The way I see it - having in mind total lack of MMO choice in i'd say many years already - we should give CU all the support we can, not attack them; Tho they are OFC quite easy target if one wants to criticize.
Unfortunately, these are the words from the man himself. DAoC was indeed made for $2.42M (without marketing budget, which was ~$600k or something close to that), but those were different times, and when we speak of MMO standards and money, very much different. Also, EVE online was made for...
Ah, Mark said a number of times that having classical PvE would be awesome - just it's extremely expensive. To offer any kind of quality PvE even close to the AAA level, they'd have to somehow, magically, triple or quadriple their budget.
Briefly, what they will NOT have are quests and...
It becomes much more interesting once you learn it's actually an interactive 3D object - moveable,upgradeable,destructible,connected to voxels and physics...but the reason most people are buying is it's connection to economy (say, tax benefits + adding slave NPCs and crafting stations turns it...
Crowfall just got extra $6M of funding, making it $20 million total and counting. People just won't stop throwing money on them!
Source for extra $6M, official update from Wednesday - https://crowfall.com/en/news/articles/f ... reat-year/
Source for $20M total, budget breakdown from the...
Here's a fancy tool for personal kingdom building (like, VIRTUALLY creating the landscape before building actual buildings atop of it):
To avoid confusion: general test access is up to beta 2 players and, so far, pre-alpha 1&2 ones have access to this kingdom building tool. Of course, it...
For what it's worth, I'd never expect to hear CU backer saying "...kickstarter rape you packs to alpha test"!? Oh by the way, I'm also a big fan and supporter of the game, in fact of anything by Mark Jacobs.
On topic, here's couple player made buildings from this weekend tests:
Speaking of building, this is how you can kill people by building (!) on a PvE server, that is with PvP off (!!):
Also, Fae Assassins are next archetype, classical stealthy stabby stabby rogue (check the daggers!):
...and here is an early 3D render of her (looks kinda bulky, I hope this is...
To make it worse, it used to be hundreds of bucks - and all that for testing very incomplete, rough, laggy and buggy bare bones of the game.
At this point, it's for the people that want to see something new in the genre, through support with both money and test feedback; otherwise, it's far...
Let's hope not, and based on anything they've been telling us so far - they are trying hard to make it really diverse. Anyway, it's wait and see.
PS Just in case, I'll "extract" the Templar video from Xaeos' link up there:
Have in mind that this is the very first Templar footage: real alpha...
Thanks for the detailed reply! So, not much has changed since my last "check" and I'd say 2 years till launch is not impossible - but it seems quite optimistic in such situation.