Originally posted by jeppah
I doubt this will be a hit, there a too many half made - crappy looking mmo's out there allready, seems like the mmo genre is more about kvantity and not quality.

But lets see, maybe they will make it good.

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And yes i agree, it feels like the name "massive multiplayer online" is being abbused by game developers. Imo 500 gamers in a game does not make the game massive multiplayer, it just makes it online. There needs to be a new definition of what mmo means, or atleast add a new term for the online games which just have a lot of players (a bit more then avg which is about 16-32 players). call it something simple like Gonline, G for Greater.  

below 100 - Online

up to 1500 - Gonline

above 1500- Massive multiplayer online

Im betting my money that this game is gonna become a Gonline game. Infact from now on ill be judging these mmos and giving them the title either mmo or Gonline.

What folks are failing to comprehend here is that in a couple years  most games rated T and below will be Sans the Global chat and Plus the naming database.  People truly have no clue how close WoW came to Speedchat and Name selector just like Toontown.  Developers are being slammed and I mean slammed by Senators and parenting group because little Timmay keeps hearing the F word on Barrens chat by folks named donkeyhumper, now that the mainstream media has "Discovered" MMO's you can bet your ass developers will start sanitizing them in any way possible to save public face. 

Originally posted by martinj63

What folks are failing to comprehend here is that in a couple years  most games rated T and below will be Sans the Global chat and Plus the naming database.  People truly have no clue how close WoW came to Speedchat and Name selector just like Toontown.  Developers are being slammed and I mean slammed by Senators and parenting group because little Timmay keeps hearing the F word on Barrens chat by folks named donkeyhumper, now that the mainstream media has "Discovered" MMO's you can bet your ass developers will start sanitizing them in any way possible to save public face. 

And that's what's scary. The general trend is to blame the game and developers for problems in the society, ofcourse it's seeing the F-word in a text chat and seeing semi-nude fantasy characters that creates killers. It has nothing to do with easy access to guns, drugs, exclusion from society and such. It's the games ... :p

A bit off topic, but i had to get it out.

As to the game, currently it looks bad, it need a big touch on the texturing department, but i do think it can be quite fun, and it's a niche that's not very exploited, thus very good from a competition standpoint. If i remember correctly it's basically Sea Dogs with new names and some undeads (and the graphics currently look the same also), and it was a fairly fun game. "Family friendly" can be quite fun, i dont think many complain about the lack of blood in WoW, it's not what makes or breaks a game. It's no blood in BF2 either, and it's a darn fun game. :)

If pulled off right it can be a quite successful game, there's 14 on the dousen of fantasy games, the only "ride, trade and fight"-game is EvE and not all like sci-fi (not to mention the harsch pvp-idea of eve). Pirates of the burning sea is an obivious contender, but will probably not exist in a free version.

This will not be a wow-killer, but it'll get a large enough community, i'd say SWG-size (genereally: among the biggest pre-wow)

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Originally posted by bloodyleach
Soooo.... apparently if your game is aimed at the younger set, your graphics and interface can suck. Makes no sense kids should get just as good a game as nerds... how else do you expect to convert the little lambs.

I dont know if you're referring to my post, but i stated it needs a big push in the texturing department to look modern and up to date, however good graphics doesn't make a good game, we've seen all too many examples of that. What i mainly said was that it can be a quite good and fun game even with a kid-rating, as in no blood and such.

Ofc. it should be a good interface, else it's a cumbersome game and will simply annoy people. Many console based games suffer from that.

It wasn't very long ago since a friend was totally imbursed in the updated Pirates!, which isn't very impressive graphically, but still one of the strongest stars in the history of games. :)

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Originally posted by zignome
Looks like WoW graphics really.  Clearly aimed to be playable on most PCs.  I personally prefer this over an ultra realistic game that runs like poo on anything but the latest greatest system.  Sure it's nice when it looks realistic but I take performance and game play over that any day.  I like the vibrant colors of WoW and this, nice atmosphere.  It might be worth checking out, especially in the free mode.  I don't really like the idea of the restricted chat though.  I hope you can at least chat with your party or send tells to friends.  Nothing to stop you from getting on voice chat with a buddy though. :)

To be honest. Im still playing WoW and this MMO doesnt even come close to the WoW graphics even. It's just plain outdated at the least!

This will be just an Holywood MMO with a lot of cash at hand and rushed out into the open. If they realy wanted to make something good out of this, they would at least taking the graphics more seriously and come up with something better then this! As even the lower end systems of today can handle better graphics then this lmao!

 I'm a bit suprised realy that they even try to make an MMO out of this movie series. Pirates of the Burning Sea will be released this year and has far superior graphics and good gameplay as well. A lot more original then this one!

It's just another abuse / missuse if another good movie series license. And no Im not biased in any way as I like the movies and I won't be playing Pirates of the Burning Sea either, as I don't like the genre. I just give my opinion and have a big laugh on this project wich is doomed to fail.