Vanguard: Community Fanguard Overview

[AiddenSH]

The rogues at the MMO gaming community site: The Safehouse, have posted Selected Video from Sigil Games' Fanguard 2006 Event. 10 clips feature Brad McQuaid, Exec. Producer, Chairman & CEO and Jeff Butler, Exec. Producer & President on the State of the Game covering topics such as player housing, PvP, and group crafting. More clips show highlights from the community panel and banquet held during the event. Also available is a Fanguard 2006 Recap Write-up of the event, as well as a Compilation of Vanguard Lore.

Links:

The Safehouse (http://www.TheSafehouse.org)

Selected Video from Sigil Games' Fanguard 2006 Event (http://www.thesafehouse.org/mugshots/videos/FG0106/index.php)

Fanguard 2006 Recap Write-up (http://www.thesafehouse.org/articles/events/article_39.php)

Compilation of Vanguard Lore (http://www.thesafehouse.org/vanguard/lore.php)

[A Lusty Alien]

Only the first link works. The URLs for the other three are bad.

[AiddenSH]

links fixed.. sorry about that

[S1n1star]

Seriously, no other company in history has had this many stroke-fests BEFORE THE LAUNCH OF ANY PRODUCT WHATSOEVER! Does Sigil have a huge warehouse full of developers somewhere in India/China/Eastern Europe actually making their game while these guys caravan around from 'con to 'con to wallow in gladhanding and soak up dork adulation like Stewart Smally's +3 Sponge of Self Affirmation?

[Red Cloak]

This game hgas a huge following, over 50k members registered on their official forums.

[S1n1star]

This game hgas a huge following, over 50k members registered on their official forums.

Hate to break it to you Red, but 50k isn't even a squirt out the ol' MMO urethra. If they get only that many users when they go live, Vanguard is going to die faster than a Korean cybercafe' patron on his 99th straight hour of WoW. Even lowly EVE has 100k subscribers and that game has infinitesimal overhead compared to the vast expanses of bump-mapped sterility that is V:SoH.

[bobbler]

Vanguard has promise, but I'm really not sure how well it'll do. It has no real big name attached to it (no Blizzard name, that's for sure), meaning it likely won't get the respect it deserves, even if it ends up being better than its competitors (or at least worthy).

Curious note: It's the biggest game I've seen (installed disk space size).

[Raider Hater]

Considering the fact that this game enforces realtime travel (no porting), no instanced dungeons (camp fest) with 5 seconds per attack (boredom) and is generally shaping up to be a giant timesink, having a 50K subscription upon launch doesn't shock me one bit. Overall its giant step back in the MMORPG world.