On this week’s show, Justin sits down with Ashes of Creation’s Steven Sharif to talk about the game’s successful Kickstarter, handling a wild community, and the next steps for this up-and-coming sandbox MMORPG.
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Show notes:
- Intro
- What is Ashes of Creation?
- What do you like best about some other MMOs you’ve played?
- What’s the office environment like there at Intrepid?
- Why was this Kickstarter such a success?
- What did you learn from the Kickstarter process?
- Why did the web store take so long to start up?
- Will the store post totals? Why no stretch goals?
- Will there be continued fundraising?
- Have you done anything to mitigate complaints about the affiliate system?
- How much of the game is playable right now?
- Will we start getting blog posts again?
- How do you time nodes so they don’t feel too quick or too static?
- What is the roadmap for this year?
- How will you wrangle a contentious community?
- What traditional MMO systems and features are you rethinking for Ashes?
- What will the housing system be like?
- Outro
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