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frajaq posted:let me get this straight, this is the guy a lot of people gave large amounts of money? yeah but, the vision, ya know?
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VisionQuest ain't cheap! Nor are the mountains of pills.
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Oct 6, 2019 01:51
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Holy moley what a bunch of tl;dr that... doesn't really say anything.
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Oct 6, 2019 01:54
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At this point he really better be pilled up as gently caress. If he's not it's so much worse.
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Oct 6, 2019 09:09
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I mean from the ground floor of the original thread people were saying 'don't giving this benzo'd out lunatic money' but mmo fans gonna mmo fan
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Oct 6, 2019 09:40
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Just stopped in to say canonically Brad is an opiate addict not benzos. Thanks for listening
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Oct 6, 2019 09:48
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One doesn't preclude the other
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Oct 6, 2019 10:03
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That Brad post is truly bizarre. Imagine sitting through a meeting with him...
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Oct 7, 2019 16:41
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To ensure he actually plays whatever of the game they made, the devs made a class specifically for him. Unlike when he tried shilling Vanguard and it was obvious he never even touched the poo poo and was hype phoneposting on the FoH boards while doing coke off a ladyboys rear end in Thailand. So many good Brad memes lost to time. Wish we still had the thread where he came here trying to hype Pantheon.
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Oct 7, 2019 18:49
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Solarin posted:Just stopped in to say canonically Brad is an opiate addict not benzos. Thanks for listening those posts are 100% "just sniffed a roxy and feeling VISIONARY" and not at all "took a bunch of xanax and drooling on the keyboard". only explanation for this is that someone in the pantheon office broke a bone and Brad got into their office with the master key
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Oct 7, 2019 19:12
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Givin posted:To ensure he actually plays whatever of the game they made, the devs made a class specifically for him. Unlike when he tried shilling Vanguard and it was obvious he never even touched the poo poo and was hype phoneposting on the FoH boards while doing coke off a ladyboys rear end in Thailand. It's still in the archives, I found it a few months back without too much effort but it did take some searching.
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Oct 7, 2019 21:27
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onesixtwo posted:It's still in the archives, I found it a few months back without too much effort but it did take some searching. Please post the link here if you can.
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Oct 7, 2019 23:08
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3601416 This is the original thread. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3601416&userid=207941 here are Brad's posts. Then the second thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3744114&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 after Brad stopped posting / most people knew it was dumpster fire. Now we're here, some four years later, still in pre-alpha.
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Oct 8, 2019 16:53
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What a treasure trove those threads are. --Brad
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Oct 8, 2019 17:46
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Is completely passed me by that Brad is a goon, but he has only made 25 posts and has not posted since 2014.
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Oct 8, 2019 18:25
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why do these games only attract the most broken people? One of the mods in the Pantheon subreddit posted some rant about how he's been thinking about quitting. https://old.reddit.com/r/PantheonMMO/comments/dd0t4i/i_legit_thought_about_quitting_being_a_mod_a_week/ This is how he starts the post: quote:OK, generic back story. I've got mental issues, got a new job, priorities changed...yadda yadda...you guys (and gals) are old enough you've heard many of these iterations. TLDR: I've been less present of late bc of Life. I used to ck this sub 10-20 times a day. Now, I can go over a week without logging in. /shrug Like I said, Life. and then he goes on to talk about all the "poo poo" he's been dealing with as a mod. A bunch of people responded letting him know that it's a terrible idea for a mod to make emotional posts like that, the post made them uncomfortable, etc. He responded with: quote:Yes. I've aired dirty laundry before. And I will continue to do so.
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Oct 8, 2019 19:51
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That is the same mod that is convinced there is a conspiracy on his subreddit to destroy Pantheon and get the game canceled. He is ultra paranoid and has banned a bunch of posters from his subreddit who he claims are in on this conspiracy, but he admits that he has no evidence to support this.
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Oct 8, 2019 20:08
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nice, the kind of mod this game deserves, and that last paragraph is loving hilarious and sad
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Oct 8, 2019 20:32
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at least the star citizen and shroud idiots have had something play, idk how anyone could stay engaged for years to a project that hasn't even released a buggy tech demo for the diehards yet
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Oct 8, 2019 20:46
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I said come in! posted:Is completely passed me by that Brad is a goon, but he has only made 25 posts and has not posted since 2014. Yeah the account was made for him to expressly shill in that thread for Pantheon.
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Oct 8, 2019 21:55
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I once thought Garriott and McQuaid were essentially fighting for the direction of what's left of the MMO industry. It's funny to see how both have failed, but at least Garriott
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Oct 8, 2019 23:45
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Freakazoid_ posted:I once thought Garriott and McQuaid were essentially fighting for the direction of what's left of the MMO industry. he also fleeced way more nerds not to mention he was buying assets off the unity store cheap, turning them around and selling them to idiots for a stupid amount, if you are going to grift do it right Percelus fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Oct 8, 2019 |
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Oct 8, 2019 23:56
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That’s the worlds longest if you can’t handle me at my worst you don’t deserve me at my best post.
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Oct 9, 2019 03:08
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I’ve been laughing at this part for five minutesquote:With me, you get 100% honesty and transparency. And when our poo poo stinks, I'm gonna show you the poo poo stained sheets and poop streaked undies.
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Oct 9, 2019 03:54
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onesixtwo posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3601416 This is the original thread. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3601416&userid=207941 here are Brad's posts. Then the second thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3744114&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 after Brad stopped posting / most people knew it was dumpster fire. Now we're here, some four years later, still in pre-alpha. What a great thread that was.
