SOE to Publish Vanguard

[Sky]

Vanguard: The Are You Shitting Me? Edition

[Hutch]

And it certainly
doesn't look like vanguard has any answers. Assuming it even has a endgame at the moment.

Sure it does.
1) Log in
2) Solo snakes and boars until *ding* level 2
3) Get bored
4) Log out
5) Cancel beta account subscription

[Hutch]

Vanguard: The Are You Shitting Me? Edition

100 USD lolz.

The Limited Edition content. (You already know the rest):
* Three Game Keys
* Exclusive Content: (1) In-game pet (2) Paintings on houses
* Book: a hardbound full-color book titled "Art of Vanguard"
* Art: Three art prints feat. character art by Keith Parkinson

Now we know how Vanguard is going to (attempt to) make a profit. Sell the Limited Edition to all the vanbois. The extra front-loaded revenue will help make up for the probable lack of subscriber retention.

[schild]

Three. Game. Keys.

That's hilarious. Multibox in a box.

[Engels]

Hey, it may make some sense for some people. Wouldn't you save 50 bucks if you bought that for 3 people?

[DataGod]

ZOMG take teh lewt and run!

[Signe]

Vanguard: The Are You Shitting Me? Edition

Good Grief!  Damn.     It's not fair.

[Miasma]

I like how the box in that image says PC-CD too, the thing isn't even done yet and the client is over 20 Gigabytes.  Imagine trying to install a stack of 30 CDs.  I'm sure it will be DVD only and even then you're looking at a nice pile of disks.

I guess they are trying to justify the price with the three keys, it seems like a really odd thing to do.  That huge FAQ someone copied and pasted in seems out of place too (and out of date, it says Microsoft is the publisher).

I had to check the url to make sure it wasn't fake.

[Nebu]

I'm guessing that the 3 keys are pre-emptive being that only triple-boxing powergamers will be the ones actually buying it.

[DataGod]

I just went to the vanguard forum for a visit. I didnt see one Vanguard dissenter. Heavy fanboi-dom. My nom de plum shall be short-wood!

News to follow: First test: Threshhold of Tolerance on the Vanguard Forums

[WayAbvPar]

Make sure they follow you back here so we can ban some more fucktards.

[DataGod]

The first 2 question volley has been launched. Non-inflammatory questions of course, Id hate to be considered a troll :)

[WayAbvPar]

Just a heathen non-believer, I am sure 

[schild]

LOL. Was reading the Vin Diesel quote thing today and got this:

"Vin Diesel decided to make a video game once without the help of Starbreeze. Since he writes all of his scripts on the toilet, he figured he'd design his first real game on the toilet. The shit he took was epic, clogged the entire building and the three blocks surrounding it. When he was done, he climbed off his creation, looked at it, and called it Vanguard."

[Yoshimaru]

The crafting is fairly interesting... and that's the only positive thing I can say

[Fabnusen]

The first 2 question volley has been launched. Non-inflammatory questions of course, Id hate to be considered a troll :)

I looked (ok, not *that* hard) for your post, didn't see it. Could you post a link, or possibly the title for your thread? I would love to follow the.........questions.

[Azazel]

http://www.vanguardsoh.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75627

[Der Helm]

http://www.vanguardsoh.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75627

Ha! I knew it ... :-D

edit: damm, my grammar is lacking these days ... :(

[Modern Angel]

My favorite bit:

"You are assuming that there is a reason for players to make long trips often. From what I understand the developers are planning the game so you will hunt in one area for maybe a week or more, then pick up and move to a new area and stay there for a while. Travel times only become a problem for casuals if they insist on trying to jump from one area to another every time they come on line."

Because why would you want to progress and see new stuff once a week or so? It's far more fun and "challenging" to sit in one spot for three weeks killing the same stuff.

I take it all back. I'm looking more forward to this game than anything imaginable but for all the wrong reasons. It's going to make the fumblings of an SCA orgy look beautiful in comparison.

[schild]

It's not so much that we enjoy the grind but without some sort of harsh lvling or harsh death penalty the game will feel to easy. We dont want to play a game just for the sake of playing it. We want a challange so we feel that it's worth our time.

Jesus christ, I can't stop crying. Those fucking forums depress the hell out of me. Dumb motherfuckers.

[schild]

The crafting is fairly interesting... and that's the only positive thing I can say

Heh, did you just copy and paste that from a 4 year old thread about Horizons?

[Der Helm]

Jesus Christ, I can't stop crying. Those fucking forums depress the hell out of me. Dumb motherfuckers.

I feel your pain ...

We don't want to play a game just for the sake of playing it.

It would be funny, if it was not so sad.

[Soln]

this is like Bear baiting.  Tears come to my eyes.

Grind and travel for the same reason : each bit of the game must mean something in term of personnal efforts and involvement.

"we must suffer for our fun.  You must suffer too if you wish to be one of us.  If you wish to succeed..."  Useless twits. 

[Hutch]

I don't think Vanguard is expecting to please many people who really like WoW.

That may be the most profound thing we'll see in that thread 

[Sky]

I guess marketing to the sadomasochistic obsessive/compulsive crowd might be a good idea after all. You need less people, but you can put their balls in a vice and they'll thank you for it.

Without meaningful travel many of us feel that the world of telon would lack any sense of immersion/ challenge.

Meaningful travel? What is the meaning? In UO, you could use runes and there was a lot of immersion and challenge in that game. Or if you needed more 'meaning', you could just hump it overland without gating/recalling.

