Ashes of Creation MMORPG

[Riverhound777]

I haven't seen any thread on this, thought I would start one. Anyone else following the development of this?

I've been watching a lot of of in-game footage as well as the recent Q&A sessions the've been hosting. It sounds very promising. I'm a little worried about how much they are trying to do, but they seems to know what they are doing and I like the way they are approaching everything.

Some Key features i'm really looking forward to:
- Nodes: small areas that grow and develop with the playerbase. Start with a campsite, end with a city that players influence and mold.
- Seasons: I believe they plan to do real time seasons as well as day and night.
- Economy and Crafting: Sounds like they are doing this right, no P2W, items created by player-base, sold to each other much like Eve.
- Subscription, not F2P.
- Legendary items: These will actually be rare, in one Q&A they mentioned truly unique items, that may take years to find, or may only last a certain time before going back for someone else to find.

Many other things I can't think of, but going to keep an eye on this. Here is another video that shows some gameplay. Game looks pretty far along already, before they started the Kickstarter.

 

[Worthington]

I've been watching the tri-weekly live streams. The studio head (Steven) definitely has a vision of what he wants to do. I don't know if they'll accomplish it but he definitely knows what mechanics he wants. They've got some pretty cool ideas.

I backed. I love MMOs and there just haven't been any of worth lately.

 

[KMFJD]

Aren't there a number of guys that used to work on EQ:Next on this project? They are saying the right things and i like the direction, wake me up when it's playable though

 

[Worthington]

Some of them yeah. Some from other MMOs, some from FPS games (i think one of guys worked on the original Duke).

 

[WhiteNoise]

looks cool.

 

[KMFJD]

http://www.pcgamer.com/ashes-of-creation-kickstarter/

I don't have a good feeling about this one...

 

[Riverhound777]

http://www.pcgamer.com/ashes-of-creation-kickstarter/

I don't have a good feeling about this one...

Oh red flags for sure. I haven't personally pledged this, but really hope it works out. I have been watching all the twitch interviews and they really do sound like they have everything planned out. Now can they actually do it is the question. I am worried that once they hire all the needed programmers and start on actual code, they are in for a rude awakening and lots of "uhh yeah this is harder than we thought."

I believe they are honest in their desire to create the game, I just think they are a bit overconfident in their ability to pull it off. We'll see in a year or so.

 

[Riverhound777]

Well it looks like they met all their stretch goals. Up to 19.5k backers and $3.27mil. I still didn't back, but will keep an eye on it. I do enjoy their twitch live streams. Hoping they pull it off!

 

[Worthington]

I like that as they approached their 3 mil stretch they didn't append more goals to the KS. Stephen always said that those goals were what they they thought they could get done and not have their time-frame slip. I was wondering if he was going to hold to that as they neared the final stretch goal.