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Maybe each subscriber gets a snippet of shoddy code to remember it by.
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Dec 29, 2015 18:01
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Y'know, if no one actually gets to play the game anymore, that means the imaginary taverns that people paid real money for can never be destroyed. It's the perfect plan.
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Dec 29, 2015 18:24
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I'm sure this is just to announce a huge investment by a silent partner to reinvigorate the game development. Things have never looked brighter!
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Dec 29, 2015 19:40
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A future as bright as the people who paid for their virtual crap.
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Welp, apparently some poor, foolish company decided to take over Pathfinder Online as of 1st March 2016. The current three devs are being referred to as the "legacy developers", so I assume they too will be laid off shortly. Maybe once the game is in completely new hands stuff will start to happen. One of the decision makers at the buying company has been playing since the servers first opened, so... at least they know what they're getting into?
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I have a sneaking suspicion it's one of the big time whales who wants to "save the game." I'm picturing someone with enough means to buy 5k pretend inns and poo poo leveraging his inheritance, taking out a huge loan, getting in over his head and ruining his life for a knock off WoW set in a knock off D&D world. Of course I'm shooting from the hip here maybe it's Nexxon or some poo poo.
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Dec 30, 2015 11:33
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Basically that Tom Hanks movie The Money Pit, but with a lovely MMO.
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Dec 30, 2015 11:34
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Does anyone else remember that heartbreaker MMO kickstarter? Your World or something like that? I can't help but think of that right about now.
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Dec 30, 2015 12:48
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Or any MMO kickstarter, really.
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Anticheese posted:Does anyone else remember that heartbreaker MMO kickstarter? Your World or something like that? Yeah totally what I had in mind. Apparently the guy's name is "Bunky Bartlett," practicing Wiccan. "And a month later, here I am," he said in a 2007 article in The Sun. "I thank the gods for this gift. I don't know which one granted me this wish, but whichever one did, thanks!" He took the lump-sum payment from 1/4th of a 330m payout and had 15 million left as of 2012. Even accounting for the hit from not taking the annuity and the taxes, my back-of-the-envelope math tells me he burned through a loooot of money.
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oTHi posted:Welp, apparently some poor, foolish company decided to take over Pathfinder Online as of 1st March 2016. The current three devs are being referred to as the "legacy developers", so I assume they too will be laid off shortly. Maybe once the game is in completely new hands stuff will start to happen. I can't believe how excited I am for the Jeb! campaign.
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http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/23/3543470/debunked-the-strange-ride-of-millionaire-game-developer-bunky-bartlett If it is that dude, then holy poo poo buckle your seatbelts.
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Darwinism posted:http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/23/3543470/debunked-the-strange-ride-of-millionaire-game-developer-bunky-bartlett I dunno, that guy sounds too imaginative for PFO. quote:What he described was Second Life mixed with game-making software mixed with ‘WoW' mixed with hookerbots.
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Roadie posted:I dunno, that guy sounds too imaginative for PFO. What he describes as his 'ideal' game is basically everything PFO said it was gonna be. Plus hookerbots.
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A lot of "idea guys" who dream up an MMO seem like they don't understand game design or the nature of a game at all, but are instead daydreaming about virtual reality. Which is relevant to Pathfinder Online in particular, since the core game appeals in large part to people who think other versions of D&d aren't "rules-as-physics-engine" enough.
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Darwinism posted:http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/23/3543470/debunked-the-strange-ride-of-millionaire-game-developer-bunky-bartlett 
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A /stuck command that takes 5 whole minutes to activate is pretty obnoxious, but really par for the course from these guys.
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I hope it's him because that man is gonna represent my home-state. Also he bought-up a pizza place to guarantee delivery to his rural house lol
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Darwinism posted:http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/23/3543470/debunked-the-strange-ride-of-millionaire-game-developer-bunky-bartlett Holy crap... during the first month or so the crew I was with had some guy I thought they were calling Bucky. Maybe I was saying it wrong or maybe it's the same guy. Pretty sure he still plays.
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The only thing sadder than the people continuing to spend money on this, is someone trying to cash out and wanting $2500 for their accounts. https://goblinworks.com/forum/topic/4542/?page=2 quote:Yes, this is likely a very bad time to try and sell off, as news of an investor could double or tripple the value of theses accounts overnight, but we all know it is a risk, and I just am not in the position to take that risk too much longer. Amazingly the potential lottery winner investor hasn't caused a rush of people to buy this guy's accounts.
