I agree with Tsnow. As I can care less about numbers 3 and 2. They could be replaced, for me at least, with The Secret World and World of Darkness.
Agreed, world of darkness has such little info about it considering it's been kicking about for what.. 4 years now? Since CCP acquired the IP. Shame it's the new WoD as I know nothing about it, just fond memories of the old stuff from when I was a kid.
World Of Darkness should have been in there, and in the top 2. Arguably that is the game that the developers are beeing the most tight liped about. As of this moment we really do not know that much about it. Less so than anything mentioned in this list.
Agreed, it tops my list.
Only Copernicus have some interest of the 5 mentioned games. And if you would put up a vote I doubt the list we would vote as the 5 top games would include more than 1-3 of the games on the list, so the we is a bit optimistic.
Originally posted by Comnitus Originally posted by popinjay ...they pretty much said that recently in an interview, lol.
Who? What is his position at the company? For instance, it'd be worse if the lead designer said that rather than a PR monkey.
Does it matter? He was speaking on BEHALF of the company in that interview which is pretty plain.
I doubt they'd let him say all those things if it wasn't a corporate philosphy already.
They also could have contacted the interviewer and said they'd like to retract some things or that this was just his "personal" view and not the company.
Or they could have said he was just flat drunk and didn't know what he was saying.
They didnt do that either.
Finally:
Danny Bilson, core games vice president at THQ,
"I've spent lots of time in WoW. As a WoW fanatic, I'm going to go right to 40K as soon as it comes out. It's very friendly to the WoW player," Bilson says.
In addition to aiming for the current market-share top dog, Bilson lets on that WAR40K is looking for approximately a million players in order to be successful. "They've got 14 million players! Gimme a million and I'm good! We're real good at a million, right?" We don't need everybody to migrate. We just need some of them -- and I'm full confident we're going to get them," he said.
Hmmm 5 boring choices. . but an effort nevertheless.
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This was an excellent article. I love to hear about future MMOs that either I haven't already heard about, or just don't seem to have much information out there.
Copernicus sounds very interesting to me, considering they have RA Salvatore writing for it, but the most interesting one to me is by far Jumpgate Evolution. I frequent their forums and look for tidbits of information about when it will finally become available. It is sounding more and more awesome all the time. A company who basically scraps a game that is almost ready for launch based on their closed beta test and rebuilds it from scratch is a company that is SERIOUS about making their MMO good. I sort of wonder how they can afford to be in perpetual development, though. In the words of Casey Schreiner from the weekly MMO Report who has apparently played the new closed beta, "This game is F-ing awesome."
Currently playing: Rift Played: SWToR, Aion,EQ, Dark Age of Camelot World of Warcraft, AoC
Ah, people failing so horribly at reading comprehension is so amusing sometimes. Am I about the only who noticed that he specifically said in the article that this is about wanting to know more info on games we dont hear much of anything about and/or arent talked about much publicly at all? It was not an article about "We want more info on the most popular and already very much talked about games"
People keep saying stuff like "waaaaah Tera/Rift/wtfever game that ha sbeen talked about constantly for the past couple months should have been on the list" completely ignoring the fact that it's the exact opposite of what the article was about.
Reading comprehension isn't the problem as much as not being told who "we" are in the article, since it's on mmorpg one can only assume he means we the mmorpg community and even if one dismisses my notion that some of the most popular yet not in beta games should be on the list it doesn't change the fact that I've read about more than five games that universally made mmorpg community members list while the article speaks about products so vague some of them we don't even know if they really exist. Do you guys remember a few years back folks started shopping around those night elf photos of the supposedly WOW2? Well atleast one of these games on the authors list is about as real as those shopped photos were and if he was still going to ignore the games that a majority of the community wanted to know about he could have atleast talked about some of the games that more community members wanted to know about like The Secret World,World of Darkness and others that have just as little known about them but they are atleast mmo's, and are known to be in development not just talked about.
You may actually agree with most of the list which would only make me acknowledge you have a much greater interest in games than I or most of the others who read the article because at the end of the day most of us couldn't care a whit about more than one game on his list. Since it was wrote for us then it certainly shouldn't disappoint us right or wrong.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
Copernicus is the one that I want to know most about. R.A. Salvatore is one of my favorite authors, and with the makers of Elders Scrolls, and Oblivion, ugh mouth watering. Can't get better than that.
I agree 40K was the only on the list that I want to see more info about as for 5,4,3, and 2 you can set a match to those and no one would care or remember in a month, it's just more mmo trash games in the works.