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Oct 9, 2019 05:18
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Brad posted:Using Unity this time around, we're going to avoid all of this, which is why I've been saying we can do this in 3 years with one of those years being beta testing. Less money and less time spent in the guts of an engine FTW. Making games is harder when you can't just steal the dikumud source code.
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Oct 10, 2019 17:14
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its funny that a single guy made a complete mmo by himself on unity (project gorgon), while this and shroud of the avatar have full development studios and can't produce a finished game
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Oct 10, 2019 21:55
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Seriously what is so hard about just making eq1 with better graphics? That's basically what it's supposed to be right? Some broken part of me still legitimately wants to play it. Playing p99 green while also observing the inevitable collapse of pantheon will sort of be a good placeholder.
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Relayer posted:Seriously what is so hard about just making eq1 with better graphics? That's basically what it's supposed to be right? Some broken part of me still legitimately wants to play it. combo of brad snorting all the money up his nose and feature creep. the original eq cost less than 5 million in today's dollars to make.
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30.5 Days posted:Making games is harder when you can't just steal the dikumud source code. The diku code would have been useless for the EQ server in a bunch of ways. They envied it, but the odds they stole the code itself are vanishingly small.
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Relayer posted:Seriously what is so hard about just making eq1 with better graphics? That's basically what it's supposed to be right? Some broken part of me still legitimately wants to play it. The scope of the original project has changed drastically. It was originally proposed as the spiritual successor to EQ, with a few new features tossed in to freshen it up. Now they’re trying to do way too much and it seems like the project is on its last leg.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Supposedly Vanguard was done almost entirely in the last year before launch by a couple of programmers reassigned from the EQ teams using macros. Brad was MIA during almost all of the development time along with the cronies he populated his senior staff with. That would have been amazing since SOE did not sign the deal to publish Vanguard until about two weeks before it launched. I worked at SOE at the time, and while two dudes using marcos may have 'finished' Vanguard over the last year of its development, and those two dudes may have been former EQ devs, they most assuredly were not 'reassigned' from EQ to Vanguard. SOE and Sigil were completely different companies and for most of that year SOE saw Vanguard as a competitor with EQ and EQ2. Reality is that Vanguard was not finished, Brad et al. knew this, and basically unloaded it to SOE about two weeks before it launched, and then that day (might not have been, but that's how I remember it), Sigil turned around and laid off all of its employees. Oh, the memories. Edit It occurs to me you might be talking about post acquisition development, in which case, yes it was reassigned EQ devs; however, this was after the game actually launched. ZombieLenin fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Oct 18, 2019 |
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Percelus posted:at least the star citizen and shroud idiots have had something play, idk how anyone could stay engaged for years to a project that hasn't even released a buggy tech demo for the diehards yet They can just roll another toon on p99 and sort of squint their eyes and pretend it’s a new game.
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Oct 18, 2019 03:39
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ZombieLenin posted:That would have been amazing since SOE did not sign the deal to publish Vanguard until about two weeks before it launched. I worked at SOE at the time, and while two dudes using marcos may have 'finished' Vanguard over the last year of its development, and those two dudes may have been former EQ devs, they most assuredly were not 'reassigned' from EQ to Vanguard. I know somebody who was invited to the infamous ice cream party in the carpark that fateful day at Sigil. I still do a rofl to this day thinking about all the staff thinking 'woo free icecream' only to be told instead of icecream you are getting unemployment paperwork.
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Oct 19, 2019 07:51
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Byolante posted:I know somebody who was invited to the infamous ice cream party in the carpark that fateful day at Sigil. I still do a rofl to this day thinking about all the staff thinking 'woo free icecream' only to be told instead of icecream you are getting unemployment paperwork. Wait I want to hear more about this.
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Oct 19, 2019 08:38
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Pathos posted:Wait I want to hear more about this. An all hands email was sent around to meet in the carpark for a ice cream party. this was what happened quote:On the afternoon of May 14th, the entire company was instructed to meet in the Sigil Games parking lot. It was here that Director of Production Andy Platter informed the staff that the game was tanking, Sigil was basically out of money, Vanguard was being sold to SOE, and everyone in the studio was fired. Plenty of sources for the meeting are still out there if you go looking for it
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Oct 19, 2019 09:13
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Byolante posted:I know somebody who was invited to the infamous ice cream party in the carpark that fateful day at Sigil. I still do a rofl to this day thinking about all the staff thinking 'woo free icecream' only to be told instead of icecream you are getting unemployment paperwork. Had a buddy who I played Everquest with who worked at Sigil. Was in IRC with him throughout development and he'd talk about how things were. The thing I'll never forget about this was him coming back from the parking lot thing and just saying how they all got shitcanned and he's taking his computer chair home because it was super comfortable and at least he'd get something out of this shitshow.
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Oct 19, 2019 19:22
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Givin posted:Had a buddy who I played Everquest with who worked at Sigil. Was in IRC with him throughout development and he'd talk about how things were. The thing I'll never forget about this was him coming back from the parking lot thing and just saying how they all got shitcanned and he's taking his computer chair home because it was super comfortable and at least he'd get something out of this shitshow. I saw Jerry Macguire too.
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Flavahbeast posted:Did they not even give them ice cream seriously, this is the most important part of the story. was there ice cream or not? and what flavors
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