@ mven (1 Viewer)

[Execrate]

I've been lurking about these forums for about a week now. I havn't posted anything so I'm not one of the annoying unregistered guys.

mven's talk about Vanguard made me want to go pick up a copy. So I did. I just wondered what server are you playing on mven?

I'm running on 31 hours without sleep... Sorry if this is so short.

colekutz: You have any good suggestions for a super brew coffee? Something that will make me go warp speed would be great right about now. :yea:

 

[mven]

I actually haven't been playing many MMOs lately. When I do play Vanguard I am playing on Tharridon.

 

[dermien]

I heard Vanguard took a price drop to like 29 or 19.99, are things really going that poorly?

 

[Execrate]

Hmmm...

The copy I picked up didn't have any kind of price drop on it.

I'd love to be able to post my opinion on the game, but I'm still patching...

The patcher on this thing may indeed be worse than the World of Warcraft patcher. :P

 

[Khatib]

As much as I hate SOE for what they did to SWG, their launcher and patcher is actually pretty good. Just way too much crap to dl for you right now, lol.

 

[derkaderka]

Ultima Online had crappy patching. Maybe it was so bad because it was patched sometimes more than once a week.

 

[Mordiceius]

Mven, I just read this article at work (read it through an RSS feed) and so I can't click the links on it (all those are gaming sides that are blocked).

Your task is to explore this link and let me know what you think.
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/01/former-wow-and-everquest-programmers-working-on-sci-fi-mmog/

 

[mven]

This sounds at first glance sorta what I had been talking about on GWJ. Though there really aren't any details of the "how" they plan to do it. They get bonus points for it being sci-fi though. Too gd many pure fantasy games on the market as is.

One concern from reading through some of that is that in the interview the CEO mentions "End Game". In my opinion a good dynamic mmorpg wouldn't really have an "End Game". As it's pretty new it will be a couple of years before there is any decent info on this game. Hopefully they stick it out and don't fall into the trap of trying to please everyone and/or implement everything. The basic ideals he seems to have from the interview coincide with a lot of how I feel about these types of games which is also a plus in my self centered opinion : P

 

[Mordiceius]

So can I expect to see you in game then?

 

[mven]

Yeah in 5 years when it comes out haha. I wish the dev cycle on these wasn't so incredibly long. It sucks getting excited about something and then realizing you may have to wait 4-5 years to actually experience it. I will be in my 30s when this comes out for christ's sake~