The first one will not happen. Period. As for that second remark, I wonder how many of those will actually get deployed. If one does get released, there's cash behind it. The EQ paradigm makes more cash than the UO paradigm.And isn't that the problem? People need to wake up and get off the level treadmill kick and move to games with more substance.
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That depends on your perspective. A few months back PCGamer did a report showing like 77 MMOs in development. That didn't even include games like Urban Dead which is a MMO and more popular than many "corporate" MMOs.
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But, there's a lot of people willing to pay for the UO paradigm that will not pay for the EQ paradigm.The first one will not happen. Period. As for that second remark, I wonder how many of those will actually get deployed. If one does get released, there's cash behind it. The EQ paradigm makes more cash than the UO paradigm.And isn't that the problem? People need to wake up and get off the level treadmill kick and move to games with more substance.
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That depends on your perspective. A few months back PCGamer did a report showing like 77 MMOs in development. That didn't even include games like Urban Dead which is a MMO and more popular than many "corporate" MMOs.
Not as many, but there's a niche market. Shouldn't ignore people willing to throw money at you.
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I don't think anyone's gonna take a chance on the cost of making a MMOG based on it.
Did you not read my earlier comment? Seventy Seven. 77. That's how many MMOs are in development right now.
Some are geared towards EQ style of leveling. Some are geared towards PvPer. Some are based on well known licenses. Some are whole new concepts. Some are the exact mish mash of all the styles that UO had.
The problem doesn't lie in people not wanting to do it, the problem is in their execution.
In related news, BioWare is working on a Sci-Fi MMO. Rumor has it that Sony may be losing the SW license and BioWare may be getting it.
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Just to inform everyone, Wolfpack is dying & Shadowbane's dying with them. Jesus fuck, if you wanna a game designed for PvPing, that was it. & it crashed & burned.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I don't want a game of pure pvp.
Good, cos it just got killed & ain't coming back. Ev4r.
I don't want a dress-up fashion show sim-walmart carebear land.
Welcome to the minority. Prepare to be at the mercy of tenth generation EQ clones where people compete to see who can run in a hamster wheel the longest. & after that, they compete to see who can get the shiniest bits of glass.
I want UO from 2000.
See my first comment. No matter how many MMOGs are in development, the initial cost is still huge. They're starting to subscribe to the Hollywood philosophy : why take a chance w\ bombing on something different when you can copy an existing successful formula & get a higher chance of cashing in? Until UO circa 2000 can prove it beats the EQ clones, it will stay dead and buried outside of small, private servers.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
See my first comment. No matter how many MMOGs are in development, the initial cost is still huge. They're starting to subscribe to the Hollywood philosophy : why take a chance w\ bombing on something different when you can copy an existing successful formula & get a higher chance of cashing in? Until UO circa 2000 can prove it beats the EQ clones, it will stay dead and buried outside of small, private servers.
It doesn't have to beat it, just be profitable.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Yeah, but they're still trying to sell boxes of the game. That's total bullshit, IMO.Just to inform everyone, Wolfpack is dying & Shadowbane's dying with them. Jesus fuck, if you wanna a game designed for PvPing, that was it. & it crashed & burned.
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Why be less profitable w\ UO 2000 when I can be more profitable with Hamster Wheel XLIII?It doesn't have to beat it, just be profitable.See my first comment. No matter how many MMOGs are in development, the initial cost is still huge. They're starting to subscribe to the Hollywood philosophy : why take a chance w\ bombing on something different when you can copy an existing successful formula & get a higher chance of cashing in? Until UO circa 2000 can prove it beats the EQ clones, it will stay dead and buried outside of small, private servers.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Yeah, but they're still trying to sell boxes of the game. That's total bullshit, IMO.
EVE is still on store shelves.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Yea, but the Icelandic company that makes it ain't going outta biz.EVE is still on store shelves.Yeah, but they're still trying to sell boxes of the game. That's total bullshit, IMO.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
