Vanguard Beta has been plagued by a number of NDA breaches, most of them distinctly negative. Some of the juicier details that have leaked in the past are the low beta attendance numbers (100-200 players at peak times, out of several thousand testers) and word of a huge 130+ questions survey that Sigil sent out [...]
15 Comments »Rabid hatred of SOE has always been part of the Vanguard fan community identity. Apparently, Brad McQuaid is seen by some as an impeccable knight in shining armor whose strong sense of integrity prompted him to leave that den of nefarious money grubbing that is SOE and set out to build a better company that [...]
Tags: MMORPG, Sigil, SOE, Vanguard
4 Comments »Ok, that was about the last thing I expected. SOE will publish Vanguard, Microsoft is out of the picture. How the hell did that happen? Smed is probably cackling like a maniacal devil right now. I know I would if I were him. I find this surprising because from all the PR bullshit one would [...]
Tags: MMORPG, Sigil, SOE, Vanguard
0 Comments »Apparently, there have been a number of minor Vanguard beta leaks over the past couple of weeks, all of them devastatingly negative. The gist is that Vanguard, in its current beta stage, is not fun, or, as one NDA breaker put it, “a pile of steaming shit”. Normally, I would simply ignore such chatter, considering that Vanguard is still beta and [...]
1 Comment »I’ve been skimming through the games list over at mmorpg.com and was rather astonished by the sheer number of MMORPGs currently in developement. What was even more astonishing was the fact that I’ve never heard of most of them. I recognized a few names, mostly of games that were announced many years ago and are [...]
Tags: AoC, MMORPG, Vanguard, WAR
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