impressive considering secrets' opinion was the only one in this thread more retarded and ill informed than mine

after that boy pussy?

I said assist in financing, not fund.

doesn't change the fact that its dumb

"the most committed fans" lol please

Because you do not feel like elaborating on why the two things you just said are different, and you would like to write three sentences that have no meaning, I'll just say I now know I wasted my time doing math for someone that doesn't realize 1-2 million dollars is literally nothing to make an MMO these days and they very obviously to me did not put out the founders pack as a money grubbing scheme. But you can believe what you like.

Happy to wait for final release on this, not inspired by talk of a cash shop in whats effectively an alpha of only the world setting/minecraft part of the game.

EQ:N is gona be filled with chicks. fat, nerdy, needy chicks. its like the sims but you get to play as a lion.

Yeah, you won't have to wait that long either. Two months until closed beta, I imagine that will only last a few months as well, open beta is basically release for this game. They only plan two wipes, one for alpha and one for closed beta. As far as a cash shop goes, I doubt they will be doing much with it in alpha/closed beta, but Hearthstone did let you buy cards while it was in closed beta, so who knows.

so that's a plus or a...... minus?

I'm feeling the SC is going to be for extra claims or islands and cosmetic items.

Since the game is just like a building sim as long as they don't paywall tools and shit I don't see a problem with housewives dropping $300 on neon signs for there house.

I watched a few streams today and I have to say... I am thoroughly impressed. The scenery is beautiful, running around jumping around and using the grappling hook looks plain fun. The controls for building seemed easy to master, and resources didn't take years to harvest (seemingly).

For an Alpha build, the game looks great. There are memory leaks and some odd graphic issues, but again it's Alpha. Most games have more issues going into launch!

The one thing I'm worried about is that they don't have their AI pathing code even built yet. I'm hoping it's not that complicated, and something they can get right without pushing it off to "after release we'll fix it". They also don't have their subterranean "tiers" implemented yet, but I don't think that's really as big a deal until EQNext itself gets released, which it seems to me they have quite a while to get put in place anyways. It would be cool to have access to them now, but with all of the different biome's, I don't think it is that big of a deal.

Also, to jump into an Alpha product and say you don't "feel like it will make me feel like EQ1 did" is just stupid. It doesn't have any sense of danger or environment aside from the scenery, so of course not. Also, it's LANDMARK. The building version of the game. It's not even the one that will be the one with a real story and world to it! Either you're a moron, or you just want to hate something to hate it. I guess that's probably why people hate WoW as well.

The cash shop is a bit different, it is more of an auction house with real money. Sony takes a cut, but you get paid $$ as well.