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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.

Last one was made a week or two ago, saying that they are pretty much on track for beta starting 4th July.

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...

I don't know enough to answer your question (Albion is just third on my waiting list), for what it's worth they just released Galahad update trailer:

Quite strange place to find that Crowfall Q&A for March is out!? Anyway, thanks for the update!

...and this is how one man army...err, Templar looks in player tests (some DPS/CC tests first, then sound and PvP starts after 2:35):

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.

Yea, I am either JamesGoblin or GamesJoblin anywhere on the net :)

"Big World" tests just started - it's a step between earlier small scale MOBA-like tests and real big MMO servers. Gathering/crafting/progression is there, but there's no building, destruction, guilds, territory control etc. yet: PS the game just broke 150 000 accounts and $10M of budget.

Does anyone know, how are they doing with money? Any recent news about sponsors or funding plans? Point being - such a project will need much, MUCH more than what they appear to have so far.

There's another problem with realistic look, it puts insane pressure on the game engine - in other words, it is yet to be seen whether this will be MMO at all, speaking of "massively" part. You know, with such graphics and in scenes with 100-200 players on screen, very bad things are happening...

For what it's worth, there is another Crowfall thread with a bit more appropriate title (thou it mentions Kickstarter from million years ago...) - Crowfall MMO Kickstarter campaign begins While I'm here, First impressions of Minotaur by ZybakTV:

Sorry, I should read more carefully next time. Sure, it's more logical than my auto-assumption that you had everyone in mind. That seems possible, and as I said - something similar will likely happen in bigger Eternal Kingdoms, but speaking of Campaigns - developers seem to intend to do...

Problem with that is, having hundreds of thousands of players and each one having a kingdom big enough for mountains and rivers... Just to begin with issues, I am not sure whether it would be even technically possible. What will actually happen (also predicted by developers) is - maybe a dozen...

How player world building in Crowfall looks like (hint: it's like Tetris) - https://ello.co/jamesgoblin/pos/e6yhwdv6_xbjtdqnff1tma.

Yea, it certainly won't be 2016. Good news is - they just opened a second studio in Seattle and hired four additional programmers (!) due to some extra funding they got - http://massivelyop.com/2016/06/17/ca...io-in-seattle/ Beta should happen "this summer" - info from livestream yesterday, and...

If you ask devs, they will tell you something like "possible...2016...PR mumbo-jumbo...we are optimistic...", but yea - 2017 it will be. And it won't be Q1 for sure.

Hey, this was quite enjoyable! I don't get the downvotes...maybe they don't like the music!?

Yea, this is how CU sees it's roleplayers (RP stretch goal artwork): You might know this, but lots of people don't know that the actual CU budget is already over $7.2M (Pledgemeter + Mark's $2.125M + $1M from another investor), and that number will rise dramatically once new investors kick...

Meantime, they started messing with voxels and destruction, here is couple player-made test videos (warning: first one might be NSFW due to language!?):

It's time to take a break, or to switch the genre. Gaming is, same as life, much bigger than one knows.

A bit of nostalgia:

Another, bit quicker, review: