Comments on: Latest Copernicus video shows the world that never was

By: bundyraider

bundyraider — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:58:56 +0000

All that time and money for one location? Great looking and very detailed location. But that’s all??

By: vcatkiller

vcatkiller — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:04:03 +0000

Yeah pretty much. You can make any boast you like if all anybody is going to see is a few videos. <_< I honestly don't think this big media release is helping anybody…

By: James Pinnell

James Pinnell — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:47:34 +0000

To be honest, we’ve heard all of this stuff before. Even Guild Wars 2, for all of its merits, still suffers from a drop in scale from the original set of lofty ambitions the developers set themselves.

So as a result, I’m loathe to believe that this developer had the world’s most beautiful and innovative MMO under their sleeves – you can say anything you want when the title isn’t going to be released under any circumstances.

By: ytnim

ytnim — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:28:59 +0000

Yeah, very much getting the marketing bullshit vibe but because its vapour-ware now they can bullshit all they want and no one can really say otherwise. It’s a dead game, if you have to spout over the Internet about how good your game is going to be and not to people with money willing to fund it, the game is dead.

By: Marius

Marius — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:40:16 +0000

I should say also that I do hope the designers involved move on to better things. The people to blame would largely be the founder/key management.

What I think gets me here is that while the designers are blameless for the financial corruption problems and only suffered, it’s them that are trying to carry it forward with a ‘you should have kept funding this game’ thing, like they’re trying to make people feel bad. They should just get out of the way and let the investigations look into the people responsible, imo.

If there was corruption involved, then the game deserved to have the plug pulled much, much earlier, before millions of other people’s money got wasted (and considering that the project was largely funded by the public purse).

By: jellygoose

jellygoose — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:31:59 +0000

..so beautiful… should have sent a poet

By: Marius

Marius — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:24:18 +0000

Sorry, that probably sounded snarky. Guess I don’t have much sympathy here. The studio was extremely mismanaged, and is now under investigation by the FBI. With those type of problems, I don’t think they’d be able to deliver on their lofty goals.

By: Marius

Marius — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:20:11 +0000

Doesn’t appear that anyone’s convinced.