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Dave Georgeson - His words, will they come to pass and how so?
Nanfoodle
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Dave Georgeson "I talk to lots of the dev team folks on a personal level, but we don't usually discuss Landmark or EQN. So I know there have been scope and direction changes"
Is he talking out the side of his mouth or is this fact? If there is changes what kind? AI scrapped, destructible world scrapped or could it be a change old EQ fans would hope for like combat brought back to a old school trinity? Whats your thoughts?
Is he talking out the side of his mouth or is this fact? If there is changes what kind? AI scrapped, destructible world scrapped or could it be a change old EQ fans would hope for like combat brought back to a old school trinity? Whats your thoughts?
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MAGA
If you really have followed SOE over the years,you should be able to see it.
This is going to be a RUSH job like everything else they do.The reason is simple,they are not after triple A anymore but instead after fast cash grabs.
I said it before,i would not be surprised in the least if they tried to offer some early access for Christmas time.
I would think by now that MOST realize LM was never meant to be a game,it was simply a gimmick to help fund Next.Has anyone actually seen what looks like a full team working on LM,of course not,they wanted people to make their assets and a little money to boot.
By scope ,he simply means no depth,as i said this is a rush job.When a game is rushed it will be nothing more than a simplistic game with the same old same old,toss in a generated map,some mobs and tie them to npc quests gg thanks for your money.I also expect the GRIND to try and mimic a game with longevity will also be the same old loot grind in instance/dungeons.I already have this game tagged as a C rating at best.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
For EQNext, that could be a lot of things and it doesn't mean that the features they talked about were removed. For example, they could have removed enemies types we never heard off. They could have revamped the crafting systems. We know they revamped the combat system (to make it more action oriented with active blocking last I heard).
One thing that seems to have changed in term of scope, going by the Halas workshop, is that the game might open its servers with more than just Qyenos as a start city. Which means a larger scope.
Beyond the 50 or so people still paying attention to EQN, no one really cares one way or another.
They could hold off on everything, including the Workshops, and re-reveal in a year or two with an actual "game" and very few would care about current or past events.
If it is good, people will play it, if it is bad, fewer people will play it. Either way they make money. Hyping folks up when they are depending on fan support seems to usually backfire in most cases. Don't know of any big name game that has retained a decent portion of its fanbase after the initial launch, despite hype pulling fans in hand over fist. Well maybe WoW, but even they have lost million upon millions of fans/customers.
Is what it is and the comment didn't seem to mean anything really. Much like everything, can be taken any number of ways. Clearly they changed direction/scope of their fan interaction, but beyond that, just a question mark.
But, I'm with @Superman0X here. What was known of EQ:N, rather what we think we knew of EQ:N, changed when CN became the new owner and renamed SOE to Daybreak. The only people I know of at Daybreak are all SOE alumni, and they were the only ones who have been speaking. I think I've only heard one name that is Daybreak / CN, and I'm not entirely certain this person wasn't ex-SOE as well. CN has some degree of say in the decision making at Daybreak, including project direction, but that is being kept very much under wraps.
And @Nanfoodle, I think you meant destructible instead of distributable, unless you have some really juicy insider information which hasn't been beaten to death on these forums.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
In other word, he's guessing based on the state of the game when he left.
I think there is no reason to expect the developers to tell anything. As if they are going to run to the forums to tell people this or that feature has been eliminated. Bad news like that will just push away the few people still following the game.
I know they promised they would tell people if there were changes, but what does that really mean? When will they tell anything if they even do? 2 months, 6 months at the release of the game? It is an non-answer answer.
This team also said it was "the year of EQN!" so expect big things!!!! Not only is this year sailing by with no real sharing of information, but the team has actually stopped discussing the game.
I would guess Dave still communicates with his former co-workers and friends who do give him some idea of how things are going, but he really cant discuss them. Same with any other company that slashes staff. People still talk quietly among each other. Sometimes a little info slips out, but it is pretty obvious that changes are going to happen with the game after all that has happened. How drastic is the only real question.
best bet is to get it on early access
Looking forward to: Crowfall / Lost Ark / Black Desert Mobile
Remembering back to Planetside 2 release.. All my MMO friends jumped into the game just to see how great the world looked.. All of us were imagining how great EQN would look and then we were blindsided with the reveal. That took the wind out of many of us IMO. The excitement was gone at that point for me.