Tabula Rasa, now with no FUN!

[LC]

Heh, Starr Long just came out and announced that TR is delayed another 2 weeks. New official launch date is 11/2. Pre order start is 10/30.

Maybe they are putting an extra coat of polish on that turd. Does anyone here actually plan to give them money?

[Nebu]

Does anyone here actually plan to give them money?

I'm still using a firehose to clean off after Vanguard.  TR will not suck me in.

[Trippy]

The game has actually regressed in the last month. It's less stable, less balanced, has character rollback issues and character breaking quest bugs (I can't get off the first planet because of one) and lots of stuff is still unfinished (some low level quests still do not have proper quest rewards).

[sam, an eggplant]

Ouch. Looks like the TR team is going to be in 24/7 crunch for the entire month of october. Crystal meth for everybody!

[Righ]

If the fun isn't in beta, it won't be ever.

QFT. Corollary - even if the fun is in beta, it will probably be patched out before launch. 

[WayAbvPar]

Heh, Starr Long just came out and announced that TR is delayed another 2 weeks. New official launch date is 11/2. Pre order start is 10/30.

Good plan...sneak it out while everyone is busy playing Hellgate: London.

[Rasix]

If the fun isn't in beta, it won't be ever.

QFT. Corollary - even if the fun is in beta, it will probably be patched out before launch. 

Developers do love to "tune" exp gain in order to make the game more "challenging". 

[WayAbvPar]

If the fun isn't in beta, it won't be ever.

QFT. Corollary - even if the fun is in beta, it will probably be patched out before launch. 

Developers do love to "tune" exp gain in order to make the game more "challenging". 

I am STILL pissed at Mythic for their giant group XP nerf that happened a a week or two after DAOC launched. Effectively killed the game for me, since my normal grouping buddies were catasstastic.

[Mrbloodworth]

I looked breafly, but didnt see it in this thread. So.

TR has been pushed back.

Many of you have heard my mantra for game development: "Stable, Fast, Fun. In that order." We need a little more time to make that happen.

To this end we are moving our Pre-Order headstart date to 10/30/07 and our commercial service start date to 11/2/07. This short but critical amount of time will give us time to address several issues including stability and balance as well as allowing our players to test the continent of Ligo (L38+) and our major changes to crafting for a few weeks rather than a few days. Our entire development staff feels this extra time is needed as does our beta community. We feel confident that this extra time will make a difference on launch day.

That said we are excited about launching the game and moving into a "live" environment where the entire future of the AFS is ahead of us. Expect more posts from Richard Garriott, Paul Sage, and other dev staff over the next few days as they discuss plans for elder content and content updates both long and short term. One of us will also be posting to the website every Friday in order to directly address your feedback, which you can submit via the Feedback Form found here on the RGTR.com website.

See you in game as we wrap up this final leg of testing and get ready for the end-of-beta blow out!

Starr Long
Producer

[schild]

It's like 5 posts above yours. Are you the new replacement for Cuppycake? The endless dev stalker?

[Mrbloodworth]

It's like 5 posts above yours. Are you the new replacement for Cuppycake? The endless dev stalker?

So it is.

And, i dunno, i just read a lot of (MMO) news sites ETC..figured i post stuff i haven't seen posted on F13, because i know we all love the tidbits.. I'm not aware of any dev stalking.

[Stephen Zepp]

It's like 5 posts above yours. Are you the new replacement for Cuppycake? The endless dev stalker?

So it is.

And, i dunno, i just read a lot of (MMO) news sites ETC..figured i post stuff i haven't seen posted on F13, because i know we all love the tidbits.. I'm not aware of any dev stalking.

Stop touching me MRB!
/duck

[Mrbloodworth]

It's like 5 posts above yours. Are you the new replacement for Cuppycake? The endless dev stalker?

So it is.

And, i dunno, i just read a lot of (MMO) news sites ETC..figured i post stuff i haven't seen posted on F13, because i know we all love the tidbits.. I'm not aware of any dev stalking.

Stop touching me MRB!
/duck

You know you like it. Can't stalk the willing. 

[Surlyboi]

You guys want a room?   

[Tisirin]

I am STILL pissed at Mythic for their giant group XP nerf that happened a a week or two after DAOC launched. Effectively killed the game for me, since my normal grouping buddies were catasstastic.

I thought I was the only one still grinding that particular axe.

[UnSub]

I am STILL pissed at Mythic for their giant group XP nerf that happened a a week or two after DAOC launched. Effectively killed the game for me, since my normal grouping buddies were catasstastic.

I thought I was the only one still grinding that particular axe.

At f13.net, you are free to grind whatever MMO axe you like, up to and beyond the end of the actual game that caused said grinding to start.

