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Originally Posted by Gousgounis  ...
I always saw Vanguard with (to quote penny-arcade) “cautious optimism” as I try to take any extreme opinion or obvious conflict of interest with a grain of salt so I didn’t really ever buy all the promises from Brad and company, but unfortunately most of the criticisms from the posters here came off as mostly dismissible as well (regardless of being right or wrong, if you wanted to convey a message to help, in the end you have failed because of the way you delivered it.
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I'm sorry, but I disagree.
Utnayan and the others pointed out feature by feature what was wrong with the game, more often than not replying to people who couldn't swallow the truth and called them names.
I'm not an Utnayan fan because I think he went too far too often, but sure as hell I applud him for the patience of explaining in details all those things that just were wrong with VG.
When he said that Smed contacted him for an interview, I was happy for him, because he has an analitycal mind (and god knows if he also had an agenda) and such attention to details is what makes a game great instead of "meh".
I wouldn't say I'd hire him as Producer right away, but I'd at least give him a chance to prove himself.
I am not at a loss of 100$ for buying 2 boxes of VG because of the comments he did. That does matter, at least to me.
With all the info coming out for VG now, including the one I just read about submitting small useless demos to Microsoft, which if true would be quite disgusting, I think each and every point evidenced by the "Ut crew" has been proven true and the situation was and is probably worse than he ever imagined it could have been.
This been said I read Ut and others comments more often than not for pure internet entertainment value, but sure enough he had a point and he only did the mistake of rehashing it too often, which didn't disturb me in the least, but he was like the antichrist for the various vanbois who couldn't see the truth.
I said it and I repeat it again: VG excited me when it was announced, their official boards decline with the rabid vanbois spouting the "go back to WoW" got me out of there asap and I had little to no interest in associating myself with such idiots and their crusade, so I went back to WoW and gave Blizzard my hard earned cash and had fun while they were jerking off in front of a Brad picture.
I fully agree with EmiliaEQ, there is a market for a game like VG was supposed to be, I may even be part of that niche because, rose colored glasses aside, I miss deeply some features of EQ (only some), but the potential audience should stop shitting on other gamers because they also embrace another game among their favourites.
