There is a rumor flying about in Silky Venom and Fires Of Heaven forum, that next week Sigil will anounce selling the rights of Vanguard:SOH  to SOE. The further upgrade of the game will be handled by Sigil's own developing team with help from members  from the developing team of SWG which have been pulled recently off that project. The first order of buisness will be to finish with optimazation of game performance, while enhancing the game experience by upgrading a lot of the concepts of the game.

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/127152 enjoy

This is too funny.

The SWG and VG teams uniting... yes... yes, it will be magical.

Originally posted by Keogh

This is too funny.

The SWG and VG teams uniting... yes... yes, it will be magical.

Let me know when they put in tonton mounts.  Hell, if I could strafe 3 rivers with an AT walker I might resub!

They really couldn't do any worse than Brad and his gang.  At least SOE would have resources - money and people- to throw at it if they decide. Let's keep one thing in mind too. EQ and EQ2 seem to be doing pretty well. SWG has problems but Lucas Arts had just as big a hand in it  (NGE) and SOE did. One other thing to keep in mind is that Vanguard would just be vaporware if SOE hadn't jumped in to save Brad and Sigil once they were dumped by Microsoft.

I think that SOE have been very clever here in a business sense. They will likely get to buy a game that cost $30 million for a fraction of that cost.

there goes brad and his "vision"...lol

i like

Originally posted by Keogh

This is too funny.

The SWG and VG teams uniting... yes... yes, it will be magical.

OMG!!!
Frankenstein of MMORPG in the making...........I have to see that

Well one thing is sure, with Soe you never get bored

Originally posted by dimmit77

enhancing the game experience

Just a rumor, and it's been declined by SOE in a recent interview, link coming soon.

Originally posted by Ammon777
Oh. So its a rumor.

I know this guy that knows this guy that knows his brother's uncle who knows a guy know knows a guy that said SOE is gonna buy VG.

touché

Originally posted by we3ster

I think that SOE have been very clever here in a business sense. They will likely get to buy a game that cost $30 million for a fraction of that cost.

SOE bought a game that cost 30 mill to create, but the question really is: did they buy a game that is worth 30 mill? (i mean gamning value wise)

The Vanguard forums:

There are 22 online users: 2 registered, 20 guest(s)  
Most users ever online was 6,462 on 2/9/07 10:32 AM

I mean really, what's the point in talking about a dead game.
Logged in yesterday, the cities once filled with people are empty really. My sub ends in 2 weeks and i have been in this game since BETA, it's really going down fast now.

Great idea, big potential but one of the worst releases in gaming history at a time where other games deliver what people want makes Vanguard a parenthesis in the mmorpg market.  To bad, could have been something really nice. Maybe they can sell out the crafting and diplomacy as a concept. The rest i just crap really, and we all know where crap hadled by SOE ends up...

Originally posted by ntamat

The Vanguard forums:

There are 22 online users: 2 registered, 20 guest(s)  
Most users ever online was 6,462 on 2/9/07 10:32 AM

I mean really, what's the point in talking about a dead game.
Logged in yesterday, the cities once filled with people are empty really. My sub ends in 2 weeks and i have been in this game since BETA, it's really going down fast now.

Great idea, big potential but one of the worst releases in gaming history at a time where other games deliver what people want makes Vanguard a parenthesis in the mmorpg market.  To bad, could have been something really nice. Maybe they can sell out the crafting and diplomacy as a concept. The rest i just crap really, and we all know where crap hadled by SOE ends up...

Shot today 10 minutes ago, unfortunaly not much time today to play

Last shot when i logged in just now.

Sure would like to see the amount of people i show x 100 , also these pictures only show what i personaly experiance every time i lgin. So allot of factors have to be counted for like : time, server, location but aslong i keep seeing these small amounts of people every time i logon to the game i feel its not as dead some people try and make others believe.

Redclaw, you are showing just crafting stations where the majority of people is usually found.

if you go out the crafting room I believe it ain't as crowded as you want us to believe.
Gelenia crafting stations were even more crowded than what you are showing if that helps. (I have a Bard 30 - Leatherworker 20 over there)

Anyway showing group of people in a restricted area doesn't show anything.
Vanguard is such a big game that people is scattered around the huge map, so even if the server is full you will hardly notice a big difference around you.

