They Break Winter Extravaganza?

Im looking forward to Pantheon cause it seems the closet thing i will find to EQ2 unless DB fixes it or EQ3 comes out and its not BR. I also like Pantheon cause they are sticking with core values and not looking for cash grabs ( at this time ). I also want the amaze me feeling i had when i first launched EQ2 for the first time. Now whether or not Pantheon delivers on all this is another story all i know right now is i cant even play EQ2 as a free to play player as the game feels so broken it hurts to even think about logging in

AoC is not for me im not a fan of action MMORPG its the same reason i dont play Tera or Black desert.

 

Honestly, my tastes are probably too specific and odd to find a new home. I'm liking FO76, but the clownshow surrounding it probably guarantees it won't do well. Honestly I'd just like to find a community like EQ2 used to have.

 

Sometimes I actually wish Landmark would have panned out.

 

I agree. Why in the world would anyone build a title to compete with eq1.2?

If Longdale was indeed mapping something like this out, I can only surmise, that:

1. As usual, DBG and the leftover management doesn't have a clue about the mmorpg market, and/or

2. She's just developing what she knows and what she's comfortable with, and/or

3. She knows they aren't going to get squat for resources, so a slow grind game is the only thing they can feasibly develop.


The BR part is just lol funny.

 

I'm convinced Next was dead almost as soon as SOE became DBG. I'm also convinced DBG would have killed Landmark sooner if there weren't so many backers who would have cause to try and get their money back. I've also become convinced that Landmark as it was would never really work right. Still, I like the idea of a game like what Landmark could or should have been.

 

Landmark felt like it was a dev tool turned into a "game". If that makes any sense. Probably didn't help that some of the "features" took so long to roll out.

 

Were't they having contests to have players design assets they were going to supposedly use in next?

 

Landmark didn't appeal to me because I dislike sims-type games. But I know that there were many very creative and talented players who put a lot of time and effort into making all sorts of wondrous creations. They got royally scre...betrayed.

 

Yes, they did. That was one of the enticements to 'buy in'. You got to use the dev tools to 'help design' EQNext.

I got it because I love building games. It's a shame it didn't pan out on it's own, or as a bridge to EQN.

Or that a similar game from another company hasn't come out (and likely won't for a while, after the spectacular failure of Landmark).

 

We don't need developers...Players will make the content for us...
And just exactly how well did the HSDM work out for them...

 

The funny thing is that, in a sense, part of the concept did carry to other games (claiming and developing a parcel of land as part of the experience). Not nearly the level of flexibility, but it wasn't sustainable at scale in that form.

 

Shadowbane has a somewhat similar concept, you could claim an area and build a city there, barracks to spawn guards, merchants to buy and sell and you could control what the merchants built and such. Cost lots of in game money to support them, and it was a pvp mmorpg, so you could attack an enemy town, from what I was told. I remember hearing later that during beta, one town got so massive it crashed the server!

 

Holly's bad enough, add Kander into the mix and the train wreck will be glorious.

 

You know, I figured it was likely that DBG would release another batch of lifetime subs, but I was looking for them to do it around March, prior to an announcement that one of the titles was being closed down.

This latest move was just blatantly dishonest.

And people will still buy these things
.....

 

DB did it very smartly remember the people actually running the company not the DEVs in charge of the game know how to milk very well
The tested the waters with 4k life time subs, im sure they thought of releasing more but they wanted to see what kind of action they where going to get. When it sold out and people still wanted more then Kapowee the reeled the rest in.

Classic

 

Again, that only matters, if they only had 4000 initially, and if they reported the sales accurately.

When do they have to renew the DC/Warner Bros. license? Maybe this was to come up with funding for that?

 

What makes you think they sold out?
For all I know they sold 4 and based on that success continued with their marketing/sales campaign