Photek wrote:By the way Monkey, it's playable all this week for alpha insiders 6-9pm and 11pm-2am, I think it's the E3 build. I'll be on tomorrow from 7ish if want to get on same ship and get drunk!
Their podcast gave hints about bounty hunting AI characters and other bits and bobs, the base game is excellent, if they can make the world sing with a variety of things to do it'll be huge.
They already have specific content to coincide with holidays etc.
While this is perhaps the sole Xbone game that makes me wish I had the console, what you describe - bounty hunting quests, holiday-specific events - sounds very typical of the MMO genre. I mean, ESO, Final Fantasy, Destiny et al. all have those staples.
What I am hoping for from the game is something new, perhaps a Rare-esque touch similar to what they used to be capable of. How satsifying or grind-y is the base game? What sort of things can you do? Is it more than just a "theme-park" MMO? As from what I have seen, it looks quite similar to ESO but with ships?
Is it cross-play on PC? I also wonder how lively it's going to be after release too, in a crowded multiplayer market and in a crowded MMO genre. If it does the business, I might pick up a sub-200 quid Xbox if the price drops when Scorpio comes out. Still the issue of only 3 people having one in Japan and not being able to find the games anywhere, mind.