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Subject: Did Microsoft/Turbine already decide how to run the game a long time ago?

Like dozens of years of patches?

 

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Subject: Did Microsoft/Turbine already decide how to run the game a long time ago?
Um, after realizing that the topic wasn't "Did Microsoft/Turbine already decide how to ruin the game a long time ago?" I don't understand the question.

 

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Subject: Did Microsoft/Turbine already decide how to run the game a long time ago?
Has_never_died posted:

Like dozens of years of patches?



If you are refering to the content of patchs/updates etc. having been planned years and years in advance. No I do not beleive so. I think the story is still being actively writen..

 

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Subject: Did Microsoft/Turbine already decide how to run the game a long time ago?
So you're asking if they had the plan to wait until 2010 and redo the landscape textures when they released the game in 1999? Or to add new playable races starting 9-10 years after launch?


No I don't think they have a 20 year plan that they've been following this whole time.

 

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Subject: Did Microsoft/Turbine already decide how to run the game a long time ago?
No clue. I'm just amazed they are still dedicate enough to continue. It was always my favorite feature and the first thing I decried another game for not having.

 

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I really miss the auld days, and I wish I could convince some of my RL friends to roll some newbs and do some starter quests with me. As long as Turbine keeps the game running, I am still waiting for a renaissance where AC will become retro/ironically fun to play. Just a couple tiny articles in Wired, Maxim, or Vice would send people POURING in. My 2 cents.

 

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I'm certain there have been multiple plans, and multiple revised plans as the game moved from Turbine to MS back to Turbine and into the twilight world of boutique MMOs. The team working on the new SW MMO was over 400 people. The team maintaining AC is likely three or four. Which is the good investment? AC is still making money, as the initial investment is paid for. The team burn is low. That shiny new star wars game needs to come out of the box as a WoW killer, or it'll be thought of as a failure.

 

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Subject: Did Microsoft/Turbine already decide how to run the game a long time ago?
Daernwyn posted:
I really miss the auld days, and I wish I could convince some of my RL friends to roll some newbs and do some starter quests with me. As long as Turbine keeps the game running, I am still waiting for a renaissance where AC will become retro/ironically fun to play. Just a couple tiny articles in Wired, Maxim, or Vice would send people POURING in. My 2 cents.


AC is not sufficiently user friendly, specifically new player user friendly, to ever experience a renaissance

 

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Subject: Did Microsoft/Turbine already decide how to run the game a long time ago?
Zero_Washu posted:
Daernwyn posted:
I really miss the auld days, and I wish I could convince some of my RL friends to roll some newbs and do some starter quests with me. As long as Turbine keeps the game running, I am still waiting for a renaissance where AC will become retro/ironically fun to play. Just a couple tiny articles in Wired, Maxim, or Vice would send people POURING in. My 2 cents.


AC is not sufficiently user friendly, specifically new player user friendly, to ever experience a renaissance


I think you mean there aren't enough intelligent users to get the hang of it.

 

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Zero_Washu posted:
Daernwyn posted:
I really miss the auld days, and I wish I could convince some of my RL friends to roll some newbs and do some starter quests with me. As long as Turbine keeps the game running, I am still waiting for a renaissance where AC will become retro/ironically fun to play. Just a couple tiny articles in Wired, Maxim, or Vice would send people POURING in. My 2 cents.


AC is not sufficiently user friendly, specifically new player user friendly, to ever experience a renaissance


Go die.

 

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interesting

 

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Zero_Washu posted:
Daernwyn posted:
I really miss the auld days, and I wish I could convince some of my RL friends to roll some newbs and do some starter quests with me. As long as Turbine keeps the game running, I am still waiting for a renaissance where AC will become retro/ironically fun to play. Just a couple tiny articles in Wired, Maxim, or Vice would send people POURING in. My 2 cents.


AC is not sufficiently user friendly, specifically new player user friendly, to ever experience a renaissance


Eve Online is getting new people all the time and its a LOT less user friendly than AC.

 

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comeonyoureds posted:
Zero_Washu posted:
Daernwyn posted:
I really miss the auld days, and I wish I could convince some of my RL friends to roll some newbs and do some starter quests with me. As long as Turbine keeps the game running, I am still waiting for a renaissance where AC will become retro/ironically fun to play. Just a couple tiny articles in Wired, Maxim, or Vice would send people POURING in. My 2 cents.


AC is not sufficiently user friendly, specifically new player user friendly, to ever experience a renaissance


I think you mean there aren't enough intelligent users to get the hang of it.

 

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Good points

 

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lol it's so weird to see people with '11 dates playing ac...

 

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