Category: Ashes of Creation Columns
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Ashes of Creation at PAX West 2018: What I Learned from Steven Sharif & Jeffrey Bard
On the Saturday of PAX shortly after lunch I had what is probably one of the coolest experiences yet since I started writing for MMORPG.com – I got a chance to sit down CEO / Creative Director Steven Sharif and Lead Game Designer Jeffrey Bard to talk a…
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Ashes of Creation – February Live Stream: What We Learned
February 9th brought us another Ashes of Creation livestream, giving us a glimpse of the games group content, node events, and more. If you missed it and your curiosity is piqued we got our notes on the hour-long live stream for your reading pleasure!…
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Ashes of Creation – Friends & Family Live Stream Recap
If you didn’t get a chance to watch the live stream of Ashes of Creation Friends and Family alpha, you really missed out on a wealth of information. We learned a lot from just watching the stream unfold organically, so if you missed it the stream or t…
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Ashes of Creation – City Hall – Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day
Politics and MMORPGs aren’t things that usually mix well. Every game that tries to bring the player run cities and politics to the gaming world usually ends up with a bunch of toxic people running around killing anything they can get their hands on. …
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Ashes of Creation – The Mighty Beard – Changing the Way Taverns work in MMOs
Most of us are familiar with the tavern or inn within an MMO game world. It’s generally a last stop before logging off to get rested XP or a first stop when arriving somewhere new to make it your new home. The Ashes of Creation developers are hoping …
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Ashes of Creation – Why I?m Excited, But Avoiding Hype
Enter Ashes of Creation. Here is a game that is marketing itself to someone in my exact shoes; people missing that wonderment and immersion and most importantly the sense of community that comes from grouping being a primary means of getting things ac…
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Ashes of Creation – 19,576 Backers Later…
Ashes of Creation ran a wildly successful Kickstarter Campaign, we tasked our grizzled crowd funded MMORPG veteran Timothy Eisen with a post campaign write up that covers victory, some soul searching and some words of experience.
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Ashes of Creation – Ashes Crushed KickStarter. What Next?
This week Tim Eisen takes a tongue-in-cheek look at how Ashes of Creation crushed it’s Kickstarter campaign in a single day! He looks at what their Kickstarter performance means and offers some post campaign advice.
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Ashes of Creation – Ashes of KickStarter
This week we follow a tale of two Tim’s. One of youthful optimistic naivete and one of aged bitter cynicism. Both offer their take on Ashes of Creation’s impending Kickstarter.
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Ashes of Creation – Open Questions Are OK
Let’s get right to that pink polka dotted elephant in the room, how about that trailer? I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that I’m always conflicted if not saddened by pre-alpha trailers. Why? Over the years, I’ve learned a thing or two from following MMOR…