Jane Austen MMO Hits Kickstarter Goal: Mr. Darcy Can Finally Be Yours
Ever, Jane just squeaked by and reached their $100k Kickstarter goal, by giving pledge rewards like an "Associate producer" credit for $500 and a "Lead Producer" credit for $5000, in case you want to pizzazz your resume. This regal MMO will allow players to wield gossip as their weapon of choice, as you build your status through social ladder-climbing rather than slaughtering foes.
By reaching their $100k goal 3 Turn Productions can now turn their prototype into a fleshed out MMO. With a character customization system, and a mail system, in the works, Ever, Jane will also develop activities such as dinner parties, balls, hunting, sewing, fishing, and card games. Players will also eventually be able to travel between villages, and if you're fancy you can use a horse and buggy.
While it may be technically released as a free-to-play game in the future, there are definitely going to be some major perks for paying players. According to the Kickstarter page, the free-to-play option will allow "you to be a peasant and you have 3 months to find work or starve (or poach, but you can go to jail if you get caught)". The subscriptions range from $5-50, with the $50 option giving you a "royal title, an estate, and your own town".
Who doesn't want to own their own town?
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It's time to play some XDefiant.
This game looks like a SIMS MMO to me and I find Sims and other simulation games really disturbing and scary.
Someone slap me i just used that term.
Why the hell can't you people just go on you're merry way instead of flaming something that is just out of the ordinary?
- Run around and gossip about people that aren't near you
- Role-play
- Mini games
So basically it's a game where you just gossip all the time(imagine going around just clicking on other persons and selecting "gossip about XX".
And if you're bored of the monotonous clicking then you play mini-games.
And the role play isn't a feature by itself. You can create any online game you want and add "RP" to the name of the server and suddenly it's a role playing focused server.
If there are no in-built features in the game that support the role playing aspect then there's no difference to any other game. You could just go around playing mini-games all the time and not role play at all.
The good side is that because there are hardly any games that aim to create a role playing experience, this game will be an addition to the small market of RP games.
Nice going granny
Granted it's still going to crash and burn upon arrival, but still.
All that money wasted could've gone to support real games.