Pantheon

[Champion_Standing]

Well obviously Brad is going to fuck this up, but $150,000 isn't going to go very far. I'm not 100% sure he spent it all on oxys yet, but its more likely than him spending all the money on the game.

And yeah floyd, he was definitely fucked up during more than 1 of those videos, pretty sure he was high as shit during the P99 one.

[Khaleesi]

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

The vision of Pantheon reminded me too much of Vanguard.

They were making it too complicated, trying to make it "cool".

This is false. Vanguard was ahead of it's time, we know it then and we know it now.
Pantheon is trying to take us back to such a time, to a bygone era - it's the whole reason it's appealing.

If Pantheon's ethos was to be cutting edge, people would have taken it less seriously as just another load of marketing BS.

[Gadwen]

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

This is false. Vanguard was ahead of it's time, we know it then and we know it now.
Pantheon is trying to take us back to such a time, to a bygone era - it's the whole reason it's appealing.

If Pantheon's ethos was to be cutting edge, people would have taken it less seriously as just another load of marketing BS.

I'm not so sure about that, Brad couldn't stop rambling about features during the interview thing he did with the P99 staff. At first it sounded like they wanted to basically remake EQ in a new world and with a modern engine...but as he kept going on about new things I started to think about Vanguard as well. To his credit he did basically say that most of the ideas he was talking about were just ramblings and he had no idea if they could implement them.

I don't have a list of all the ideas he had, and I don't think I can handle listening to his slurred rambling again to put such a thing together. But he definitely talked about a lot more than just making an old school MMORPG.

[Buns]

I threw the developers $25 (I think, I can't remember the exact number), mainly because I think Vhalen is a cool guy, and I wanted to support him. I didn't really think the game would ever be made, but I also didn't think it would crash and burn this quickly? Like hasn't it only been like 6 weeks?

Oh well. I wouldn't have donated the money if I couldn't have afforded it. I mainly feel bad for the crazy Pantheon fanboys who probably donated $1000 for nothing.

[applesauce25r624]

in other news: Lord British still kicking a shit ton of ass with his development

[fadetree]

do people actually think brad did all this to steal money? thats just ridiculous.

[Gadwen]

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

do people actually think brad did all this to steal money? thats just ridiculous.

No not to steal, to have it freely given to him.

[VFBlitz]

I think Brad could have pulled this off if he:

1. Made a small prototype himself before his initial kickstarter, and used that as the carrot for crowd funding.

2. Build it in Poland or somewhere where there is an abundance of programming talent that does not expect 60-100k a year for salary. Krakow is beautiful and that 160k would have lasted 6 months at least.

[Ahldagor]

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

I think Brad could have pulled this off if he:

1. Made a small prototype himself before his initial kickstarter, and used that as the carrot for crowd funding.

2. Build it in Poland or somewhere where there is an abundance of programming talent that does not expect 60-100k a year for salary. Krakow is beautiful and that 160k would have lasted 6 months at least.

moving overseas might have a lot of legal fees and paper work that wouldn't make it worth it.


mr. brad handled all the money and shit happened. not good on his part when investors are thinking something shady is happening/ed along with the dev team.

[kaev]

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

Because some people would like to play an EQ clone with visuals from this millennia.

I fail to see why supporting a project that tries to get at the core of what made EQ so great with enhanced visuals is bad.

It's not bad. Sadly, it's not so easy to say that about McQuaid.