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Originally Posted by Lyrical  I am finding this game to be much better than they said, and am wondering how many others of you think that VG has been better than the poor word of mouth it received throughout beta. |
My main issue is that Sigil seemed to do more on Vanguard in the last 3 months then in the entire 4 years, 9 months combined (or however long). The game was mismanaged in the sense that they wasted years of development time due to being unable to design interesting and fun core game mechanics, feature creep, and in determining what kind of MMO gamers wanted (these days). The last bit I can absolve them of somewhat since I believe WoW's success caught nearly all of us by surprise, but it still cost them precious time as they switched to a more accessable game style.
Vanguard, in the state it is in today, should be entering its first real public beta, and it should have another year of development time for all of the polish and "style" the second most expensive ($40+ million?) MMO game should have. I don't think there is any reason VG couldn't have been at the stage it currently is a year ago, so they could have spent the past 12 months paying attention to every little detail instead of trying to finish implementing classes, populating the world, improving code performance and stability, etc.
