Originally planned for earlier this year, the Early Enrollment was delayed to allow more time for the client to pass the quality standards set by developers. To celebrate the official end of the Alpha, Pathfinder Online alpha testers are being invited to a special event to be held on Tuesday, December 30th.
Lastly, the Pathfinder Online team has big plans for a flood of new information set to be released over the coming days as the commencement of the EE program nears.
In the next two days we have a tremendous amount of information to communicate. We will be publishing blogs that will describe the Early Enrollment process in detail for people who have not been following the project closely, a blog about game time and how we'll be accounting for it in the short and medium term, a blog that will review how Companies and Settlements will be set up in Early Enrollment, and a blog about key resources for people to access as they're learning how to play.
Read the full blog entry on the Pathfinder Online site.
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Seems like they are really serious about controlling the pvp in this game. Going to be interesting how this will work. At least the devs in this game grasp that subscriptions are important for this type of game unlike the Repopulation devs.
I am going to keep a close eye on this game. Looks like the developers have done their homework. Let's hope they can deliver. It would be nice to have a well done indie game out there.
This game looks like a high school project in it's current state.
If this developer thinks it can charge a sub fee for this just because it has offline skill gains like eve they will only drive away what few fans they have.
Sure a few people will pay to park their characters and gain xp, but players like me won't want to start playing a few years down the road when its an actual game worth playing if there are alpha players that have a huge pvp advantage for parking characters in an unplayable (imo) alpha.
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How can companies charge money for such unfinished products? Trust me I want every person or group of people to become the best company ever, but this is so bad they should go to the dungeon and rot.
Originally posted by laokoko
"if you want to be a game designer, you should sell your house and fund your game. Since if you won't even fund your own game, no one will".
Waiting for:
The Repopulation
Albion Online
repopulation as of now has 2 main problems
a) the combat is really shitty in every way possible (floatish, unresponsive, ability lag, clunky etc. etc.)
b) the crafting is incredibly tedious - not complex, just annoyingly tedious - and i think there crafting specialization system will only work with a lot of players what is contrary to being a niche game
pathfinder has also 2 main problems
a) the exact same as the repopulation...why do devs not understand that the combat mechanics are the one most important issue? because it keeps the game interesting for a long time - once combat gets boring, the game is dead
b) the staff seems to be to small because their development is simply way to slow...with that speed we wont have a "finished" product before 5 years down the line
The repopulation is also f2p which means every hacker anywhere can get as many accounts as they want. Every f2p hard core game is a failure just because of that issue.
You are getting charged a sub to play the alpha?
Head over to Project Gorgon! The game is in alpha and is completely free . I don't mean f2p cash shop. I mean 100 percent free. . PG deserves support.
Indeed.
You forgot to mention the graphics are sucky .
Agreed, the only thing PG needs is to make the world maps bigger. They should take those first three maps and stick them together to make one bigger one.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
Consider your words marked.
Not a fan of the animations. But the fact they are charging a subscription is impressive to me.
Since I rarely find free to play compelling outside of Trove and Marvel Heroes. I'll certainly keep my eye on Pathfinder and give it a fair chance but my gut tells me it's probably a wash. There is a ton of haters focused on this game and I have seen plenty of backers say it sucks.
Still I'll give it a fair chance. Looking for a MMO like this to fill my last rotation spot. So it's a 50 dollar minimum? Or is it 35? Assuming I am reading any this right. Project Gorgon feels like a better bet.
Not all games are as poorly coded as Archeage, friend.
Waiting for:
The Repopulation
Albion Online
games with sucky graphics can still be successfull but the mechanics need to sit perfectly (look at mount & blade for example which i played over 200 hours in multiplayer)
u will ALWAYS have issues with hackers and bots because regardless of how smart your 100 developpers are, there are 10'000 of hackers out there with nothing else to do the whole day...
It's really more like 10 programmers, because the rest of the team are working on content, and one hacker, with 10k downloads for his hack.
The Goblin Models look really awesome !! I love that style of Green skin Midget
Looks good to me
The monster models look good, they have good concept art. However, the rendering is weak overall, and the textures are from limited to awful in quality. The cloaks are rendered with very few polygons, and are over textured to give the illusion of depth. I want to like it, but it could be so very much better. The UI elements cover and conceal the models, and the animations are amateurish, I do expect better from a professional team.
The thing is, Paizo publishing is where all the guys who made D&D wound up; Frank Mentzer, Ed Greenwood, they have the very best content people in pen and paper. Heck, those guys created pen and paper roleplay, but I don't think that means anything in video games.
IMHO, they need a better engine ASAP, and to hire better animation talent. And better texture artists too. The content guys can stay, and dream up more cool stuff, but the project as a whole is lacking in talent, and skill, and in good judgement. One good digital artist and a better engine could turn this thing around, or so I hope.
( For those who do not know, Frank Mentzer ( think I spelled that right ) worked with Gary Gygax, and Guy Arneson, on the original D&D game way back in the 70's, and Ed Greenwood made up the Forgotten Realms, a world as detailed and thorough as Tolkien ). But most of you know this.
The repopulation is also f2p which means every hacker anywhere can get as many accounts as they want. Every f2p hard core game is a failure just because of that issue.
Not all games are as poorly coded as Archeage, friend.
u will ALWAYS have issues with hackers and bots because regardless of how smart your 100 developpers are, there are 10'000 of hackers out there with nothing else to do the whole day...
Well bots are relatively easy to deal with, you just kill them and take all their stuff since they pose as much challenge as a PVE enemy.
As for hacking, there is very little of it, if any, in tab target mmos. Archeage is the only mmo I have ever heard of that had teleport hacks and such, I have no idea how a AAA studio could fuck up so badly as to allow players to inject packets determining their location, or whatever else they fucked up if it wasn't that.
Waiting for:
The Repopulation
Albion Online