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Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
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Asking for trust under this circunstances and saying this is not a big of a deal, that people are just crying over nothing and never trusted IS's vision in the first place is just ludicrous to say at least and extremelly unfair.
A contract can only do so much. Maybe the servers will be better, and there won't be p2w, but you can't write a contract that will overhaul the whole company, which is what's needed.
My.com is a scam company that don't care about anything other than money. It's possible they will change, but why would they?
They would need to hire a ton of people that actually know something, cause their current employees clearly don't know shit about anything.
I will keep close attention to what happens the coming days/weeks, but it's not looking good for them.
BEYOND HAS SPOKEN!
This is a legitimate concern, and more so when you add a company like my.com into the equation. I do not doubt that Steve wants his baby to succeed. But alarm bells go off when a company who game after game shows that the only consistency they possess is shoddiness. Why, or just as importantly how would this case be different?
I'm sure there were many on discord who were there to troll, gloat and simply nay say for the sake of naysaying. But that's the Internet, there are always going to be people like that. Please don't tar everyone with the same brush, there are genuine concerns here, and given the wrecks after so many hype trains in recent years 'having faith' simply isn't enough anymore.
People are upset by the choice of my.com. not so much that IS isn't self publishing.
I feel like any reasonable person understands the limits and expenses via regulations. The problem is WHO they went with, not WHY.
Unless i I am mistaken Steven is making an MMO because he was fed up with these practices and has talked down on companies that have used P2W schemes to make money. To now go and do business with one of the key companies who have contributed to this I find hypocritical. It disappoints me that any money will be going to my.com which could only further their ability to ruin games.
Hopefully the contract in place will help save AoC...but at this point with the history of my.com it is a leap of faith.
Not sure if this explains it better or not. Was not trying to change your opinion just hopefully explain what I was thinking. @nefelia
NAGASH HAS SPOKEN!
Its the same thing with this situation, you don't need to like My.com you just need to trust that Steven knows how to cook.
On a side note I personally like region locks, I'd go even further and put a ping requirement on servers.
The problem with that is no matter the company, no matter the security, and regardless of what's in place to prevent attacks the fact is someone always finds a way.
Hospitals, universities, banks, credit tracking companies. All of which can and have been hacked and all contained sensitive and detrimental information. We are in an era of digital information and there are *bad* people in the world.
Having things like two factor authentication, encrypted website/email/login, and IP tracking all work to make it harder for people to steal information not impossible.
Support from my.com is a reasonable concern considering their track record and nothing I say can make anyone feel any better. We Can only hope the standards set by intrepid are strict enough to have a smooth experience.
Monitization as far as we know it will honor Kickstarter and later purchases will be honored, Ashes will remain sub based with a cosmetic only shop and all statements made by intrepid and my.com seem to openly address and confirm it.
For a business decision to be made like this with my.com of all publishers... chances are other companies refused to allow intrepid full control of the game... so my.com sees a huge potential income from ashes, (I know right? A company in it for profits? Crazy huh) Agrees to the deal laid out by intrepid because it could be a massive game changer to the Eastern market compared to all the crappy, cash grabby, grindy, massive boobs, excessive physics, 2 month games that have plagued our entire market for years.
Let's not pretend the games my.com has published lately would have had any longevity even with less heavy handed pay2win.
That said, having read the whole thing. Pooka should be the mascot of enjoyable forum posting moving forward.
Yes, some folks (maybe a lot of folks) went overboard but the cause of concern is legitimate.
The quote above from you? Yikes! So what?
If you eat at a hamburger joint twice (hell maybe even once) and get food poisoning are you going back? So what if I was puking my guts up; I'm sure they've learned from their mistake?
Steven is a big boy; he's made a decision and I'm sure he can defend it himself or change it if he feels like he needs to.