From the get go, Ember was driven by the players. The call for the game came from the rants on the Firefall website and there was much politics invoived.
Initially I was sceptical, but I put some cash down "in case" after all, Mark had done it before no matter what I was reading, so I thought "a few quid for the possibility of a Firefall once the servers have shut down.
Skip forward a year and I am amazed at what has been accomplished on sod all cash. I don't know how the people working on this support their champagne lifestyles but i assume most of them are doing it for love, have real jobs, or Mark has incriminating photos of em.
I've been wasting my life away on online games for almost 30 years, from text muds to the first of the "real MMORPGS" Asheron's Call, Ultima Online, Everquest etc to the "new clones" like WoW and DaoC all the way to the latest.
A lot of these games I was in the various betas, who can forget trying to get fake Korean social security numbers in order to play the Korean beta of WoW?
Many of these games I have felt like i was "part" of something, guild wars 2 and the new DaoC stand out, with players looking like they were involved. But until Ember, nothing (aside from Asheron's Call and their mentor program) seems to really involve the players.
There is something about the process being used here and the huge amount of information being sent our way that seems to shout "this game is being made for and by you"! rather than, "here's a game, lets try and sell it to you"
Hmm all this wall of text and I was just thinking of the founders wall in-game.
Not sure what the point was, but I really cant be bothered to scroll to the start.
Have a great day
Initially I was sceptical, but I put some cash down "in case" after all, Mark had done it before no matter what I was reading, so I thought "a few quid for the possibility of a Firefall once the servers have shut down.
Skip forward a year and I am amazed at what has been accomplished on sod all cash. I don't know how the people working on this support their champagne lifestyles but i assume most of them are doing it for love, have real jobs, or Mark has incriminating photos of em.
I've been wasting my life away on online games for almost 30 years, from text muds to the first of the "real MMORPGS" Asheron's Call, Ultima Online, Everquest etc to the "new clones" like WoW and DaoC all the way to the latest.
A lot of these games I was in the various betas, who can forget trying to get fake Korean social security numbers in order to play the Korean beta of WoW?
Many of these games I have felt like i was "part" of something, guild wars 2 and the new DaoC stand out, with players looking like they were involved. But until Ember, nothing (aside from Asheron's Call and their mentor program) seems to really involve the players.
There is something about the process being used here and the huge amount of information being sent our way that seems to shout "this game is being made for and by you"! rather than, "here's a game, lets try and sell it to you"
Hmm all this wall of text and I was just thinking of the founders wall in-game.
Not sure what the point was, but I really cant be bothered to scroll to the start.
Have a great day
