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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Green Man on June 25, 2009, 09:27:21 PM

Title: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Green Man on June 25, 2009, 09:27:21 PM
Fan Faire is not open to the public yet. So here are some pics pre-show

(http://www.mmorpgfocus.com/Stories/CV/s1.jpg)
(http://www.mmorpgfocus.com/Stories/CV/s2.jpg)
(http://www.mmorpgfocus.com/Stories/CV/s3.jpg)
(http://www.mmorpgfocus.com/Stories/CV/s4.jpg)
(http://www.mmorpgfocus.com/Stories/CV/s5.jpg)

Link (http://mmorpgfocus.com/forum/showthread.php?t=843)

Will provide interviews and all other great stuff later. There might be some PS3 trolling, if I'm lucky.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Bildi on June 25, 2009, 09:29:02 PM
Sony's what?
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Vizzys on June 25, 2009, 09:39:28 PM
nope
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Bocsius on June 25, 2009, 10:12:54 PM
Well, since you asked...

No, not really.
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Post by: pilonv1 on June 25, 2009, 10:28:01 PM
lol
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on June 26, 2009, 02:21:07 PM
Go to the banquet and take a picture of the sad Matrix Online table.
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Post by: ManaByte on June 26, 2009, 03:10:32 PM
lol, so empty

lol, so not open to the public yet.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on June 27, 2009, 12:25:00 AM
http://events.station.sony.com/fanfaire/

new eq2 expansion announced
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on June 27, 2009, 12:32:31 AM
Eq1 expansion announced
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on June 27, 2009, 12:55:43 AM
Oh cool, Sony might announce some neat gam--

It's their event for their MMO stuff.

:lol :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 27, 2009, 01:01:34 AM
FreeRealms is kind of fun, but you can already play that on the PC.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 27, 2009, 02:24:13 AM
Sony still has fans?
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Post by: Mrbob on June 27, 2009, 03:18:28 AM
MMOs  :yuck
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on June 27, 2009, 05:20:29 AM
They keynote pretty much confirmed PlanetSide and Vanguard are on the shutdown list now.  Which is sad because those are SOE's best games.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 27, 2009, 05:40:04 AM
When does Free Realms hit the PS3, seeing how it's free, I might check it out.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on June 27, 2009, 05:47:46 AM
Vanguard is totally worth a re-launch. Here's an article about it (http://www.mmorpgfocus.com/forum/showthread.php?t=686), what do you think Mana?

I agree completely. The game is probably the best MMO on the market if you're sick of how casual WOW is becoming. It's like the true successor to EQ1, but with next gen improvements. The combat is the best in any MMO hands down. I'm playing a Paladin and every fight is FUN since it's more than spamming 222332322 like in WOW. I'll keep the game installed until the day they pull the plug, which looks to be soon with it being completely ignored at Fan Faire.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on June 27, 2009, 05:50:50 AM
When does Free Realms hit the PS3, seeing how it's free, I might check it out.

It might happen later this year hopefully it replaces HOME.

I don't know. The former lead designers in both EQ and EQ2 have been assigned to some new secret game. My theory? Free to play EQ1 remake using the FreeRealms engine on PS3.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on June 27, 2009, 06:02:12 AM
They won't shut down EQ1. It's still their bread and butter and prime money maker. Also the backlash from players would be something they'll never recover from.

As soon as FreeRealms was a proven success, Smed pulled the EQ and EQ2 leads and gave them a new game to work on and the rumor is it's an EQ game. With 4 million FR accounts, it makes sense for them to do a Free to Play EQ game with the EQ/EQ2 designers heading it up

Also, Bruce Ferguson (the former EQ2 designer) worked on FreeRealms for a while. The peices fit.

Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on June 27, 2009, 06:04:55 AM
By the way, has anyone played that Pirate game? I thought about checking it out but I figure it's a ghost town.

