What are we allowed to know for NL?
Are we allowed to be told how many players were chosen?
The broad strokes of whats being tested?
Such as:
Character building
Events
Monster combat
Quest chains
Expected length of alpha
Anyone?
The broad strokes of whats being tested?
Such as:
Character building
Events
Monster combat
Quest chains
Expected length of alpha
Anyone?
Comments
That is all we know and will know unless someone breaks the NDA. UO has always been secretive and this is when they should be.
It is their game mechanics. They want us to feel like we enter a new world and learn as we go.
They gave many hints in newsletters for events.
Alpha will last as long as needed.
I do understand the need for secrecy and the desire for players to walk into a new and fresh world.
It would be nice to have the road map
I'd agree with Karyn - likely we won't hear much of anything given that they've kept every detail close to the vest.
I'm not saying this is true but it would have been a pretty smart tactic to say they are doing Alpha and picked 50 people (who need to sign an NDA) without actually doing that. It shows progress without letting anyone really know if there has been progress because nobody can talk about it. Then they can take another X months more to work on it and whenever it's actually ready say there will be an Alpha 2 (which would actually be the first).... or super conspiracy theory, they just keep the cycle going for another 2 years without producing anything. Another few years of collecting paychecks giving the players 2 cookie cutter events a year with a bunch or smoke and mirrors on NL.