I really cannot wait to start playing MP Hellgate again. When Stonehenge first came out I didn't particularly like it. I ended up spending 90% of my playing time there for last 4 months of the life of the original game. I'm busting to tackle Dessicator again. And this time I will find an egg and get to hatch a pet (assuming that they still are present in Resurrection).|||Just passed by to check on the site --- nice to see you back up
For me though, while I'm still curious about it's ultimate fate, I was completely done with HG:L once it went down. I don't believe it'll ever come back in a form that I like or am willing to play. Too bad that FSS messed up so badly and was never able to fix things, which is what I'd like to have seen happen.|||I don't understands the negativity. Why NOT give it a chance?|||Quote:
I don't understands the negativity. Why NOT give it a chance?
Well, there are quite a few reasons for me anyway --- though anyone one else is free to feel differently.
a) I was not at all happy with how the original HG:L crashed and burned, especially having paid the founders subscription. Though I knew perfectly well at the time that it was a very risky proposition, and was quite prepared to see it wasted, I'm not going to put one more cent in the game.
b) It's hard to forgive a game that was released in such a bad state, even given a lot of the underlying things that I really liked. Compared with some recent games like say Borderlands or Dragon Ages Origins, HG:L was an amateurish and unfinished product. I don't know, but maybe one really big mistake that FSS made was to try and build their own graphics engine, which led to a game with too many bugs and too little content. At the same time, I got tired of Borderlands, for example, pretty quickly and HG:L had the potential for a much longer term interest if it had stayed around.
c) My reading of the demise of FSS (and I don't have any real info --- just my take on the whole sorry story) is that T3/Hanbitsoft played some pretty cut-throat hardball politics to get hold of the HG:L IP. Now maybe Hanbitsoft had some cause given their financial investment in the game and the way FSS messed up, and perhaps FSS dug its own grave, but I'm pretty sure Hanbitsoft pushed them into it. So I have no love for Hanbitsoft.
d) Maybe the main point: I just don't believe that whatever way Hanbitsoft is developing the game (cash shops, more grinding...?) is going to be consistent with what I would've like to have seen happen, but I think if FSS had continued to be able to work on it (which would probably have impossible in any event) they would've developed it the way that I'd like to have seen. Given the choice between Hanbitsoft's Lord Harrowmont and FSS's Prince Bhelen, I'd take Bhelen any day.
Of course, if it turns out that Hanbitsoft does something great with HG:L, I might reconsider down the line, but I doubt that will happen. And, besides, DIII is a lot nearer now that it was when HG:L first appeared.|||I just hope I dont have to pay anymore money, anytime soon. As someone who bought the collectors edition and 200 for lifetime membership(no regrets) I really dont want to spend anymore to play this online. Well maybe for expansions.|||Well, from what I understand it will be all f2p, even the expansions. They will have a cash shop for people who want to spend money on the game...and I'm pretty sure we will all spend some there.
It seems shares stash will be a cash shop item with a "monthly" price...but I'm not too sure on that so don't quote me or take this news for real. Could be a rumor.
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