Greetings, glorious adventurers! If you're joining in our Alpha One spot testing, please follow the steps here to see all the latest test info on our forums and Discord!
Options
Don't be another Star Citizen!
I am just going to say, the guys over at SC are milking that game going on 6 years now, and it's still in the alpha stage. I don't see AoC doing this, but I just saying don't be another Star Citizen. Meaning making promises, and getting everyone excited, but not getting the game out to what you said it would be. I have lost faith in that game, and I don't see it getting finished at all.
0
Comments
I don't see IS doing this. I think GMSteven is as excited to play with us in his world as we are
That doesn't mean all of those games will be released.
Many of them will become vaporware.
Quite a few of us here are fans from EQNext.
Those devs were as excited to play in that world as we were.
Shit happens.
Oh right I totally forgot about EQ Next, what a shame on that front too.
It's a chance we all take backing any unfinished product. I invested in my friend's bakery and she closed shop within a year and I lost my money but I believed what she was doing so felt it was money well spent. I also got free cake.
Wether you believe in Star Citizen, EQNext or AoC, you have to take the chance on it if you truely think it's worth the investment.
Even if AoC is never released (which I'm 99% won't happen) I still feel good about the $500+ I've spent trying to make this project a reality because instead of sitting around wishing I had a game like this to play, I did something to realize that dream.
I got a better feeling on this game being released, over ones in the past I had my eye on. UO2 comes to mind for me, I was just as excited, but once the guy behind the 1st UO left the team, that's when everything when to hell with the UO2. A game that never was. Oh the pain of it all. But this one, for me at least, will be the UO2 I been looking for. Whatever the name is at the door, it will have everything I was looking to do in UO2 and more.
But still, it's an opinion which everyone is entitled to have. Giving discredit before anything is proven however is just unfair to any party.
But it's why shit happened that still makes me shake my head. The excuse for scrapping EQNext "it wasn't fun" certainly made no sense. Of course there was much more to it then that. Sony selling to Daybreak was the beginning of the end, imo. And once John Smedley left, I knew it was only a matter of time. (Not because he could have saved EQNext, but because it was the handwriting on the wall. And, hey, he's not the villain many think he is). Then there was the infighting supposedly going on behind the scenes and who knows what all.
The point being that I don't think that what happened to EQN can happen to AOC. I think it comes down to leadership and that everyone at AOC is passionate about the game succeeding.