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After Months of Silence, Wild West Online Revives as a 2-Piece F2P Title - MMORPG.com

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited October 2018 in News & Features Discussion

imageAfter Months of Silence, Wild West Online Revives as a 2-Piece F2P Title - MMORPG.com

The Wild West Online forum has a post from one of the developers after months of silence. In it, "MrBlack" said that in August, development on the game effectively stopped with most employees remaining unpaid for three plus months. In the intervening weeks, there was no money left to continue and the remaining team searched for partners or financing. After much searching, a new partnership with Free Reign Entertainment has been struck and development will be restarted.

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  • SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
    For the second time, I'm flabbergasted today. First Hellgate revives, now WWO. :D
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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,057
    For the second time today I will say this game should be killed with fire, perhaps napalm even to ensure no chance of resurrection.

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  • AsheramAsheram Member EpicPosts: 5,078
    edited October 2018
    Good thing RDR2 isnt coming to the pc for a year or more otherwise this probably wouldnt get to far.
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  • SamhaelSamhael Member RarePosts: 1,534
    Oh good, Battle Royale. Just what it needed.
    Well, I have even less interest in it now than I did when it launched.
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  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    "Now with more horse shit and less Titov!"... or is it the other way around?
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  • AlbatroesAlbatroes Member LegendaryPosts: 7,671
    Welp, good to know that it didn't turn into a real mmorpg like it was first advertised. When will people learn patience with their money?
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  • rojoArcueidrojoArcueid Member EpicPosts: 10,722
    Regardless of what they say, to me this is still War Z: Cowboy Edition.

    Kill it with fire.
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  • gervaise1gervaise1 Member EpicPosts: 6,919
    The new partners must - surely - have put a financial cap on what they are prepared to invest (gamble). This will fund the "new" (old) team for some weeks / months. And in that time they will either turn a profit or they won't.
  • WizardryWizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332
    edited October 2018
    Haha,they are not restarting development.All they got was a partner to help publish it,there will be ZERO development unless somehow there is a massive influx of money and players.
    To top it all off>>>guess what,we are introducing a new genre >>>BATTLE ROYALE..YAY !!

    This sounds like such a turnoff.

    TWO count them TWO rival families,man the effort there is astounding.

    I love reading the hype they are creating themselves about this game.This is yet another CHEAP effort in a very long line of crappy developers showing little effort.Oh look the Wild West theme is not done in a MMO,lets jump all over that gimmick,it should easily sell.You can gather,pvp,PVE missions...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz boring.

    Give me a MINIMUM of at least 10+ factions,maybe the Hatfields,the Macoys, perhaps the OK corral characters,Doc Holiday and the boys.Give me a world full of intrigue and characters,i don't want to run some cheap ass missions where i kill some npc's and loot their body for 200 gold.
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  • bennylongbennylong Member UncommonPosts: 100
    Who actually paid money for this game????
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  • SplattrSplattr Member RarePosts: 577
    edited October 2018

    Wizardry said:

    Haha,they are not restarting development.All they got was a partner to help publish it,there will be ZERO development unless somehow there is a massive influx of money and players.

    To top it all off>>>guess what,we are introducing a new genre >>>BATTLE ROYALE..YAY !!



    This sounds like such a turnoff.



    TWO count them TWO rival families,man the effort there is astounding.



    I love reading the hype they are creating themselves about this game.This is yet another CHEAP effort in a very long line of crappy developers showing little effort.Oh look the Wild West theme is not done in a MMO,lets jump all over that gimmick,it should easily sell.You can gather,pvp,PVE missions...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz boring.



    Give me a MINIMUM of at least 10+ factions,maybe the Hatfields,the Macoys, perhaps the OK corral characters,Doc Holiday and the boys.Give me a world full of intrigue and characters,i don't want to run some cheap ass missions where i kill some npc's and loot their body for 200 gold.



