Mortal Online = darkfall + mourning?

[KallDrexx]

http://www.mortalonline.com/

Of course, it looks like they are using UE3 (from the logo) so that means the game is either heavily instanced (which kind of ruins the point of full pvp) or they modified the fuck out of the engine.

Or it will go into darkfall or mourning state and never release.

[Lantyssa]

Choose to believe in one of the Gods and watch its power grow. Fight heretics and burn their temples to rob their Gods of power. Or start a new cult: with enough believers your God might be powerful enough to enter the Pantheon.

I'm so starting the Invisible Pink Unicorn cult.

[schild]

I don't trust game websites that look like a *nuke derivative.

[Sairon]

I know the owner somewhat and a lot of my pals are interns there. The design is fairly interesting but the odds are against them, seeing as this is their first project and the team is rather small.

[DarkSign]

I don't trust game websites that look like a *nuke derivative.

I feel you on that, but there are several games (Silver Style's "The Fall" / Iron Tower's "Age of Decadence") that have similar site structures and are totally legit.

[HaemishM]

That teaser trailer is nice. I especially like how it says things like "Play in REAL FIRST PERSON VIEW" and then doesn't pay that off with any actual visuals.

Oh and Dragon Griefer at the end. Lulz.

[Venkman]

Nor does it show the dynamic world.

Nor does it show PvP.

Nor does it show Combat.

Nor does it show mortality, nor being online, nor really any of what the text interstitials said between sequences of sheer boredom.

It's like they took Peter Jacksons films, stripped out all of the combat and dialog, and quadrupled the length of time watching them walk (granted, the hardcore fans of the books would have applauded the authenticity... )

[slog]

Zero = zero + zero?

I don't think it's worth the time to talk about a small startup that lacks funding

[UnSub]

Zero = zero + zero?

I read it as "Spruce Goose + The Hindenberg".

[Venkman]

It'd actually hafta get off the ground.

Which assumes it's actually going to get off the drawing table 

[Lantyssa]

TAXI TO FIREBALL!

[Tarami]

This reminds me of Spellborn for some reason. Totally irrelevant teaser videos! I'm also predicting that it'll have Spellborn'esque development curve. "Oh, it's done, really soon! Look, we got a video! Convincing, huh?"

[Signe]

Mourning released.  Remember?  Then when they had your money, they took it back.  Ask Schildy.  He has a copy of it. 

[Taonas]

They've recently updated the website with more information, screenshots and so on.

The Developers are very active on IRC, but i get the feeling when reading what they say is going to be in the game, sounds too good to be true.

According to there corporate time scale there meant to be in beta now.

[Signe]

Which one, Taonas?  Mourning?  If so, oh dear! 

[Taonas]

Which one, Taonas?  Mourning?  If so, oh dear! 

Sorry, i meant Mortal Online.

[Ratman_tf]

It's like they took Peter Jacksons films, stripped out all of the combat and dialog, and quadrupled the length of time watching them walk (granted, the hardcore fans of the books would have applauded the authenticity... )

I didn't know Meet the Feebles was based on a book!

[NiX]

They've recently updated the website with more information, screenshots a single picture and so on.

fify

[Goreschach]

How exactly is it that these projects keep finding funding? I have to imagine that they get funding, as the people working on the things can't subsist off air. If they even exist. And I'm pretty sure they're never funded by the developers themselves. It just seems to me that after so many micro mmo's like this have either bottomed out or 'released' and flopped, people would stop giving out money to these projects.

[UnSub]

How exactly is it that these projects keep finding funding? I have to imagine that they get funding, as the people working on the things can't subsist off air. If they even exist. And I'm pretty sure they're never funded by the developers themselves. It just seems to me that after so many micro mmo's like this have either bottomed out or 'released' and flopped, people would stop giving out money to these projects.

If you look at small businesses that have external investors, a lot of them fail too. However, it is the chance of success that drives further investment.

Also, all you need is a rich sugar daddy nerd who wants to get into the games industry and you've got your line of capital.

[Goreschach]

If you look at small businesses that have external investors, a lot of them fail too. However, it is the chance of success that drives further investment.

Also, all you need is a rich sugar daddy nerd who wants to get into the games industry and you've got your line of capital.

Except the chance of success in these cases is pretty much zero? And I can only think of one rich sugar daddy nerd who wants to get into the games industry, and he already has GMG.

[UnSub]

If you look at small businesses that have external investors, a lot of them fail too. However, it is the chance of success that drives further investment.

