Its just hopes like alot of others mentioned, and to be honest i see the hallmarks of a impendenging bad job... Would prefer not, but lets just say I really...Really hope there is another company out there making a warhammer 40k mmo simultaneously.
The Emperor Protects, Tidus. The Emperor hopefully delivers good gaming experiences, too. Only faith, blind and unyielding as it may be, will see us to the end of this, for good or ill.
I don't have blind faith but I also have no reason to be half as suspicious or negative as many people seem to be. The devs have given me cause to be hopeful. It's just reactionary to be so terribly pessimistic. They've done a good job so far so I think well of them. That's about it.
http://eternalcrusade.wikia.com/wiki/Development_Team http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/bold-for-the-bold-god.19254/
'Blind faith' is the wrong term I think for this community (most of us anyway). We are encouraged by the no-wall marketing strategy and eager for more. This isn't simply abdication of reason, just the opposite: The devs here are responsive to our concerns and critiques and most members have been on enough in-development forums to see how unique that is, especially before money has changed hands. And when I say stuff like 'responsive' I don’t mean they promise us the moon and all our dreams, again the opposite is true. They tell us "No" more often than not, so when we're actually given confirmed information it makes me more liable to trust the word coming out of the studio (never enough information, be warned). Any of the old interviews are littered with the statement that if EC sucks they suffer in sales and good-will and they don't expect us to cut them slack, just give them a chance to succeed. We actually commit very little blind trust, only need to see the thread re: the E3 stream cancellation to realize that the oldest community members (by join date) are the first to sound their disappointment and frustration. But we do extend the chance to impress us and it's an effective developer-customer relationship surprisingly. I'm a relative noob but hang around the forums and contribute ideas and you can test all of my bizarre logic for yourself
After spending two years on the Starbound forums getting hyped for a game that ended up being painfully mediocre and now has less players than Terraria, the game it was supposed to surpass 10 fold in features, I can SAFELY say that just because there aren't a million red flags going up ever other minute does NOT mean that the game will be good, and that while people can promise that it will be worth it, they would tell you anything to remove doubts in your head and get you to spend money on the founders pack. As it stands, we simply just don't know now, and this is coming from someone who really could not care less about what happened, or what did not happen, at E3. A track record is important as well. If a company has a poor track record, you have every right to believe that this could very well end in disaster and be some poorly designed nightmare of balance atrocities. At the same time, everyone starts somewhere, and maybe this time will be different, but no one in the history of mankind has ever spent money on hopes and dreams and NOT run an incredibly high risk of being completely and utterly gypped. We need concrete evidence that this won't be a "meh" MMO version of Space Marine online play, and while I REALLY want to blow $100 so I can play an Ork (Believe me, I want to more than ANYTHING else right now you have no idea how long i've been waiting to play a Mekboy in an RPG), I will GLADLY withhold my money until they can convince me otherwise. But I don't think, under any circumstances, that I would tell ANY of my friends to get hyped for this game at this point in time. And this isn't just me being a cynical prick, thats just common sense. Warhammer only started getting games that weren't complete ass until after Dawn of War. I mean oh my sweet baby jesus did you PLAY Fire Warrior? People have every right to be afraid, even with the transparency we've been getting. Add the negative stigma of MMOs being doomed to suck (I played WAR for two years) to all this and it will take a miracle to get a massive majority of people hyped for this game who aren't diehard 40k fans.
To be honest, I don't think you'll have 'concrete' evidence until the closed beta, at least. Until that point it's a collection of animations, art assets and promises that the game will be complete. Some of the stuff they show you over the coming year might convince you, though, or at least get you excited enough to challenge your better judgement. Who knows? :O I don't disagree with you at all, it is common sense to be skeptical of an incomplete product, especially this early in the production cycle. I don't have a lot of confidence in EC itself yet, but I have confidence and respect for bE. Even without a magnificent track record for their label, they certainly feel up to the challenge and have demonstrated at least some level (though many people debate how much) of transparency and willingness to work with the community. The founder's program is a prime example, it was entirely a community initiative that bE was like "You guys want this? We weren't planning on it but... sure, let us do that for you." I'm not trying to convince you of anything, just maybe giving you my perspective so you can understand why some of us have a bit of confidence in this dev-team. For me, I feel bE is earnestly trying to do right by the players, but again that's just from my experiences on this forum over the past 8months.
I'm a videogame reviewer so I'm kind of a pro when it comes to not having with videogames. So I don't trust Behaviour that much, but they can given at least the benefit of the doubt. As for the Founder's Program, well, buying cats in sacks is the zeitgeist, just look at all the early access and pre order games. Fortunately, when the game comes out, Ork Boyz will be there for us to try it for free and it will probably be done a lot better than KOTOR "F2P".
