It would better if they included gameplay from the 'Thief" series of games where your best options were to sneak around rather than assault a place guns (bow and arrow) blazing.
I'll keep an eye on this one, but SOE has a very tall hurdle of trust to overcome first.
_____________________________ Currently Playing: LOTRO; DDO Played: AC2, AO, Auto Assault, CoX, DAoC, DDO, Earth&Beyond, EQ1, EQ2, EVE, Fallen Earth, Jumpgate, Roma Victor, Second Life, SWG, V:SoH, WoW, World War II Online.
Games I'm watching: Infinity: The Quest for Earth, Force of Arms.
I kind of hope they are hinting at a new WW2 based MMO. I never liked or could play WWIIO (dispite it's poor graphics, my computer threatened to kill itself if I played it for more than half an hour) what with the ww2 film to game comments. We dearly need a new MMOFPS, and SOE has grumbled half heartidly at the suggestion of a new FPS in the past, if only very briefly... as in; "will there be an Planetside 2? I can't confirm or deny that"..... But I am undoubtably wrong and they'll churn out yet another game with potential and then ruin it when subsciber numbers begin to fall.
The SOE hype machine will be out in force telling the world about the countless amazing features this game will have. They won't provide details but there will be lots of hyperbole.
The game will launch prematurely and have massive problems.
Six months in the game will be playable and people will start enjoying a game that is different than the typical fantasy hack 'n' slash.
One year in SOE will look at the subscription numbers and see that they still don't have 1/10th of WoW. They will then introduce this game's version of the NGE in a desperate attempt to bring in WoW type subscriber numbers but will instead alienate the people that stuck with the game from day one.
Before the end of two years they will be spending half of the game's operating budget trying to do spin control (not on the official forums because this game won't have an official forum) and there will be talk of server merges.
The SOE hype machine will be out in force telling the world about the countless amazing features this game will have. They won't provide details but there will be lots of hyperbole.
The game will launch prematurely and have massive problems.
Six months in the game will be playable and people will start enjoying a game that is different than the typical fantasy hack 'n' slash.
One year in SOE will look at the subscription numbers and see that they still don't have 1/10th of WoW. They will then introduce this game's version of the NGE in a desperate attempt to bring in WoW type subscriber numbers but will instead alienate the people that stuck with the game from day one.
Before the end of two years they will be spending half of the game's operating budget trying to do spin control (not on the official forums because this game won't have an official forum) and there will be talk of server merges.
I think the announcement is exciting. Cool gadgets and exotic cars, think of Bond's cars and gadgets, are enough to make me interested. This is the team that was making Mythica before MS Valhalla'd it, and I thought they had some great ideas. I'm looking forward to hearing more.
Now you do all understand that SOE is a massive company, with many many different development teams, all who specialise in their own game. They also purchase smaller games, complete with their designers and developers and give them money to keep them running. You dont actually think that the people who make Vanguard (for example) which is an independant company for who SOE publish, are therefore going to be making 2 new games do you?
All these "why dont they fix the bugs before making a new game" is ridiculous. Should EA stop making Sims 2 because BF2047 has some bugs? Should Walmart put on hold its plan to open a new store in Florida becuase its store in France needs restocking?
SOE publishes Matrix Online, EQ, EQ2, Vanguard, SWG, Gods n Heroes, Planetside and more. None of these teams are connected. Telling them not to publish anything new because team A hasnt fixed all its problems or becuase team B has a vacancy this week is ludicrous. Or, blaming team A because team B cocked up and broke their game... OMG, I am never buying one of those really great Sony plasma TV's because a team of people ruined an online game, a team who has never met, spoken to, heard of, or is interested in the people who make Plasma TV's 8,000 miles away.
"When people don't know much about something, they tend to fill in the blanks the way they want them to be filled in. They are almost always disappointed." - Will Wright
Now you do all understand that SOE is a massive company, with many many different development teams, all who specialise in their own game.
Of course we understand it. I know SOE is the publisher/distributor for many differnt development teams that make games.
