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Newsletter, Issue 35: Editorial Question
Stradden
Managing EditorMember CommonPosts: 6,696
Ok, there’s a little extra space in the ‘ol newsletter this week, and I thought I’d use it to say a few words of my own. That’s just one of the perks you get when you’re the editor.
Recently, we’ve all seen a number of large happenings in the world of MMORPGs, from the announcement of EA Mythic, to the layoffs over at NCSoft, to the formation of a new company, Stray Bullet Games, to look after Shadowbane, a game that many of us thought was doomed.
I guess the reason that I wanted to bring all of this to your attention, is because I’m curious. What do you guys think has been the biggest story over the last little while? Mythic? NCSoft? Something else, or maybe even something that we’ve missed. So there it is my good readers. That is the question that I pose to you today. What is the biggest story in the MMO World today?
Let us know in this forum thread. Debate and discuss. What’s the story that everyone SHOULD be talking about?
Happy posting:
Jon "Stradden" Wood, News Editor
Cheers,
Jon Wood
Managing Editor
MMORPG.com
Comments
I'm not biased in this one, it's objectively one of the big things ever happened in gaming world.
There are only 10 types of people in this world, those that understand binary and those that don't
Stray Bullet is the biggest deal to me, I'm really looking forward to see what will come from that. Maybe we will finally get the game SB could have been.
SWG effects more people, at least for now, but its been beaten to death and is very old news now. Call me when something actually happens with that lol.
I think the partnership of SOE with both Perpetual's Gods and Heroes, and Sigil's Vanguard: Saga of Heroes is the biggest story, at least for me.
The EA/Mythic partnership is interesting too.
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The real news is that companies are beginning to form teams and marshal resources to take on Blizz and carve out their chunk of the pie. I'm guessing the stories this week are just the first rumblings of an earthquake. (Has anyone else checked out Blizz's emplyment postings lately?) Whew! They're planning to grow the market just as fast as humanly possible and that hasn't escaped the notice of anyone in the industry. (SOE did lose their Director of Dev to Stray Bullet by the way.) The reshuffling isn't over yet.
It's nice to see smaller companies poised to take advantage of any voids left by Sony, Blizz or EA. More games, and hopefully better games can only be good news for us who play them.
I think an editorial of Gold buyers and sellers would be a good read. Considering that "Lord British" buys gold all the time for his MMOs. At first it was considered taboo to buy fake money with real money but the market has been saturated with Pay per lvl or buy gold now sites.
You can google "Hot Rod Cars of the '50s" and get a link to a virtual gold site.
I think an editorial would be good on this.
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.
Which FF Character Are You?
Could you start a new thread and expand on this idea? I've been thinking that something like this might happen, but I've never found anyone else who has these kinds of ideas. So...Start a new thread, K?
Some of the largest news in the MMO world can be found in the games you play.
Largest Hype News: World of Warcraft
Largest Drama: SWG
Largest Industry Summary: EA buying out Mythic.
Plenty of news my friend
(1997) UO --> EQ -> Runescape -> DAoC -> WoW -> EVE + WAR (2008)
the EA/Mythic deal has the biggest impact overall, in my opinion.
Keep in mind, we're talking about Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot, not to mention The Sims Online and Warhammer. UO and DAoC alone comprise a huge portion of old-school experience in MMO gaming.
Honorable mention should go to the catastrophic state of Dark and Light...a game that had some excessive amounts of hopefuls buzzing in these forums for months on end.
The problem with taking that whole EA thing seriously is that it's hard to see EA as much of a powerhouse threat to anyone, let alone Blizz. They've pretty much managed to singlehandedly killl UO as a franchise. And when you have 2 of their employees postiing on the Wow forums about what a nice place EA is to work but how boring all their games are, well..... I'm more interested in the whole Stray Bullet thing (Don't rule out Ubi) and what might or might not be growing in the Funcom Conan petrie dishes.
The EA thing seems to be the news. But I just wonder what all these other companys that got a mmo in the works that havn't said much about it. Bioware seems to be acting like a wolf laying in wait for the right moment to unlesh there MMO title there working on. pretty sure theres other companys avoiding the spot light at the moment to. So the current news isn't really that big a deal. the real news is whats hiding around the corner.