I think the obvious question that was not asked is “How does this differ from EVE Online?”

SORRY: He said it first MELF ^^^

Melf_Himself says:

No offense, but your journalism skills fail if you don’t ask them to describe how their game is an improvement to Eve

EVE is all u need to know. F this game play EVE. IF u wan something where u controll your aim play a fighter pilot game.

Im sorry this game is too much like EVE. NOT even goning to waste my time. if u want to waste yours play runescape

The final decision about the server configuration being single or multiple sharded has not been made yet.

Hmm, perhaps a bit late to start making fundamental decisions about the architecture of your game. It could end up like, oh I dunno, EVE.

Yes, flame me all you want but their single server thing has been plagued by bad architectural decisions, starting off with them thinking the best persistent datastore on a cluster is microsoft sql server. That’s always bugged me about eve. That, and the amount of time I had to think about these issues when their infrastructure was down yet again.

But yeah, ask about voice-over guy next time.

While important sectors like mission hubs or any other gathering places will be persistent, the major part of the game will play in instances to allow players to enjoy the story and missions alone or with their friends, without interference from other players.

Oh, that’s disappointing to say the least! I had hoped for a fun version of otherwise awe-inspiring EVE Online. ;-)

Anyway, this is clearly not a proper MMO, but much more of a Diablo 2 or Guild Wars type of thing. And I agree with whoever said he wouldn’t pay a subscription for this: I’d never do that either.

If they are indeed going to push for subscriptions for this, they’ll have to do a bang-up job on the game itself. I mean, it’d nearly have to be the game of the latter half of this decade for me to pay subscription for a co-op game.

Cunk: Maybe it was just me, but in the last part of the gameplay video it looked like the player was manning a capital ship turret.

Torgen: Do you mean Allegiance?

I really, really miss Alliance.

See Nallen’s comment.

I dunno like Derek.
I’ve been following JGE for ages, and the general feeling was the the original Jumpgate failed for two main reasons.
It was super hardcore and difficult to get to grips with.
It wasn’t marketed sufficiently.

Codies seem to be doing enough about the latter.

And they are doing everything they can to ensure that they make it as easy to get into as possible.
Some of the content they have been showing off looks really impressive.

The beta should be starting in the next two weeks.
I can’t wait to see what it’s like.

I know Jim has had a preview for it, and whilst he hasn’t said anything about it yet, his comment on one of the last podcasts about twitch gaming and JGE was encouraging.