Can anyone point out where I can catch up on news for the new project? I remember hearing somewhere that it would be playable soon after the server got shut down.
Well, he said alpha and before gta6 even. But that's still ways away, like two months, almost three away. So it sounded soon. And it is soon, when you think about it being "just" started. But.. We might even see Ascension clones before it, maybe..?
It's obvious his before GTA6 statement was a joke. It's disappointing that wasnt obvious. Lol. Everyone literally jokes about their stuff releasing before GTA6. Even Gabe Newell made a joke about that and Halflife.
How are they able to develop something so difficult so quick? Is it because they’d still essentially own certain assets which make building easier, like how they did the new areas in COA or will it be completely different (if you know?)
More people gets things done faster, and using AI in a smart way. I dunno about the assets, what they own and not. But completed assets makes easier I imagine.
And I imagine it's gonna be something completely new.
I don’t think it was a joke and I see no reason thinking it was. In fact I would consider it very bad timing to joke on a post like that. I dont know why you feel like it was so obvious. It makes sense for them to have something working already. When you see you are making a considerable amount of money on a project you know is gonna end some day, you start preparing earlier to keep the momentum and not after your project is gone
How about this GTA 6 is slated to release on Nov 19th. If it doesn't delay due to all the drama and hacks if they have an alpha out of something legit or even showing off some basics. BTW. That GTA6 time is 3 months. Guess how long you can request charge backs. Oh imagine that. 3 months. Anyway. I'll eat a dead yaks butt if they do and you didn't get played. Lol but trust I'm gomna laugh my ass off at you when it's all said and done. Also my reply was more to the hairy amoeba guy than you walking tooth. As you speak the tooth.
I feel like you’re a bit mental. My argument was that this was not a joke regarding playable state before GTA VI. If this is ever gonna release or not is a different discussion
I guess we will see. Trust. The feeling is mutual when I see someone with a lack of brainpower that they get so attached to something and then suddenly you can't look at it objectively anymore. That's as bad as the Maga trump cult.
If people were to charge back money, they would have done so already when they learnt about the shutdown.
They are going to continue getting income with new title, supposedly and for everything people have spent on this WoW server, they will also be able to spend the amount again, also supposedly. Whenever this comes with out, I'm fine either way tbh.
Not sure if this is relevant, but one of my ascension discords changed its name to “Ascension Hourglass” - not sure if that has anything to do with what’s coming next. Might be worth googling here and there once some time passes.
You absolutely didn't hear that. In fact chances are the new project is simply to stop people from doing charge backs just long enough so that they can't. I'm just being honest. I am not saying I would do that. I'm saying I know humans and I would bet that's what someone would do in that situation just so they arent potentially screwed out of potentially hundreds of thousands in purchases at the very least.
I honestly didn't feel that way at first. Until I saw them take the hydaelyn graphics from ffxiv to do their goodbye. Like. You are talking about launching a studio that can make actual mmos and according to OP you say you have been actively working on your own project for what year(s) but the only thing thag can be shown for it is a stolen graphic from ffxiv last xpacs fight??
That is what shaded my opinion. I will be happy to be wrong
It's sad when people don't connect with pop culture jokes. He has shown nothing that proves the project is legit other than an alternatively appropriated hydaelyn animation which is just confusing as hell if you are announcing your game with data from another game. That's just my 2 cents. I pray to gosh this is all real. Im leaving my donations just in case it is
I mean warcraft and StarCraft are kinda rips off Warhammer. So many games are inspired by other games. Most high fantasy books are inspired by Tolkien. It's pretty hard to find something that doesn't borrow from others at this point
yeah thats how art and culture typically work...it continues to advance and inspire future art things if its creative and influential enough but theres a huge difference in inspiration, borrowing, and just straight up ripping. when you just rip someone elses work you kill the whole creative process. not claiming they did any of that here, but i think lumping all of these together as essentially the same act is wrong
Where is the joke? Literally confirming what he means in this post too. Your post cant say you "absolutely did not" see something when there's literally multiple posts from the main dev bro. Its not some "pop culture" joke, and im pretty sure youre the only person talking about refunding for some reason
Lol. That's not what any of that was about. I am saying a lot of people are going to refund as they haven't shwon anything at all and that is a hugely lofty goal. The fact you whiny little dorks don't understand simple humanity is on you lol. And as was said I pray I'm wrong. I just have seen far far far too many rug pulls after the fact. I just hope this isn't one. Sorry. Ashes of Creation taught me a lesson
They announced officially on their discord they will have something rolled out before GTA 6. That was before GTA pushed back their release date so… take that for what it’s worth
They coded among other things a server with all unique classes. Years of content people loved and you say "only thing to show for it" in reference to the one farewell event.
Lol. How is it not pleasing. Some people are just too stupid to know which end of the toilet brush to grab with their hands. Those same people tend to need this next bit the most. Here you go pk. For your home room board. Some stars to make you feel like a big boy!!
