The game raked in billions of dollars over its run and they re-invested almost none of that back into it. This decline could have been prevented but I suspect now it is too late.
Originally posted by scorpex-x It's kinda sad honestly, they tried something different and they got railed pretty hard for it.
I played it during a free access beta and although I kinda liked it, the art style was a huge turn-off to me. Loony…
Originally posted by scorpex-x It's kinda sad honestly, they tried something different and they got railed pretty hard for it.
I played it during a free access beta and although I kinda liked it, the art style was a huge turn-off to me. Loony…
Wheel of Time's universe could be amazing. But dear God you would have to be SO SO CAREFUL in your gameplay design. Aes Sedai in the books are overpowered to the point of ridiculousness. If you gimped them, people would bitch. If you didn't gimp the…
Nothing generates clicks and comments quite like an SWG "What-if" article.
Am I the only one who remembers Pre-CU accurately? Having to *stand in line* for ten minutes to get doctor buffs, without which you couldn't put your *armor on*? Having thre…
Pfft, things we want in our MMOs? That list writes itself. It's far more important to establish what we *don't* want. (or at the least, what I don't want. Your mileage may vary on this list.)
1) No more old-school WoW quests, with quest text I don'…
Bottom line, the game just bored the piss out of me. No aspect of it gripped me for even a minute. The combat was clunky, the quests were mindless, if it's not fun to play and the story isn't engaging then all you've got is a big wad of nothing. Tha…
I'm so tired of hearing "No, we don't need 'X' made into an MMO because they'd ruin it." I don't accept the premise of that argument.
For example, Mass Effect is one people always say that about. "Nooo, they'd screw it up!" Assume for a minute that…
That's the power of Chris Roberts' name. Fans of his work back in the Wing Commander days are all grown up now, and have disposable income and a powerful thirst to return to his world. People think this is crazy but it's really not, all we are doing…
Ugh. The sheer amount of ignorance on display in this thread is sickening.
Women come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Fat, thin, tall, short, large breasts, small breasts, and everything in between. Men do too but we generally don't care if we…
A good IP for an MMO, to me, has to have a few properties:
1) A strong sense of setting
2) Not too character specific
3) Factions, and a driver for conflict
So, a Terminator post-Skynet MMO would work, because that's a powerful setti…
When people say "WoW clone" they are usually talking about one of three things:
1. Blocky, low-res, cartoony models for both characters and game objects
2. Push-button combat that includes a gazillion powers on multiple tray rows
3. NPCs…
I still play now and then.
Having admitted that, this game did serve an important purpose in the MMO industry, believe it or not. Companies are finally starting to realize, cloning WoW is a bad idea. Bioware came onto the scene and shouted, in the …
This article is completely wrong. Those are *not* the reasons. The real reasons are as follows:
1) Every Quest In The Game Is Boring
Probably the most glaring problem with WoW is its boring quest structure. Thousands of quests to do, and every sin…
Silly to think they would do anything else. Same thing with WildStar. They'll go with the monthly fee and milk it as long as they can to recoup their development costs, then convert to a F2P model about a year after launch.
This is always the plan…
Or, you know, you could make your quest objectives *interesting* instead of basing completion around killing monsters.
Just, you know, throwing that out there.
Originally posted by Razeekster
I am hoping they are hard at work on the game itself... Not sure why they need so much money.
The initial round of crowd funding was to shore up a gap in numbers. They were getting a certain amount from investors, i…
Originally posted by Nanfoodle
This blows my mind. Blind trust the gaming community has is something we are going to pay for later I am sure.
It's not really all that blind. Chris Roberts gave us Wing Commander 1, 2, 3, and 4. He gave us Starlanc…