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Rob Pardo Announces Bonfire Studios - MMORPG.com News

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited September 2016 in News & Features Discussion

imageRob Pardo Announces Bonfire Studios - MMORPG.com News

Bonfire Studios has been announced and features an all-star team of developers including Rob Pardo (ex-Blizzard), Min Kim (ex-Nexon), ex-Blizzard developers Josh Mosquiera (Diablo) and Matthew Versluys. Bonfire Games has been fully funded to the tune of $25M through a joint investment by Riot Games and Andreessen Horowitz.

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  • ForgrimmForgrimm Member EpicPosts: 3,069
    $25 million, that's a nice injection of startup capital. Hopefully they make good use of it.
  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,178
    What type of game will they make you think ?

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  • Slapshot1188Slapshot1188 Member LegendaryPosts: 17,686
    Personally I'd hope they come up with something new and unique and not be the "spiritual successor" to anything.

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  • CrazKanukCrazKanuk Member EpicPosts: 6,130
    Maybe they'll buy Project Copernicus, lol. Last I heard it's still being held on life support waiting for a buyer. By now the price MUST be $10 million or less. 

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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,078
    Definitely good news, hopefully they'll pursue something fresh.

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  • JudgeUKJudgeUK Member RarePosts: 1,703

    kitarad said:

    What type of game will they make you think ?



    Something to get the $25M back pretty quick I'd imagine.
  • WarEnsembleWarEnsemble Member UncommonPosts: 252
    I home they put out a better product than the garbage they put out in Diablo 3.
  • LaurannLaurann Member UncommonPosts: 47
    All we need is a hardcore reimagined everquest. Either that or tie into wotc and give us a mtg mmo. I'm up for anything really with trinity group play, player light sources, and physically carried keys, long dungeon crawls, and progressive level play with strong social dynamics.
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  • AnirethAnireth Member UncommonPosts: 940
    Eh, with all these talk about connections it's gonna be a Facebook game. Blizzard already turned there with their reasoning about Diablo 3's always on including allowing basically anyone to join your game, and then Hearthstone. And so far,  Blizzard's ex-employees rarely end up making something worthwhile. The only real good thing was ArenaNet with Guild Wars, and they messed up the sequel..and then Torchlight, which was okay, but far from being a Diablo.

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  • LokeroLokero Member RarePosts: 1,514
    CrazKanuk said:
    Maybe they'll buy Project Copernicus, lol. Last I heard it's still being held on life support waiting for a buyer. By now the price MUST be $10 million or less. 
    You might want to give that dream up... I'm pretty sure no one is ever going to pay money to board that disaster of a sunken ship.

    Anyway, I hope they make something cool, but that statement was nothing more than buzzwords.  It should be interesting to see what's what when they finally announce something.  Just having a company with actual money working on a real MMO again is big news on its own.
  • laseritlaserit Member LegendaryPosts: 7,591
    Torval said:
    WarEnsemble said:
    I home they put out a better product than the garbage they put out in Diablo 3.
    I don't get where these comments come from. D3 is one of the best ARPGs I've ever played. It really does it all so well.

    It's incredibly challenging, but the player gets to define their challenge level.

    There are a lot of builds within each class and ways to play. On top of that the game lets you rework and tweak your builds whenever you want. You don't have to reroll, grind out a respec potion for 50 hours, or pay $5 in the cash shop. You just tweak your character how you like.

    I don't think the game is perfect either. For one, The. Grind. Is. Real. That can really take the wind out of my sails in a game - hitting that wall of grind and losing motivation to keep playing that character. That is not a trait of D3 alone. Most ARPGs and MMOs have huge grinds for end game progression.

    All said though, it just plays so well. So it's interesting to me that anyone who loves ARPGs wouldn't like D3.
    I think the release version is what tainted his opinion. Blizzard has redeemed itself with D3 IMHO, if they would have continued with the release version, I believe they would have destroyed the franchise.

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  • waynejr2waynejr2 Member EpicPosts: 7,771
    I was going to write "In before people start telling us what they should make or how they should make it" but I was too late.

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  • Slapshot1188Slapshot1188 Member LegendaryPosts: 17,686
    D3 wasn't bad... just didn't quite hook me like GrimDawn did.

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  • waynejr2waynejr2 Member EpicPosts: 7,771
    Slapshot1188 said:
    D3 wasn't bad... just didn't quite hook me like GrimDawn did.

    I had the same reaction to D3 as I did to Doom3.  Been there done that only with newer pixels.
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  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,067
    laserit said:
    Torval said:
    WarEnsemble said:
    I home they put out a better product than the garbage they put out in Diablo 3.
    I don't get where these comments come from. D3 is one of the best ARPGs I've ever played. It really does it all so well.

    It's incredibly challenging, but the player gets to define their challenge level.

    There are a lot of builds within each class and ways to play. On top of that the game lets you rework and tweak your builds whenever you want. You don't have to reroll, grind out a respec potion for 50 hours, or pay $5 in the cash shop. You just tweak your character how you like.

    I don't think the game is perfect either. For one, The. Grind. Is. Real. That can really take the wind out of my sails in a game - hitting that wall of grind and losing motivation to keep playing that character. That is not a trait of D3 alone. Most ARPGs and MMOs have huge grinds for end game progression.

    All said though, it just plays so well. So it's interesting to me that anyone who loves ARPGs wouldn't like D3.
    I think the release version is what tainted his opinion. Blizzard has redeemed itself with D3 IMHO, if they would have continued with the release version, I believe they would have destroyed the franchise.
    Yes and no. Reaper of Souls is far better than release D3, but it's still pretty content-lite. Their development has been laughably slow, usually with little in the way of new zones or gear between seasons. It really leaves me to wonder what the development team is actually doing.
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