Calyn

The escort section is on another website I worked on in the past which I won't link here. Gambling I have yet to try.

Lyngs made me do it: http://ashesfans.com/ Ashes of Creation Dev Tracker

Yeah it is, but a lot of it was already shown working or semi-working in the gameplay video. They just kept showing more stuff. I get a Star Citizen vibe but maybe the difference is they started out with this massive scope while SC kept adding stuff to the scope over time.

Yeah it's like L2 + Archeage + BDO, at least the first 2 is what the CEO used to love and took a lot of ideas from

There was footage of an Alpha event recently and a bunch of interviews with the creative director / CEO that really turned my impression of this game around. Check this one:

@Qwazin I'm still playing sometimes and now that New World is delayed I'll probably be playing it a bit more. I just started a new character last week doing an Ironman challenge though trying to be completely self-sufficient, but when the new content comes out I'll likely be on my previous main again.

ESO had huge growth after the initial drop. Also has huge performance issues from what I'm told.

The old alpha was pretty much a polished Darkfall. The new version is not.

Pretty much. Core gameplay is fun, systems are incomplete.

That's fine, I think I can live with your disappointment What I couldn't live with is if the game turns out awesome and everybody is having a good time except Lyngs is sitting alone in his corner refusing to play with us! Realistically though I think we've all seen enough MMO launches to know how this will play out: We'll have a bunch of people playing on launch and having fun together until a month or 3 later people start dropping out. This is my first new MMO that I can play with decent internet and in the same timezone as the rest of you since 2013, so I'm really looking forward to it. This game right now could turn out one of two ways: a) Like ESO or Albion where it kind of dies off after launch and then keeps getting supported over a long period of time and turning out really great a year later with steady growth or b) like Anthem where the devs give up and shift resources elsewhere and it just kinda dies off. Just in case it's a) we'll be recruiting heavily as soon as people start dropping out (and we've already had a ton of interest from potential recruits) and keep plowing on. If it's b) then you "lose" 40 bucks but I'm fairly certain that everyone who is not already biased and bitter will get at least a month of fun out of this with the rest of the guild so what's the harm?

Beta comes out July 23rd

One day, when everybody's retired and the kids are all grown up, we shall revisit DDO!

Delayed to August 25th, beta in July https://www.newworld.com/en-us/news/articles/release-date-update