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morpinmorpin Member Posts: 360
in The Pub at MMORPG.COM

I just read an article on Yahoo saying that Atari was getting involed in the MMORPG business. 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081211/lf_nm_life/us_videogames_atari;_ylt=AkDLWv2TilBi_wU6uJQxQhcDW7oF

 

 

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  • ShadoedShadoed Member UncommonPosts: 1,459

    infogrames, Atari and Cryptic is a pretty potent force, big mix of experience in promotion, publishing, branding and development, could be a pretty impressive combination.

    It must be Thursday, i never could get the hang of Thursdays.

  • morpinmorpin Member Posts: 360

    They are also doing some retail distribution for CCP w/Eve.

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  • saint4Godsaint4God Member Posts: 699
    Originally posted by firefly2003


    They accquired Cryptic Studios which is making Champions Online and Star Trek Online dont know about Atari itself making a MMO just buying up properties..



     

    Seems that way.  This seems to be more of an act of desparation than initiative.  Unless they plan to DO something with these games, it'll fall to the:

    like RF Online did.  I liked RF Online... R.I.P.   -_-

    http://www.allaboutgod.com/

  • VesaviusVesavius Member RarePosts: 7,908

    I would love to see Atari bring all this together with a persistant shared world NWN type MMORPG that focused on player created content.

     

  • saint4Godsaint4God Member Posts: 699
    Originally posted by vesavius


    I would love to see Atari bring all this together with a persistant shared world NWN type MMORPG that focused on player created content.

    Atari was in 1980 what Sony was in 1999.  Both had cutting edge cool stuff, but have yet to produce anything worthwhile since.  I respect Atari however, because they'd bowed out instead of taxing their gamers by any method possible.  If Atari can bury it's recent faulty track-record:

    Jag history here: www.jwnyc.com/games/jaguar.html

    And get back to the innovation that made them famous in the first place, then I'd love to see them introduce a new era of gaming.

    http://www.allaboutgod.com/

  • VesaviusVesavius Member RarePosts: 7,908

    Yeah, I remember. I had a 2600  :)

  • SigneSigne Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 2,524

    It's not really that Atari anymore. It's Infogrames Atari. Not even subtly related to the old one.

  • VesaviusVesavius Member RarePosts: 7,908
    Originally posted by Signe


    It's not really that Atari anymore. It's Infogrames Atari. Not even subtly related to the old one.



     

    Ahh yeah. now you mention that I do remember reading about that whole thing... Your right. :)

     

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