Adventurer's Guild

Real quick, my brother has published a few miniature war games. He and his partner Barry Hilton ( link ) have been running the gamut of historical game design for a while. Two things happened today. He sent me the play test rules for Beyond the Gates of Antares by Rick Priestly and the servers went down for maintenance in ArcheAge. I had to find something to do with all this downtime. He and I had a conversation a while back about his day job with the phone company and how quite literally his talents are somewhat unused with his current job. Like he makes way too much money with Verizon to ever leave that position and take up gaming full time. The mortgage on his beautiful home, the need for medical insurance, having the quality of life he does gets in the way of doing what you want. But at the time he said, unless I can come up with the next Games Workshop,... so my little brain went to work. The new Tron movie had hit the theaters and being the guy that I am marketing a mov

So it has been years since I seriously played an MMO. I was interested in getting back into something and I decided to try out ArcheAge. It has a few key points that drew me in. First off it is brand new. I loved being in the initial rounds of a new game in the past, and there is something difficult about running a game with a million players, tons of alts, where everything has been done over and over. It kind of loses its appeal. You are competing for resources with people who have owned the world for so long that it is nearly impossible for you to make your way through things. Sandbox-style games where the economy is player driven really appeals to me. ArcheAge has done brilliantly with that. Day one the land was completely gone. Players in ArcheAge have the ability to place houses and farms in designated areas. Houses are places to keep your stuff and farms are for gathering resources. The trick here is that rather than providing world spawns where folks roam around and