Reminds me a lot of what Everquest did with that EQ Next - Landmark thing that came out as a "side" thing to tide people over til the main game and then it all got cannedBrowsing another forum and I decided to click on the pantheon thread there after about 3 months or so since the last time i bothered and oh dear, seems like they are turning their attention to some sort of ****** survival battle royal thing which ironically given the gfx overhaul they announced a month or so ago would indicate the leaks are true.
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Man, I feel sorry for people that have sunk money into this grift, its one thing to take the mickey out of people thinking they will get an 'old school mmorpg' even when there is nothing to show for a decade or so of work. But the latest bait and switch, my condolences lads.
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The other tragedy is that this keeps happening. I don't mean the creative visionary dying, I mean the projects that just seem to get turned around and completely lose their way mid development.
I can't understand why it happens so regularly, when the outcome every time is a failed project.
I truly believe that had Brad not died this project wouldnt have lost its way. The art style change, this ridiculous timed "extraction" "side" game that they've now decided to focus on instead, the various mechanics changes, all of those only happened after Brads death. Whether its because the Pantheon ship is now rudderless without him, or whether its because now the devs can make the game THEY wanted to make rather than what Brad wanted, or whether some of the key Devs left the project when Brad died and without them they've had to fundamentally return to the drawing board...I dont know, could be any or all of those things, but sadly for me, Pantheon is now a dead duck. IF it ever comes out, its not going to be the game that people signed up for, I firmly believe that they will , over time, now decide to drop all the other MMO aspects that the modern MMO player would be put off by, stuff like slow combat, slow health/mana regen, xp loss on death, corpse runs and even the shared dungeons. My belief is all of that will go out the window in an effort to widen the appeal of the game IF it releases.
All I can do now as someone who desires an modern take on an old school MMO which contains the above things, is to hope that Everquest 3 can deliver it, but thats at least 3 years away and tbh I already think that the MMO genre is on life support.