I played Everquest before SOE bought Verant out. I have played EQ, SWG, Planetside, and EQ2. I am fed up with thier business pracice of milking a player for money and treating them like cattle. SOE is all about making the player pay the most while providing the least ammount of service. That is why I try to persuade people to not support anything put out by SOE. They are a greedy company that does not provide adiquate attention to the customer. What ever happend to the good old respectable game companies of the 90s? They must all be gone.
Enjoy your SOE games. I will never purchase another product distributed by SOE.
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It would better if they included gameplay from the 'Thief" series of games where your best options were to sneak around rather than assault a place guns (bow and arrow) blazing.
I'll keep an eye on this one, but SOE has a very tall hurdle of trust to overcome first.
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Currently Playing: LOTRO; DDO
Played: AC2, AO, Auto Assault, CoX, DAoC, DDO, Earth&Beyond, EQ1, EQ2, EVE, Fallen Earth, Jumpgate, Roma Victor, Second Life, SWG, V:SoH, WoW, World War II Online.
Games I'm watching: Infinity: The Quest for Earth, Force of Arms.
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The SOE hype machine will be out in force telling the world about the countless amazing features this game will have. They won't provide details but there will be lots of hyperbole.
The game will launch prematurely and have massive problems.
Six months in the game will be playable and people will start enjoying a game that is different than the typical fantasy hack 'n' slash.
One year in SOE will look at the subscription numbers and see that they still don't have 1/10th of WoW. They will then introduce this game's version of the NGE in a desperate attempt to bring in WoW type subscriber numbers but will instead alienate the people that stuck with the game from day one.
Before the end of two years they will be spending half of the game's operating budget trying to do spin control (not on the official forums because this game won't have an official forum) and there will be talk of server merges.
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So you are gonna have 3000 spies on a single server eh? And we will all be spying on each other spying on each other
I would love to see how something like this would work. Be fun just to see what they come up with.
LOL!
Nice idea and if it was any other company trying it I might be tempted to keep an eye for it.
SOE has earned their rep for a reason. They've done nothing to bring it back to neutral much less make it postive.
Still, we fucking suck at playing Cassandra...
How do you kill that which has no life?
Well said Amathe. Well said.
Quoted for the sheer LOL factor
I can see it now a bazillion variations on James Bond: jaames Bondd, Jaymes Bonnd, etc...
Plus with thousands of people playing instead of 007 would be more like 00-2137.
JonnyG
"Brutal" - Corel Dangel
Now you do all understand that SOE is a massive company, with many many different development teams, all who specialise in their own game. They also purchase smaller games, complete with their designers and developers and give them money to keep them running. You dont actually think that the people who make Vanguard (for example) which is an independant company for who SOE publish, are therefore going to be making 2 new games do you?
All these "why dont they fix the bugs before making a new game" is ridiculous. Should EA stop making Sims 2 because BF2047 has some bugs? Should Walmart put on hold its plan to open a new store in Florida becuase its store in France needs restocking?
SOE publishes Matrix Online, EQ, EQ2, Vanguard, SWG, Gods n Heroes, Planetside and more. None of these teams are connected. Telling them not to publish anything new because team A hasnt fixed all its problems or becuase team B has a vacancy this week is ludicrous. Or, blaming team A because team B cocked up and broke their game... OMG, I am never buying one of those really great Sony plasma TV's because a team of people ruined an online game, a team who has never met, spoken to, heard of, or is interested in the people who make Plasma TV's 8,000 miles away.
"When people don't know much about something, they tend to fill in the blanks the way they want them to be filled in. They are almost always disappointed." - Will Wright
Of course we understand it. I know SOE is the publisher/distributor for many differnt development teams that make games.
I played Everquest before SOE bought Verant out. I have played EQ, SWG, Planetside, and EQ2. I am fed up with thier business pracice of milking a player for money and treating them like cattle. SOE is all about making the player pay the most while providing the least ammount of service. That is why I try to persuade people to not support anything put out by SOE. They are a greedy company that does not provide adiquate attention to the customer. What ever happend to the good old respectable game companies of the 90s? They must all be gone.
Enjoy your SOE games. I will never purchase another product distributed by SOE.