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  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 10,014
    Sure doesnt sound like something we should spend our time on.
  • TheScavengerTheScavenger Member EpicPosts: 3,321
    edited October 2018
    bennylong said:
    Who actually paid money for this game????
    The same people who bought Bless Online
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  • GruugGruug Member RarePosts: 1,794
    When this game was announced I was somewhat interested. As I have heard more and more, now not so much. In fact, I think I will steer way clear of this one.
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  • BluelinerBlueliner Member UncommonPosts: 185
    Just what the multiplayer genre needed! more battle royal games smh.
  • MadFrenchieMadFrenchie Member LegendaryPosts: 8,505
    edited October 2018

    Iselin said:

    "Now with more horse shit and less Titov!"... or is it the other way around?



    Other way around I think. From a previous article from Eurogamer on Titov:

    "So let's start with the musical chairs of company monikers. Titov's last few titles were attached to a convoluted collection of companies all bearing Titov's mark. The War Z was developed by Hammerpoint Interactive and published by OP Productions. Romero's Aftermath and Shattered Skies are both developed and published by a new company called Free Reign Entertainment that is itself part of another cryptic holding company, Arktos Entertainment Group LLC.

    All four organisations cast Titov in an important role, yet the newer companies never acknowledge Titov by name on their websites, nor do they explain his professional history. At a distance, it looks dodgy. Like he's constantly erecting new companies so people won't know who's behind his recent products."

    https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-08-05-the-war-z-sergey-titov-shattered-skies

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  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    MadFrenchie said:

    Iselin said:

    "Now with more horse shit and less Titov!"... or is it the other way around?



    Other way around. From a previous article from Eurogamer on Titov:

    "So let's start with the musical chairs of company monikers. Titov's last few titles were attached to a convoluted collection of companies all bearing Titov's mark. The War Z was developed by Hammerpoint Interactive and published by OP Productions. Romero's Aftermath and Shattered Skies are both developed and published by a new company called Free Reign Entertainment that is itself part of another cryptic holding company, Arktos Entertainment Group LLC.

    All four organisations cast Titov in an important role, yet the newer companies never acknowledge Titov by name on their websites, nor do they explain his professional history. At a distance, it looks dodgy. Like he's constantly erecting new companies so people won't know who's behind his recent products."

    https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-08-05-the-war-z-sergey-titov-shattered-skies
    Yup. They can deny it all they want but there's much more to this than just using Titov's War Z engine. The very same 3 tiers of pre-order packages for sale that were exactly like all previous Titov games' 3 packages seemed pretty suspicious to me. Not to mention using the same lawyer he uses.

    He's just gotten better at hiding the trail but not much better if you dig just a bit.
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  • NevereverlandNevereverland Member UncommonPosts: 161

    TheScavenger said:


    bennylong said:

    Who actually paid money for this game????


    The same people who bought Bless Online



    I actually paid money for Bless Online :(
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  • PhryPhry Member LegendaryPosts: 11,004
    When you can't manage to add content to your game, turn it into a BR one, not sure if this applies more to Black Ops 4 more than WWO, but its results that matter ;)
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  • sipusipu Member UncommonPosts: 200

    Phry said:

    When you can't manage to add content to your game, turn it into a BR one, not sure if this applies more to Black Ops 4 more than WWO, but its results that matter ;)



    Don't even try to compare COD, best FPS around, full of multiplayer content, to this dead hurried shit, coz you sound unrealistic.
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,425
    I will stick a thread on Site Suggestions asking if we can have a new forum for Necroed MMO like games how about we call it "I'll Be Back...For Your Cash"
  • vegetableoilvegetableoil Member RarePosts: 768
    Battle Royale? Just because the pie is bigger when divided by 100 how much will you get? People jumping into battle royale mode without thinking.
  • timeraidertimeraider Member UncommonPosts: 865
    ""our "obligatory" take on Battle Royale" .. just.. fall off the earth. Please.
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  • klash2defklash2def Member EpicPosts: 1,949
    Bad timing. RDR2 comes out in a few hours now.. nobody will care about this game after November when RD Online drops... Good luck to em though.
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