Brad McQuaid interview re. Pantheon

[EQBallzz]

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

FTFY.

I am sure you will be very satisfied.

I don't claim to know the details of Brad's alleged drug problems but drug problems are pretty devastating and hard to overcome for some people. I know this from personal experience in my own family. I know you think you sound cool shitting on someone for being "weak" or whatever but in reality you just sound like a fucking tool.

If you hate Brad so much and he makes such shitty games then WTF are you playing one of his 17 year old games and posting on these forums? Why aren't you off playing one of those great MMOs on the market created by more "reputable" game devs? Hypocritical much?

[LostCause]

nothing he said wasn't true tho.
brad is a opiate user no hiding that
name one NEW mmo that actually made it big.

[AzzarTheGod]

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

I don't claim to know the details of Brad's alleged drug problems but drug problems are pretty devastating and hard to overcome for some people. I know this from personal experience in my own family. I know you think you sound cool shitting on someone for being "weak" or whatever but in reality you just sound like a fucking tool.

If you hate Brad so much and he makes such shitty games then WTF are you playing one of his 17 year old games and posting on these forums? Why aren't you off playing one of those great MMOs on the market created by more "reputable" game devs? Hypocritical much?

Will respond to this later.

[EQBallzz]

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

nothing he said wasn't true tho.
brad is a opiate user no hiding that
name one NEW mmo that actually made it big.

What is your point? Lots of people have drug or alcohol problems or other personal issues. Why continue to belabor the point with such schadenfreude like it's a big joke?

I think EQ "made it big"..we are all playing it 17 years later. I seriously doubt any of these modern MMOs will be active in half that time or have anyone who cares enough to run an emulator.

How about you name one big MMO that is any good? Just because a game makes money doesn't mean it's any good. Farmville made money. Neverwinter probably made money. Doesn't make them any good.

[Izmael]

Charles Dickens - opium addict
Ernest Hemingway - alcoholic
Edgar Allan Poe - alcoholic
Kurt Cobain - heroin addict
Tchaikovsky - alcoholic
Freud - opiate, cocaine addict
Stephen King - everything
Vincent van Gogh - alcoholic
Steve Jobs - LSD
Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison - anything remotely looking like a psychoactive substance
Bill Evans - heroin


Yeah, I'd never touch anything produced by these junkies.

[maskedmelon]

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

Charles Dickens - opium addict
Ernest Hemingway - alcoholic
Edgar Allan Poe - alcoholic
Kurt Cobain - heroin addict
Tchaikovsky - alcoholic
Freud - opiate, cocaine addict
Stephen King - everything
Vincent van Gogh - alcoholic
Steve Jobs - LSD
Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison - anything remotely looking like a psychoactive substance
Bill Evans - heroin


Yeah, I'd never touch anything produced by these junkies.

I'm not sure this list helps. The sentiment is welcome though ^^

[georgie]

need more games that are styled like skyrim (never played any of the previous games) I just enjoyed the melee a lot more and even the casting. its so boring to target someone and just press buttons these days

[Kotopes]

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

Vanguard was the only MMO I really enjoyed other than EQ and early WOW. Shame it was forced to release a solid 8-12 months too early. Many of the level 40-50 zones were completely barren and unitemized.

That said the class design, world design, and quest design was top-notch. CLEARLY it was the "true successor" to EverQuest. You even had dungeons you could crawl starting as early as level 15 or so; similar to something like Upper Guk, Befallen etc.

/\/\/\ This. I completely with you here. Even if Pantheon is a copycat of EQ with newer graphics and zones, I'd definitely pay for it.
Also Vanguard was well polished and very playable in later years before it's ultimate demise. Unfortunately it was too late.

[R Flair]

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

Charles Dickens - opium addict
Ernest Hemingway - alcoholic
Edgar Allan Poe - alcoholic
Kurt Cobain - heroin addict
Tchaikovsky - alcoholic
Freud - opiate, cocaine addict
Stephen King - everything
Vincent van Gogh - alcoholic
Steve Jobs - LSD
Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison - anything remotely looking like a psychoactive substance
Bill Evans - heroin


Yeah, I'd never touch anything produced by these junkies.

That list isn't even 1% of the most popular artists that did drugs.

[Hailto]

I don't think there is ever going to be another good MMO that's my honest opinion. I don't think the money is in making a quality MMO and in a lot of cases making a quality game in general. The average consumer is too stupid, too flooded with social media influence, too lazy to make producing a real game profitable. I'm going to sound like a hipster here but the more mainstream gaming becomes the more it's going to be diluted to shit. Gaming used to be a niche thing with a very specific target audience that is not the case anymore and it will never be the same.