38 Studios Copernicus, Mercury and other stuff

[Ngruk]

Ya, I am starting this one. I'll lay out a few 'rules'...
1) You can rag the crap out of me, I don't care, if I make a mistake or talk trash, call me on it please.
2) There is not much I can say about Copernicus, Mercury or anything else prior to the IP reveal next year.
3) This thread is where I will likely post, since I don't have time to check every thread and post in them, it's just 10 times easier for me to post in one spot.
4) There are quite a few devs from 38 posting in here, and if you people just respect that they're living breathing humans I am sure they'll drop in every now and then.
5) There is nothing you can't ask, or talk about in this thread, but it doesn't make a ton of sense to for us to waste each others time talking nonsense.
6) Oh and btw, no one has ever, or will ever, post as me. It's an immediate reason to be terminated from 38 should it ever happen, ever. There is no easier way to destroy trust than something like that. If customers don't trust a company years before it actually has a product we're done before we start.

I'm pretty sure Danuser will drop in to add some rules that are in effect for me only, but that's what he does.

[Flight]

Originally Posted by Ngruk

2) There is not much I can say about Copernicus, Mercury or anything else prior to the IP reveal next year.

Is this a reveal of a second project ? Strange context to mention the engine in.


On a tangent, I haven't heard this quote discussed in a very long time. is this principle in place or was it too hard to sell it to the venture capitalists ?

"I am not getting into this for (fame and money). Those at GMG will operate on a 50-50 profit share with the employees in the company. My goal is to reap the rewards with the people who create it," said Schilling.

[Kuro]

Mercury is probably the development name for whatever the game is that the studio they bought out was developing.

[Flight]

Originally Posted by Kuro

Mercury is probably the development name for whatever the game is that the studio they bought out was developing.

Yeah, that was my guess. Haven't seen an announcement on it, though.

[Ngruk]

Originally Posted by Flight

Is this a reveal of a second project ? Strange context to mention the engine in.


On a total tangent, I haven't heard this quote discussed in a very long time. is this principle in place or was it too hard to sell it to the venture capitalists ?

Not getting into details but the arrangement in place in the studio is one to insure that if/when this thing becomes a huge success, the people that are making it will be on the reward side in a very meaningful way.

[Dashal]

What, if anything, is known about this game beyond that it's an MMO in development? Or do I just need to wait for this IP reveal.

[Digo]

Curt, at this point, can you talk about any differentiators? Or at least, things you think your game will approach differently, given what we've seen in the MMO market over the years?

[Ngruk]

Honestly? Not much.

The overarching storyline, the IP as a driver across games/devices and other mediums is a major piece to that. Not hard to figure that out when you consider the world is an RA creation, with Todd helping drive the art/animation from the artistic side.

RA is in the office at least 2 days a week, hands on, and has been since the outset.

Todd just finished a Baltimore studio visit and is very involved in mentoring the combined studio art teams along with our awesome AD's in Thom Ang and Dave Inscore.

Saw a post near the end of the last thread talking about a 2010 MMO launch, was going to jump in then but didn't.

The MMO is NOT coming out in 2010. Not even a remote chance of that happening.

[gnomad]

So one hype thread was not enough there has to be two?

Wow, talk about a red flag for a company and their product.

Good luck, I have a very strong feeling you are going to need it to fulfill your grandiose plans for an unknown game and unknown IP from an unknown studio. <--- How's that for a lead in for UT to jump on?

[Ethanael]

He was asked to start another thread, gnomad.

[Froofy-D]

Originally Posted by gnomad

So one hype thread was not enough there has to be two? Wow, talk about a red flag for a company and their product.

The other one got gayed up enough for the rickshaw hall of fame and Ut got banned (again?). Is Curt supposed to continue posting on that one? It seems reasonable enough to start a new untainted thread.

[karuden]

Originally Posted by Ethanael

He was asked to start another thread, gnomad.

EDIT: deleted

So once again someone talking facts and making sense got banned? Typical.

Is there a forum anyone knows of where the mods don't suck the dicks of devs and actually let people talk or are all of them some gayness hand holding cum-ba-ya lap licker sycophant hangouts?

[gnomad]

Originally Posted by Ethanael

He was asked to start another thread, gnomad.

I see, must have missed that since I don't camp out on here 24/7 like some seem to do.

Would be nice if Ngurk had made mention of that little teensy fact in his post.

Ok, so scratch my comment about 2 hype threads, glad to see that we will only have one hype thread to watch.

[Northerner]

Originally Posted by karuden

EDIT: deleted

So once again someone talking facts and making sense got banned? Typical.

Is there a forum anyone knows of where the mods don't suck the dicks of devs and actually let people talk or are all of them some gayness hand holding cum-ba-ya lap licker sycophant hangouts?

Oh Ut, you are a sneaky one aren't you?

[Convo]

Originally Posted by karuden

EDIT: deleted

So once again someone talking facts and making sense got banned? Typical.

Is there a forum anyone knows of where the mods don't suck the dicks of devs and actually let people talk or are all of them some gayness hand holding cum-ba-ya lap licker sycophant hangouts?

UT/Ray Finkle mentioned making one...