[情報] EQ Next 消息 (更新)

[Crlight]

EQ Next is still being built within a black box. The *earliest* we are currently considering that we *might* reveal info is late this year. We’re being very particular about what needs to be in the game before revealing it to folks, so until that stuff is ready, we won’t be showing anything. (Screens you saw from a couple years ago are completely obsolete now and are not pertinent to the current game at all.)

There is no reason for EQ or EQII to ever fade away. EQN is not being designed to replace those games. The only way it could “kill” EQ or EQII is by being such a phenomenally better game that everyone flocks to it. Many miles to go before we sleep.

簡單說，今年底之前有可能看到 EQ Next 的消息。

[Yiss]

有‧可‧能
/搖搖頭走開

[fantasysea]

年底啊~~~
不知道何年何月會盼到EQ Next正式上線

[Crlight]

更新一下這篇情報，在十月的 SOE Live 的時候，SOE 總裁 Smed 已經宣布 EQ Next 過去兩年的整個計畫被砍掉重練，目標示製作出一個更 Sandbox-Like (沙盤模式) 的遊戲 (如 EVE, Mortal Online 等玩家對遊戲世界掌控度極高的遊戲)。

預期將在 2013 年中有更新的消息，甚至不排除會有 demo 可以玩。

[Crlight]

最新消息，遊戲社群網站 GAMASUTRA 訪問了 Smed，以下是一些重點摘要：

“Sometimes you make a decision and you’re like ‘Oh God, let’s buckle in and hope everything goes well.’ That’s how it was with free-to-play,” he says. “Now we look back and wonder ‘How did we ever survive before this?’ Living in a world where retailers control your software was horrible.”

Smed 說：「有時候在做一些決定前，可能會想說，噢先做再說希望一切能順利。而基本上 Free-to-play 就是這樣開始的。當他們回頭檢視，才覺得，哇... 以前是怎麼存活的，在一個完全被零售商掌握遊戲銷售的世界真的很可怕。」

“In my opinion, the days when companies can make content [generation] the number one strategy, in the kinds of games we make, are over, because we can’t win the war. Star Wars [The Old Republic] proved that. Players bought it, loved it and they played the game. Then they left.”

接著又說：「我認為，以往那種公司以專注於製作內容為首要策略的時代已經過去了，因為那樣打不贏這場仗。SWToR (星際大戰：舊共和) 證明了這點。玩家買了遊戲，也很喜歡這遊戲並玩了，接著他們就離開了。」

光明：的確，當今 MMO 的流動率太高，即便叫好叫座，但玩家也不見得會一直買帳。

接著講到了 EQ Next。

“We’re betting the company’s future on this game. … The last EverQuest game launched in 2005. We’ve blown up two design ideas over the last four years because they were too ‘me too.’ It wasn’t enough of a change. We settled on a design that, when we looked at it, everyone in the room thought we were crazy. We gave it a week and came back, and we all said ‘yeah, we’re still crazy, but we can’t get the idea out of our heads. … It’s going to be the world’s largest sandbox game.”

「我們將公司的未來堵在這個遊戲上。... 上一款 EQ 遊戲啟動於 2005 年。而我們在過去四年來腰斬了兩個設計提案，因為它們太普通了，創新的程度太少。我們目前的設計是，當大家在看的時候，都認為我們瘋了。於是我們過了一個禮拜再回來，然後我們說，對阿... 我們是瘋了，但我們無法放棄這個想法。... 這將會是全世界最大的一個沙盤遊戲。」Smed 說。

Players will have to wait a bit longer to try it themselves, but maybe not as long as you’d expect. “Players will get their hands on an actual release version of what we’re doing late [this] year – and I don’t mean a beta,”

Smed 說：「玩家可能要等久一點才能玩到，但可能不會是你們想的那麼久。玩家將能夠在今年稍晚親身體驗到遊戲的公開版 - 而且這不是 beta。」

光明：如果真的今年底有機會玩到，那以 SOE 所公布的時程來算只有短短的 32 個月就能玩到，這應該打破了線上遊戲 (所謂夠格的遊戲) 的開發紀錄。

[Innermirror]

那就等等看囉 @@