[Kitsune]

I am STILL pissed at Mythic for their giant group XP nerf that happened a a week or two after DAOC launched. Effectively killed the game for me, since my normal grouping buddies were catasstastic.

I thought I was the only one still grinding that particular axe.

Nope, I'm still grinding too.  That bit of useless cockblockery completely ruined my ability to play DAOC, for that exact reason.  Couldn't keep up with guildmates, couldn't group with them after the nerf, canceled my subscription and threw the game away.

[Merusk]

Can I jump in and grind my axe too?  Same problem as Way and Kit, same result.  It's the one thing that has me wary of getting fully behind Warhammer, as fun as it looks.

[d4rkj3di]

It's like 5 posts above yours. Are you the new replacement for Cuppycake? The endless dev stalker?

It got her a job, meh.

Oh and to add to DAoC axe grinding, the nerf to Mercenaries coupled with the xp nerf caused me to cancel and uninstall before the 30 days that came with the box were over.

[Count Nerfedalot]

Oooh, I got's a DAoC axe too!  Mine was born of the archery nerf.  Absolutely necessary for PvP, but made archers absolutely worthless in PvE, which killed the game for me.  Wantonly destroy my non-disruptive PvE playstyle for the sake of balancing PvP which I don't participate in and you lose my money.   I understand I and my fellow co-nerfees-who-cancelled made a noticeable blip in their earnings, for which I'm glad.

No, I'm not bitter.  I'm actually thankful.  That's one less bait-and-switch grind I played to the bitter endgame.

[Fordel]

Some Combination of ToA+Style Review (or lack there of) was what finally drove me off. They told all the melee class TeamLeads (another genius program  ) for nearly a year that the style review would fix everything, no need to report on style deficiencies or gaps, it will all be take care of in the style review.

Then when it was finally time for said review "No, sorry, we aren't doing that anymore."




Question: What does Tabula Rasa actually mean? Is it Latin for something, or just some stupid made up alien words?

[Rendakor]

Latin for "clean slate."

[shiznitz]

So this is the kind of game one gets when the developers get their brains wiped clean?

[schild]

Actually, it's what you get when you distill the dreams of dinosaurs.

[raydeen]

Actually, it's what you get when you distill the dreams of dinosaurs.

Hmmm....sounds like a good idea for a song....

[naum]

Some Combination of ToA+Style Review (or lack there of) was what finally drove me off. They told all the melee class TeamLeads (another genius program  ) for nearly a year that the style review would fix everything, no need to report on style deficiencies or gaps, it will all be take care of in the style review.

It was alpha/beta test for me that drove me off… …boring, unimaginitive magic system, uninspired hamster wheel-a-thon missing dungeons and too much of a leveling curve…

[Venkman]

Oh, yea, axe to grind!

Planetside launch: the huge XP nerf between beta and live. That effectively killed it for me. It seemed predicated on the DIKU thinking when in reality Planetside was about the fights not about the advancement. It was as if they thought they needed to tie advancement to more places to see in a world that was largely the same wherever you went. Sure there was weather, but nobody was there for the immersion.

The other axe, though far less so emotionally, was the over-reliance SWG:JTL had on returning to the ground game.

[BigBlack]

Each game gives me a new axe to grind.

AC1, when they added housing without thinking of the PvP implications.

DAoC, when they nerfed XP and I couldn't play with my friends anymore.

WoW, when my newbie night elf died and so I used my speedy noncorporeal ghost form to try and explore, but my ghost form couldn't quite make it to the mainland because it 'drowned'.

Gabriel Knight, that fucking voodoo code puzzle.

[UnSub]

So this is the kind of game one gets when the developers get their brains wiped clean?

I see Tabula Rasa as being what the devs reputation will be after TR launches.

[Oban]

Nah... haud diutius utor rasa.

[shiznitz]

I took Latin V 20 years ago so I don't even remember what "haud" is.

[Sky]

The Planetside exp nerf is also my grinding axe. That and the fact that it seemed like more people played it to 'get exp' than to act like a military unit and work toward useful objectives. The resetting and stuff never bothered me, just that.

[Oban]

I took Latin V 20 years ago so I don't even remember what "haud" is.

haud : no, not at all, by no means.

[Lucas]

So, in the last few days they have announced short and long-term plans for the game, as some of you may already know.

- Large, free updates will be called "Operations":
"Operation 0 - Fair Trade"

- Also, there is an announcement about the so called "Elder Content" of TR, coming to you, well...sometime in the not so distant future...or whatever:
"Elder Game"

- And how could you resist the temptation of pre-ordering just to attend an in-game Halloween Holiday?
"Tabula Rasa Halloween Event"

Booo!

Oh, and tonight it's Friday Fight Night in Alia Das, 8pm CST:
http://boards.playtr.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=116999&an=0&page=0#Post116999è

[shiznitz]

Hyping in game events while in beta is a new one for me.