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mike12345 posted:guess I was right after all, it's now fully f2p oh.
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Gynovore posted:Derek Smart Now you've done it. You've called him to the forums. Don't you know anywhere you mention him he shows up? He's basically Internet Candlejack. Anyway, I tried playing this and it was interesting at first. Pretty sandbox, I actually had to talk to people to find quests and exploring dungeons was fun. I even saved up my money to get a neat outfit from a player-run store. But the more I played the more the cracks showed. Optimization is horrible, long quest-lines are broken and frustrating to understand, and the farther I went out to explore the more I realized it's an open world with nothing to really discover. I open the map and see I've only "explored" about 5% of the entire world but I already know anywhere else I go won't have any NPCs or anything to truly discover, just dead, open maps. desudrive fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Nov 5, 2018 |
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desudrive posted:Now you've done it. You've called him to the forums. No he hasn't. DEREK SMART DEREK SMART DEREK SMART Now I have.
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Taintrunner posted:No he hasn't. If only he didn't get himself banned for doxxing
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you really want my uncle to show up here?
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Does anyone still play this? My physical items arrived a few months ago. I've not even opened the shipping box due to apathy.
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yoloer420 posted:Does anyone still play this? Still play this? When did people play it?
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extra stout posted:Still play this? When did people play it? Why did people play it?
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RagnarokZ posted:Why did people play it? Because they spent a thousand dollars on a castle alternately, they were convinced by this 21st century mozart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGyJ9fmsqqc
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I have to admit that's not horrible.
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Portalarium closed their office, the remaining employees are now working from home. Yes, money was a factor but NO, not having enough money to pay for an office was NOT a factor. 
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iron buns posted:Portalarium closed their office, the remaining employees are now working from home. Can't wait for episode 2!!!
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Portalarium Employee, working from home, submitting a code revision: I wish to lock this down haha Serial Killer Inside their home: fethers
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iron buns posted:Portalarium closed their office, the remaining employees are now working from home. F
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listening to the original Ultima Online midi files while I gently weep in my hands wondering what could have been
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iron buns posted:Portalarium closed their office, the remaining employees are now working from home. Richard Garriot could personally pay to keep that office open for decades without going near broke, he's a huge piece of poo poo and I can't wait to troll him online for the next fifty or sixty years, god bless. edit Chris mentions it was a 3 year lease but claims they wanted to save money by working from home, Richard Garriot absolutely will not be paying even half of the few remaining a salary in 3 years and they all know it and lie about it. extra stout fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Mar 5, 2019 |
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Who got custody of the mobile suit gundam iPad robot children he used to connect to the office ?
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iron buns posted:Portalarium closed their office, the remaining employees are now working from home. Hahaha
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maybe now is the best time to buy back in also gently caress anyone who tried to get people to put more money in this poo poo, you should be straight up ashamed of yourselves
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basically the first 20 pages of thread posters promoting this poo poo need to come back and explain their insanely defensive postures and promotional attitudes to this obvious failure of a games anyone who does that gets a free game. maybe a good game. maybe line of defensive. I dunno
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TheAgent posted:basically the first 20 pages of thread posters promoting this poo poo need to come back and explain their insanely defensive postures and promotional attitudes to this obvious failure of a games i've already done that poo poo
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TBH I still like the parts of the game that I liked. In the first few areas there were a shitload (ok like 15) NPCs you could talk to in a freeform manner about various topics. It was janky but it was really novel and it actually did work provided you were ready to apply some old fashioned MUD Logic. There was a kind of interesting main quest and a kind of interesting side quest. If they had concentrated on that stuff and made it a solo game I might have even enjoyed it because maybe they would have finished that poo poo. Like it never would have been good, it looks like garbage but the combat deck building thing was an interesting take on action bar combat and there was a real sense of discovery. Mobbing through the underground grouped up with 10 people, with no idea where we would come out was a genuinely great experience and I don't think I've had that exact feeling with a game for a long time. Lots of "what's down here?" and "what does this do?" There were a lot of weird puzzles and points of interest that were never really fleshed out, but could have been, I think. I still really believe that Atos ruined the game by being left in charge of a bunch of MMO mechanics and having no loving idea what he was doing. My posts in this thread lay out all the weird poo poo I was constantly running into. The biggest thing was that I was mainly interested in more of that "mobbing around the underground" experience, but the group mechanics were entirely hosed up. Healing was broken, damage mitigation was broken, aggro was broken, and group activities were broken because the designer was worried about things being too easy so he'd nerf rewards for things if you were in a group. Ultimately I paid less than $60 even with the telethon stuff I bought, played over 200 hours, and made a friend I still chat with. I regret not just doing what there was of the main storyline and bailing out, but I was interested in the economy & crafting because it seemed to have some depth, but it made so little sense that I ended up just popping open the code to see how it worked and it turned out it was just moronic top to bottom. I spent like hours making a helmet that had a 3.7 HP bonus over the default iron helmet. I think if it had been just as unpolished and janky as it was, but had a better focus on the things that were interesting about it, I'd probably be defending it to this day. But it was a fight between a good RPG, a bad MMO, and a shameless cash grab, and the cash grab won.
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They had an ability that was the equivalent of the wow priest ability Fade, and the tank taunting an enemy would overwrite it and cause Fade to end early. And this was, as far as I can tell, on purpose. I will never ever get over that.
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This fuckin game
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Capntastic posted:Portalarium Employee, working from home, submitting a code revision: I wish to lock this down haha
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We could always make lum the mad kill himself Remember the post about RIchard Gariott firing an uzi within his private mansion to repel evil feefs. I sure do. Kill yourself. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Woah woah woah. Stand down soldier.
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Mr. Pickles posted:We could always make lum the mad kill himself Jeez dude, its just video games.
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Mr. Pickles posted:We could always make lum the mad kill himself lets not do this
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Mr. Pickles posted:We could always make lum the mad kill himself Cool, sweet av man
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Mr. Pickles posted:We could always make lum the mad kill himself haven't worked on this game in a year but i'll give your advice proper consideration regardless, thanks random internet person
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Lum_ posted:haven't worked on this game in a year but i'll give your advice proper consideration regardless, thanks random internet person To get the topic somewhere less hosed up: is your name based off that anime Night Crew freaked out over?
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Good Dumplings posted:To get the topic somewhere less hosed up: is your name based off that anime Night Crew freaked out over? oh GOD no https://greyhawk.fandom.com/wiki/Lum_the_Mad (upon further reflection maybe the anime would be less geeky) Lum_ fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Mar 19, 2019 |
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I always thought you took your name from that anime cat girl that was super popular in the late 90s. Then tacked "the Mad" onto the end because you were upset about video games. The truth is acrually less dorky but just barely.
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Lum_ posted:haven't worked on this game in a year but i'll give your advice proper consideration regardless, thanks random internet person So are you under an nda re: train wrecks coz holy moly
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Rhymenoserous posted:So are you under an nda re: train wrecks coz holy moly I indeed am, so kindly look elsewhere for commentary on trains (there's plenty of ex-employees who apparently have been leaking to the reddit, including lots of stuff about me which because of said NDA I can't refute or talk about, so fun times) Suffice to say I'm working in a very boring job learning kubernetes and am happy for it. If I decide to wear a game dev hat again I'll work on a mod and if it blows up I can yell at myself. Lum_ fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Mar 20, 2019 |
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So are you ever going to write a tell all book about the cluster gently caress that is MMO development in which you name names? Because it seems like youve worked on a few real stinkers that were managed by the walking embodiment of Dunder Mifflin Syndrome.
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You may have signed an NDA but you need therapy. Start your mmo blog again and find inner peace 
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