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Re: Hourly subscription
Why dont you play a different mmo?
ESO is good for sessions.
Put the money fact aside (which you wont see any studio doing this), this mmo is open world and highly competitive.
You will be left behind, you wont have connections to complete certain milestones or find means to complete your crafting and character equipping.
You wont be able to deal with PvP without a small community.
In ESO and other such mmos there is no progression. All content is optional and all goals can be achieved at your leisure. They are designed in this way.
As a parent, that's my advice.
ESO is good for sessions.
Put the money fact aside (which you wont see any studio doing this), this mmo is open world and highly competitive.
You will be left behind, you wont have connections to complete certain milestones or find means to complete your crafting and character equipping.
You wont be able to deal with PvP without a small community.
In ESO and other such mmos there is no progression. All content is optional and all goals can be achieved at your leisure. They are designed in this way.
As a parent, that's my advice.
Re: Concerns About Marketing and "Open Development" Approach
TheDarkSorcerer wrote: »I don't agree here. Intrepid does owe paying customers an explanation to why they cannot hit promised deadlines and roadmaps they have set to get the Alpha version of the product live. The people who have spent money on this product (That doesn't yet exist) are considered investors.
Being an investor is something different. Investors generally receive some form of equity and expect a financial return. A backer and an investor are two different things.
Re: Concerns About Marketing and "Open Development" Approach
TheDarkSorcerer wrote: »Is it safe to say that it's none of your business ? Intrepid doesn't owe you anything. They do what they think it's best for their product. Open developpement doesn't mean they have to share every miniscule part of developpement.
I don't agree here. Intrepid does owe paying customers an explanation to why they cannot hit promised deadlines and roadmaps they have set to get the Alpha version of the product live. The people who have spent money on this product (That doesn't yet exist) are considered investors.
I would definitely like more transparency on roadblocks rather than just hearing the good and the praise.
They don't owe anyone anything beyond the announcement that something is getting delayed. They're not publicly traded and you're not actually an investor in the traditional sense.
And really, what would them detailing exactly what is causing a delay actually do for you? Chances are hardly anyone that's following development would actually understand the explanation beyond "something isn't working as intended" anyway.
Re: Concerns About Marketing and "Open Development" Approach
I am incredibly thankful to Steven and Intrepid for their open development approach.
Ashes is quite a niche game, and it's fairly obvious that Intrepid is also, in part, doing this for the industry.
Imagine how easy it is to get a general idea of the wishes of players, for any other upcoming MMO developer, just by hanging around here and seeing what we talk about. Ashes has provided this both directly and indirectly, by making people think about what makes a perfect MMORPG.
And their continued dedication to showing us their vision for us to critique or praise means that the entire genre benefits. For every 'No, Intrepid, your game will fail, do it this way!' discussion, a different MMO can be tuned for all the people who shouldn't play Ashes.
Intrepid are the ones in the position to take all that feedback head on and refuse to change things that don't match their game, and show the others that you don't need to make a game that appeals to everyone, you make the game that makes sense.
All the people who end up upset that the game isn't what they want, should go find the game that Intrepid is empowering to become what they want.
The Phoenix will not fail, because the Phoenix has already succeeded.
Ashes is quite a niche game, and it's fairly obvious that Intrepid is also, in part, doing this for the industry.
Imagine how easy it is to get a general idea of the wishes of players, for any other upcoming MMO developer, just by hanging around here and seeing what we talk about. Ashes has provided this both directly and indirectly, by making people think about what makes a perfect MMORPG.
And their continued dedication to showing us their vision for us to critique or praise means that the entire genre benefits. For every 'No, Intrepid, your game will fail, do it this way!' discussion, a different MMO can be tuned for all the people who shouldn't play Ashes.
Intrepid are the ones in the position to take all that feedback head on and refuse to change things that don't match their game, and show the others that you don't need to make a game that appeals to everyone, you make the game that makes sense.
All the people who end up upset that the game isn't what they want, should go find the game that Intrepid is empowering to become what they want.
The Phoenix will not fail, because the Phoenix has already succeeded.
Azherae
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Re: High quality AoC memes
Tired of weekly concern threads and then I go read it and I get flabbergasted about how devoid of reason and relevancy their concerns are
Arya_Yeshe
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Re: What would you discuss about?
I would ask for all the info they can give on Augments. We know so very little about them and they are by far the most unique part of Ashes class system.
Re: What would you discuss about?
As a fighter, I'd like a thread that actually had a really in-depth discussion on current combat.
Re: Who is excited!?
I'm pretty excited, but I'm not expecting it to really work the first test period lol