This game looks more like WildStar than SWG lmao

I've been working on a Cellular Automata world sim for about a year now and it's inspiring to see someone else do it so well

well... since it's Raph.. i have high hopes... could this be really the best mmo that will be presented to us finally??? Raph.. please you are our last hope

i realize completely changing your art style and assets is a massive undertaking but this modern Blizzard art style is the exact opposite of what I am looking for in a MMORPG. As someone who grew up playing Ultima Online, EverQuest, and Asheron's Call, I would much rather have a game that looks crusty, ugly, and old if the gameplay is solid. Every game I can think of that uses this smooth, round, and bright artstyle is bad (WoW and Overwatch come to mind which is why I called it the modern Blizzard art style). You could literally slap 1999 EverQuest's jagged polygonal models and stretched textures onto this game and it would look and feel so much better. My issues are only with the graphics, the gameplay certainly looks interesting, especially if you manage to get a construction system working that isn't janky and terrible and serves a significant purpose for gameplay progression and isn't just a glorified storage building. Raph Koster is a MMORPG veteran and those of us who know who he is have confidence he can pull this off, but the art style leaves much to be desired...

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Yeahhh Ralph!

how does this look THIS BAD in 2024? super UGLY characters

I am anxious to see how this plays out. The biggest gap I can see is the idea of hundreds of worlds which to me equates to thin amounts of players spread too far out with no central social hub. Even in SWG there were only a handful of planets but even then players would still gather in what became designated watering holes typically to socialize, group and decide what you wanted to go do.

Poor man's Wildstar? 🤷‍♂️

Basically modded No Mans Sky

Being a long time SWG player, i look forward to something modern that has depth. I do like the ideas and systems and general concept...but the aestetics...no no, it looks like a kids game on a tablet, the FarmVille look is just too much. I do hope that changes by the time of release, but i doubt it. Anyway, i do hope it will succeed, it does have a few things going for it. The fact that the teams reaches out NOW to the community is a great sign that they respect players and want them involved.

Next gen is not really about looks. It's more about how good the engine is, about physics. Everybody is hyped for new graphics cards while i'm here waiting for new cpus. This looks and feels good. Can't wait for more

Doesn’t no man’s sky already do this?

Any chance it will be playable on mac?

Like the artsyle Like the setting Walking/ running animation looks too choppy Looks like it’s running at 20 fps

not feeling the artstyle, but let's hope this can bring back the SWG vibes

Im getting this game for sure

Added on wishlist this looks neato

the game is in early development and people are already judging it harshly as its about to release wich is super crazy

Super happy to have found out about this! Now I only hope that it can come out in 2-3 years and won't be canceled! :)

I also find the graphics quite inappropriate, but for me it is more important that PvP is optional like in SWG and that crafting is unique and complex

not voxels hum

With the intensive energy demands of simulation, your "living world simulation" would seem to come at expense of the actual living world (i.e., this proposal would make gaming even more culpible for climate change).

Love you, Ralph! Keep fighting the good fight and release the best MMO you can:)

Awesome! Great work to the team

Theres a lot of great ideas here. Looking forward to how this game evolves.

So it was already confirmed that these graphics are placeholders and will see a huge overhaul which is good. I hope the game will look good enough in order to exhibit a unique atmosphere and won't look generic. The worst thing that could happen is a game that looks and feels like a level editor. If there is too much freedom without constaints it will feel arbitrary rather than immersive.

This looks and sounds very promising. Hope to see it released one day.

I'm so glad Raph Koster is making another game. This guy gets why persistent worlds exist. MMO's over the last 20 years have catered to the type of player with a hero complex, and it's ruined them.

No Man's Sky mixed with Fortnite?

Only a small niche of players will be attracted by this. A niche of a niche. And then cut that number by 2/3 bcz it won’t be on PSN or XBL or any console. This game will never launch or run for 3 months and shut down. Remember the other 2/3 when you go out of business. GG

Why the game will suck : 3:00

Ah yes, I look forward to cantinas/taverns being a thing again...lol...

I LOVE IT

Sounds like an ambitious project but I'm not a fan of the styling, I want gritty not cutesy. This project by a solo dev has better look and feel kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bqiRhaZznbyRnWw.html. The world building stuff sounds great and all but how do you deal with griefers hellbent on destruction?

Its fine to look forward to the future, just don't forget to look back every once in a while and remember how you got where you are. Games like Ultima Online, SWG and Runescape are special for a reason and those reasons should not be neglected in the sandbox space. Thank you for your amazing work in the past, here's to the future.

Not being rude but the art style is just an absolute turn off, ideas are great but dam....

So glad to finally see Everquest Next being released.....

I started to hate this type of art style. But with a open mind i have started to accept it and enjoy it. Any ETA, im getting old as it is :(

I'm sorry but this is only going to be played by a niche of players who like the sandbox type of game but also an even smaller niche of players who can afford a rig to run the game itself. They have top of the line gaming computers for development, and you can see it runs like ass meaning giant optimization is going to be needed. For those of you who are going to sit around saying "well it's still being developed" to them I say this and only this it's been in development for quite some time the scope is just not within reason. All in all it has a nice tone for a game and shows where we are going in gaming but it's going to fail because funding from sales/micro transactions what have you as we aren't sure what it's going to be but it'll dry up because again it's only going to appeal to a niche of niche of players.

Pre alpha graphics are just that Hopefully it will gain some refinement to a more mature look

Art style aside, improve the animations and frame rate of the simulations and you've got yourself a winner.

Neat! Anyone getting ECO vibes from this?

You are a god Raph. ;)

I really want this to come to fruition.

I do not think that will be the final look. I like the idea that there will be open world play. I am interested and this goes forward I hope it turns into excitement to play.

Stoked!

Awesome

Gender locked characters? Lol. You mean male and female? What else is there?

This is so exciting. I'm so glad to see Stars Reach is being made. I felt like the MMO scene was really in major decline these last few years.