Velious beta announced

[Thulack]

Actually though Cuk is kinda right. Beta wont be out by end of month. Pantheon kickstarter ends the 22nd. If your giving people who donate a week early into beta then that means beta will at the earliest be out March 2nd.

[pasi]

This was the only popular emulator that I know of that did not have some sort of donate for in-game stuff. Glad to see P99 go down this route.

However, I think the actual beneficiary of donations is a bad one in this case. I don't know how any of you trust Brad to make a halfway decent game (or even just not spend your money on drugs).

[phacemeltar]

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

What is the official date?

STOP COMPLAINING AND ANSWER

[Derubael]

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

Seahawks!

[Darkyle]

Pretty sure you aint getting dragon loots for donating to pantheon, not sure how you consider an XP pot to be P2win nor game breaking. We have had server wide events where we get XP boosts before.. I don't recall anyone crying in the general chat that wasn't classic or that they wasn't going to play until it was over.

If more people back pantheon then we hit those GLOBAL milestones then EVERYONE will benefit from this, even you cheap skate fucks who haven't ever donated a single dollar to the actual server.

You play here for free, yet whine on these forums as if you are entitled to something I will never understand some of you guys.

[Swish]

I hate DLC, I hate cash shops, I hate pay to win.

However I do like new online games (especially with a classic subscription model), and in this case Brad McQuaid is building something special... and if we're brutally honest he needs every bit of help he can get if he's going to reach that kickstarter target. So how ironic that an emulated EQ server could be called upon to help.

I've already pledged $20 before but am thinking about putting some more in there depending on how far they get to the target. Dishing out a few 90 minute XP potions as an incentive? Where's the harm. The only people I can see with a legitimate reason to rage are the EC fat cats or Chardok AOE organizers.

Who cares if Soandso XP'd for 60 minutes earlier and got 90 minutes of XP for it? You?

[Sirken]

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

I mean, we've been hyping Velious for YEARS around here. Even the staff have gotten into it recently, with Verious the Bear and Winter is Coming emotes and stuff. And you know what? Velious beta was announced as a sidenote in a stream focused on a RMT-ish fundraiser for a game that is years away. There are threads all over the forums about special forum names, xp potions, and "lol rmt" ... but there isn't an official announcement of Velious from the staff? The only discussion of Velious is people trolling about how they are gonna pay money so they can get in Velious early and WTS velious loot in NRO /auc as the rest of us wait for the raft?

we told people in advance via the forums that there would be important announcements regarding p99 during the stream, you should have tuned in [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[teija]

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

we told people in advance via the forums that there would be important announcements regarding p99 during the stream, you should have tuned in [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

hey sirken when/if u have some spare time could u check ur PM's, thx

[Lune]

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

I don't know how any of you trust Brad to make a halfway decent game (or even just not spend your money on drugs).

Could be because they're playing his game right now, over a decade after the fact. Although I hope this isn't a George Lucas situation, where he shits gold as the underdog answering to bigwigs, but when he gets handed the reins he makes Phantom Menace.

[Ravager]

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

i dont understand how you can say the p99 staff is engaging in RMT when exactly 0% of the money donated to the Pantheon kickstarter goes to the p99 staff.

The staff isn't engaging in RMT themselves, they just gave the players a venue to do it. I've got no problem rallying people to support this game, I'm just worried what it could mean for this server that people are given the option to buy their pixels.

A 90 minute 50% exp pot might not seem all that gamebreaking, except for the fact that a real world value of $12.50 has been placed on a tradable item.