level from 45-60 or wait pantheon release

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

Lol yall shouldnt be hyped for pantheon at all you will be disapointed if anything

[ScaringChildren]

I'm looking forward to Phoenix...that comes out in like a week

[Muggens]

In Brad we trust <3

(Dont care about any new videogame and have not followed pantheon development, but damn I love Brad)

[Ennewi]

Classic EQ fans shit on McQuaid worse than SW original trilogy fans shit on Lucas. Although somehow this thread is missing the obligatory cocaine quip.

Not to get on a soap box or preach stentorian from the mount, but some of the cynicism here is verging on hyperbolic. Even with healthy levels of skepticism, it's evident that alpha is gaining enough momentum. As someone else mentioned, the team has already received the funding needed to complete their vision of the game, so all additional investments, emotional and financial, won't make or break the promise they're striving to keep.

The team hasn't hyped Pantheon at all, even when they were seeking an angel investor. In fact, while promoting it, they've consistently pumped the brakes on expectations. That undercuts all arguments that it's just another cash grab. It is slow going, but not Yeahlight slow. It isn't being treated as a hobby, but in the past definitely has had more of an open-ended passion project feel to it, not dissimilar to p99.

Graphics overhaul is now in the works. Lore is vastly different from EQ's.

If the cynics are right and this is as good as it gets, that isn't much of a victory, being right. Basically it means succumbing to confinement of a single virtual world that is no longer filled with surprises while living in a real world that is equally predictable, at least in terms of what game devs promise and fail to deliver on.

The wait between placeholders may be long. There may be a less than 1% chance that the named will pop and have the goods on it. But with Pantheon we don't have to stand at the spawnpoint, hold camp, and stare at the wall. We don't have to tell ourselves, this will be it, the one ultra-rare named that will free us from camp. If the game we've all been waiting for is released, everyone will be rushing to engage it first. Until then, zone out, click the empty space tirelessly, or just enjoy the ambiance that exists in its absence.

Atlas? /shrug

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

Classic EQ fans shit on McQuaid worse than SW original trilogy fans shit on Lucas. Although somehow this thread is missing the obligatory cocaine quip.

Didn't you mean to say that McQuaid fans who were utterly disappointed by Vanguard and then filled with disgust and loathing towards McQuaid & Butler over the shit those assholes pulled on their employess shit on McQuaid at most every opportunity and really don't give a damn about the cocaine. It was the shit way he treated his supporters and the far shittier way he fucked up his employees that marks him as worthy of every ounce of shit dumped on him, past present & future.

or something like that

[Sk00ba5t3v3]

I doubt Pantheon's development will survive the gaming crash we are currently wading into.

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

Didn't you mean to say that McQuaid fans who were utterly disappointed by Vanguard and then filled with disgust and loathing towards McQuaid & Butler over the shit those assholes pulled on their employess shit on McQuaid at most every opportunity and really don't give a damn about the cocaine. It was the shit way he treated his supporters and the far shittier way he fucked up his employees that marks him as worthy of every ounce of shit dumped on him, past present & future.

or something like that

Even if people vehemently resent McQuaid to all hell, which is a bit much if they weren't directly affected by his actions, one person does not a dev team make. And if people can't separate art from the flaws and past failures of the person largely seen as responsible for its creation than they're going to have a very small selection of art to choose from.

The amount of fuck, shit, ass and/or hole in your post is impressive though. But if we're criticizing than there were definitely better, more colorful descriptions and sharper insults you could have used to convey how much disdain you have for McQuaid. And now I deserve criticism for being an anal-retentive, masterfully bad debater. Or a shitty fucking asshole.

Or something like that.

[Uuruk]

I'm excited to donate to the Pantheon GoFundMe in hopes for receiving experience potions on P99.

[Vanech]

Originally Posted by Sk00ba5t3v3 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I doubt Pantheon's development will survive the gaming crash we are currently wading into.

You have a solid point with your concern. I agree with your misgivings, and I feel like it is something that needs to be addressed. There was a time that I would have backed Bethesda or Bioware without question when it came to RPGs but their parent companies have devolved the genre to absolute crap. Flies and everything.

The only saving grace that Pantheon has going for them is that they're not being paid or driven by a major publishing house. Wasn't Vanguard still under the directive of SoE when it was released?

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

The only saving grace that Pantheon has going for them is that they're not being paid or driven by a major publishing house. Wasn't Vanguard still under the directive of SoE when it was released?

Yes, but so was original EQ under 989 studios/SOE.