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Originally Posted by Aradune Mithara  4. Marketing. There are two groups of ex-EQ 1, UO, DAoC, etc. players out there: the ones that look back fondly on the years they put into EQ 1 and those who don't -- either they're upset or, more often, they simply have had their lives change and they don't have the time to play another EQ 1. So when they heard about Vanguard and all of the EQ 1 people working on it they didn't even give it a chance -- they simply assumed Vanguard would be as hard core as EQ 1 (when it absolutely isn't). We totally underestimated that second group, and I think if we had got the message out that Vanguard was not just another EQ with all of its time sinks, tedium, leveling times, necessary raiding, need for contiguous time commitments, and somehow got that message clearly and strongly through to that second group we would have launched more strongly. This is another issue, however, we will survive, not just by changing the marketing message, but mainly through viral marketing. Those ex-EQ 1 players who *do* buy Vanguard, and enjoy it, *will* slowly but surely let that second group of people know that Vanguard does *not* equal EQ 1 with better graphics in the ways some people look back, sigh, and mutter 'never again', but that it *does* have the elements in it that made EQ 1 a great game (as well as many of the cooler UO/SWG elements, new systems like Diplomacy, greater immersion, etc.)
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exactly, and frankly i don't exactly have the time or inclination to trust you on this, thus i did not nor will i play vanguard, sorry... but for me at least you dont have much credibility in this area
that being said, my and my ex EQ guildmates (we pretty much all left EQ when WoW came out), still do fondly remember some of the times in that game, as well as a lot of reasons why we left it
i hope Vanguard succeeds, really i do, i just don't have a desire to play it at this time.... that may change over time, but i doubt it with some of the other MMOs that are coming out that look kind of interesting to my taste
