Pantheon - anyone been keeping track?

[lethstang]

Apparently its an MMO in development thats going to cater to our little niche.

[Squabbles123]

Originally Posted by lethstang [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Apparently its an MMO in development thats going to cater to our little niche.

I had not heard of this before, but I noticed this when looking around:

https://pantheonmmo.com/about_us/the_team/

Brad McQuaid!

Thats all I had to see, I'm now very interested in this title.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Squabbles123 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I had not heard of this before, but I noticed this when looking around:

https://pantheonmmo.com/about_us/the_team/

Brad McQuaid!

You missed his PR tour here, but if you search you can probably find posts from it. The staff even tried to enable some officially-endorsed RMT to support Panetheon's development, but after years and years of drilling in to people's heads that RMT was wrong the reaction from many was ... not positive.

[Triiz]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You missed his PR tour here, but if you search you can probably find posts from it. The staff even tried to enable some officially-endorsed RMT to support Panetheon's development, but after years and years of drilling in to people's heads that RMT was wrong the reaction from many was ... not positive.

I had no idea about this. The OP was edited, but going by the replies they were raffling xp potions, early Velious access, pre-nerf fungi staffs. I'm surprised Daybreak wasn't all over shutting that shit down.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=137820

[Hitmonkey]

They've been working on it for a while where you been and it looks just like EQ llive so it's going to suck or they're going to get sued for copying EQ

They streamed a couple game sessions even the terminology is exactly the same. Not saying I'm not interested but I would like to see something a little more creative from him

[fadetree]

Originally Posted by Hitmonkey [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They've been working on it for a while where you been and it looks like you live so it's going to suck or they're going to get sued for copying EQ

Yeah, no. They won't get sued for 'copying' EQ lol. The guy, Brad McQuaid, originated EQ. And yeah it's been a while but these are HUGE undertakings and he's doing it without the backing of a giant conglomerate throwing fistfulls of money in the door. As far as I can see it's proceeding apace and I expect it will go beta sometime in the next 2 years.

[Hitmonkey]

Originally Posted by fadetree [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, no. They won't get sued for 'copying' EQ lol. The guy, Brad McQuaid, originated EQ. And yeah it's been a while but these are HUGE undertakings and he's doing it without the backing of a giant conglomerate throwing fistfulls of money in the door. As far as I can see it's proceeding apace and I expect it will go beta sometime in the next 2 years.

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Daybreak owns the IP. Just because you're the developer on a project doesn't mean years later you get to make the exact same project for yourself with IP rights involved, and the reason why I mentioned it is if you watch the latest live in development playthrough even the classes are exactly the same it's pretty much the exact same game. Daybreak isn't going to let him make a MMO that's an exact copy of EQ live

Edit- by "exactly the same" I mean same names -same terminology, if you stripped the pantheon name and labeled it EQ Next you wouldn't know the difference.

[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by Hitmonkey [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Daybreak owns the IP. Just because you're the developer on a project doesn't mean years later you get to make the exact same project for yourself with IP rights involved, and the reason why I mentioned it is if you watch the latest live in development playthrough even the classes are exactly the same it's pretty much the exact same game. Daybreak isn't going to let him make a MMO that's an exact copy of EQ live

It's kind of like a musician that creates that first master album that sweeps the world with it's creativity.

Then the musician creates newer music and albums and none of them come close to that first awesome album.

After years of failed music, the musician then tries to recreate a new album but decides to try to add stuff that was in the first album, but instead of coming off as creative it comes off as stale and just a bad copy of the first awesome album made years earlier.

We have heard this song before. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Squabbles123]

Originally Posted by Hitmonkey [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Daybreak owns the IP. Just because you're the developer on a project doesn't mean years later you get to make the exact same project for yourself with IP rights involved, and the reason why I mentioned it is if you watch the latest live in development playthrough even the classes are exactly the same it's pretty much the exact same game. Daybreak isn't going to let him make a MMO that's an exact copy of EQ live

Its not an exact copy though..."gnomes" and such are not unique to EQ, so thats not enough. They don't use any location names from EQ, so the world is different...so the only things that are "the same" are some the UI elements (which is probably mostly temp placeholders) and the style of MMO.

How is it "the exact same game"?

Seeing as the game's been in development for 2 years and Daybreak is bleeding cash out its asshole...you'd think if they had a case to sue, they'd have done it by now.

So yeah, this lawsuit you speak of will not happen.

[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by Squabbles123 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Its not an exact copy though..."gnomes" and such are not unique to EQ, so thats not enough. They don't use any location names from EQ, so the world is different...so the only things that are "the same" are some the UI elements (which is probably mostly temp placeholders) and the style of MMO.

How is it "the exact same game"?

Seeing as the game's been in development for 2 years and Daybreak is bleeding cash out its asshole...you'd think if they had a case to sue, they'd have done it by now.

So yeah, this lawsuit you speak of will not happen.

I don't see a lawsuit either, but I do see what his gripe is about.

I was kind of surprised that there's gnomes, ogres, warriors, all the names we are familiar are being used in Pantheon it seems.

I really hope the game is worth playing, but was a tad disappointed that more creativity was not used with the classes, races, etc.