Also, all you need is a rich sugar daddy nerd who wants to get into the games industry and you've got your line of capital.

Except the chance of success in these cases is pretty much zero? And I can only think of one rich sugar daddy nerd who wants to get into the games industry, and he already has GMG.

It's not pretty much zero, it's just low. It also depends on what you are aiming for.

Cryptic was bankrolled by Michael Lewis at first, before NCsoft came along. Angel investors can probably fund the start up of a number of studios - a number of those that failed disastrously had some smaller investors who wanted to get into MMOs. Can't remember the names of them off-hand, but there was one that saw its original designer kicked out by the guy who had a closer relationship to the investor than he did and there was another were the original team has been undermined by those who bring the money in.

[Taonas]

How exactly is it that these projects keep finding funding? I have to imagine that they get funding, as the people working on the things can't subsist off air. If they even exist. And I'm pretty sure they're never funded by the developers themselves. It just seems to me that after so many micro mmo's like this have either bottomed out or 'released' and flopped, people would stop giving out money to these projects.

Well this might come as a bit of a shock, but there is a guild with about 100 fans that are buying around a £1000 worth of shares in the company, with other members buying lower amounts.

Crazy.

[Nonentity]

How exactly is it that these projects keep finding funding? I have to imagine that they get funding, as the people working on the things can't subsist off air. If they even exist. And I'm pretty sure they're never funded by the developers themselves. It just seems to me that after so many micro mmo's like this have either bottomed out or 'released' and flopped, people would stop giving out money to these projects.

Well this might come as a bit of a shock, but there is a guild with about 100 fans that are buying around a £1000 worth of shares in the company, with other members buying lower amounts.

Crazy.

Is it Ebonlore? It's brilliant! They buy their way into beta to figure out all the exploits first hand.
 

[Goreschach]

Is it Ebonlore? It's brilliant! They buy their way into beta to figure out all the exploits first hand.
 

Hey, they can't get banned if they own the game.

[Stephen Zepp]

Is it Ebonlore? It's brilliant! They buy their way into beta to figure out all the exploits first hand.
 

Lol--haven't heard that name in a while. EL was the only guild to go to the Fear server straight out of beta in Shadowbane ;) We pushed 'em off, then proceeded to have some real fun.

protip: naming your guild leader character "Ewe" doesn't bode well if you plan on trying to control a server--sheep amongst the wolves and all that.

[Sairon]

Beta by now? Hahahaha, right.

Their engineers were a bunch of hobby moders as well as a lead with a degree from a certain high ranking school, with however zero dev experience iirc. Nothing against moders, but a bunch of hobbyists picking up UE3 and takes on an open ended AAA MMO with little to no experience as their first project should ring all warning bells out there. Btw, most of my pals who did their internship at the company weren't all that pleased with how things were run. Take it for what it's worth, but I'd be willing to bet money on their down fall. I think it might all be a money making scheme for tricking investors out of their money.

[LC]

Lol--haven't heard that name in a while. EL was the only guild to go to the Fear server straight out of beta in Shadowbane ;) We pushed 'em off, then proceeded to have some real fun.

Most of the non R30s guilds from beta tried their best to not be on an R30s server in final. Ebonlore sounds like a bunch of L-C wannabes to me.

[Zzulo]

huh

just stumbled onto this title and after having read a little about it, it certainly seems great. Of course one needs to take all the devs bullshit with a grain of salt, but this game sounds like UO in a modern form

[Sophismata]

huh

just stumbled onto this title and after having read a little about it, it certainly seems great. Of course one needs to take all the devs bullshit with a grain of salt, but this game sounds like UO in a modern form

Reading things like this makes me feel old, jaded, and cynical.

Mostly old, however.

[schild]

huh

just stumbled onto this title and after having read a little about it, it certainly seems great. Of course one needs to take all the devs bullshit with a grain of salt, but this game sounds like UO in a modern form

Stop digging through the archives. If you do keep digging, at least find a shift key that works all the time.

[Zzulo]

my shift key is shifty

 

[schild]

I wasn't fucking around, kiddo.

[Zzulo]

I just wanted to talk about an interesting MMO in an MMO forum, since there are not that many MMO's to discuss. I just searched for the thread, and I was unaware of the fact that I wasn't allowed to write in it. Do I create a new thread about it?

[schild]

Really, I just want you to use your shift key properly.

I couldn't care less if you want to look like someone with incredibly bad judgment when considering something "of interest" (or in this case "interesting"). Anyway, talking implies content, you added nothing after bumping a thread that'd been dead for a month.