E3 2014 News Articles

If all you have is a baseball bat, lots of things will start looking like a ball. Or a roadside mailbox, depending on your upbringing.

 

I asume they are of course understanding the community not to release a unfinished game but on the other side the possibiliy of alot of new money coming in through a for example Steam Beta or even still Alpha release is very enticing.
This extra Money could help push the Quality, get new Team Members , new Goals.

So it is like saying: We understand you, but we really want to get the Hands on fresh Money, not bleeding the existing backers more. And that means we go beta this year.

As a huge fan i am just very scared it may shoot the wrong direction.


This is all my personal Impression or guessing.

Do not Quote assumption i make about the Developers for real. My personal assumption.

 

Thanks @smack for keeping this going! Any chance you could edit your first post to include all the links you have posted throughout the thread?

 

Done!

 

A couple new interviews were published:

While not from the E3 floor, I'll include it here nonetheless:
http://www.ihatemmorpgs.com/2014/06/q-with-richard-garriott-of-sota.html

PC Games (German) did an interview from the E3 show floor with Richard & Starr:
http://www.pcgames.de/Shroud-of-the...-Garriott-stand-uns-Rede-und-Antwort-1125846/

They're again asked when the game will be done but this time Starr answers. You're going to have to watch the video to hear his response

 

So I was watching the PC Games (German) interview and noticed at around 6:45 into the video that the buildings, the environment, the avatar, and what looks like a wolf, was really, really small in size. it was much smaller than we've seen in other releases. So is it an anomaly that the camera was zoomed that far out. Or could it be a glimpse of the new overworld map?

 

I still dont get how Sota is a selective MP from what weve seen i have not seen one feature that indicates this besides the friend and block list which is clearly not an innovation.

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That is the old footage from the Rooster Teeth Demo IIRC.



Right there at the start.

That is what the original overland map looked like, and why a lot of people were put off from the paper map "upgrade" we got in R5-ish

 

They might have just the basic framework in place on the server side, but it doesn't look like it's an area of focus for the next couple releases. But it's possible they're doing all that tracking on the server side but simply haven't talked publicly about it lately, and certainly have not published that logic or asked us to do any testing of it. We already know they're not exposing any client side UI to control that logic...yet, anyways.

But to test it, you can do it with a set of friends and strangers whom you've never interacted with in-game. You'd have to coordinate who enters what scene and when. However, they'd need to lower the player cap to like 5 players for such a small controlled test. If the scene cap is 64 currently, you'd need a rather large test group and that will require quite a bit of coordination to test who's getting sorted into which instance of that scene.

 

Not gonna happen--at least, we'd better hope not. 2014 is half done and we don't know anything about combat even.

 

A couple more post-E3 articles for today and yet more wins for Shroud of the Avatar!!!!

Ten Ton Hammer awarded Shroud of the Avatar their "Best New Concept" of E3 2014!
http://www.tentonhammer.com/feature/other/ten-ton-hammers-best-e3-2014-awards

Gaming Trends also awarded Shroud of the Avatar their "Best MMO" award!
http://gamingtrend.com/2014/06/22/best-e3-2014-winners-nominees/

Congrats to the team and keep up the great work!

 

Gameinformer just published a nearly 1-hour video of Richard talking with Felicia Day and Greg Kasavin!

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/featu...felicia-day-and-greg-kasavin-talk-ultima.aspx

 

It was the original map. I gotta say, the wolfs were quite large, not small. They are almost as long as the buildings they are running past..

 

I just wanted to say THANKS for these article lists. I've had a major physical life change (left Vegas, moved back to our home in Indiana - Hi Lori! Let's do lunch!). I was offline for two weeks and have had zero game or game related activity time for two months. These article lists (and the weekly updates) have help me catch up. I tried to play R6 and my computer gave up at the login screen. Gonna try my laptop this week for R7. If that doesn't work, maybe I'll do what Kirthag suggested and do a Kickstarter campaign for a new computer!

Regardless wanted to thank you guys for these lists and looking forward to being more active soon. Maybe. Hopefully...

 

Just finished watching the latest interview and Richard touched upon a few things that I think are interesting:

Not direct quotes, my interpretation (what I thought I heard after watching it once so far):
- Both UO and Tabula Rasa were made by about 300 people each (at its peak)
- He said SotA in scope is larger than UO
- But he likes the current team size of about 30 people and doesn't see any further benefit to adding more. This is actually something I've heard or read from Starr as well. It seems the overhead of a much larger team might even be detrimental to the dev model they're using to create SotA.
- Feels he can do this because of not having to write a new engine (i.e. Unity), purchases assets from Unity Store, and crowdsourcing a lot of the in-game assets

Thoughts?

 

Just a note that UO team size was about 20ish for most of development until last 6 months when it temporarily ballooned to closer to 50-60.

TR was only 200 if you counted all the external contractors. Actual internal team size was never more than 100 and for most of project was more like 50ish.

 

Awesome, thanks for the clarification Starr. Do you expect a similar temporary expansion closer towards release or will you try to maintain a steady state and just move dates as necessary?

 

It all depends on funding but goal would be to try to limit team size near our current size (not counting support roles like QA, CS, etc.)

 

This one is great. An interview run by Codex Dragon and Kane, the Crimson Dragon. Makes me feel like I was back on Prodigy.

 

Yeah, reviving an old thread but for completeness sake...somehow I missed this E3 2014 interview:
http://www.gameswelt.tv/shroud-of-t...terview-mit-richard-garriott-starr-long,40592

The OP has been updated to include the link as well. So now go feed your SotA obsession and check it out!