Music by Tom Jones.

There will be people that lose interest because it's not about ponies anymore (because they were only into it because of that, in the first place), but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I've seen some comments with that sentiment. Fair, but that was never the absolute biggest thing for me. It looked like a solid game.

Me, I'm going to stick around because I'm curious to see what they'll come up with.

It's official. Lauren wins at life.

On a less awesome note, Questria is un-ponying itself so they don't get Hasbrowned. So...now it's basically just Realms of Everquest.

edited 2nd Mar '13 12:39:48 AM by Pykrete

But isn't one of the reasons Fighting is Magic got C&D'd because it was getting too much attention? I've barely heard anything about Questria. Just keep these games a bit on the down low until you finish them and things should be fine.

Well it would also be an online coop game, so getting a C&D anytime after release would be disastrous too.

That's a rather glaring flaw with most of the pony games in development, really. Almost all of them are primarily or exclusively multiplayer and need a server to not get C&D'd.

edited 2nd Mar '13 1:08:22 AM by Pykrete

Lauren is BOSS (well she tweeted about it :V)

Well if we set something up with a Terraria-esque local server hosting function and the ability to use/share mods, we could make a game and then ponify it :V

edited 2nd Mar '13 2:07:17 AM by AceOfScarabs

Lauren Faust, you lovely woman, you.

THIS one is legit

Ahoy hoy!

Wow...they...look a lot better...but, now I worry about the humanisation side of the fandom art.

What's to worry about?

Regular humanizations will persist. Doxy and Maniacpaint and Glanco should provide a lot more :D

There's canonical humanisations now. They seem to be how they are supposed to look as humans.

That ain't stopping the fan reintepretations :V

Not to worry. There will always be someone willing to give AJ thighs of steel or Pinkie a bit of pudge.

I hope so.

I think I would have appreciated that announcement from Lauren & Mane 6 more if I hadn't read the Derpibooru comments on it. There was this guy hammering on the idea that Friendship Is Magic was pretty much the only good idea Lauren Faust has ever had. But then again, he was talking about Fourchan as though he were familiar with the place and his username quite intentionally had the letters "nigg" in it, so to hell with him.

edited 2nd Mar '13 4:00:03 AM by JakesBrain

Me too. AJ shouldn't have the same body type as Rarity. She should be freaking ripped.

That's dumb. One of the reasons people were willing to give Fi M a shot in the first place is because she was behind it, that wouldn't be the case if she'd never done anything worthwhile before.

edited 2nd Mar '13 4:00:30 AM by Crowfall

Clearly you can disregard that blighter, he's from the Eternal Summer (Spoilers: I am also a 4channer, but I am from before the Eternal Summer and know how to behave myself).

Well it's nice to see that Lauren Faust is actually going to follow through on her offer. Since it's going to be all new characters I do wonder what they will come up (assuming they don't decided to just do Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls).

Also we finally get to see the official Equestria Girls designs and. . .blegh. Yeah. . . Happy 30th Anniversary MLP.

The hell is Eternal Summer?

edited 2nd Mar '13 4:13:38 AM by Mio

Eternal Summer = the time when kids are out of school and free to fuck around on the Internet, extended to fucking around on the Internet all goddamn year long. I don't know what it means on That Message Board, but the Usenet version of it was flipped the other way around, the "Eternal September".

Basically, September was infamous for being the time when college kids got back to school, got more access to their school's computers, and would fuck around on Usenet posting braindead crap and ignoring etiquette. And then America Online made Usenet access a feature, and the Usenet bulletin boards were inundated with noobs and teenage assholes all year round. (Like I said, I'm not a hundred percent certain when the Eternal Summer started, but I suspect it has to do with That Website's founder instituting anonymous posting on all boards.)

But yeah, this douchebag basically said that Lauren's projects are all the same — one or two moments of sheer genius, a dozen pretty good ideas, and about four or five horrible fucking ideas that will poison the whole damn thing if somebody doesn't for God's sake talk her out of them. Horrible ideas like thinking that you can do a magical-girl series (like Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls) as a straightforward action-comedy, with no parodic elements, and somehow keep the show from being sneered at as an anemic ripoff of Sailor Moon or The Powerpuff Girls and canceled in the first season. Horrible ideas like the characters she personally helped develop for Foster's Home, who repeatedly came off as The Scrappy...

You know, dumb shit like that.

edited 2nd Mar '13 4:44:26 AM by JakesBrain

I don't want to sound like a gushing fan but, all that about Lauren just isn't true.

Wait, 4chan has complete anonymous posting by mandate? I thought that was just a "cultural" thing. But, thanks. That actually makes a lot of sense.

Also about Lauren Faust. Yeah she's had a couple not so great ideas, and I don't think my personal taste and hers line up very well, but that is all very stupid.

I believe the term is "tripfag".

edited 2nd Mar '13 5:12:21 AM by Mio

I believe they coined the term "namefag", even.