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Hello Sailor
May 3, 2006

we're all mad here

Drinkfist posted:

Either way I like the art design so far for the characters.

Counterpoint: they've included furries.

http://imgur.com/36Rxalw

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Hello Sailor
May 3, 2006

we're all mad here

Teerack posted:

I'm REALLY hoping these are the 4th Exile race.


They're standard enemies in the esper/explorer gameplay video a few posts up. In (pre-Cataclysm) WoW, they'd be leper gnomes.

Yaos posted:

I think paths are something all characters can do.

Unless things have changed since the already-mentioned video, path is selected at chargen.

e: To add to that, paths just appear to be alternate sets of chained quests. Presumably, they did this so you can level up 4 characters per faction without too much repetition.

Hello Sailor fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Feb 19, 2013

Hello Sailor
May 3, 2006

we're all mad here

Teerack posted:

In the commentary of that video he descried them as "An indigenous race of goblin shaman like people." I don't think it be that out there to think there could be a race of people native of nexus on each faction,

They don't match the glimpses we've had of the factions' fourth races at all. The Exile fourth race is very clearly a Necron knockoff of some sort, similar to the Arisen in Allods; it may be that they're the animated remains of the race that once inhabited the planet and left behind all those artifacts.

Hello Sailor
May 3, 2006

we're all mad here

BexGu posted:

I think we are starting to see a world where subscription based MMO's are going to be a thing of the past. At a certain point companies have to learn that the WoW model only really works for WoW. (Eve online kinda gets around this by allowing in-game currency to buy subscription cards). Besides WoW and Eve are there any big MMO's that still do subscriptions?

My speculation is that they suffer from wishful thinking. Every (US/European) MMO designer goes in hoping for the next WoW, so they can rake in tons of cash. When it turns out not to be the next WoW, they drop the subscription model after a while.

They probably also pitch it as subscription-based when they go looking for funding, holding out "the next WoW" as the lure for their investors.

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