Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
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I don't suppose you would know who was responsible for the Barkimedes posting on Twitter for New World? Could you be responsible for that stuff?
It would be wholly inappropriate to share New World staff knowledge now that he has left, and especially bad to share it as an employee of Intrepid.
Q: In your experience, what's the best thing we can do to help build a better community? Anything specific to forums?
The two big areas are generally "engagement" and "being welcoming."
Engagement - Create things for other players to engage with, and engage with the things others create. Discord, fan websites, and wikis are a few examples of places where passionate members of the community share information and discuss the game. If you participate in creating things for other players (or even just engage with the resources others create), that helps towards building a better community.
Being Welcoming - If we want to build a better community, we need to be able to grow it. It's more challenging to grow, if people behave in a way that pushes others away.
In addition to what I said above, write good titles for your posts. Check to see if the same topic is being discussed, before starting a new one.
I know this isn't always intuitive, but in my experience players come to the forums with intent to find information, or discuss a topic. If they can find what they're looking for, they're more likely to come back. Good gaming forum communities make it easier for players to find what they're looking for.
As an EQ launch day participant it is nice to see someone pop a reference to a great game in its day.
I wonder if you have a philosophy on the kind of support or encouragement a CM would provide to the wonderful 3rd party websites that can add so much to a games general experience and knowledge for the player base?
Do you have any out reach plans you can discuss or are these considered two separate worlds?
Thank you
I agree that 3rd party sites do add so much to the general experience and knowledge base for the larger community. For a huge game like Ashes of Creation, I know sites like these are going to matter a great deal to players.
My general philosophy regarding Community support for resources like these, is we should spotlight the good examples from the fan community. This makes it easier for players to find these resources, and acknowledges the people and the work that make these resources possible.
For information on how we support creators and fansites, see the page here: https://ashesofcreation.com/news/2021-05-08-introducing-the-intrepid-studios-content-creator-program
If you've seen creators or sites with referral codes, there's a pretty good chance we're chatting with them
Morningthaw server here! AC was my first MMO (live in rural farming community in AZ) and I have a lot of warm memories from that game. I loved the area around Cragstone. There was a windmill that overlooked the town. I wanted to live there haha.
Was the Shard of the Herald the Martine/Virindi arc or was that Bael'zharon(sp)? I remember the shards nuking Holtburg (or was it Arwick?).
Two of my most endearing memories of AC were loitering around above the Subway watching pvp duels. I remember a guy by the name of Paraduck with a frost Nekode. Strafe casting was an art man!
The other was during the Martine arc. I was a trader then and like everyone else our mules were down in the portal-storm-free Subway. One busy day GM controlled Martine shows up amongst the gaggle of encumbered lvl 1 mules. Blood and guts everywhere. Ahh, good times.
Oooh I was on Thistledown! My first MMORPG. Good times. I vaguely remember that event.
Did you spare a moment for self-flagellation and take a stroll through Darktide?
P.S. Recognize my pic?
Hope you have a great time at Intrepid !
Only very briefly. Not long enough to really be remembered. I was with a group there, but I honestly forgot the names.
I didn't connect the pic before now, but now that you mention it, that's a pyreal scarab!
Very happy to see the intrepid team growing.