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Originally Posted by Itzena So what's this I hear about Brad laying down the law on the 'Lolz go bak to WoW, kiddi3z! This gaem is 2 hardcore 4 u" crowd on the beta boards? |
Not really.
Basically, after a few of the recent patches the game had taken quite a different direction than it had previously been thought to have been taking. This caused a lot of concerns on the beta boards and tons of people were posting their two cents. Brad, along with the other senior designers, decided to post up a sort of Vanguard manifesto (3 months from release, hah). The contents were pretty much summarized above, Sigil will make whatever changes they feel like, they are happy with the game, the Vision is still on-track, and the people that don't like it can go screw themselves. Other than that, it was a bunch of lame copouts and excuses as to why their game is going from a concept with a lot of promise to another mediocre clone. (And no, I don't mean "easy WoW clone.")
The bottom line is that Sigil ran out of time, money and talent and are trying to get the game out the door to make some profit so they can "fix" it after release. What's really going to be funny is when all of the rabid fanboys that aren't in beta finally get to play the game and realize that virtually none of the core mechanics of the game that they were looking forward to are in the game any longer.
