[Speaker]

Check out Cast # 25 about 32 minutes into the program

http://www.station.sony.com/podcasts.vm

Here's a transcript for those of you who don't wanna download the entire file:

She: They're talking about making the death penalty not so severe, which I've heard is big a controversial topic...
He: It is a big contro - oh, sorry - ah well, you know.. that game is an interesting game, ahh... interesting, interesting game *old man's voice* we can do many psychological studies on the impact of that game *normal voice* but that's a hardcore crowd, it's a crowd that kinda grew into the MMO back in the old days of Everquest. You know, a lot of those people are the faithfuls from the early days of Everquest when the game WAS very difficult. What some people call a challenge, others call frustration and that's kinda why these games have evolved to remove some of those frustrations for the mass audience and Vanguard is gonna logically have to follow that route as well, they're going to have to remove those frustrations.
She: Or they're not gonna see any new blood.
He: Right. And I know as much you guys love your game and you want it to be your game - in order for the game to grow, you have to make it appeal to as many people as possible. And I'm not saying that it's gonna become a WoW and I'm not saying it's going to maintain its Vanguardyness or whatever you wanna call it-
She: The Vanguardyness
He: - but they have to do things to try to allow other people to play and one of those is - that's a very steep death penalty in that game and making that a little friendlier can get some other people interested, because it is a huge expansive world with a lot of content, lots of challenges, a beautiful art style and we WANT people to enjoy that.
She: We do, we do.
He: We do, we do.
She: Very much so. Well, they have a whole list of stuff here that they're looking to add in, evaluating for change and improvement as the wording is here -
He: But, check out Thom's podcast, give them your feedback -
She: His Producer's Letter...
He: Thom's Producer's Letter, yeah. Thom's doing his own podcast, it's the Thom Therazzas "I eat donuts podcast".
She: *laughs*
He: What was that, Cat?
She: *muffled* I hope they didn't get any of that. *laughs*
He: Cat says she hopes she's not recording that one.

[MagicNumbers]

Lol you think this is insulting?

You take yourself way to seriously dude.

[Speaker]

Originally Posted by MagicNumbers

Lol you think this is insulting?

You take yourself way to seriously dude.

Yea, well it so I happens I do.

[MagicNumbers]

Originally Posted by Speaker

Yea, well it so I happens I do.

Well... chill out and have some fun. Take a break from all your worries. Wouldn't it be nice to get away. To go someplace where everybody knows your name.

[Spirit]

Who cares about VG, it's over already. I got lvl10 in COD4 today, earned a camoed mp5 w/red sights and killed 12 people in an airstrike.

Actually, scratch that, I wish I was on a quest to kill horse flies

[MagicNumbers]

Originally Posted by Spirit

Who cares about VG, it's over already. I got lvl10 in COD4 today, earned a camoed mp5 w/red sights and killed 12 people in an airstrike.

Actually, scratch that, I wish I was on a quest to kill horse flies

Oooooo you're the man!

[Lonestryder]

Originally Posted by Speaker

Check out Cast # 25 about 32 minutes into the program

http://www.station.sony.com/podcasts.vm

Here's a transcript for those of you who don't wanna download the entire file:

She: They're talking about making the death penalty not so severe, which I've heard is big a controversial topic...
He: It is a big contro - oh, sorry - ah well, you know.. that game is an interesting game, ahh... interesting, interesting game *old man's voice* we can do many psychological studies on the impact of that game *normal voice* but that's a hardcore crowd, it's a crowd that kinda grew into the MMO back in the old days of Everquest. You know, a lot of those people are the faithfuls from the early days of Everquest when the game WAS very difficult. What some people call a challenge, others call frustration and that's kinda why these games have evolved to remove some of those frustrations for the mass audience and Vanguard is gonna logically have to follow that route as well, they're going to have to remove those frustrations.
She: Or they're not gonna see any new blood.
He: Right. And I know as much you guys love your game and you want it to be your game - in order for the game to grow, you have to make it appeal to as many people as possible. And I'm not saying that it's gonna become a WoW and I'm not saying it's going to maintain its Vanguardyness or whatever you wanna call it-
She: The Vanguardyness
He: - but they have to do things to try to allow other people to play and one of those is - that's a very steep death penalty in that game and making that a little friendlier can get some other people interested, because it is a huge expansive world with a lot of content, lots of challenges, a beautiful art style and we WANT people to enjoy that.
She: We do, we do.
He: We do, we do.
She: Very much so. Well, they have a whole list of stuff here that they're looking to add in, evaluating for change and improvement as the wording is here -
He: But, check out Thom's podcast, give them your feedback -
She: His Producer's Letter...
He: Thom's Producer's Letter, yeah. Thom's doing his own podcast, it's the Thom Therazzas "I eat donuts podcast".
She: *laughs*
He: What was that, Cat?
She: *muffled* I hope they didn't get any of that. *laughs*
He: Cat says she hopes she's not recording that one.

It makes it a closed case of what I had suspected since the first "Letter". I have simply outgrown MMOs. It's mostly kids building the games now, so of course we are out of touch. OK, so they are catering to children subs. I have kids (15, and 9). They have little interest in MMOs. I suppose they are out of touch as well.

[Spirit]

Originally Posted by MagicNumbers

Oooooo you're the man!

[Choctaw]

Originally Posted by Speaker

Yea, well it so I happens I do.

Okay, I'm not trying to be snarky here. Can you point out exactly what the insult was? I'm not getting it and I read it 3 tmes. Does it sound more insulting if I was listening to the verbal format?

[kcxiv]

Originally Posted by Spirit

Who cares about VG, it's over already. I got lvl10 in COD4 today, earned a camoed mp5 w/red sights and killed 12 people in an airstrike.

Actually, scratch that, I wish I was on a quest to kill horse flies

i am waiting for AC myself. CoD is ok, but not my kind of game.