Pantheon

[Apatheist]

No developer is going to actively endorse boxing. Whether it will continue to be tolerated will depend on how much impact it has on other players experience.

In the developer interviews I've read they've stated that there will be an macro system to allow you to assign console commands to hotkeys and I know that there's already an /assist function in-game. Unsure about /follow. I may fork out for a couple of founder accounts if the game still looks promising by the time they move into beta.

One of my complaints about "niche" games like Pantheon or various PvP-centric games that have released over the last decade is that the developers always cave in to the demands of tourists that have no long-term interest in the game to begin with. They develop a game for a niche market, get a bunch of backing from an audience interested in that market and then the game releases and gets flooded with a bunch of tourists who are temporarily bored of WoW or other games. Those players then whine about the game being too difficult or PvP being too harsh, etc. The developers cater to that crowd and start making adjustments and, of course, all the tourists end up going back to the game they came from and the original backers are left with a watered down POS that nobody wanted so they end up unsubscribing too.

I've seen it happened multiple times. Age of Conan is the best example. Hopefully this development team has the nuts to stick with their vision and not cave in to the casuals that won't be there 6 months after release either way.