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Why no AO2 ?
Richter
Member Posts: 16
It keeps bugging me why Funcom isn't developing a sequel to AO...an AO2 so to speak.
Most top MMORPG are elves and dwarves and some more elves and dwarves.
With SWG close to it's terminal breath and AO getting out of date I see a HUGE gap in the MMO market for a new sci-fi mmorpg.
I skip EVE here, cause it's the (excellent) oddball because of the huge ammount of gank PvP and lack of social avatar-to-avatar communication.
Who else than Funcom should give us that? Nevrax? Turbine? CCP? nope...
I think Funcom should step up the plate and decide to develop an AO2 and fill that gap. I'm pretty convinced they will draw a huge audience who got used to better graphics and got tired of WoW and EQ2 and are fed up with losing millions worth of credits to a ganking pirate in EVE.
Wish I knew why they decided not to do so.....
A veteran AO player
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MMO sequels are generally a bad idea (EQ2, AC2). They split the player base and very rarely live up to the standards the originals set.
True, the now defunct AC2 being the best example of this. A preferable move would be to continue on with the new expansions but to also redo the graphics engine along the way or use the one from Age of Conan as some have thought may happen in the past. Sure graphics don't make the game but one problem is that with it as it is large PvP battles can be a messy lag filled experience unless you dump your settings down ahead of time. Since PvP is suppose to be a big part of AO problems with that do interfere with game play.
Well, theres this one:
http://www.seedthegame.com/news.php?page=1
Don't know much about the game and the graphics look a little odd, but at least it's sci-fi. I myself would like to give it a try, but I don't know if it's going to help the craving for AO2.
Please, someone! More sci-fi mmorpgs, thank you!
Going for an AO2 game is probably a bad idea. As pointed out sequels tend to split the existing playerbase and oft times doesn't bring in that many new players. AC2 was a flop, EQ2 is supporting itself but it was no major success. It seems EQ and EQ2 are making more money out of paid content expansions then subscriptions.
The AO name also has great stigma attached to it which would likely carry over to any namesake at launch.
I agree Funcom should look at doing another Sci-Fi MMO but not under the AO universe. Either get an existing one like Warhammer 40k (however Mythic likely has all rights to Gamers Workshop stuff since they are doing Warhammer) or create a new one, perhaps one based around Bladerunner or something.
There is RF Online. I think its partly Sci Fi. Also STO is being worked on but a few years away.
Kai
rf and sto are looking good.
But its not gonna be ao 2.
Ao is a very unique game and i dont think anyone else will quite capture it like funcom.
Its ashame.
I think if they remade it it would do well.
Theyd have eye candy and those who find wow to simplistic would have somewhere to go
oh welll
we can dream
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FunCom is currently making Age of Conan, which will no doubt attract many of the hardcore AO fans, since they have long since attained top levels in their chosen characters and continue to play the game out of habit rather than goal. Besides, Age of Conan looks like it will be one of the most innovative games coming out this year (in my opinion, of course.)
Also, FC is making an expansion for Anarchy Online called Lost Eden. I don't know much about it yet, but I suspect they will make more graphics updates to the game in the similar way that DaoC made the Catacombs graphics updates in the expansion.
I haven't heard when Lost Eden will be out, but all I've seen so far is concept art, so that indicates to me that it won't be out until early 07. Just my guess. I doubt they would have the energy/money/resources to work on Age of Conan, an AO expansion AND AO2. So if anything, they may do a sequel or complete remake of the game after Age of Conan and Lost Eden are out.
-Niksa
Looking for a real game.
Funcom is working on another sci-fi MMO,"The world"(work title).Don't think it will be AO2 though,since it only is set 20-30 years into the future.Not 30k,like in AO
Frankly, most games dont need "Sequels" They just need new content, and graphical updates every few years. Personally the only thing that saddens me about AO is that while the new exp may have added graphical updates to monsters and cities, they have done little to nothing on the character models and equipment, which I think is something they should do. While graphics arnt everything, it certainly is nice to have them updated every few years, and may even garner some new fans.
Just my two cents. AO is still one of my more enjoyable MMORPG experiences, and if they would update the graphics, I would gladly be back, because Sci-Fi MMORPGs are truely enjoyable in this genre filled with Fantasy clones.
"Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying."
If they get Age of Conan right there may be some hope...not necessarily for an AO2, but a successor in spirit. I know i will check out AoC and so will probably most AO subscribers.
