EQNext in the gutter?

[ewil]

is it?

[Zadrian]

I mean, yeah... have you SEEN those character models? Pure cabbage

[ewil]

They just fired half the fuckin development team, wtf is with that... Perhaps they need some crowdfunding... lol... jokes aside... this sucks...

[Tiggles]

Oh yeah, EQN is donzo.

Unfortunately they had some really cool ideas if you get past the Wow graphics.

Apparently the whole thing was smoke and mirrors to try and find a buyer they apparently tried to sell SOE over 2 years ago when they announced EQN and they dressed it up and blew a bunch of smoke up peoples asses to try sell it but they wanted too much.

Thats why we saw an hour long sandart show and then another hour of straight unfounded hype from SOE then after that nothing. Because they had nothing they were just trying to entice some company to buy them out.


Storybricks AI was also a scam as well they couldn't do half of what georgeson pimped them out to be. They recently just closed down their studio the same time SOE got sold with zero games produced. They were looking for SOE to buy them out and once they realized it wasn't happening they disappeared.

Voxel world while not a scam has serious issues that are preventing it from being used in a true mmo sense. They islands you see in landmark are pretty much the maximum size you can make a voxel world hence the 100s of "islands" and not one seamless world.

A lot of people including myself bought into the hopium hardcore mostly because I really enjoy the EQ lore and wanted to experience it again but this will mostly go down in history as one of the biggest MMO failures in history.

Also, EQN will most likely be released btw they have a running working engine in landmark and they have a pretty big dev team working on it but with this new russian companies new cost cutting history and lack of experience in the gaming genre it will be a very generic F2P mmo that will release directly into failure.

[Ele]

It was always vaporware.

Pay to alpha/beta the development engine, then have the player base do the actual work of building the world and pay for the privilege.

[Nirgon]

When is War for the Overworld coming out god damnit

[Galelor]

F2P is the fucking worst. I hope it doesn't go that way...

I understand the release of many of the leads and management of the development team. It happened because they were over paid and they under produced. This is not uncommon at all during acquisitions. You trim the fat, and remove the people who have the vision that caused the company to fail the first time around. This way the new company can be lean and work toward a vision that is successful. If Sony thought their current vision and direction was profitable, they would not have sold off...

Hopefully, the new company can whip this shit into shape and release a quality EQNext experience.

[Nirgon]

o...

April 2nd

Highly recommend this 1

[Ezalor]

some pretty good ideas in there with the landmark engine but basically SOE overpromising and under-delivering once again

sucks because a lot of us have been waiting for a new MMO to shake things up a bit

[captnamazing]

what's the difference between EQN and Landmark?