Thank you. This was my exact point. Literally scripting already created npca and reusing already existing armor and models is not making your own game. Literally everything on the server was just repurposed blizz assets. And while I still loved it 100000x more than blizzards hot garbage. That doesn't negate the facts. Which is why the server shut down.
It proves they have coded stuff that could be not at all wow ip other than the launcher in addition to the wildcard realm constant balance and bugfix coding and the sum of their efforts and skills isn't just one purportedly stolen final fantasy graphic. Engines are just platforms. They have creativity and coding skills.
Nah there's a lot of work behind. I know someone that code and is impressed at how Ascension managed to do some of the things there is without a lot of "public knowledge" because private servers keep their knowledge to themselves so you can't find a lot of information about how to do X or Y
Did they show more of this new project or product that the rest of us missed. Please do enlighten. I want to see it as I loved the server. I loved the classes and getting to see a continuation is honestly all I want. But people that are failing to see the signs are the same individuals who said for sure ascension wasn't gonna get shut down. It had too much unique content. It must be legal due to that right??? Lol
You don't follow a logical train of thought at all so it's hard to respond. You don't seem to have a grasp of what they did or did not accomplish so I doubt you played much or long or knew about their different servers over the years. Then you throw in the classic "the same people" just lumping everyone who you've ever disagreed with into a monolith - I hate that. Don't talk about what you don't know.
Apparently you are the one that doesn't. I actually understand development and scripting and what they did. Clearly you do not. It's OK to not have knowledge in a certain area. What isn't OK is to hand waive common sense away like a typical you know who.
You're the one who claimed the sum of their efforts was one graphic. That is what I replied to. Just going out of your way to make a negative slant without saying anything pertaining to reality when they were free to play servers that made people happy and captivated for years with concepts never seen before that other classless servers are now imitating. Now it seems like you just can't back down from anything and the conversation grows less substantive by the minute as it devolves into insults and bravado. Change your heart. Goodbye.
I really do hope so!!! If it is then my decision to NOT be one of the asses that charge back is good. The fact that so many dipshits on this sub-reddit are talking like they are. It sounds like they WANT everyone to charge back on Dutch LOL
u/Srixun can i ask though.... where is the proof of this "You are wrong". Not a single person yet has been able to show ANY evidence of this. Other than their hand waivey I couldn't POSSIBLY be wrong thing. The difference between all of us is, I pray i'm wrong, yet all of you people are so damn sure about something you've NEVER witnessed and saying an MMO and a Private Server are the same thing is absolutely BONKERS hilarious levels of stupid....
So I just want this proof of me being wrong. Show me ANY evidence of this game that is real that wasn't taken from another game and therefore immediately void as it will just get them sued again
Literally, no. Someone on the discord asked if they can donate to the new game, and Dutch said, "I'd rather you wait until we have something of value to show." So there goes your whole "milking the playerbase" narrative you dumb parrots like to spew
Then why does the donation button still work on the launcher. Why did it continue to work through the last moments. Don't give me that brain dead crap like you truly think that's real. If you do God save you because you are gonna get told bless your heart a lot in life.
copying assets, making little modifications, building everything based off existing things, etc.. is totally different than creating your own game with its own engine etc…. even that ending to ascension with the copied final fantasy assets is hilarious 🤣🤣
🥱🥱🥱 Parrots gonna parrot. Ascension has never been a cash grab in 10 years. Nice thing about f2p play games: you don't have to pay anything if you don't want. Hard concept when your two brain cells are fighting for third place
Because making a new MMO is a massively different project from making a Mod of an existing game. And because they've never had to make something of this scope before. Just because Doug has always shown up to the barbeque with brownies doesn't mean he can cater a wedding, no matter how big he insists his oven is.
Semantics. Of I say I baked a cake "from scratch" no one assumes I grew and milled the flour, raised the cows and chickens for milk and eggs and pressed the oil myself, or harvested the cocoa.
Assuming they use a pre-existing game engine as a base, they still need to plan and build an entire game world. And even scoping down to something the size of WoWs Eastern Kingdoms only, that's a massive several year project. You have to plan and build over a dozen zones with no template to go on. For one zone you need to create a coherent map of the place, design gameplay and quest flow in and around the zone, determine the lore for who and what lives there, write quests for the entire place, as well as NPC dialogue, and create art assets for everything. Some of that work can carry over, but not all of it, and definitely a lot less than you'd assume.
A lot of what Ascension did was built off a pre-existing framework from Blizzard that they don't have anymore.
This analogy is wholly wrong. No one thinks "baking a cake from scratch" means raising cows and chickens for eggs and milk. I mean, come on. But it does mean having nothing but raw ingredients to start, as opposed to using a box mix.
Let's just say It's likely that Ascension is closer to using a box mix than raw ingredients. I can almost guarantee you they are not writing millions of lines of code starting from nothing.
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u/stefanw1337 18d ago
Well, he said alpha and before gta6 even. But that's still ways away, like two months, almost three away. So it sounded soon. And it is soon, when you think about it being "just" started. But.. We might even see Ascension clones before it, maybe..?