Happy Birthday Vanguard
Posted by Stropp on February 12, 2009Vanguard – Saga of Heroes recently celebrated its second birthday. I think congratulations are in order considering how bad the problems were at launch, and the generally negative impression that the game generated. For me, it was unplayable. Constant crashing, and a GUI graphics bug where the dialogs were corrupted and unreadable were the biggies for me. I stopped playing it at the time and haven’t done much with it since.
From what I’ve heard, Vanguard has come a long way since the launch. The latest comments on the game that I’ve read have been generally positive, I think Tipa describes it as a diamond in the rough, or something along those lines.
After the terrible launch, and the fallout and revelations of Brad McQuaids mismanagement leading to the sacking of a large number of the developers, and the disappearance of McQuaid from the public eye, the future looked grim for Vanguard. I’m happy to see that the future of Vanguard is now a lot brighter.
It’s great that the developers were able to pull this together, and that the game has been able to survive. It takes a lot of hard work to turn this sort of situation around. In my mind, we shouldn’t just be wishing Vanguard a happy birthday, we should be congratulating the developers on a job well done.
Grats Vanguard Devs.
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Im really surprised its still going, my friend still plays it because he is stubborn but even when you really push him on it he does buckle and say it is still a bugged mess. I guess like every game however it will have its fans, and in its case it seems enough to justify its existance.
Its a crying shame as I do think if given the correct attention it would be a great game (same for conan) however after paying for them at release Im too bitter to go back.
Ah Vanguard. I bought it on a whim from Best Buy, installed it, played for 30 minutes, and canceled the account. I don’t remember how buggy it was, I just remember how ugly the character models were.
Still, points to SOE for saving the game and sticking with it.
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