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General: MMORPG.com E3 Preview

DanaDana Member Posts: 2,415

Are you ready? We fly out on Sunday and aim to provide the best possible E3 MMORPG coverage. In that spirit, here is our E3 2006 Event Preview. It includes information on who is going, what we'll be doing and which games you can expect to hear about.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3!) is the most exciting time of year for the gaming industry. Each year, developers and journalists gather in Los Angeles to see what is coming. It sets the tone for the year to follow. For E3 2006, MMORPG.com is bringing you unparalleled coverage of the MMORPG genre starting Monday.

Eight of us will be in Los Angeles next week. We’ll hit the ground running on Monday with blog entries and meeting reports from Acclaim, Darkfall Online and more. Tuesday, you’ll hear about the Legend of Ares, Fallen Earth and the blog entries promise an interesting twist as the parties get under way.

You can read the preview here.

Dana Massey
Formerly of MMORPG.com
Currently Lead Designer for Bit Trap Studios

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  • lunatislunatis Member UncommonPosts: 261
    A Crysis review would be great too!

    *first post kekeke ^^

    Thanks for the great work guys! Enjoy your time at E3 and bring us some nice detailed reviews ;p
  • VexinVexin Member Posts: 297
    "Bioware: They probably won’t tell us what they’re doing in Austin, but we can ask!"

    Tell 'em all of us on MMORPG.com promise to keep it a secret. 

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    As ye SOE, so shall ye weep.

  • SuperVliegSuperVlieg Member Posts: 10

    Lots and Lots of Darkfall online information please!

    Thanks MMORPG.COM to keep us up-to-date.

  • ObiyerObiyer Member UncommonPosts: 511
    Can't wait to get more info on Age of Connan and Warhammer Online. Those are the two I'm looking at right now. Huxley is a close runner up too. This year is going to be a great E3 with the new next gen systems heading out along with the awesome hardware.

    Have a great time staff! 

  • BrynnBrynn Member Posts: 345
    I hope your representatives don't get too carried away with the hype presented, and will dig into the real meat of the games they see, and honestly. I realize each person has his/her own preferences, and they do weigh heavily when reporting on the games. I will try to keep that in mind.
  • TooltimeTooltime Member Posts: 1
    An update on "Africa" if available.
    Also a suggestion to all MMO's to include on website homepage how many registered players and how many on-line; live data.

    Thanks from Tooltime



  • EmbersEmbers Member UncommonPosts: 66
    Please stalk the Mythic guys about Warhammer online.
  • ZapaniZapani Member CommonPosts: 23
    Get info about bioware austin as much as possible, thanks!

  • freethinkerfreethinker Member UncommonPosts: 775
    bingo.  bioware info is muy importante!

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  • AnofalyeAnofalye Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 7,433

    Yup!

    Corner the Bioware staff!  Menace them to release a french Canoook like me to spam their board if they don't give in some precious information.

    What is precious information: From any company it would be an extansive thingy!  But...from Bioware...*start dreaming*...err...Bioware I....well...hiya!  How are you doing? 

    PS: If you can't get any direct info, maybe you can try to ask them what they don't do.  Of course they will not answer or deny such general stuff like medieval fantasy or star wars franchise...but maybe you can at all get a confirmation it ain't about super heroes nor a fallout follow up...well, anything to munch on!  Some general information on their 'vision' would be extra juicy, but a real RPG company entering the MMORPG field (it is a first IMO as FF are more or less a RPG as I understand the genre, FF is another genre in itself...not really a RPG...and Blizzard is not a RPG company) is unlikely to start teaching the competitor that much ahead of release.    But just to hear that the "end-game" will NOT be centered around PvP or Raiding would be awesome.

    - "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren

  • HJ-ZeeHJ-Zee Hero's Journey GMMember Posts: 47

    See ya there!

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    Zee
    Simutronics GameMaster
    Hero's Journey - Quests Team
    http://www.herosjourney.net

  • BrynnBrynn Member Posts: 345
    Yay!! HJ HJ HJ...
  • LuRaviLuRavi Member UncommonPosts: 239

    did i miss where it says which 8 of you are going?

    Didn't I see someone once respond that they only have 7 moderators? Does that mean those 7 plus the one guy in charge of the whole place who never shows his face?