We want a challange so we feel that it's worth our time.

It's a game. If it's fun, it's worth your time.

You want a lvl? it will be painful, long and you'll be proud of getting it.

Poor bastard.

As for grinding, what makes you think VG is full of grinding. IMO there won't be enough.

Whip me, beat me, call me Sally!

When you sign on each evening or whenever its a serious decison picking where to go level.

SEERIOUS! And not 'go have fun', rather 'go level'. Yikes.

WoW's world is not large. Sorry but it has one of the smallest virtual worlds I've ever played in. And travel meaningful? In WoW? Did you even play WoW? Or are you one of those people you talk about that were introduced to MMORPGs by way of WoW and thus have nothing to compare WoW's world and travel to?

Lolnoob I'm dismissing your entire post!

Can we go one day without some 15-year old WoW troll smelling up the forum?

Hey I'll jump on that bandwagon! Goddamned kids!

PREVIOUS GAMES
10SIX - DOAC - SWG - Shadowbane - EQ2 - WoW -
and EQ-
70 Necromancer 70 shaman 70 Rogue
70 Mage x 2 70 Warrior 70 Enchanter
70 cleric 70 Ranger 70 Wizard x 5

Hi! I'm a loser.

1.) Long travel IS fun, or should be.

I love staring at avatar ass.

I think people that were introduced to MMORPG's via WoW will be 1 of 2 things:

Is this the new stfunoob? If you disagree that grind=good, you=wowtard? Does Bush Jr play Vanguard?

MMOGs Played:
Just World of Warcraft

Not surprising :/

I hope you're not expecting Vanguard to have easy-mode travel.

Yeah, bitch.

The last I heard, there is no universal chat channel. So, you won't be getting a tell from someone half way around the world inviting you to a group. You will be grouping with the same people today you fought with yesterday, in the same general area that you are already in.

Because you will be playing every day, with whoever is there. And fucking like it!

Dude, over an hour to get to Desolace from Menethil!?!?!?! ok adding say 5 minutes to catch the boat, It'd take me about 35 minutes tops (30 from Auberdine), and I did it at lvl 32, on Deathwing a Horde heavy server. My character I'm refering to is a Night Elf Hunter, so if I did it without Aspect of the Cheetah we'll say 41 minutes

I am in complete disbelief that it took you 60 minutes to do what I can do in 41. You are not hardcore enough!

OMG whats with your brain and why are you an idiot?
Have you played Vanguard? Let me answer for you NO.
Travel? ugh usually takes a while to run somewhere, try gettung off ur fast*** and running 1/2 a mile , not sow fast is it?

Best response imo.

just means you need to plan on your adventure and not just log on and zone to where you can find one. I really look forward to it

I'm buying a monthly planner just for Vanguard!

get in and do a little xp'n

you just want to xp for a while

you are in a zone completely on the other side of the world to XP with someone

I think I know why grinds exist. To some, it is the game. 

Funny read, thanks.

[DataGod]

zomg what have a wrought!

[Sky]

I was bored :)

[Engels]

I'm buying a monthly planner just for Vanguard!

Gotta remember the bad old days before EQ even had in-game maps. I used to have a whole 3 ring binder notebook stuffed with recepies, maps, ore pharming locations, etc. That is what these guys want back!

[Signe]

Jump around.  That's what I do when I'm bored!  I'm actually IN this beta test, btw. 

Time to jump!

[DataGod]

First Test: measuring the Tolerance on the Vanguard Forums:

Quote Results: "I Sense much anger in this one"- Yoda

Movie Corellation: "The Ear Scene" in Resevoir Dogs

Music Corellation: "I want to be Adored" -Stone Roses

Grade: Solid C- (not a bad grade for a gamer forum),

[HaemishM]

I just went to the vanguard forum for a visit. I didnt see one Vanguard dissenter. Heavy fanboi-dom. My nom de plum shall be short-wood!

That's because they've all been summarily executed as heretics by the high priests of the Cult of Brad.

[Merusk]

I'm buying a monthly planner just for Vanguard!

Gotta remember the bad old days before EQ even had in-game maps. I used to have a whole 3 ring binder notebook stuffed with recepies, maps, ore pharming locations, etc. That is what these guys want back!

I've never seen a more accurate summary of the VS fan's wishes... or had such a painful memory of my own EQ addiction indirectly thrust at me.

Jeezil pete I can't even imagine going back to that sort of shit.. or visualize the life of anyone who was old enough to be doing it in EQ, and wants to do it now, some 6-7 years later.

[WayAbvPar]

It's not so much that we enjoy the grind but without some sort of harsh lvling or harsh death penalty the game will feel to easy. We dont want to play a game just for the sake of playing it. We want a challange so we feel that it's worth our time.

Jesus christ, I can't stop crying. Those fucking forums depress the hell out of me. Dumb motherfuckers.

Ha I was going to post that quote too. Just classic that it is the first response to the thread. Sky's SirBrucing post makes me SO glad that I am not even giving this one a glance; the ubercatasses would get on my very last nerve about 4 minutes into my first level.

[WindupAtheist]

*ties a bandanna around his head Rambo-style and grabs a Tubgirl URL*

I'm going in!  Don't click on any "omg leaked screenshot" threads you see today!

[Sky]

I could see the viewpoint and allure for these Vanguard fanbois. If I didn't have a girlfriend, a family, hobbies, a social life or really anything connecting me to that silly liberal-biased 'reality'.