All Posts by Pietoro

The giant rats are a nice touch. =)

Looks pretty cool.

Bleh, a third delay. *pout*

Originally posted by Hexxeity

Originally posted by Pietoro

These Dev Journals are nice, but a release date would be even nicer.

Sorry, I'll take evidence of testing over a release date anyday.

Some of us have been following this game for a long time already, and the Dev essays are kinda fun, but after two delays/false release dates already, and no word on anything actually getting finished or even Beta announcements, it's heard to maintain much interest in these articles that aren't actually saying anything substantive. If these articles are still entertaining to you, that great. But I'd prefer something more relevant at this point than just regular 'Hey, we better make sure people keep hearing about Spellborn, even though there's no real news! Let's pop out another fluff piece of a dev lecturing us about his job process." stuff.

These Dev Journals are nice, but a release date would be even nicer.

Originally posted by Itanius

The difference in quality between the DX9 and DX10 stuff certainly doesn't justify the requirement of having to use Vista.

Exactly.

This sort of 'event' is something I'd expect to see in Second Life, instead of in WoW.

After seeing WoW win 'Worst Graphics', I lost the ability to give any credibility to the rest of the list.  It becomes clear just how mindlessly negative bias > actual taste or perspective in the case of this 'article'.

Originally posted by UnSub

As a side point - if Turbine were really trying for maturity or realism, why only boobs? Why not full frontal nudity for both males and females?

That is a good question. Especially since the mythical 'fact' of '95% of gamers are teen hetero males' has already been proven false, especially in this day and age. Yet companies still seem strangely blind to how self-limiting their design choices are. They're overall hurting themselves by being so narrow minded and not even considering that there are more kinds of people playing games.

I find it funny when gaming companies:

1. Make a game with elements strongly favoring the tastes of only one kind of demographic.

2. Then wonder why it seems 'so hard' to get more diverse playerbase (which = more money) into their games. (Hint: It's because your game does ALMOST NOTHING to try to appeal to them!)

It's not rocket science: stop pandering to only one kind of demographic, and more people will be attracted to playing your game. Pander equally. Doing anything else is just stupidly shooting yourself in the foot when it comes to making money in the rapidiy diversifying gaming market.

Whoops! =P

Originally posted by FomarThain

As others have stated. I don't see the delay as a problem. I have played most all of the major MMOs and they all seem to have one delay or another. Taking their time seems like a good move to me.

However, also what others have said,  what sends a red flag for me is the corporate mumbo-jumbo about letting the "specialzed" people go. *cough* You mean you fired people. That sounds like money crunch talk to me. I mean how about let'em become testers? They would be better than testers as they could not only test but probably fix things as they go.

I don't know. Sounds like money crunch talk to me. And I don't think that is a good sign.

I am not crying doooomm by any means but as I said it does send a red flag up for me.

Also, remember that in 2006, they did the SAME THING -- said they didn't need so many devs, and fired a bunch of them. So this is the second time they've done this during the development of this game. That's horrible for morale in the company, if nothing else.

Originally posted by anoma7y

 While I admire and support a delay in order to launch the game polished and high quality,they think laying off 30-40 employees will enable them to "act with more agility on the feedback of the playerbase"? What kind of illogical nonsense is that? The game is in trouble.

Exactly, it's a total PR line. Businesses downsize for ONE REASON ONLY --because of finances.

Wow, those are a terrible resolution.

Originally posted by Uproar

Originally posted by Pietoro

...is that a pet stegosaurus? o_o

 

Scaled wolf or scaled wolf pup.  Very nicely drawn actually.

That's pretty cool... though there isn't an actual 'pet class' per se in EQ2? What a shame. =/

...is that a pet stegosaurus? o_o

The parrot and being able to log in 15 days before retail day is what's getting me to pre-order. I can't help myself, lol.

Woohoo!