Originally posted by ntamat

The Vanguard forums:

There are 22 online users: 2 registered, 20 guest(s)  
Most users ever online was 6,462 on 2/9/07 10:32 AM

I mean really, what's the point in talking about a dead game.
Logged in yesterday, the cities once filled with people are empty really. My sub ends in 2 weeks and i have been in this game since BETA, it's really going down fast now.

Great idea, big potential but one of the worst releases in gaming history at a time where other games deliver what people want makes Vanguard a parenthesis in the mmorpg market.  To bad, could have been something really nice. Maybe they can sell out the crafting and diplomacy as a concept. The rest i just crap really, and we all know where crap hadled by SOE ends up...

Nice, besides that.

They shut down their official vanguard forum with release, just the technical forums left. But that you did know didn't you.
Comparing to SV and Tentonhammer shows another picture. At tentohammer at time of this post the vanguard forum had 130 users and WoW 10.

Besides pop on Gelenia and Infineum has not dropped that much these last month. It in my estimate +-100 people on Infineum. Low during weeks medium on sunday. Gelenia medium during weeks and high sunday.

Originally posted by ste2000

Redclaw, you are showing just crafting stations where the majority of people is usually found.

if you go out the crafting room I believe it ain't as crowded as you want us to believe.
Gelenia crafting stations were even more crowded than what you are showing if that helps. (I have a Bard 30 - Leatherworker 20 over there)

Anyway showing group of people in a restricted area doesn't show anything.
Vanguard is such a big game that people is scattered around the huge map, so even if the server is full you will hardly notice a big difference around you.

Come on, it may be easy to say, but that's just not true.

I was at TK last night and there were over 100 people in & around the area, and that's a LVL 24-28 Dungeon. Another friend was at SM and said he had 3 groups fighting over him (he's a Celric).

A majority of players are not found at the crafting stations, they're out adventuring...

Originally posted by Orphes

 

Originally posted by ntamat

The Vanguard forums:

There are 22 online users: 2 registered, 20 guest(s)  
Most users ever online was 6,462 on 2/9/07 10:32 AM

I mean really, what's the point in talking about a dead game.
Logged in yesterday, the cities once filled with people are empty really. My sub ends in 2 weeks and i have been in this game since BETA, it's really going down fast now.

Great idea, big potential but one of the worst releases in gaming history at a time where other games deliver what people want makes Vanguard a parenthesis in the mmorpg market.  To bad, could have been something really nice. Maybe they can sell out the crafting and diplomacy as a concept. The rest i just crap really, and we all know where crap hadled by SOE ends up...

 

Nice, besides that.

They shut down their official vanguard forum with release, just the technical forums left. But that you did know didn't you.
Comparing to SV and Tentonhammer shows another picture. At tentohammer at time of this post the vanguard forum had 130 users and WoW 10.

Besides pop on Gelenia and Infineum has not dropped that much these last month. It in my estimate +-100 people on Infineum. Low during weeks medium on sunday. Gelenia medium during weeks and high sunday.

 

I love the VG bashing, it's awsome! 

In all honesty, the people complaining about VG are the poor saps that don't have a decent machine and have to deal with poor performance, thus it ruined their playing experience. So their only avenue for venting their steam is to come here and bash Vanguard for bugs or situation they have had.

Almost every game situation has been resolved or solved. The game is 3 months old now and most people are into their 20's & 30's.  Those areas are heavy in traffic. The newbie or starting areas are somewhat empty, but thats to be expected becuase you only there for no more than 2-3 days before being lvl 12'ish and heading out for deeper content.

Bashing Vanguard with false accusation and doom & gloom style of posting is laughable. There are some 190,00 people playing VG right now. Which isn't bad considering releasing a game so close to Burning Crusades. Later this year is when Sigil will brace for major subscribers when LOTR and Conan & Warhammer turn out to be little less than people hd hopes. Many Burning Crusades refugee's will start to grow up and get some 8600GTS's and other modern hardware and will evenutally fall into Vanguard and all it's deep content and kewl stuff.

Owning a house that you can keep chests in for storage is an awsome thing.  Havnt seen that since UO.  Owning your own personal boat to make quick jaunts to hot-spots is awsome... and a blast. My New Hellhound is also a trip. 70% runspeed and cruising threw the forest is unpresidented.

-Zvorak