But it needs to be far enough along in development that all the essential functionality is there. If you release a buggy unusable piece of garbage then it will turn off potential players, even if you make huge improvements later.
I think there's some confusion at work here, in that you seem to be thinking of someone on a proprietary platform with captive customers (Crapple, Craposoft, Craptendo, SEGA etc). This is not the case here, S.MG is not going that way. Alpha and pre-alpha releases are not supposed to be feature complete, are not intended for the consumption of the window lemming and in general I don't think the first client will even be usable by people who can't CLI or compile. So let's not run too much ahead.
This is the exact opposite of what I gathered when I read MP's statement. "Do not form an expectation and you won't be disappointed" and "nothing will work at first". This is garbage, I'm sorry to use such a blanket statement, but what's the point of promoting a flagship product, then releasing a buggy alpha?
Basically because fuck you, that's why. If you've not guessed it so far, MP's stance is very much "either you're doing something or you're shutting the fuck up". Reconsider how
this thread went, it's not happenstance that it went that way. People who wish to contribute their "commentary" will be mocked mercilessly, not for any reason other than because they're not actually human, they're what's wrong with the race.
So, to sum up: tell me not what you would like to see S.MG do, with this game or any other. Tell me what you're capable of doing for it and I'll tell you why it's either not wanted, not useful, or remarkably fucking stupid and useless.
Attitude adjustment time.
It's difficult to believe there's any reality to this project. To build a proper game requires huge teams of professionally experienced people, this isn't the early days of 64KB computers anymore and wire-frame graphics.
Some people will clearly in invest in anything that involves Bitcoins without any serious thoughts.
It's on the other hand not hard to believe you'd march in here and opine without a clue as to what exactly you're opining about. Here's a hint: the total available sum of engineer man-hours that this entire community can deploy, including the self-styled "devteam" and anyone else in any way involved with Bitcoin is perhaps, on a good day, if all hands on dock within a tenth of what MP handles. You're not required or even asked to believe or not believe anything, but for your own benefit do more research, do less opining.
It's perfectly true that people invest into Bitcoin stuff just because they're idiots. That's, of course,
everyone else. The sooner you learn to make that distinction (not as a point of ideology but as a point of fact, which is what it is) the sooner you might actually be said to have a clue as to wtf is going on in BTC.
Probably the highest signal to noise ratio as well. I don't give a fuck about MMORPGs, but I find myself following this thread and reading every word.
If memory serves the only part where you've added anything but noise is the part where you were going to do some work on heraldics a few weeks ago. Am I seeing anything within any sort of timeframe or are you just here to run the mouth?
If thestringpuller ever went into game design I would invest in it due to the quality of his posts which to me signify's someone who knows what they are talking about.
As always excellent observation
This eerily goes with ex-trader's post above. I think, honestly, that you all should go make your game glbse and spare me. Apparently more hands-on humiliation needs to be applied to you lot before you're ready to be actual productive members of society, so by all means, let's.