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Originally posted by Volkmar

But Sardaukar and Fremen are just a tiny minority. (Beside, the fremen have nothign special in their abilities, they are just fanatical and superbly trained, no special augmentations, so I would keep them out of the equation).
Sardaukar are elite imperial soldiers, they would not do good PCs. Same for Bene Gesserit, they are an extreme minority.
From my point of view, the Dune MMorpg would have a better chance to be a actual mmoRPG than the wh40k one. Dune's houses, contrary to Warhammer races, do have alliances so seeing two guys from different houses going around together would not be strange at all... Of course certain houses hate each other, but not even that would make it impossible as historically it happened that old enemies would have pupils of the other house in their court as hostages/guests.

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Originally posted by gillvane1
Sure. But only if I can ride sandworms and use them to tear down walls and eat people. Otherwise, no way.

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See? This is exactly what I was talking about. People are going to want to be Fremen, Sardaukar, and Bene Gesserit. Just like they want to be the Jedi and Sith. Just like they wanted to be Wizards, Beornings, Noldor, and Dunedain.

In some cases those roles would work fine if you can move the time frame. Playing a Jedi in a KOTOR timeframe Star Wars MMO would make sense. Playing Noldor and Dunedain at the end of the Second Age would make since for a Tolkien-based game if those licenses were for sale. Only, some people also want to play in the time frame where the events actually described in the source material they're interested in are happening.

Originally posted by feac
like has been said many times if done right it  has the scope to be a large and successful mmorpg.  just have to hope when it does soe dont get thier mits on it

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Originally posted by Gildedone
Like i said before it would need to make sardukar and Freemen a hard class to attain. Just like in the book not everyone can just be a freemen or sardukar or benne gesserit. Takes training

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We're not talking the BUDS Seal training here. Something like half the people that are "trained" to be Sardaukar die on Salusa Secundus.

I mean, who are you going to reward with being the best fighters in the galaxy, just for starters? How are you supposed to unlock the Fremen class? A long grind? Farming PVP accomplishments? A quest?

Plus, all the Fremen were addicted to the spice. You'd need to have a constant supply of it to keep living. How much is it going to cost you to ship the most expensive commodity in the galaxy through the spacing guild monopoly? Paul could've done it because he could destroy the spice and so had an ultimate hold over the guild.

And, of course, both the Fremen and the Sardaukar mostly did what Muad'dib or the Sublime Padishah Emperor told them to, respectively.

I just think it is unworkable as a game mechanic while remaining true to the source. Unless people are willing to play normal fighters and other galactic denizens.

Originally posted by poopypants
Seeing how ALL of the other high profile IPs have been butchered I've become only lukewarm to the idea...

I would play a Dune MMOG...but if I had a choice I would rather have a Cyberpunk MMOG instead...something like Ghost in the Shell or an Anarchy Online II.

I'd rather see Cyberpunk as an MMO too. There are some IPs that should be left alone, and Dune is one of them.

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Originally posted by Netspook

That really depends on what kind of game they would make. Dune and Dune 2 were two completely different games. Dune 2 was really just Warcraft 2 with different graphic, and Dune 2000 wasn't much of an improvement.

The final result would decide if I was gonna play it. OP, you only said "MMO" - if the rest of the word was RPG, it would catch my attention, but if it was RTS, then probably not.

Aehm. you playign with fire here, friend.

Dune 2 was the FIRST RTS. it started it all. no RTS before Dune 2. nope, nothing, zip, nada.

Warcraft, Warcraft 2, C&C and the rest all came AFTER Dune 2.

That beside... I've no idea how you could compare Dune 2 to Warcraft 2.... same game with different graphics? uh? compare it to C&C and you would have more of a base, made from the same people and all...

Dune 2 was released in 1992

Warcraft 1 was released in 1994.

Sorry for the interruption, continue on folks

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Originally posted by Fion
Um wait, we already have a dune MMOG. It's called Anarchy Online.

*snip*

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You've got a point. It even has Krys Knives... :-p Heh. It'd be better if was ground from the claw of an Emerite.

Originally posted by Netspook

That really depends on what kind of game they would make. Dune and Dune 2 were two completely different games. Dune 2 was really just Warcraft 2 with different graphic, and Dune 2000 wasn't much of an improvement.

The final result would decide if I was gonna play it. OP, you only said "MMO" - if the rest of the word was RPG, it would catch my attention, but if it was RTS, then probably not.

Dune 2 came out in 1992 by Westwood Studios, Warcraft 1 was released in 1994 by Blizzard. Warcraft 2 was released in 1995. Westwood later went on to make Command & Conquer, then selling out to EA.

So really saying that Dune 2 was just Warcraft 2 with different graphics is hugely unfair to the creative minds at Westwood.

I am highly influenced by dune as well. We have at least 1 desert world where things start (you as the player). We have corporations, similar to the Houses in concept. One corporate leader even went so far as to Proclaim himself Baron.

Click sig, but I'd support a full-on Dune MMO.

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Originally posted by ASmith84
A dune mmo.  how cool would that be?  need i say more?

Impossible. Completely impossible.

You would have to strip away everything unique and cool about the story and setting to make it even remotely playable in an MMO environment. As was mentioned, it's the whole Jedi dilemma times 4. The whole story is based around a single person who was thousands of years in the making and unlike anyone else in the universe, with supporting characters representing groups of vastly overpowered minorities, none of whom could be represented in a playable fashion. Not only would the final product NOT be Dune, but it would suck ass. Filthy, unwashed ass.