love how he totally avoided the question about drop rate penalties

Best comment, by any developer ever....."we may not be the game for you". I love how direct and open Steven is about his game. Take it or leave it, but it is what is is. I really admire this and why I backed the project.

Appreciate you bringing this to KZbin and doing chapters for all the questions. You the man

Did he ask Steven why after all these years there's like only 20% of a zone available that even has content.... like that's crazy to me. When i saw what was available i was kinda taken back

I have two fears…and I am joining alpha 2 soon. 1) in a two side system one will going to dominate the other leaving a server where one side rules all. People will start leaving and others who join will only join the biggest team…so adding to the imbalance. Thats why a 3 side system would be better….or that we can hire good npc to figth with us. 2) multi class at lvl 25. If a rogue, priest or tank can get wizzard blink…the game is lost.

PvErs having to pvp: "NO I WILL NOT SUFFER THIS WAY I ONLY FIGHT MOBS" PvPers having to PvE: "Ugh fine just get me back to the meaty parts after this boring slop" PvXers: 🤩🤩🤩

Back in the FFXI days , the penalty for deaths was 10% deduction of the character total Exp. It was so bad, people would rather lay down on the ground for mins and hours and wait for high level rezes (which could avoid Exp deduction). When the death penalty system is too severe, it turns people away. This is a game, not a reality. My suggestion for AOC is to have a grace penalty on the first death, with only 50% penalties. The second death within a 3-hour period shall receive a 100% penalty. There is already enough penalties in this game already. You can lose city nodes, you can lose player housing, etc.

pvpers are talking shit like "go to another game" but they are wrong and stupid, no mmorpg will succeed today in 2024 and actually make money without solid pve content forget it you are clueless plus change the class name tank..that is just dumb.

Subscribed to see your reaction once A2 Phase 1 launches.

The biggest reason for gold sellers existing is because the economy makes it too hard to get the money you need. If making enough money wasn't like pulling teeth, the gold sellers would mostly die out.

If you want to balance pvp and pve, you need to rethink what pvp is because what we think of as pvp is only a TINY portion of what pvp actually is.

A death penalty for consensual open world PVP will ONLY DISCOURAGE players from doing it, which seems to be not what Ashes is going for.

Oh pa-lease top-gun pilots are complete credulus goobers who constantly chace reflections on their own canopies. And these top tier airforce generals are just regurgitating their own conspiracy addled childhoods watching the X-files, these congressional hearings are a total JOKE and a distractionary stunt. The people who DON'T see UFO's are peoples who's job is to actually look at the sky, astronomers, meteorologists etc. Every bit of video we get shown is blurry garbage despite cameras multiplying in number and resolution by a thousand fold in the last 30 years.

Good shit, Vlhad.

Awesome interview brother!

Loved this interview Vlhadus, you done an excellent job conducting your questions, some good nuggets in there, and the Alien chat was awesome 😂

Thank you so much for this <3

I knew you would get him, kudos that it was episode 100

Great interview. Damn i cant wait to play this game and im glad steven isnt caving into all these gamers that want to change his game. Cant wait for death penalties to come back to mmo's. even in pvp. Playing throne an liberty lately as a pvp minded gamer its still just not the same as old school mmo's like lineage 2. theres no meaning if you can just keep runing in and failing with no consiquences. PVE'rs dont fret, there will be plenty of pve.

Steve Sharif the Legend.

Thanks!

Great interview.

Love Steven’s take on death penalties. This was a great interview and I’m very excited to get to help test this game

Great work! What about RP.. i want more reasons to socialise and more activities and in-game social events

Happy 100th episode, man. Well deserved.

lol classic wow was easy af, that's why everyone played it. this guy is such a carebear

I'm glad you asked the question regarding the class system / playstyle variety within archetypes and classes.

now i got to know what role and characters steven plays in dota. Would be awesome to play some matches with him.

I am a FFXI(11) vet, we over level at max level as a buffer to have exp to lose but if you don't manage that pool you can delevel which sucked. I like this management that curves the debuff with preparations but you can still lose it if your not careful. PvE sort of means, let me hoard feeling instead of, let me hire PvP and drive more into the game. Spreading and growing your own honor and lore seems more fun.

Aliens! 👽 👾

Steven plays Dota-The game is in good hands. Now I know he knows the value of diverse spells and their impact which will be paramount when second archetype comes into play. If he said that he plays LoL where every skill is basically reskin of the same ability from other champ, I would be worried. XD

Great interview

Thanks to both parties for doing this interview! Some great nuggets were unearthed.

"Certain players" have been disinvited? You think "certain players" is narc?

Player hardcore wow and had a ton of fun. Failure should have consequences, 100% onboard with death penalties.

Great interview!

Amazing interview, thanks a lot!

The best interview ever! Congrats dude! This gave me the same vibes that the LazyPeon or the Asmongold interviews had back then. Best interview of 2024 Foh Suh!

ALIENS

L2 PvP, it’ll make you a better pve’r

Wow the big man himself grats great stream ❤

Great interview well done

Awesome interview!

Oh damn i forgot this was gonna happen!

What a legend Steven sharing info and constantly staying nice whilst he kept getting talked over the top of. Vlhadus, checkout 'Listening Triangle', really handy tool for knowing when your not listening, listening just to agree/disagree, listening to tell your own story, listening to action or listening to understand.

I can't wait for the chaos that will be the 25th

Super cool Vlhadus. Congratulations, buddy. ~Sunny

was there any mention on implementing proximity voice-chat?

Yes it has gotten better every test. Combat feels good. They stomp bugs pretty fast.

I am totally in the PvX community of players, because it is much more immersive and stimulates player dynamics, having experienced it in some rare games. The idea is your alliance of players will seek to offer "safe" buffer zones, with some playing as guardians/rangers so their harvester players and crafters can do their thing (without an organized local community though, there could be issues). Of course, my experience also makes me know it requires some moderation and exceptions (such as a central hub in town that would be 100% safe); which I presume is common wisdom though I have seen a few games ignore that obvious council from their players. :P Intrepid is listening, so I am not worried.