So do you all remember the release of WoW?
I do!
It was insane, it was hyped, it was... the next STEP UP in MMORPG gaming!
I'm an european, and i joined the US beta, just to get glimpse of the game, for me the experience was mind-blowing!
So... do you all remember now what you could actually do at the release of WoW?
I do!
-The year was late 2004, and after 3 years of development, it was releases.
-You could accept quests, and return them ! And you get a reward for doing so.
-You could fish, all the damn day, it was amazing!
-One could kill another player, it was called even back then "PVP", and if you killed them you'd get NOTHING!
ahahahah (honor system introduced 5 months after release).
-You could group with up to 5 people, it was simply bliss.
-You could gather stuff and make stuff with it, you would NEVER need, or use, except a bag or quiver
-players could level there toons up to level 60!
-And after you hit lvl 60 you could join raids with up to 40 people, and wipe for WEEKS on end with a smile on your face, and considered yourself lucky you could do that.
-You could wait for hours on end for players to get behind there pc again because they "had to eat". Oh man... nostalgia.
-The spacebar on your keyboard was used for jumping!
-You could gaze at stuff in full real time 3D, and in some cases interact with it.
-9 classes!
-16 dungeons you would outgrow so damn fast and never visit again.
-1 raid, and 1 boss raid you spent more time in then all dungeons you did together.
"uh guy's i need to eat, my mom is calling me".
And that's it, nothing more, nothing less, a multi-million/billion? dollar company, and thats what they had to show for.
-BAH, ashamed they should be, simply utterly horrible... yet...
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Now i'm here gazing the forums, hyped for this release.
Gazing the interwebs, coming across some great story's on reddit, about players experiences.
And off course playing the game.
But most of the time i hear, JUST 3 WEEKS(!) most probably the same people that had that same experience as me, the release of wow,
complaining about what you cannot do, because why?
What exactly does one expect from a crowd-funded game supported by the player, made FOR the player? With JUST 2 years of development time
AT release?
Simply too much... simply too much.
I've NEVER seen a team/game like this been updated at this pace.
I've never seen a game release so smoothly like this game.
I've NEVER EVER seen smooth gameplay like this at release of any game everneverever, and thats almost 20 years of gaming talking here.
It boggles my mind, and probably the team behind this game, of what some people actually expect at release of this game.
Just look at the
timeline of this game, have some faith people.
Now, do you have any idea the size of that team back then? The budget ?
(around 40 million back then).
Do you know what 40 million buy's you now, and back in 2004, well thats pre-2004 since 2004 was the release date of wow.
And that's 40 million just for development, not after release, i do not know for you guy's but inflation lately here is going through the roof.
Frontier did all this with around £3(development)... for those complaining about not having enough content in the game... you should be ashamed, truly ashamed.
The technical feat they have accomplished here will carry on for years to come, lay the foundation for many games to come, just think of that for once.
Content will come, it always does, its just not all there at release, it's always not all there at release.
And when it is, it's bugged, not balanced, overpowered, nerfed, changed, and some other things that most of the time just the community off.
Or... yeah you guessed it, its boring, already done, nothing we all have not seen before, "a grind".
This... this right here, is something new, embrace it, nurture it, it will grow, just give it time.
And with time i mean more time then the devs of WoW had, allot more.
You cannot simply expect frontier to do the same with this budget, if you wanted the same pace/flair as a triple A game
you should of gave them more money, its as simple as that.
This is a simple and neutral fact.
Now i'm not a die hard fan of this game, i'm not the person who cannot accept criticism about the game he plays.
I'm a multigamer who has seen more games the i can remember, wasted years behind my desktop screen, so many years... steam account of over 400 games.
But i'm playing Elite now, i might be playing something entirely different next year, thats just how it goes with me.
But i cannot be one of the few here who sees the potential of this game, this simply cannot be.
I have a truly sad feeling inside of me, of people pounding these developers when things do not go as expected for them, and yet cheering like 10 year olds every time a new patch comes out.
Thats it, i got it off of my chest, feels good, and felt like the right place to do it.
Probably a lot more i wanted to say, but i forgot while i was typing, and i do not want to make this a 3-day's writing post.
Kind regards, David.
