Shards; the new NWN?

[Wild Card]

I think its the NWN community best hope at the moment. $50 to get acess to the beta though I think the early modder program needs a bit more. Would be good if one of EFU's skilled builders decided to blaze the trail *hint hint*

[putrid_plum]

So it's a revamped Ultima Online.  I should had guessed by the name.

[Paha]

I would give up ideas of nwn community, as such freedom as they explain and what nwn folk would hope to, isn't about to happen. What we speak of is something that is held on servers not on any shard owners command. It is still mmo, which does not come together well with something like nwn has, with free content and server control, scripts and function access to the actual engine - I would not really give any expectations for such to happen as it simply isn't viable business in these days. This game also is not such, and no, it doesn't compare.

[Wild Card]

I disagree; with what I am reading it has a high degree of customization and even says you will be able to use their scripting engine not to mention invent whole custom rulesets. Furthermore with the kickstarter depending on what level you opt you may have some very real say when it comes to how this game develops. I would at least recommend donating enough so you get acess to the backer forums which in turn will give you some input.

[Halfbrood]

NWN community still exists...

[PanamaLane]

But will Shards have kinky kingdom? Ugh...it probably will.

[Wild Card]

http://www.twitch.tv/shardsonline/c/4256536
First live stream of the pre alpha; long loading times sadly but hopefully someone will put it on youtube sooner or later.

[Paha]

If you know anything about game development, they already got business plan and a huge project plan put together. That is what they are presenting to kickstarter backers as you see.

They will not be remaking it. Not saying there's anything wrong with the game, but I would not put false hope on anything that would be like old style persistent PW and nwn style control. It simply is not possible with the system they are showing.

[Wild Card]

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/1082/view/news/read/31188/Shards-Playable-Build-to-be-Released-to-Backers-Soon.html
Definitely an opportunity to take advantage of if you want an early peek for sure

[Gloinar]

This game looks like Runescape. Yes, I went there.

[Zango_Unchained]

Honestly, this looks terrible. In my opinion.

[Talir]

Wild Card, your last eleven posts can be found in this thread promoting this game. Have you been paid to do it?

You are not playing here on EFU and you are not here trying to get a few friends to check out something new and cool -- you are aggressively trying to smack an unfinished game at everyone's attention. Knock off the propaganda.

[The Apprentice]

how much are they paying you/where do i send my resume

[Wild Card]

My apologies to the EFU community for overstepping my bounds on this issue.

[MexicanGunslinger]

i remember being so afraid of nwn 2 coming out and you know the transition etc so scared and i had hoped oh hope so bad that it would be crap... and it was...and we stayed on nwn hurray