Farewell Seed.

If only things would have worked out better.

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Originally posted by Jorev

This is good for the MMOG market. More of these games that have pitiful small playerbases should close down.

It means these players will migrate to a healthier game and help keep it alive. There are way too many crappy and niche games out there and it just divides the player base too much. If the game isn't making a decent profit, shut it down.

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Yeah game industry should make 5-6 mainstream titles they're sure people would play, and avoid investing on weird ideas about "different" games noone would care for.
Please.
I think the problem is the contrary btw, and i mean about games in general not only MMOGs: with the increasing cost in developing a game you must have the largest possible playerbase and the smallest risk so the type and quality level of games are flattening and there's a lot less place for niche games.
That is bad, very bad.

Edit: lol didn't realize there were 5 pages between the quote and my reply. Sorry

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Originally posted by Amathe

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Originally posted by Jorev

WoW is only worth playing short term, it's a simple game for the masses, at best an introduction to MMOGs for novices.

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And from there we move up to the rocket science that is .... I'm sorry, what game would that be that takes a PhD to play?

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Hats off and a pat on the back  for the developers of SEED for a most noble attempt at providing the gaming community with fun and enjoyment. I'm saddened to hear that things didnt work out and those guys have my upmost appreciation as an online gamer. What doesnt kill you only makes you stronger guys. Never give up! God bless! 

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Originally posted by Darthorious

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Originally posted by Amathe

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Originally posted by Jorev

WoW is only worth playing short term, it's a simple game for the masses, at best an introduction to MMOGs for novices.

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And from there we move up to the rocket science that is .... I'm sorry, what game would that be that takes a PhD to play?

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Sorry to say but he's right WoW is a kiddie game.  3 Weeks and you have max level, max fishing, maxed 2 crafting abilities and runing end game instances along with pretty easy PvP if you have ts or whatever set up with your PvP friends.  Only challenge is taking on former/current special forces groups in PvP (now that is fun) other wise you always know what the kids are gonna do and always win well because you are almost always right assuming it isn't 2 of you against 60...  Me and 1 friend we're able to take out 6 people at a time without a problem consistantly by just constantly baiting and hooking very basic tactic but works none the less...

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You are confusing two issues. I have played most of the major mmo titles. So, for example, I played EQ (beginning pre-Luclin) and I have played WoW. You can certainly argue that advancement is more rapid in WoW than EQ. I concede that. But that's a function of the xp curve. EQ was NOT more intellectually challenging than WoW, or, if it is, you are splitting hairs between two things, neither one of which is very intellectually challenging.

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Originally posted by Billius8

Somewhere, someplace, in sometime, there is a place where discontinued MMORPG's are still being played.  Earth and Beyond, AC2, Ultima Online IX (or was it XI?), and now... SEED.

No game goes unplayed forever, do do not lament.

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I'm sad that Seed is closing. It had some innovative ideas that I think a lot of people never discovered. An example is npc's that respond to emotes and to the manner in which you are speaking to them (agressive, friendly ect.)

I've subscribed to this game since beta and still is, even though I never played it much. I do this because I hope the Runestone staff will pick it up at some point and sort out the bugs.

Keep up the good work, Runestone. Hope you've gained some useful experience for the next time you make a game. I will be watching

I played my self Seed for about month or two. I can say it was one of unique MMORPG. I was planing to come look it about year later, give it time to mature, but it got closed week later than I canceled my account.

Game was technically little broken and half way done, but graphics, community, story, design, GM's, Development people and atmosphere was great. I'm gonna miss this kind, a more creative MMORPGs than those current "EQ" clones with notting else than leveling.

Bye all Seedlings, good luck for You travels.

I lol'd

"For the MMO community and business as such, the rise and fall of Runestone probably doesn’t mean that much, but I hope MMO execs out there reading this letter will draw the *right* conclusions from Runestone and Seed, and *not* the wrong ones.

One thing I would hate to see happen as a result of our failure would be a consensus forming that the idea about a non-combat, role play-centric MMO is a bad idea.

It isn’t."

O RLY?

I didn't play Seed, but I sympathize greatly with the community. It is horrible for a game with such a devoted community to be closed down.

But from what I read in the SEED forums, at least some of the community have plans to migrate to SOR. I hope that works out.

Godspeed guys

Yes it IS sad indeed, despite what some morons may say on these boards...
I didnt play the game, it really wasnt my cup of tea, but it is always sad when some people put their lives and energy in creating something different and it doesnt work out because they are swallowed by the majority...
I'm tired of this one and only way of thinking, if i knew about the game's difficulties, maybe i'd have played it a bit just to help them out, not that it would have made any difference, but...

I beta tested it, gave it a try. It did have a huge amount of lag during the test but I found they cleaned that up a bit later, even going so far as to delay a month to get that sorted out. I don't fault them on the graphics, its a style, not one I really liked all that much but it worked ok. The main issue I felt was just the numerous bugs I had encountered but by all accounts didn't seem to get fixed well into the release. That coupled with teh fact of a non-combat mmorpg didn't have much of a draw from the normal space/mmorpg crowd. I didn't see this ever becoming a huge wow success but it was defintely one with out of the box thinking for mmorpg's of today (non-combat).

So long Seed, and Thanks for all the fish!

yeah i'd definetly agree... in the beta, they really struggled with lag and keeping the servers up, but when they were the gameplay seemed great. so what if it didnt have combat? it was a great idea imo, and the graphics were great.