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#1 Nov 04 2013 at 4:41 PM Rating: Excellent

Nadenu

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He's planning a new niche MMO. Wonder if this one'll work? I'll be interested to see what his "vision" is this time around.

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#2 Nov 04 2013 at 5:11 PM Rating: Decent

Raolan

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I'm torn. He has (had) a lot of good ideas, but the epic failure of Vanguard/Sigil makes me want to avoid this thing like the plague. As someone who's backed 20+ Kickstarter projects, it's going to take a hell of a lot for me to dump so much as a penny into this. And with the way Sigil exploded at the end, I'm sure the gaming media is going to be all over this.

I also wonder why he's going with a Kickstarter for this. I'm willing to bet that this is a last resort as nobody else is willing to give him a penny either.

Edited, Nov 4th 2013 1:13pm by Raolan

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#3 Nov 05 2013 at 2:10 PM Rating: Excellent

Jophiel

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Raolan wrote:

I also wonder why he's going with a Kickstarter for this

My guess is that no major developer wants to try to squeeze a niche title into the current MMORPG market. Especially not when the niche is "Like EQ from 15 years ago".

Vanguard was supposed to be the "hard core" successor to early Everquest and it was watered down well before release. Which I assume was a big part of its problem: you had people hoping for it to be brutal but it wasn't or you had people fearing that it would be brutal and staying away from it.

I'm sure there's a market for grueling xp grinds and two hour corpse rot timers but "niche" would definitely be the word for it.

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#4 Nov 07 2013 at 2:48 PM Rating: Excellent

Nadenu

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My husband thinks he'd like to try it. He's one of those clowns that looks back on EQ 2001 and thinks he remembers having fun playing it. I was there. I saw how he lost his mind over losing a level, doing an insane corpse run, or taking an entire evening to move from one camp spot all the way across the world to another one.

Ain't nobody got time fo dat.

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#5 Nov 07 2013 at 3:26 PM Rating: Excellent

someproteinguy

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Nadenu wrote:

I saw how he lost his mind over losing a level, doing an insane corpse run, or taking an entire evening to move from one camp spot all the way across the world to another one.

Something about stuff that games were like back when the internet was a baby, and now we have the bandwidth, investment, etc to make them better so no one will settle for the old stuff anymore. Tetris can still be fun, but who's going to plop down serious money to play it? Maybe a $1 phone game at best.

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#6 Nov 09 2013 at 8:38 AM Rating: Excellent

Jophiel

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Nadenu wrote:

My husband thinks he'd like to try it. He's one of those clowns that looks back on EQ 2001 and thinks he remembers having fun playing it.

I'm grateful that I was around and able to play early Everquest because it was a unique experience that no game is ever going to recapture. I also never want to experience it again.

someproteinguy wrote:

Maybe a $1 phone game at best.

With a bajillion dollars in IAP?

Edited, Nov 9th 2013 8:41am by Jophiel

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