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I expected this sentence....PST posted:Yes, this is likely a very bad time to try and sell off... to end with, "...because this thing is going down like the Hindenburg," not some rose-colored theory that it will appreciate in value.
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Only $2500? And to think for that money you could buy hundreds of fun games, but what a ripoff that would be!
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PST posted:The only thing sadder than the people continuing to spend money on this, is someone trying to cash out and wanting $2500 for their accounts. Three times zero is still zero.
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They said they would probably announce something in January and the new guys would take over in March. Looks like something happened to "The Plan". Maybe the mystery investor realized what a piece of poo poo they were being suckered into...
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Only $2500? I never thought I would see a worse video game deal than a 2000 dollar star citizen spaceship.
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randombattle posted:I never thought I would see a worse video game deal than a 2000 dollar star citizen spaceship. Well I mean we already had the $5k taverns in this thread so…
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That Old Tree posted:Well I mean we already had the $5k taverns in this thread so… Even that is at least theoretically something that you can use. 18 accounts is like... why would you have that?
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Calidor posted:Maybe the mystery investor realized what a piece of poo poo they were being suckered into...
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Darwinism posted:http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/23/3543470/debunked-the-strange-ride-of-millionaire-game-developer-bunky-bartlett I forgot about that kickstarter. I'm surprised they managed to even get 21k worth of interest with this quote. "The best way to describe this MMORPG is think of all the good things in Second life, WoW, Rift, SWTOR all rolled up into one game."
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Arcland posted:I forgot about that kickstarter. I'm surprised they managed to even get 21k worth of interest with this quote. A game of schadenfreude and dongs? 
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Arcland posted:I forgot about that kickstarter. I'm surprised they managed to even get 21k worth of interest with this quote. I'm not. MMOs have always drawn a surreal number of true believers and the naive, from pure vapor poo poo like Rune Conquest and Dawn/Glitchless, to impossible dreams like Horizons under its original head dev, and whatever Alexander Delarge has made a new thread for this week. Even here, there's always a few posters who are convinced that the latest ridiculous design doc will lead to the best thing ever, and will defend it to the limits of their e-honour.
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Bieeardo posted:I'm not. MMOs have always drawn a surreal number of true believers and the naive, from pure vapor poo poo like Rune Conquest and Dawn/Glitchless, to impossible dreams like Horizons under its original head dev, and whatever Alexander Delarge has made a new thread for this week. Even here, there's always a few posters who are convinced that the latest ridiculous design doc will lead to the best thing ever, and will defend it to the limits of their e-honour. I'm usually bad and back/preorder everything (AO and crowfall) but even I Have my limit. Always hoping for an mmo to be my one game again.
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Bieeardo posted:...to impossible dreams like Horizons under its original head dev... The game still would have died, but it would have been a hell of a lot more interesting (and for a time fun) than what arrived post-blackout. 
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Honestly, I was surprised to see Horizons launch even with what it had. That original head dev of theirs was the living incarnation of feature creep.
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Bieeardo posted:Honestly, I was surprised to see Horizons launch even with what it had. That original head dev of theirs was the living incarnation of feature creep. Does anyone know of a good place to read up on what all went down with Horizons? I've seen it referenced a lot on this board but somehow missed all of the build up and only played it long enough to see that it was a totally ordinary mediocre MMO.
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pkollar posted:Does anyone know of a good place to read up on what all went down with Horizons? I've seen it referenced a lot on this board but somehow missed all of the build up and only played it long enough to see that it was a totally ordinary mediocre MMO. That they pulled off mediocre is fairly impressive, given all the promises. But I'm not sure if it's chronicled anywhere that's still around.
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Bieeardo posted:I'm not. MMOs have always drawn a surreal number of true believers and the naive, from pure vapor poo poo like Rune Conquest and Dawn/Glitchless, to impossible dreams like Horizons under its original head dev, and whatever Alexander Delarge has made a new thread for this week. Even here, there's always a few posters who are convinced that the latest ridiculous design doc will lead to the best thing ever, and will defend it to the limits of their e-honour.
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