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what was youre first reaction when you heard about pathfinder online

Goblin Squad Member

Giddy anticipation. An open world, sandbox, classless MMO with a player-based economy set in Golarion? Yes, please, thank you!

Goblin Squad Member

how can this KS allready be a week in without me knowing?-instant-backing

Goblin Squad Member

I must have read the blog via link with only a few blogs posted. Instant *click* these guys 'get it'. The forums were really good community too.

Possibly near the same time or just before a sandbox mmorpg still in dev had folded (something* dawn?). I really didn't expect to see a fantasy mmorpg sandbox that would be in development by an indie company that could have the potential to deliver, battling on so many fronts... :)

Goblin Squad Member

My work buddy showed me the game the day before they posted Your Pathfinder Online Character. I was moderately interested in it, but wary because he's also the guy who got me into Vanguard back before it came out. I was pretty down on all the current MMOs, especially after being so disappointed by Rift.

For some reason, I came back the next day and read the blog. I was blown away. It seemed like Ryan was specifically addressing the exact points that I had identified as being the real problem with most MMOs.

Looking back at some of my earliest posts, I'm remembering how excited I was, and how some themes have been utterly consistent for all this time.

Here's something I wrote on January 6th, 2012, well over a year and a half ago:

I hate getting griefed/ganked as much as the next guy, but I've long recognized the absolute necessity of non-consensual PvP.

... I remain utterly convinced that when the ship is fully righted, there will be non-consensual PvP, but it will bear consequences, just like in the real world, that will keep most people from doing it for trivial reasons.

I truly hope PFO succeeds in balancing the consequences of griefer behavior so that it is really minimized. But even if it doesn't, someone else will eventually. The future of MMOs will be non-consensual PvP.

Good Luck Goblinworks! From the bottom of my heart.

And from another post on the same day:

Nihimon wrote:
It's wonderful just having the chance to impact the design of the game by posting on these forums, and I sincerely hope that all the regular posters quickly get to recognize my name. And yes, I'm shamelessly trying to better my chances at being invited into that first group of 4,500.

I think it's fair to say I'm still very excited about the promise of PFO. And I'm extremely grateful that I made it into that first month of Early Enrollment :)

Goblin Squad Member

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I was curious when I first heard of it.

In the matter Nihimon brought up regarding non-consensual PvP: I do not understand how anyone can imagine role playing among (potentially) thousands of other players without it. It isn't because I want to kill anyone, but because if I am playing an interesting role and virtually living out a good story, that story will significantly rely on conflict because every story is about the resolution of a conflict.

One expression of conflict will be PvP. I think it will be found to be an invaluable and integral element of role playing if done rightly. I further think that had PvP been done rightly all along, in all those other games, then it would not have the antipathy it labors under today.

Goblin Squad Member

My boyfriend brought this into my viewscreen. Very skeptical at first. The more I read the more I like.

Goblin Squad Member

I remember someone in the TS I was on for Mortal Online talking about PFO and how it was an open world sandbox. He said high end players would be like raid bosses from themeparks and I thought "That's ridiculous! You can't have that level of disparity in a sandbox! How do they expect to make this work?!" Then I read the blog and saw no mention of high end characters being so OP, but I did see a lot of things I liked.

Goblin Squad Member

I was in a tent in a very very crappy part of the world when my buddy told me about this game. I was able to get enough internet time to give them way to much money and almost a year later here we are.

Goblin Squad Member

A pathfinder sandbox game.

Goblin Squad Member

I tend to browse kickstarters by the "ending soon" category. I saw PFO and it seemed awesome, so I backed it.


My initial thoughts? "Either this will be great, or a hilarious flop... Made by a team from CCP? Okay it will be great."

Goblin Squad Member

I remember being mildly interested but since it was an MMO I was hesitant to get involved. What I primarily remember, is my younger brother's reaction when I told him about the KS, several months after it finished: "Why didn't you tell me about it?!" :P

All of the features of PFO (including the whole dividing the map up into settlements and such and deciding your own form of government) are extremely exciting to him and he's STILL feeling awful about having missed the KS (he wanted to be there in the first three months when nations will be built).

Goblin Squad Member

I was excited because I wanted to play Pathfinder online.

Having read what is actually being developed and proposed, and the comments, intentions and attitudes of some of the people on these forums, I have to say that I am considerably more wary. Still prepared to buy into the Kickstarter and EE, but not quite so much as I was.

Goblin Squad Member

I can't remember but I must have been pretty excited because backed it :P

Goblin Squad Member

I've been pretty excited since I heard about it when I started playing Pathfinder (the tabletop game.) in 2011

Started doing other things around July-August 2013 than reading up on PFO. I'm still eager for it, but there's other things to do as well.


1/ find this news on internet : " Goblinworks Inc. is raising funds for Pathfinder Online: A Fantasy Sandbox MMO on Kickstarter!"

2/ i read the GW blog : these goblins are really crazy, they want to make THE mmorpg i wanted

3/ i cant wait now !

Goblin Squad Member

Awesome....until I realized it was open PvP....then I used some four letter words combined with Ryan's name to make some colorful sentences....but I stuck with it and blog after blog brought me around to understanding this might be fun.

Goblin Squad Member

I was introduced to PFO by "Goodfellow", while we were playing Mechwarrior Online. I have always been a bigger fan of Open World PVP Sandbox MMOs, more so than themepark MMOs.

To be honest, I had never even heard of Pathfinder RPG before last December, and it has been almost 25 years since I've played AD&D (2nd edition).

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throwback wrote:
what was youre first reaction when you heard about pathfinder online

Indifference... with added skepticism when I found out Ryan Dancey was in charge of it.

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