Interesting post from Jon NEVERDIE Jacobs:
For a long time I have heard negative feedback about the amount of NEVERDIE branding on ROCKtropia..
I have largely dismissed it... But I guess some people dont like to visit ROCktropia because of the NEVERDIE Branding..
There are some Who Believe that it is not the economy that is holding ROCKtropia back, but the NEVERDIE Brand.
I on the other hand, feel the biggest issue facing ROCKtropia is a well balanced economy that can at least to some extent hold its own with Calypso and other Planets... followed by the need for a great starter experience, followed by a fantastic marketing campaign...
I have been trying to address the economic issues with little success for the last three years..... I Know, we need better balanced mobs, too many High level mobs, We need better loot lists, too many of the items that drops are TT food, we need some Rare items with High TT. I know we need to re-balance all the Weapon BPs and add a decent Number of Unlimited BPs... Of course we need to make sure the weapons are also worth crafting... We need to review all the ingredients required for the BP's to make sure they are dropping in the right proportions and we need to make sure that MU cost of the ingredients is not so high that the weapons become too expensive to hunt with...
I also know we need a Lot more decent weapons in the Loot, so that hunters are not entirely dependent on crafters... We also Probabaly need a Bunch more Mining Amp BPs or other tools that use up Dedicated RT resources...
And we need to address Bugs... And we need to do alot more events...
These things I do know and for various reasons I have to start over almost from scratch to make this happen...
But Do I also need to Remove the NEVERDIE branding? And do you want to have the RT specific ORES and Enmaters names changed so that they are no longer named after Cocktails and Music genres? I only ask this because some people out there would like me to believe that this is the big Problem.
SO please I encourage you to vote in the Poll if you are someone who visits ROCKtropia and has feelings on the subject...
Share your sentiment...
A big Yes or a Big No... also please write anything else you may have to say in this thread, because I need you to weigh in on the subject... Also please ask your friends who don't visit this forum to come and say there piece..
This is an important opportunity to express how you feel about the NEVERDIE brand in Entropia Universe...
Finally I will clarify what NEVERDIE means to me...
Firstly I wasn't born with the name NEVERDIE, but my avatar was, its a name I came up with when I wrote a movie script back in 1999/2000 about a World Champion MMO Virtual/World Gamer... it was a fictional Character... I liked the Idea of a gamer who was so good, that he Never died...... That was how it started..
A couple of years later, I heard about Project entropia and I realized it was much like the Worlds i had imagined in my story,I signed up to beta test and I named my avatar Jon NEVERDIE Jacobs, the name of the character in my script was Jean NEVERDIE Baptiste... (Jean Claude Van Damme was interested at the time)
So thats how the Brand got started... I still want to make the Movie or a revised version of it, of course my own Virtual life has become Very colorful and I continue to try to build the brand with the hope that one day I can make it big enough to launch a movie...
I'm very excited that I am working now with Universal Studios bringing Movie IP to ROCKtropia and Entropia Universe and who knows maybe that will lead to something Virtual becoming a Movie one day... Stranger things have happened right?
some other things have happened along the way that affect how I feel about the name NEVERDIE, someone I cared for very deeply died and through that NEVERDIE came to mean something else to me, it has come to mean Striving to live forever, never giving up, it also ties in with a Sci-Fi dream of mine that we may one day be able to upload of consciousness into our avatars and actually Never die...
Also because of the success of Club NEVERDIE and the feedback I have received over the years from people who aspire to be succesfull in Virtual Reality, I see NEVERDIE as a sort of symbol of living the digital Dream.. of what can be achieved in a virtual world or a video game... I know that I fail many times, so perhaps the story of NEVERDIE may even end up a cautionary tale. But regardless, I'm touched that even if just for a few people the name NEVERDIE inspires some kind of hope...
LoL okay so u get the picture... Now let me know what you feel, I'm listening. Please get as many people to vote as you can, coz there are people who would like to see this Brand erased from RT and unless enough people say that NEVERDIE isn't the problem, then they may even succeed...
LINK to the POLL http://www.rocktropia.com/forum/t17969/
Neverdie, I realize this thread is dated, however thought it might be a good place to post. I just made my first trip to Rocktropia to 'check it out'. Have been mostly away from PE/EU for 3-4 yrs but have been reading to keep up with changes and events in game, and started back playing Dec of 2013. I used to travel to CND for mining in the domes and visited crystal palace, but most of my time was focused on calypso.
ReplyDeleteI loved the totally different feel about rocktropia with the cities having less of a futuristic look to them and the tp's are cool, I mean you got to love the old phone booth which has mostly disappeared from the US. Most of the other terminals are neat ways to do those actions differently, but would rather be able to avoid the semi nude females.
One of my first experieces was a quest to get in the bar and once inside part of the mission was to go attack citizens on the street and policemen! That was kind of offensive and totally unacceptable behavior. If you don't want people to do that in RL then maybe they should not be encouraged to do that in virtual life.
Tried to hunt various mobs, and had to tickle Kong with the marber just to see how much damage he would do, LOL! Awesome. Was totally disappointed in the hunting experience, other than some new and odd loot names and appearances it was hunting at a great loss.
Now I plan to explore the rock a bit and then go home to calypso.
Seeing Kong makes me think of the weekly hunting events you used to run on CND. I met you there a couple of times, and used to watch you guys getting ready for the event to start. they were rather exclusive and way over my head at the time, and even now. But with Kong you have the ability to run a weekly hunting event that would be great for all levels of players due to team loot aspect. On top of the draw of being able to team hunt the kong, (knowing there would a team event at a certain time, a lot of players would probably give it a try to be able to meet Neverdie, and be able to go hunting with you. If they try it they might even make the trip on a weekly basis.
overall was an interesting trip, and neat to see some new ideas, but turned off by the need to only login when my kids are somewhere else due to not much clothing on females, and don't really see the reason for 'hell' and satanic names and themes.
Rocktropia has some problems, but also has some good places. I enjoyed hunting zombies near half ruined buildings and warewolfs and other cool mobs, Just stay away from the naked girls and you will be ok :)
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