  • StraddenStradden Managing EditorMember CommonPosts: 6,696
    See below!

    Cheers,
    Jon Wood
    Managing Editor
    MMORPG.com

  • DanaDana Member Posts: 2,415


    Originally posted by LuRavi

    did i miss where it says which 8 of you are going?
    Didn't I see someone once respond that they only have 7 moderators? Does that mean those 7 plus the one guy in charge of the whole place who never shows his face?


    The roster is in the article.

    However, the moderators are not the editorial staff. That's an entire seperate thing. Those attending E3 are the editors (myself and Jon, aka Stradden) and six staff writers.

    Dana Massey
    Formerly of MMORPG.com
    Currently Lead Designer for Bit Trap Studios

  • GascogneGascogne Member Posts: 30

    Bioware and Funcom very important information. ::::01::

  • NessajNessaj Member Posts: 6
    I can't wait for the Warhammer Online showing from Mythic, that game will blow me away, I'm so eager to try it, I'd even play a alpha version of it and still be happy, because I'd be helping making the best MMORPG ever!

    I'm a bit (but not to much though :p) intrigued about the upcomming expansion and whatever from World of Boredom-craft, maybe the expansion can set this game straight. Wouldn't guess on it though, I bet the idiots from Vinvendi is pulling the strings, which means money talks.


  • HunnenkoenigHunnenkoenig Member Posts: 53

    What about the Booth Babes? Are they now forbidden in sanctimonious LA?

    That would be very sad :-(

  • BrynnBrynn Member Posts: 345
    As I understand, they will be there but more covered up. Silly.
  • HunnenkoenigHunnenkoenig Member Posts: 53


    Originally posted by Brynn
    As I understand, they will be there but more covered up. Silly.


     

    They should do E3 in Europe...
    Here you can see naked boobs (and more) everywhere. No problem. But europeans just can't have real fun. They have no clue about entertainment

  • BrynnBrynn Member Posts: 345

    "But europeans just can't have real fun. They have no clue about entertainment "

    I'm curious what you mean?

  • HunnenkoenigHunnenkoenig Member Posts: 53


    Originally posted by Brynn
    I'm curious what you mean?



    Have you ever been in a european entertainment park with ghost trains and such? Unprofessional, unentertaining, childish...
    Look at one of the few western cities or filmstudios in Germany or the rest of europe.

    Or compare Disneyland and Euro Disney...

    Did you see an expo or an exhibition in Europe? (Star Trek was at least a bit entertaining, because the stages were from the US. If they had have to build it by themselves, it would look like a 70's community-TV show)

    Everything is made boring, half-hearted, unprofessional and without love, because they are made by (literally) Pimps and other shady gestalts (at least here in Austria).

    The only genial thing I have ever seen in europe was Alien War in London. Not even americans can make such a show. What happend? They had to close the doors and never heard of them again...

  • ajaxxajaxx Member Posts: 476
      If you can get some hands-on playtime with Age of Conan and report back

  • BrynnBrynn Member Posts: 345
    Do you think good entertainment in America (and other capitalist countries I  guess) may be due to our entertainment businesses making such good money from it? If European countries could do that, would there be more and better entertainment?
  • HunnenkoenigHunnenkoenig Member Posts: 53


    Originally posted by Brynn
    Do you think good entertainment in America (and other capitalist countries I  guess) may be due to our entertainment businesses making such good money from it? If European countries could do that, would there be more and better entertainment?


    I think in general, that there are three factors, why in europe you can't be entertained well:

    1. They have not enough money
    2. They don't have the know-how
    3. They think, it's not important

    The last one is the most important. A little story to explain, why I think that:

    There was a man, who emmigrated to the US (or Canda?) many years ago and became a millionair. He came back a few years ago and wanted to build a "never seen before" entertainment park, which would give many people a good working place and would attract many tourists from all over the world to come to Vienna.

    He had all the money and all the concepts and plans. He wanted to build it next to the biggest shopping "mall" of europe (the Shopping City south of Vienna) and after months of discussion on all medias do you know, what the government said?

    "We don't need cheap american entertainment. Our country is built on culture. We have another target audience in the world and our people are more intelligent, than they would need this"

    So, they prohibited to build the park and now you see, why we will stick with ghost trains from the 70's for ever

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