[Gnome Eater]

Originally Posted by Neric

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.

You are asking Brad McQuaid what is his experience in terms of designing MMORPG and how it applies to MMORPG's? Hi?

The 'reports' if they can be treated as such are by people who are too unscrupolous to take an NDA they signed seriously. What difference does it make at all how the game is now? You don't have to purchase the game until it releases, what change does it make to with-hold judgement until then?

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.

The actual 'gameplay' is exactly what needs to be tweaked, to be fun and balanced. You cannot judge how fun a mechanic is, because you or anyone working on the project cannot be an impartial witness of their own work.

If you are told by reliable people that soandso part isn't fun, you change it to a way that is fun. A lot of times, the problem isn't with a mechanic, as much as of the implementation of the mechanic.

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 explode like a soap bubble it is.

Again, you realize that this is an accusation to which there is absolutely no possible reply? Even if someone who is in beta wishes to disagree, they cannot.

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!

Hello, he made Velious and original EQ, I'd say he is entitled to make the comparison?

I am not sure this rampant fanboyism is even deserved. There are idiots who make guilds for a game expecting to play it and recruit people ahead of time without even being in beta. People who tear the game apart, people who make 'fan-sites' without having ever seen the game in the hope that their work in the community gets them noticed and hired (hihi mobhunter, etc).

Is Vanguard going to be amazing, more fun than WoW, more lasting than EQ, more hardcore PvP than SB? No fucking clue, but trying to make up your mind from rumours through the grapevine is idiotic. Watch reliable reports, then make up your mind; I find both the idiots who already make guilds for the game saying it will kick ass and idiots who bash it based on what a few disgruntled testers say total retards who should die in a fire.

Me, I am cautiously optimistic. The people who are making this game made a game I enjoyed, which is enough to hold my attention. If the game is fun and complete at release, I will likely purchase it and play it with my friends if I am bored of WoW by then, if it isn't, I won't purchase it. Vote with your wallet, just only purchase it if the game looks like it appeals for you, but passing judgement through the reports of disgruntled law-breakers is hilariously stupid.