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delete5230
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Someone mentioned backward priorities. I say double that x2,
1 to much time money and effort building a web site
2 EXPERIMENTING ON GAME ENGINES
It's like day one for building a 3D game for these guys, like no one has ever done it before. It's done, perfected, maxed out and with very little wiggle room for advancement.
Crowdfunders are footing the bill.
I'll bet no one originally expected that when they decided to back the game.
I often say let them work..... I'm kind of thinking, on what ?
I have my own ideas,
I'm thinking of inventing a snow blower that powers itself where the user can walk behind it as it throws snow, it will have a hand crank that will allow snow to blow left or right. I'll paint them blue and sell them on the market, that way people can put away their shovels and clean their driveways.
1 to much time money and effort building a web site
2 EXPERIMENTING ON GAME ENGINES
It's like day one for building a 3D game for these guys, like no one has ever done it before. It's done, perfected, maxed out and with very little wiggle room for advancement.
Crowdfunders are footing the bill.
I'll bet no one originally expected that when they decided to back the game.
I often say let them work..... I'm kind of thinking, on what ?
I have my own ideas,
I'm thinking of inventing a snow blower that powers itself where the user can walk behind it as it throws snow, it will have a hand crank that will allow snow to blow left or right. I'll paint them blue and sell them on the market, that way people can put away their shovels and clean their driveways.
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Did you know your money will be funding this ?
The choice to use Unity was so that they could take advantage of everything already being pre-made, that is, animations, models, world assets, weapons, armor, and so on. No need to re-do everything or start from scratch.
This includes the foundational gameplay systems you are used to seeing in streams, but everything else as well: dynamic day and night cycles, time of day governing events and spawn cycles, Atmospheres that will require artifacts to overcome, Extreme Climates that will require players to Acclimate themselves, the Perception system woven throughout and the ability to become a Keeper, NPC Dispositions widely applied and appropriately unpredictable, Crafting and Harvesting elements, climbable surfaces, interactable objects in the environment - I think you get the picture!
As our Reference Zone, Faerthale needs to have all of the gameplay systems intact and functioning properly, with all of their various parts, so that we have an accurate picture to reference when we begin implementing all of these systems into the rest of our zones"
Ultimately, if graphics aren't the primary focus, they could have done things much faster by using entirely Unity Store pre-made assets for everything. They had a playable game in 2016. So fast forward 3+ years, and where are we? There hasn't been a pre-alpha testing phase in over a year. There's been no in-game footage of the benefits of Project Faerthale in over 1.5 years.
They have, in the past, showed videos of cities entirely grey-boxed. So, they could have done that to get to launch as quickly as possible. But they chose not to. Publicly, when Brad was developing Vanguard, there was too much emphasis on graphics, and not enough on optimization and/or gameplay. Yet, the past 5.5 years have demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that graphics are driving the bus, again, with Pantheon.
Yet, here we are, 5.5 years later, and likely 3+ years to go, and STILL in pre-alpha. This level of fiscal irresponsibility should be criminal. It's truly unfortunate that crowdfunding permits developers to spend money indefinitely with absolutely no accountability.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
I rest my case
NOBODY can build a HQ game from a kickstarter,NOBODY.
Kickstarters are just a simple NO RISK option,if it fails,oh well,if it works,let's order caviar for breakfast.
If you have low expectations,you might be pleasantly surprised,if you have high expectations,you will be disappointed,that is how i see this.
As to the time taken,pffft 5.5 years is nothing,unless your just naive to the whole ordeal and be wasting money on ARPG's that take about 6 months to make.It took FFXI a full 5 years and that is with a full team of 100+ and a sort of game/template already made to create the game ideas from which was FF3/5.
Sure this team might have the EQ games/template but imo that is bad templates to follow,great back then but not now.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.