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Originally Posted by Aradune Mithara We don't need tweaks in 'every' area, and given how long we've been in development, we've certainly taken less time to get how far we have (of which you know very little, not working here, nor being a tester) relative to our competitors and for a lot less money too. Why? Because we've used our experience in the past making these games to be more efficient, to implement a production methodology that is iterative and that makes sense, and because we know what a beta is for and why a long period of beta testing as opposed to staying too long in a pure development phase and then rushing through a beta period at the very end, starting it later as opposed to earlier, is a far superior approach to MMOG game development in general. |
Don't worry, I don't need you to write about Vanguard. You should have figured this out already.
Let's look at the facts. You have taken
less time than the competition because you made use of your previous experience? Are you counting the time between the beginning of the project and going into Beta or do you honestly want to compare the stages of the projects after a certain amount of time? Besides that, you can stuff your argument about production costs. This is not the Microsoft board and people here give a shit about your expected net profit. The folks reading this are your customers and they care about the quality of the product and not how much it took you to produce it. We don't judge by efficiency, we judge you by the outcome.
Also, what is left from your previous experience in terms of gameplay? Where is the overlay? If the "reports" are true, and judging by the growing numbers I have reason to believe they are, your gameplay sucks. That's
the main reason why you have to tweak stuff after all. All those years spend working on ideas for gameplay could basically went right down the drain and you are trying to hang on and defend them, because not doing it would destroy the rest of what is left from your reputation. Well, you don't have a choice anyways, because it's way too late to change the core of the game.
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As for NDAs which you apparently also don't understand as per your response to Oloh above, I'll leave it to him to try to explain to you if he, by some strange chance, is also in the mood to feed trolls like I am these evening  |
I probably understand NDAs much better than you - I have a degree in law after all - and my statement for Oloh was obviously meant in a sarcastic way. You would be foolish to drop the NDA, because the hype about your "next generation game" would burst like a soap bubble it is.
Last but not least, there would have been much less trolls in the first place if Vanguard would have been the kickass game it was announced to be. How could you even dare to compare this ******** with EQ from retail to Velious? That was as close to blasphemy as one could get in this business!
