/svidya/ - Strictly Vidya

hopefully we'll be able to get into different region servers cause NA is gonna be run by Nexon

>>16874

It's the opposite, Nexon is in charge of the Korean release and as far as anyone can imc is self-publishing in NA and distributing through Steam. They've also stated that different regions may develop the game differently, depending on the community (for better or worse).

>>16876

I'm hoping this means they might opt for B2P instead of F2P for the west. Either way, it's not a big issue since, as far as I can tell, there's no PvP.

Seeing them publish the game themselves is fucking fantastic though. I was really worried Nexon was going to, and that usually spells doom.

>>16890

I guess devs are aware of Nexon's failure in the west.

Though I am worried about regions developing seperately. The west has a far more casual userbase that will cry and scream until they dont have to pay attention to level.

>>16892

I also remember a blog post about them saying they don't like what F2P does to games, but they have to do it due to korean laws or something. They seem pretty competent.

As far as I know asia is pretty casual, at least Japan is. I somehow doubt they'll lower the difficulty of the main content for the west since Ragnarok was basically untouched in that regard and it was pretty damn popular here.

I can't imagine them doing anything majorly different, but we will see.

>>16893

B2P would be cool but I'm wondering how they'd stay afloat long-term with that model.

new Q&A post

http://blog.treeofsavior.com/en/?p=395

seems like the game still needs lots of work but it also seems like the work will pay off

Since they're going for a ridiculous amount of classes, I'm hope the focus of the grind is making lots of rerolls with a quickish level cap.

>>17047

I don't think that's the case at all given how "classes" work. Still, I'm not opposed to grinding provided it doesn't feel quite as masochistic as RO often did nor as soulless as WoW.

>>17009

>A) We concluded that the reason why the quests feel somewhat boring is because the game is supplying too many quests

>Instead of supplying too many quests that are lacking in their purposes and meanings, we believe that it will be more meaningful for players to search for the quests enthusiastically themselves so we are planning to hide most of the quests

Good lord, yes! I mean, we'll all know where they are within the first few days or weeks but still. Running from quest to quest and hub to hub is something I got tired of pretty quickly. Yet here I am playing FF14

>Q) It seems that the speed of the battles is somewhat slow. Do you have future plans to make them little faster?

>A) In present MMO games, the servers calculate and share everything so with that underlying constraint present, we actually maximized the speed of the battles in the game. You may feel like that since TOS servers should allow the inputs whenever you attack. Please understand it as a characteristic of the genre.

Seems plenty fast from the videos, considering the genre.

>The mouse control that we are testing at the moment. It will be used with WASD.

Pretty fucking neato though I'll still probably use controller depending on my build.

Overall it's looking good. I hope they release the game during a major break, though. It'd be really tempting to play during the semester despite all the work I have to do.

>>17047

from the skill calculator the OP posted it seems to me that classes are more like tiers in a kill tree

so you can end up being several classes on a single character

Seems all right. Depends what the gameplay is like. I play healers and there seems a fair amount of variety in the cleric classes.

>>17126

From what I can tell when you go up levels you get to pick your next class, out of two, or stay with your existing class and there's also a hidden class that can pop up at any rank.

>Using the Swordsman example, at Rank 2 you can advance into Highlander and Peltasta. However, if you wish to continue to use Swordsman, you can advance into Swordsman Rank 2 Circle 2. The highest circle each class can advance to is Circle 3, or Swordsman Rank 3 Circle 3.

>Higher circle classes unlocks new and more powerful skills. During class advancement, all previous skills are carried forward to your current class.

http://toswiki.treeofsaviorgame.com/class/introduction

>>17187

The idea is that it'll help keep them funded without resorting to the usual cash shop P2W faggotry that accompanies F2P games. Since they'd be getting some money with each copy sold they can more feasibly limit their shop to shit that doesn't mess with gameplay. The Secret World follows this model and to my knowledge they're not doing too badly with most of their cash items being cosmetic and stories. Granted, that's more of a story-/atmosphere-driven game so they can pump out those adventures alongside cosmetics but the basic idea is the same.

I am quite cautious about the developers of this game. I remember all the scrapped content that was done in Black Desert compared to it before by that game's developers. It may happen to this game or not but so far its gotten me interested.