Re: MBJ and his announcments

Most of us have read and memorized MBJ’s(Mythic CEO) Big Announcment from yesterday. I couldn’t help but read between the lines and put down my own observation of human pessimistic ways.

7) Regarding the NDA lift, we hope to lift the NDAnext week, one month before launch. I wish I could lift it right now but as I’ve said elsewhere, we need to take care of a three issues before the NDA is lifted. One has already been taken care of and I hope that by the end of next week, the other two will be taken care of as well. Once we lift the NDA I’ll go into more detail as to what the issues were and why I wanted to hold things up. The remaining two issues are not earth-shattering by any means but when I explain things, I hope you’ll understand why I wanted to wait another week.

First off, I’m a fanboy of the mythic team since DAoC and all the x-pacsI got to spend time playing in.(except I never forgave them adding those OP Bonedancers) MBJ has been around far longer then 10 years and regularly communicates with the communities around his games. The way he worded this point #7 about the NDA made it sound like he was typing while fitting into a flame retardant jumpsuit. “The remaining two issues are not earth-shattering“  meaning that probly when we hear that MBJ didn’t want to lift the NDA because the team has not decided on what color the top of tavern bar stools should be, the heads of sleep deprived teens will explode.  Openly ignorant comments directed right at MBJ are sure to follow. I suspect somone will even go as far as calling MJB some form of a money hungry CEO holding the NDA so the press in Closed Beta can boost WARs initial sales. Reading posts of that nature paralyze me with WAAGH!! …..ACHIEVEMENT! “you have just added your 100th name to the book of grudges! New title: The Avenger”

Please think before you press “Submit” and realize these type of responses are what turned the WoW forums into a cesspool of random asinine dialogue. I wonder, after launch just how strict WHA ruleswill be able to be enforced with WHA’s newly added moderators. Now, lets see how the NDA lift goes.

ToK: The Adventures of Gompers!

Now I Want to play WAR as Order,  and more specifically the Engineer but this quote makes me want to play both sides! Not to mention thanks to Book of Grudges for steering me toward this Gamespy Journal of Press in closed Beta seemingly immune to the NDA sword.

In this case I unlocked one of ten potential flavor entries on Norsca about the Chaos Portal, receiving a small xp reward along with a well-written and fun short (about a page) about a Chaos Sorcerer and a Marauder checking out a Chaos Portal. When the Sorcerer asks the Marauder what he thinks of it, well, I’ll just let the text speak for itself:

“Bjorn was lying on the ground in the fetal position, gently rocking and humming to himself. His hands were covered with blood: his own. The Sorcerer stared into the ragged mess of the Marauder’s eye sockets. The man had clawed out his own eyes.”

This is the kind of news got me excited about the ToK and PvE in general. This might be the single best original Idea that Mythic has brought to the MMOG market. Now this isn’t clearly “new” because almost every game to date puts you in the hero shoes or shoes of great importance. Every game creates a huge land with great mountains, ruins, landmarks, easter eggs, and cinematics to progress a storyline. Every game gives your the scene but no story! In every OTHER game that storlyline is the same for anyone that plays it and that’s the key to the ToK being so utterly huge to the MMO genre. The great thing is that everyones ToK will be different, but equally fascinating to read.The ToK is like a choose your own adventure novel if the ToK Is infact as deep as Carrie G. (ToK creator and spokeswomen) claims.

I can hope that Mythic will print it into an Italian leather bound book upon the inevitable day I choose to leave the WAR effort, just for me to keep(I really do).