Did the trial.  Was pretty dead. Just play Pirates! instead.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on June 27, 2009, 06:25:05 AM
Because the EQ name is still strong and if you combine that with the accessability of FreeRealms you have a potential WoW killer.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on June 27, 2009, 06:41:48 AM
Is DCUO playable there? I'm curious how it's changed since I played it two years ago.
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Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on June 27, 2009, 06:08:40 PM
You àre the worst source for anything, greeb man
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Veidt on June 27, 2009, 08:23:52 PM
Green Man is the shit. Fan Faire is awesome.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on June 27, 2009, 08:57:35 PM
Green Man is about as informed about insider game secrets as Malek is to insider access to girls pants.

Anywho Vanguard was shit. I played it at launch and it was the buggiest piece of shit fucking trash ever. I quit and delted the game and broke the disc when I logged in one day to see my main guy was a totally different guy than the one I created. Terrible.


And Pirates of the Burning Sea was alright, got and played that at launch too but it was boring. If you want to try it, I have the cd key I can give you cause it's just shitting here.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Veidt on June 27, 2009, 09:00:27 PM
Oh shit.
(http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/thumb/7/71/Movie_Epps_BringIt.jpg/250px-Movie_Epps_BringIt.jpg)
MyNameIsMud "Brought the rain"
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on June 27, 2009, 09:25:14 PM
Yea he played a game 2 1/2 years ago and disregards the fact that were talking about it as it exist today, not the launch version. Typical PS3 fantard.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Bildi on June 27, 2009, 09:29:32 PM
I quit and delted the game and broke the disc when I logged in one day to see my main guy was a totally different guy than the one I created. Terrible.

:lol WTF, how does that even happen.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on June 27, 2009, 09:40:43 PM
I quit and delted the game and broke the disc when I logged in one day to see my main guy was a totally different guy than the one I created. Terrible.

:lol WTF, how does that even happen.

They redid the character models. But he's too much of a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow to notice that you can customize you characters appearance at any time right at the select screen. For free unlike wow that charges $15 each time you want to change it.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Bildi on June 27, 2009, 09:43:32 PM
FFFUUU.. $15?  Wow.

(I'm clueless on MMORPGs).
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on June 28, 2009, 05:58:56 PM
no ManaByte, that's not what happened you  fucking distinguished mentally-challenged inbred of a fuck.

What happens is when the game launched there was a bug where if you logged off in Vanguards equivalent of Stormwind, you'd come back to find your character looking radically different. I went from a young puerto rican with black hair and a zorro mustache to a white guy with white long hair.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on June 28, 2009, 11:31:16 PM
no ManaByte, that's not what happened you  fucking distinguished mentally-challenged inbred of a fuck.

What happens is when the game launched there was a bug where if you logged off in Vanguards equivalent of Stormwind, you'd come back to find your character looking radically different. I went from a young puerto rican with black hair and a zorro mustache to a white guy with white long hair.


You're still ignoring the fact that that's easily changed via a button on the select screen.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on June 29, 2009, 06:18:32 PM

MMORPGFOCUS.COM TEAM: Anything else you’d like our readers to know?

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Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: demi on June 29, 2009, 06:24:02 PM
Nobody fucking cares about Vanguard. Stop posting your fake articles on here.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 29, 2009, 07:21:37 PM
does anybody even play everquest these days? i thought wow decimated that shitpile.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 29, 2009, 08:14:09 PM
when i hopped on eq1 two years ago, it was a freakin' wasteland. there were no new players or even alts; it was just geriatric holdouts using it as a cumbersome chat session to complain that wow had rendered their lifestyle lonely and uncool.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on June 30, 2009, 09:58:50 PM
Mana you fucking pedophile it doesnt fucking matter that you can edit your fucking character as I was saying that when I relogged into the game my character was replaced with someone elses.

Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on July 01, 2009, 08:01:08 PM
EQ Next confirmed at Fan Faire:
http://www.completeheal.com/?p=1272

Quote
I also watched the world premier of the EQ documentary this morning. The room was packed, as you might imagine, and I camped on the floor in front of the screen. It was a great journey down memory lane and I found it interesting just how many people have been influenced in so many ways by the video game I’ve now played off and on for 10 years. Of particular interest was the favorable commentary by the World of Warcraft lead designers who were interviewed for segments of the show. Also, there was a bit of a teaser in there about something called “EQ Next.” I talked to a few developers later in the day and they were very tight lipped about this deal. I walked away believing that EQ Next is code for the next Everquest project. Maybe that’s not exactly an earth shattering deduction but something is underway for another Norrath based MMO.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 02, 2009, 12:33:55 AM
sure it's not named EQ Next MMO to Get Shit Canned By WoW?
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Post by: ManaByte on July 02, 2009, 05:26:50 PM
Someone at Fan Faire said Matrix was down to 1,200 subs when they canned it.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: The Fake Shemp on July 02, 2009, 05:31:00 PM
Publish the names of those 1,200 people so we can mock them.
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Post by: GilloD on July 02, 2009, 06:58:45 PM
AWESOME REPORTING. Surely, no one would have deuced that EQ Next means "Next EQ". Anyway, it's probs a graphic upgrade ++ causual WoW shit.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on July 02, 2009, 07:02:15 PM
I'm curious if they meant actual Matrix subs, or people logging in.

Because Matrix is included with their StationAccess plan, which a lot of people have. It's $30 a month for all their MMOs and most EQ/EQII players are on that plan.

If it was just StationAccess people logging in to Matrix, then it's really sad. If it was actually 1,200 people paying $15 a month for Matrix, they need to be hunted down and punched in the face.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on July 02, 2009, 07:09:29 PM
AWESOME REPORTING. Surely, no one would have deuced that EQ Next means "Next EQ". Anyway, it's probs a graphic upgrade ++ causual WoW shit.

It's more likely a Free to Play EQ running on the FreeRealms engine, but tooled to a older audience than FreeRealms is. Both the former EQ and EQII producers are working on it, and the EQII producer was in charge of FreeRealms for a while prior to beta.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: GilloD on July 02, 2009, 07:22:49 PM
I'm curious if they meant actual Matrix subs, or people logging in.

Because Matrix is included with their StationAccess plan, which a lot of people have. It's $30 a month for all their MMOs and most EQ/EQII players are on that plan.

If it was just StationAccess people logging in to Matrix, then it's really sad. If it was actually 1,200 people paying $15 a month for Matrix, they need to be hunted down and punched in the face.

I would like to reveal my AllAccessPlan. For 30$ a month I will come and fart in your face and eat all of your favorite foods out of your pantry.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on July 03, 2009, 03:14:24 AM
Ugh no.
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Post by: ManaByte on July 03, 2009, 04:28:31 PM
The Odus stuff sounds really good. The Hole will be a giant contested dungeon.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on July 03, 2009, 09:14:42 PM
FreeRealms is really good, but the new expanions are more exciting.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on July 05, 2009, 06:40:37 AM
Hard to believe it's being done by SOE Austin.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: GilloD on July 07, 2009, 11:58:03 PM
I'm curious if they meant actual Matrix subs, or people logging in.

Because Matrix is included with their StationAccess plan, which a lot of people have. It's $30 a month for all their MMOs and most EQ/EQII players are on that plan.

If it was just StationAccess people logging in to Matrix, then it's really sad. If it was actually 1,200 people paying $15 a month for Matrix, they need to be hunted down and punched in the face.

I would like to reveal my AllAccessPlan. For 30$ a month I will come and fart in your face and eat all of your favorite foods out of your pantry.
I would like to subscribe to this plan. Do you take Master Card or American Express?

Yes. both. In fact, as a special service, I'll bill both for the full amount.
Title: Re: Anyone care? Sony's Fan Faire thing is going on.
Post by: ManaByte on July 08, 2009, 12:41:50 AM
Wow Kevin O'Hara is back at SOE. He left SOE Austin (after SWG crash and burned) and joined BioWare Austin to work on KOTOR...strange that he's on The Agency now.