The only way this article was going to satisfy half the people on these forums was if it was a "250 games we want to know more about".
The author picked 5 that probably are garnering a fair bit of interest in the MMO world, not just due to the IP (or original idea) but due to (I imagine) other factors, such as how gameplay in a Zombie MMO would work etc.
Yes you can cry about WOD all you like, but the fact is that it's already got lots of attention and speculation surrounding it, so arguably doesn't need adding to this list.
We've all got our own games we're desperate to hear about, but just because the author didn't pick "your" game doesn't make his list any less valid. You may be surprised to learn that there's probably as many people out there that couldn't give a shit about news on "your" game as there are desperately searching for scraps of info on it.
I personally would love to know more about WOD ( World of Darkness). The potential in expansion, and long term play is overwhelming. One of the biggest pen, and paper rpgs of all tim,e as well as being a huge stage for LARP. From hedge wizards, Mages,Mummies, Fomori, Changelings, the best Vampires, and Werewolves bar none ,with hundreds of books to back in history ,and lore, as well as mechanics to go with them. White wolf created a masterpiece that would be an awesome translation to an MMORPG , not to mention a long awaited breath of fresh air. Let me know what you think if anyone else is familliar with the setting. Maybe even some ideas.
Who is this WE you are talking about, because I dont give a darn about any of those 5 games.
Tried: EQ2 - AC - EU - HZ - TR - MxO - TTO - WURM - SL - VG:SoH - PotBS - PS - AoC - WAR - DDO - SWTOR Played: UO - EQ1 - AO - DAoC - NC - CoH/CoV - SWG - WoW - EVE - AA - LotRO - DFO - STO - FE - MO - RIFT Playing: Skyrim Following: The Repopulation I want a Virtual World, not just a Game. ITS TOO HARD! - Matt Firor (ZeniMax)
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Agreed, world of darkness has such little info about it considering it's been kicking about for what.. 4 years now? Since CCP acquired the IP. Shame it's the new WoD as I know nothing about it, just fond memories of the old stuff from when I was a kid.
I'd say Blade and Soul. Not sure how you'd leave that out.
And honestly, I could care less about ANOTHER Warhammer title.
Besides we already know all we need to know about it; they are targeting WoW fans... they pretty much said that recently in an interview, lol.
"TO MICHAEL!"
Agreed, it tops my list.
Only Copernicus have some interest of the 5 mentioned games. And if you would put up a vote I doubt the list we would vote as the 5 top games would include more than 1-3 of the games on the list, so the we is a bit optimistic.
Who? What is his position at the company? For instance, it'd be worse if the lead designer said that rather than a PR monkey.
Does it matter? He was speaking on BEHALF of the company in that interview which is pretty plain.
I doubt they'd let him say all those things if it wasn't a corporate philosphy already.
They also could have contacted the interviewer and said they'd like to retract some things or that this was just his "personal" view and not the company.
Or they could have said he was just flat drunk and didn't know what he was saying.
They didnt do that either.
Finally:
"TO MICHAEL!"
Hmmm 5 boring choices. . but an effort nevertheless.
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Playing MMO's since my first which was Ultima online, then Anarchy online. and so on..
Now a days im very critical before i ewen bother downloading a Free to play mmo.
This was an excellent article. I love to hear about future MMOs that either I haven't already heard about, or just don't seem to have much information out there.
Copernicus sounds very interesting to me, considering they have RA Salvatore writing for it, but the most interesting one to me is by far Jumpgate Evolution. I frequent their forums and look for tidbits of information about when it will finally become available. It is sounding more and more awesome all the time. A company who basically scraps a game that is almost ready for launch based on their closed beta test and rebuilds it from scratch is a company that is SERIOUS about making their MMO good. I sort of wonder how they can afford to be in perpetual development, though. In the words of Casey Schreiner from the weekly MMO Report who has apparently played the new closed beta, "This game is F-ing awesome."
Currently playing:
Rift
Played:
SWToR, Aion,EQ, Dark Age of Camelot
World of Warcraft, AoC
Reading comprehension isn't the problem as much as not being told who "we" are in the article, since it's on mmorpg one can only assume he means we the mmorpg community and even if one dismisses my notion that some of the most popular yet not in beta games should be on the list it doesn't change the fact that I've read about more than five games that universally made mmorpg community members list while the article speaks about products so vague some of them we don't even know if they really exist. Do you guys remember a few years back folks started shopping around those night elf photos of the supposedly WOW2? Well atleast one of these games on the authors list is about as real as those shopped photos were and if he was still going to ignore the games that a majority of the community wanted to know about he could have atleast talked about some of the games that more community members wanted to know about like The Secret World,World of Darkness and others that have just as little known about them but they are atleast mmo's, and are known to be in development not just talked about.
