Do you think the game will live up to it's hype?

All hyped games live on unrealistic expectations. I'm definitely very excited for Ashes, mainly because it has all the features I love in mmos, but it will never live up to the, already huge, expectations people have attributed to it. And the closer we get to the release, the bigger those expectations will become. It's only downhill from here imo (and by "here" I really mean 2020's Peon video ).

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I believe this game will live up to 95% of its hype, and if it fails some it will be because the community forgot about something and the developers did too, and someone will come around years later and go 'hey you guys were gonna do this and you didn't'.

Let's go Tristan/$SelfInsertDevNameHereYouKnowILoveYouAllExceptThatGuyYouKnowWhoYouAreToo:(!

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That might also mean some people explicitly choosing to be more aggressive than they would be at the START of a game's life, just to 'see if they get away with it'. I'm still deciding if my gang is going to actually do this, but the other issue is that it won't work if people who 'could Bounty Hunt but wouldn't want to spend all their time doing it' immediately jump to doing it because it's a new experience.

This is gonna be one of the hardest tests to orchestrate I've ever seen anyone attempt. Good luck to whoever's on behavioural metrics at Intrepid. Blink twice if you need us to randomly kill more people.