MMORPG.com has teamed up with City State Entertainment to bring our readers an exclusive developer blog to talk more about the just-announced Kickstarter campaign for "Camelot Unchained" (working title). Check out the first installment and then join the discussion in the comments!

Not surprisingly, the past six weeks have been very interesting. During this time, we released our first two teaser trailers, and I had the chance to be interviewed by the fine folks at Massively and here at MMORPG.com. The reactions from fans, frienemies as well as detractors have run the entire gamut from “Please create a DAoC 2” to “Get out the tar and feathers, he's back!!!” 

Read more of Mark Jacobs' Camelot Unchained: A New Beginning.

Time moves on and people change and grow. None of us are the same people we were ten years ago. I appreciate Mr Jacobs taking the time to share his insight with us. Too often people tend to forget that there are living breathing human beings on the other side of the internet gulf, and that those people have the same hopes, dreams, fears, failings and feelings as the rest of us.

What's past is past Mr. Jacobs. And while I'm sure there will be some who will want to continue to dwell there, I hope your new game turns out to be everything you wish it to be. My only advice would be to always remember that actions speak louder than words. So ignore those that want to drag you back to what was and instead focus on making the best game you know how to, and let that project do your speaking for you.

Originally posted by NC-John
Why Two articles? The first one is where people are commneting, but oh well.

This is a blog article by Mr. Jacobs. The other is the simple announcement of the game. :)

My only reaction is: "Spiritual Successor to DAoC. Again?"

What is this, the tenth developer trying this sell?

I enjoyed WAR, you guys did alot of things right, the classes in that game are some of the most fun classes in any MMORPG I've played and I really like that the classes aren't directly mirrored on both factions. For me it was primarily in the performance of the game with desynching etc that WAR failed to live up to expectations. Three factions would also have improved the RvR I believe.

I hope you guys will put alot of effort into making sure Camelot unchained runs smoothly, it's very important for an MMO and it's the aspect where WoW really shines imo. I have no experience in game development so it's easy for me to say but harder to do I suppose since many MMO's have problems with it.

Good luck with the new game!

Mark Jacobs said it best re: F2P vs Subscription! I really wish ALL game developers thought this way!

What business model (i.e., free-to-play, buy to play, subscription) are you looking at for this game?

Multi-tiered subscription with no free-to-play option but with (maybe) some cosmetic items for housing. I think F2P and buy-to-play have their places, but we are trying to create a very niche-oriented MMORPG that won't benefit from using those models. I'd rather have 30K people paying and playing monthly than hundreds of thousands playing for free and hope to convert 5%. This game is geared to doing one thing spectacularly, and that one thing is RvR. I believe there is a core group of players who have been waiting for this type of game, and our Kickstarter campaign will either prove or disprove this notion.

Source:

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/02/05/rvr-unchained-mark-jacobs-returns-to-camelot/

Originally posted by SBFord

Originally posted by NC-John
Why Two articles? The first one is where people are commneting, but oh well.

This is a blog article by Mr. Jacobs. The other is the simple announcement of the game. :)

Don't mind me still working on my first cup of coffee :P

"I've also always been willing to go out among the players and speak to them..."

Maybe a bit more "with" instead of "to"? That might have helped DAoC stay on course...just a thought.

I think this Kickstarter will definitely get my money.

God dammned, I'm quite easy to hype with anything related to DAOC!

Originally posted by gwei1984

I think this Kickstarter will definitely get my money.

God dammned, I'm quite easy to hype with anything related to DAOC!

It's a curse all old DAoC vets share. Reclaiming the lost glory of true PvP.

Originally posted by Icewhite

My only reaction is: "Spiritual Successor to DAoC. Again?"

What is this, the tenth developer trying this sell?

The difference is that Mark Jacobs was apart of the original DAoC team. So if anyone is going to create a spiritual successor to DAoC, it would be the former lead designer of that same game. Which is Mark Jacobs.