Seldon Crisis

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Perhaps another British sci-fi sandbox MMO to keep an eye on.

"Seldon Crisis is a video game and original story written by Riccardo Simone loosely inspired by the Foundation Series of Isaac Asimov."

seldoncrisis.com

They even have a draft KS here.

Estimated Delivery: Dec 2015 (you gotta love those KS estimated delivery date requirements )

 

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Posted 26 Aug...

"We are now one step away from Kickstarter, a few days from what we can surely be described as a key moment, a moment where for the first time the game can be effectively "bought" even if in the form of donation and therefore an important time to understand the possible success of all of our work.

What will happen next? in a word: everything. In 8 or 9 months an alpha will be presented to you, you can try it, and through your suggestions we can improve and evolve it. Then 4 months later we will move to a beta and one year for the final release version, 1.0."


I'm not so sure about the news format for their latest video though.

 

[Iskariot]

Having read the Foundation books several times I was very interested, but I am not a fan of MMO at all.
I like the concept designs in general, but was very much put off by the fact that the Mule attacker in the video was a shameless (but worse looking) copy of the iconic Klingon Bird of Prey. I just do not understand why they would do that. That made a very bad impression on me.
Also the newsreader's english in the video is awful. It came across as very amateurish.

I wonder if they even paid for the rights to use the Asimov material.

I would be very surprised if this was successful.

 

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... and the KS has launched with a month to reach £250,000.

"Seldon Crisis will offer a low monthly subscription. Should we reach a reasonable large community we will be able to cover the maintenance and development costs via micro transactions of vanity items such as skins and cosmetic models or convenience items like skill resets."

 

[mid_gen]

The writing is just horrible. I'm out.

 

[Bob_H]

Just seen this pop up on MMORPG.com. Judging by the KS blurb the guys trying to derail FD into turning ED into EVE 2.0 have just been handed EVE 2.0 on a plate. Hopefully this will cut down a lot of the forum meddling now as they all move over to this game.