damn your mom let you skip school for WOW launch? Sick Great video. Love the transition from the intro into the main point of the video

These are great Sir! Keep up the good work! Very enjoyable to watch!

Great video, subscribed.

Waiting on Ashes of Creation, Pax Dei, Chrono Odyssey, Perfect New World, and Throne and Liberty...

i was an idiot who didnt jump in when i had a chance between 2012 and 2014 since thats when i got my first proper gaming pc and i can say as a 22 year old right now, i am not just stoked for ashes but determined to make it my chance to play what i stupidly didnt oh so long ago now.... honestly i also will say that it may just be a feeling but i feel like its not that people dont care for being social in games anymore but that no games reward it and reward the opposite which has made most non hardcore players leave games all together and that ashes might be the time when they FINALLY come back and we see not just a resurgence but a renascence where people finally flip the fucking bird to big corpos who are trying to kill off the creative integrity of games so they can make more more for a cheaper price.....

I feel of all the MMO's coming this one has the highest chance for long term player gain

I loved New World, on launch. Turned on pvp and was trying to do some faction quests, or general quests. The adrenaline of seeing a higher level player, on enemy faction and diving into the bushes and praying he didn't see me was great! Or going into a bushes and trying to snipe a player from afar with my musket. Sure it wore off after awhile and the game felt like it had no content beyond that, which is when i quit. I miss the old days of Archeage and when people would camp choke points for trade runs, or random pvp fights with pirates in seas. Thats why i'm looking forward to Ashes of creation, i hope they will bring some of what i liked from those games, in a healthy and playable package

Almost every mmo before WoW gained player bases over time it wasnt until they shift in design for MMO which went from building a world for players to exsist in to gamificating the genre where the game shifted to design for the player instead before anything else. WoW was also doing this over time making thing convient for the players and as they added more and more the player base dropped. The shift from building world to building games that were convenient to players did exactly what you would expect to the genre and made it like every other game popular at launch and drops off. older games were different they made a world players got invested in and by doing so retained player base while building more.

i've been playing MMOs casually for like 8 or 9 years ago.and know i won't be part of those who are lucky to play the game on its release date because of life responsibilities. but when i do i really want to part of your crew. keep up the good work bro

Personally, I think the MMO community has become a bit too jaded due to the current MMO offerings. The last I played an MMO was WoW Warlords of Draenor. I lost interest back then, sort of touched a few others but never actually got into them. Then, one day out of the blue I see this video about ho hum... another MMO... oh joy. In this video (I think it was the AoC Kickstarter, even), Steven mentions that he's played MMO's and got upset with how the genre was evolving so decided to make his own. THAT got my interest and as I investigated more and more, I eventually got hooked and cooked on the copium. Saying that, I believe that there are a whole lot of people keeping an eye on AoC. Everything from their dev updates to all the various content creators' material. People who want a good MMO to play, who would've made their own MMO if they could afford it. Other people who, like myself, can understand the "if you want it done right, do it yourself" concept and will support someone who's doing just that with regards to one of our favorite pastimes. I think most of these people will be there on launch day and some will be checking "the feeds" to see how the launch went before making the final decision to commit. To put it down to number; I won't be surprised if launch day sees 6M subscriptions and then it just climbs. The growth might taper off, but I don't think there will be a decline. Yes, the copium is flowing strong, thank you very much.

One core premise that Ashes breaks, is that every player will have a similar experience. The node system alone kills that idea, allowing new paths through old tropes. I do wish they had fixed gathering though. Oh boy, let's bang on these rocks again. The excitement is overwhelming.

What about holding back on opening new servers too fast. It will mean log in delays for sure but should reduce the problem of a server population drops that force mergers. Slowly increase the number of servers. Lock servers to new players say at 110% capacity to keep wait time minimal. As a new server is opened, whole guilds may move that could now open up formerly locked servers to new players while planting organized guilds with some experience on new servers. Finding yourself on an empty server for a game designed for player interaction is a sad experience having gone through this myself in Everquest many years ago. Bustling cities are ghost towns and the game becomes lonely.

what the devs and people in charge say sounds like they rly have their head together and are aware of the downfall of other mmos. what worries me is that everything looks polished but it lacks its "its that game" look. wow, lol, fortnite, albion, all these games have their own distinct look that is cartoonish but recogniziable and is a big part of setting themselfs apart from all the other games. for me ashes lacks this vibe and that worries me. its not like ashes completly lacks it as it is the first game having this polished season changing system and everything seems to be a cut above what we are used to: dustdevils, wind, trees falling etc. i pray this is enough to crystalize themselfs out and have its own vibe. i genuinly think good systems and combat will not be able to carry a game if the vibe is missing. maby its could squeeze by on having some amazing soundtrack, everybody can think to some wow ambient music that was completly hitting the ball out of the park with the vibe it created. i have high hopes for ashes and i can only hope it works out

I wish they could do server merges by an expansion event which somehow shrinks the continents and go from 2 continents to 4. So everyone retains the same basic balance.

It's good that you stated how detrimental server mergers will be for AoC.

Love your insights. Got my subscription! Haven't been this hyped for a game since Star Wars Galaxies ended

Great video. Got yourself a sub!

I personally believe that A.I. players are going to start showing up and you eventually won't be able to tell the difference between a real player and an A.I. player

I'm looking at buying a Alpha key but I'm from the UK. Do you reckon it will effect the game play as I'm guessing servers will be US based?

It's either gonna be great day 1 or it's gonna die in a month. And intrepid know this. Doesn't matter how many times they call it a true alpha.

tbh new world had a lack of content due to shift in core game design like 5 months before launch haha

we need more necromancer information

I think this game will fare better because the people will it to do so. As in, we know that mmos fail these days, and we know why, so we as the players will try to avoid making this one fail. I dunno maybe I still have too much faith in humanity.

Your mum's my hero!

game content viewers,comments,hype are super low aganist "throne and liberty" so i think six months then player base 1K ~ 500 or less after in a years 200 or less , 100% subscription model gonna be failed.

$30 an hour in early 2000's holy crapy lmao

Ole Dubya. 'Merica 😂

zero :D

Sorry, you lost me when you started talking about WoW. Switched off at that point.