You may actually agree with most of the list which would only make me acknowledge you have a much greater interest in games than I or most of the others who read the article because at the end of the day most of us couldn't care a whit about more than one game on his list. Since it was wrote for us then it certainly shouldn't disappoint us right or wrong.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
Except we also know that Order and Destruction do not exist in WH40K and those terms are quite meaningless!
Personally I'd drop Jump Gate and zombie, and substitute Blade & Soul and World of Darkness. to be something like:
5. Red 5's untitled fantasy mmo
4.Blade & Soul
3.Copernicus
2.Warhammer 40k
1.World of Darkness.
As a lifelong Redsox fan I will happily buy Schilling's Copernicus. Hell I'll even pay double what he asks:
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/6948862/
Definitely not a stellar Top 5.
Sure 40k could have promise and Copernicus has us wondering, but the other 3 are no where near my top 5.
The Secret World, Fallout Online and Blizzard's unannounced title are all more intriguing than these choices.
Copernicus is the one that I want to know most about. R.A. Salvatore is one of my favorite authors, and with the makers of Elders Scrolls, and Oblivion, ugh mouth watering. Can't get better than that.
I agree 40K was the only on the list that I want to see more info about as for 5,4,3, and 2 you can set a match to those and no one would care or remember in a month, it's just more mmo trash games in the works.
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb....
The only correct five for this list are:
5. Infinity
4. EverQuest Next
3. The Secret World
2. Outland
1. World of Darkness
Please fix it.
Copernicus and World of Darkness - a announcement for EQ next would be exciting too. Need more MMO news!
The only way this article was going to satisfy half the people on these forums was if it was a "250 games we want to know more about".
The author picked 5 that probably are garnering a fair bit of interest in the MMO world, not just due to the IP (or original idea) but due to (I imagine) other factors, such as how gameplay in a Zombie MMO would work etc.
Yes you can cry about WOD all you like, but the fact is that it's already got lots of attention and speculation surrounding it, so arguably doesn't need adding to this list.
We've all got our own games we're desperate to hear about, but just because the author didn't pick "your" game doesn't make his list any less valid. You may be surprised to learn that there's probably as many people out there that couldn't give a shit about news on "your" game as there are desperately searching for scraps of info on it.
I second this big time. I keep seeing C9 videos and they look awesome. Instanced or not, it looks like a hell of a lot of fun.
When is someone gonna bring this game to North America?
I personally would love to know more about WOD ( World of Darkness). The potential in expansion, and long term play is overwhelming. One of the biggest pen, and paper rpgs of all tim,e as well as being a huge stage for LARP. From hedge wizards, Mages,Mummies, Fomori, Changelings, the best Vampires, and Werewolves bar none ,with hundreds of books to back in history ,and lore, as well as mechanics to go with them. White wolf created a masterpiece that would be an awesome translation to an MMORPG , not to mention a long awaited breath of fresh air. Let me know what you think if anyone else is familliar with the setting. Maybe even some ideas.
Farstryder
Farstryder,
Farstryder,
FYI jumpgate has been dark for AGES not (not long ago).
Also no crafting, no hauling, no mining and no economy, its nothing more than a space combat game now, nothing more than global agenda in space.
Shouldn't this article be called, The Five Most Obscure Games?
To be honest, none of them interests me. There's only one I'm watching right now, and that's the The Secret World.
I'm waiting for Undead labs zombie mmo and Warhammer 40K mmo. I hope we get to hear more about these 2 soon.
Who is this WE you are talking about, because I dont give a darn about any of those 5 games.
Tried: EQ2 - AC - EU - HZ - TR - MxO - TTO - WURM - SL - VG:SoH - PotBS - PS - AoC - WAR - DDO - SWTOR
Played: UO - EQ1 - AO - DAoC - NC - CoH/CoV - SWG - WoW - EVE - AA - LotRO - DFO - STO - FE - MO - RIFT
Playing: Skyrim
Following: The Repopulation
I want a Virtual World, not just a Game.
ITS TOO HARD! - Matt Firor (ZeniMax)