Vanguard Beta In Trouble?

Heartless Gamer writes to mention a blog post exploring potential problems with the Vanguard Beta. The hardcore MMOG in development by Sigil has had some rocky times of late, and it sounds like the beta testers are right up at the top of the list of problems. From the article: "To the detriment of Vanguard, they (Vanguard's community) will protest any implementation that even remotely resembles a mechanic within World of Warcraft. Good or bad, it doesn't matter. If it's something within WoW, they want it O-U-T. Likewise, if you are from WoW, they want YOU out, too. They've already succeeded in driving out many of those testers. They're long gone and I can't say I blame them." Read on for other sites' commentary on this issue.

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The most important thing to know here is this...

[Il128]

Someone is actually funding a game designed for the PC that maybe, just maybe, 100k people will pay $15 a month to play.

They'll spend what? $4-12 million just getting the game released and make how many boxes for store shelves.

If the idea is to spend millions designing a game for 100k people I can do that and pocket a few million in the process. With the state of graphics today it's time for a subscription PC based sex RPG... Virtual dating for Vanguard players.