Ashes of Creation Has a PR Problem 

I've heard so much from both sides of the debate on this game that I am sure there's a ton I missed. But I feel pretty good with their progress so far. Thank you for watching, please subscribe and let me know what you think of Ashes of Creation. Are you looking forward to Alpha 2?

I completely forgot about the original 2018 release aim. You'd think 4 years after that date they would have a little more to show for it than what we currently have.

I am very cautiously optimistic.

Cant wait for Alpha 2, ill finally get to test it out.

Thanks for the informative video. With the overflow of info it can be hard to see the whole debate. Also I'm wicked jelly of your fabulous hair.

Just like the One Piece Live Action adaptation. What I've seen so far looks good and keeps getting better. So I'm being cautiously optimistic.

11/10. Nice to see an honest, thorough and balanced appraisal over time. Even if I do think you are nit picking about personally funding to the tune of 30-40 million. My argument would be, the initial 3 million from the kickstarter must have been long spent by now. ;)

I don't need to be skeptic because they have everything to succeed. Having been already paid to complete and beyond gives me a lot of hope and also they don't have shareholders. Shareholders is the most destructive thing for a game.They only see profit..not a name not a brand not a game.. I'm not cautiously optimistic I think too many people are copying this from when Asmolgold started saying it all the time. I bought 3 packs of skins because I have a good job and I believe in this project. I never give money to a game I see is just bollocks..

Wow. Great video. Keep it up. Subsribed.

as a kickstarter who played aplha1 I will say it's not a scam...I will agree Intrepid does haver some PR issues.

I'm really considering getting alpha 2 pass

It's just Alpha phase and fully funded. I think it's not time yet to PR.

Doesn't 'feel' scam. Has a pretty basic but cool idea [nodes]. Even if poorly implemented would be a nice addition. I guess Alpha 2 will be the real test/proof.

The intrepid team is >140 people right now

The same could be said for Star Citizen.. It's been in development for years. I see videos of both games online being played so it's best to have patience. Any project can fail, it's not like he got all the crowd funding etc and ran.

enable subtitles please!

Good on you. Pointing out how some push games. It's really a big chunk of RU-vid now and it's more than just games. The whole thing is commercialized pretty much. However, more power to you as it's actually not a bad thing. If you're a cute chick and start a gaming channel it's nearly a guaranteed 100k subs lol. That there is beautiful. 🤠

Vapor ware

You dont gotta hope or dismiss anything, time will pass and game comes out or not. I would be very glad if it turned out great as portrayed, if not, oh well, life goes on jeeez. And those people that invested in the project, everyone knows it might not be what they hoped for so they are aware what they went into. This whole discussion back and forth is a waste of time -.- not for content creators tho, got something to do alright

I am skeptical of this game, but not for a lot of the reasons I keep hearing from others. For me, the core of an mmo is how fun the PVE is. Right now the combat and PVE looks like dog shit to me. The players who participated in the alpha said they disliked the majority of the quests that sent them running really far across the map to slay a couple mobs using a combat system that felt unrewarding. I wouldn't even bother getting hyped about PVP or the node system until they really polish the basic combat and PVE. Not everyone is going to be able to join the top guilds on the server, so if you're going to keep the game alive you're going to need a rewarding end game for them that isn't player driven (pvp/raids) as well. I feel like they're going to fall into the same mistakes as Archeage, where the top guilds immediately claimed the best end game territories and you couldn't really participate in end game raid content unless you were a member of one. This kind of game design leads smaller guilds or solo players to quit. Being able to maintain these smaller players is super important for an mmo to feel "alive" or populated outside of the top players. Smaller guilds need to be able to run fun PVE content to help them get better gear so they can possibly take on the big established guilds in the PVP sieges. If they can't nail this aspect, I do not think we will see the node system function the way they claim it will, "transforming" the world and having established nodes be downgraded to unlock nearby nodes for other player groups. It will be a more static game if no one wants to do PVE and in turn no one feels like they can take on the bigger guilds. Albion online has the best comparison to the node system I've seen, where guilds can lose their territories to other guilds and it's quite brutal. My large guild mostly quit the game after we lost our territory and all of our equipment that was stored there. The thing was, even if it sucked to lose your territory and equipment, at least the game really did have a world that was constantly changing and you were always at risk of being challenged by someone at a level equal to you. I'm skeptical that Ashes of Creation will be able to overcome the loss of players that will want to quit after such an event, or that the game will have enough long term players that these events will even happen on a regular basis.

here is a crazy obscure idea , wait until the game comes out and honest reviews are made on it then make up your minds, crazy right ?

*Ashes is funded to completion, there isn't a problem.*

ok so 1. They had sped up node progression for Alpha 1 and capped them to a level 3 node from what I remember so within the first five minutes of the video there's some misinformation. 2. everything you went over with the marketing side is pretty accurate and I even as an alpha key holder agree their marketing is concerning. 3. I can tell you are not someone who has followed the project closely, just now reacting to the siege battle from alpha 1, just now finding out there's a mini-map and a guild system ect. It seems like you spent a couple hours researching the negative spotlight of their marketing but didn't put much effort into researching the development of the game itself and it shows because of those minor things that surprised you like the minimap and guild system. To my surprise at the end of the video your stance and perception of the project is not far from my own. Overall you are very well spoken and put together a decent video, but I hope you take more time to research the game itself in the future. keep up the hard work.

But are you just one nerd, desperate for a good mmo?