Green Monster Games (Curt Schilling)

[mutantmagnet]

It's still frontloaded if you play the game as a non-combat character.

Becoming a high skill trader or industrialist takes basically a couple of months thanks to how much character creation being designed to give so many skills upfront to make early combat training fun.

[Havelock]

For those interested in following this as-yet unnamed game, I recently stumbled on a 38 Studios fansite, 38Watch, that appears to be doing a good job of aggregating the relevant news.

[Agraza]

You've got a comma in your link.

[Havelock]

Originally Posted by Agraza

You've got a comma in your link.

Thanks - my bad.

[Locithon]

Without knowing anything about the game yet you could say the one thing they have going for them is timing. Besides WAR I can't think of one major MMO that is in development....and WAR is a bad example because 38 studios game is going to be launched years after WAR. As for MMO's released around the time of 38's... if Blizzard started production today on a new MMO it would probably at least be one year behind 38's game and knowing blizz it would be 2 years. And unless SOE is secretly working on EQ3 I don't see them in the time window either.

The only other question mark is the unannounced Bioware MMO, so 38 studios potentially has to only worry about 1 major MMO in their launch timeframe.

[Tyen]

Here I thought there was new information...

[Locithon]

-1 internets? I'll remember this.

[tad10]

Originally Posted by Locithon

Without knowing anything about the game yet you could say the one thing they have going for them is timing. Besides WAR I can't think of one major MMO that is in development....and WAR is a bad example because 38 studios game is going to be launched years after WAR. As for MMO's released around the time of 38's... if Blizzard started production today on a new MMO it would probably at least be one year behind 38's game and knowing blizz it would be 2 years. And unless SOE is secretly working on EQ3 I don't see them in the time window either.

The only other question mark is the unannounced Bioware MMO, so 38 studios potentially has to only worry about 1 major MMO in their launch timeframe.

By all accounts Blizzard is working on a new MMO and has been for sometime. Bioware is working on a new MMO. 38 Studios is working on a new MMO. Hero's Journey is still in development. Stargate Worlds is coming out. Korea and China are pumping out MMOS (though honestly who cares for the most part). Darkfall Online is coming out.

I'm sure I've missed a ton and they could all suck. But whatever.

Edit: And for the record after that last video of them at CES or wtf where they just showed photos of the empty 38 studios space and various cakes -- fuck 38 studios (Sorry CS but come on) until they deliver some solid information about the game.

[Ngruk]

Originally Posted by tad10

Edit: And for the record after that last video of them at CES or wtf where they just showed photos of the empty 38 studios space and various cakes -- fuck 38 studios (Sorry CS but come on) until they deliver some solid information about the game.

Ya we're grinding away to earn the respect and loyalty of people like you, making it all worth it.

Maybe it's just one of those mornings, but my oh my when I read a post written with internet machismo and we all know would never come out of the mouth of said person in a ftf conversation, I laugh in that non-humorous way we all do at times.

Who edits a post for no other reason than to drop an F bomb on someone? Why?

[column]

I heard you guys are working on the Duke Nukem MMO..Confirm?

[Erumaron]

Lol at the -internets somebody gave Curt...the whole anon aspect of it gives us our own little taste of 4chan around here.

[mutantmagnet]

Originally Posted by Erumaron

Lol at the -internets somebody gave Curt...the whole anon aspect of it gives us our own little taste of 4chan around here.

Atleast people in 4chan have technical skills to get their point across instead of waiting around on an admin to give them lame e-powers

This thread should remain dormant until something more topical is worth discussing. Messageboard internet anonymity isn't one of those relevent things.

Though I'm a bit curious if anyone else believes some players take metagaming to a new level and use official community boards to complete an in game agenda? How successful do you think they can be?

Another thing that has come across my mind now and then is why not a single company tries to pay their moderators to act as filters to new threads and responses irrelevent to a topic?

If cms are meant to collect data having the mods prefilter and consolidating topics they see as useful would create an interesting community/company environment. (I see reasons where this would create both resentment and gratitude depending on a forumgoers perspective)

[gnomad]

Originally Posted by Ngruk

Ya we're grinding away to earn the respect and loyalty of people like you, making it all worth it.

Maybe it's just one of those mornings, but my oh my when I read a post written with internet machismo and we all know would never come out of the mouth of said person in a ftf conversation, I laugh in that non-humorous way we all do at times.

Who edits a post for no other reason than to drop an F bomb on someone? Why?

Great come back Kurt, real class act for the head of a company.

[Tyen]

Originally Posted by gnomad

Great come back Kurt, real class act for the head of a company.

A CEO that speaks his mind gains +internets anytime. I would trust someone who speaks his mind over someone who bullshits his way through the community anyday.

[Moorgard Mobhunter]

Originally Posted by tad10

Edit: And for the record after that last video of them at CES or wtf where they just showed photos of the empty 38 studios space and various cakes -- fuck 38 studios (Sorry CS but come on) until they deliver some solid information about the game.

You're going to feel like an idiot for saying this when we ship Easy-Bake Online (EBO), the best massively multiplayer cake-baking game ever created.