EQ Next: Best of show at E3!

[Swish]

Just based on the thread title - wasn't there a time when awards meant something? When there weren't hundreds of different awards annually for the same industry?

[OMGWTF420]

heard it all before, eqnext is vaporware

[Sirken]

how did EQNext show absolutely nothing, and win an award.

smells fishy

[Gadwen]

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

how did EQNext show absolutely nothing, and win an award.

smells fishy

Because the press that was invited to the private showing needs to show their gratitude and kiss SOE ass so they get invitations in the future.

[t0lkien]

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

Because the press that was invited to the private showing needs to show their gratitude and kiss SOE ass so they get invitations in the future.

This is actually pretty true. Games journalists are often fans as well, and get caught up in the hype and spin - and the coercion of exclusives in return for positive press. I don't trust any games sites, especially the bigger ones. Their bread and butter is dependent upon maintaining good relationships with the big companies. It's all pretty nepotistic.

However, it's going to be interesting to see what they saw that has them so pumped. I have a feeling they've been blown away by some sort of demo and/or preview footage that promises it's ingame but is actually specially scripted and modified for a focused press showing. Games companies do this all the time unfortunately. There have even been instances of builds being driven by programmers manually firing off scripts in response to the player's actions in the demo (remember the awesome boss fight in the D3 demo that never materialized in the final game?) We'll see though.

[Alarti0001]

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

how did EQNext show absolutely nothing, and win an award.

smells fishy

They had a press showing. not a public showing.

[kaleran]

Everything is conjecture, but the only thing that has me worried about EQNext is what the preview builds for EQ2 were. Back then they showed a world that basically looked like Oblivion/Skyrim, which individual animations for armor that 'fit' to the body. The final game didn't look anything like that.

I still played EQ2 for years tho. It just wasn't quite what they were showing in the early builds. But I still have faith in SOE's maturity. Their job with PS2 awards them that much from me.