The reason Anarchy Online is so successful ( by pre Wow standards anyway ) is that it is so different from pretty much anything on the market. If Funcom manages to deliver that feel with AoC as well, I don't see AO surviving that long. The game is just to aged and the engine faulty ( memory leaks, tower battles... ).
Seeing SWG just killed themselves and there are no other good SciFi MMOs on the market, it would be a no brainer to start a new project then. STO might be moderately succesful, but i'm somewhat doubtful about the game and particularly the community. Who in their right mind wants to hang out with hardcore trekkies ? I know i don't.
I have not heard of the project by Funcom mentioned a couple posts above, I'll have to have a look at it. Probably at an early stage of development though, so no real info available yet ?
only seen it once myself,in a Norwegian newspaper,mention briefly by some FC top in a AoC interwiev
EDIT;a small hint of it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Online if you speak norwegian http://www.itavisen.no/php/art.php?id=256531
I woud love to see AO2. With over 400 online days, AO was the only mmorpg that kept me busy for longer than 3-4 months
The Brave Do Not Fear The Grave
If all you want them to do is expand on the current game then you want expansions, not a new version. The reason sequels for a MMORPG would be made is for the devs to make something that is another rather different version or take on the current game, not an expanded version of the current game. AO2 would be a bad idea as it would once again split the player base such as when the SL expansion came along or as seen in MMORPG sequels that have been made so far. An AO expansion with a new graphics engine which would make better use of the graphics cards and systems of today and other additions such as seen in LE would be a good idea though. They have said they are at least thinking of making a new graphics engine in the official AO forums not too long ago.
It would be great if Funcom did an AO2 or major overhaul of current AO.
I have yet to play an MMO that gave me the prolonged wow feeling that AO did. Of course, when it was apparent that it was still in a beta or alpha state the magic ended. But the hope that Funcom would come through never left.
It was disappointing that Funcom is doing yet another fantasy type MMO. There market research, back then, probably told them that fantasy was where the $$ is at. Well had they been a little more thoughtful they would have realized that everyone else probably had come to the same conclusion. Now the market is thoroughly saturated with fantasy variants. ahh well..
I wonder if Funcom reads these?
Fej
if ao is remade then it will split player base
:)
i say revamp
SMILE!!
Just another handsome boy graduate...
if ao is remade then it will split player base
:)
i say revamp
SMILE!!
Just another handsome boy graduate...
Rewapm IMO is the way to go.
I loved AC1 (still do play it now and then) ... and lived through what happened to AC2
I tried EQ, and I played EQ2 and heard similar remarks ...
I dont get it why none of the Devs have tried this yet - get a new engine and 'import' the old game into it, with all the items, quests, lore, player base.
IMO AC1 with AC2 graphics engine would have been one of the TOP MMORPGs still today. http://images.mmorpg.com/images/emoticons/emt_indifferent.gif
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The idea of AO2 can be looked at as a good and a bad thing.
It would be good to update the graphics, add new things, such as new playable races, armor, weapons, etc. They could make the combat better, maybe a bit more action in it.
But on the other hand, they would need a lot of different things in Anarchy Online to change, aswell as alot of new things for it in order for people to go towards a new Anarchy.
Like people said before, no one will go to a sequal if it's just like the first.
Plus, alot of the things they can add into the sequal, they can do so by just making patches and expansions for it.
And with the arrival of Lost Eden, I read up that they're making graphic updates until the release of it.
Groovy.
I can dream, I guess.
They already have to keep up Anarchy, and they're working on it's new expansion, aswell as the Age of Conan game.
Plus other various games.
And I don't think it's as well known as games like wow. (Most of the Wow player's I've asked about it have absolutly no idea what the game is. And not the 14 year old kids with attitude problems. )
Groovy.
I played Anarchy for about a year on a free account before i started craving some more fantasy-style content that Rubi-Ka just couldn't offer. The community quickly steered me away from WoW and told me to invest in a shadownlands subscription, so i did. The game became even more amazing, and i'd probably still be playing it now except that we changed ISP from BT to ic24, who have a download/upload limit and can charge up to £60 for going over it, so i had to cancel my subscription straight away, giving me only about 3 months of playtime
The graphics are stodgy and old as hell, and even though i want to play it for the pure awesomeness of it, the graphics and stuff would stop me from enjoying it.
Most of that was completely irrelivant but what the hey.
BRING ON AO2!!