General Discussion

Regarding Fallen Earth...

Is there a fair number of players to interact with at any one time?

Is there a good quality of roleplay?  Are there professions or player run groups, etc?

Can you own or rent a room or house (or shack) - are there things you can put in it?  Can you change your clothes - is there alot of choice?

Bizarre questions, maybe... but I'm really really looking for the right game.  I am not the type to try a bunch and go back and forth.  As soon as I find one, I want to stay... for a long time.

Do the GMs create any story lines and have involvement, or is it just player run?

Any comments will help!  Thanks!

Same questions, actually, for anyone who has played Star Wars Galaxies.

Many thanks!

Originally posted by vajuras

It's not a good idea to cutdown EVE Online because CCP/White Wolf owns a lot of great unique IP like World of Darkness, Scion, etc. CCP is currently working on World of Darkness MMO which will surely be sandboxy.

The List:

Champions Online (Cryptic studios makers of City of Heroes) -->

Will be a hybrid (sandbox/linear). Be any hero you can imagine. I dont know how you've not heard of this

All Points Bullentin --->

From the mind behind GTA and Crackdown xbox360. What? you never played Crackdown? Well it was a fun little sandbox coop RPG check it out. APB will be good I think

Fallen Earth---> Scifi MMO

WELL Online --> Scifi MMO. Promises fast ramp up.

LinkRealms --> medival sandbox MMO. Be anything you want. Make your own house/realm and populate it.

Earthrise --> Scifi MMO. Looks great should be good.

There's really a long list. I am probably missing a few that we dont know much about like Blackstar and others.

dont forget darkfall

Originally posted by downtoearth

Originally posted by vajuras

It's not a good idea to cutdown EVE Online because CCP/White Wolf owns a lot of great unique IP like World of Darkness, Scion, etc. CCP is currently working on World of Darkness MMO which will surely be sandboxy.

The List:

Champions Online (Cryptic studios makers of City of Heroes) -->

Will be a hybrid (sandbox/linear). Be any hero you can imagine. I dont know how you've not heard of this

All Points Bullentin --->

From the mind behind GTA and Crackdown xbox360. What? you never played Crackdown? Well it was a fun little sandbox coop RPG check it out. APB will be good I think

Fallen Earth---> Scifi MMO

WELL Online --> Scifi MMO. Promises fast ramp up.

LinkRealms --> medival sandbox MMO. Be anything you want. Make your own house/realm and populate it.

Earthrise --> Scifi MMO. Looks great should be good.

There's really a long list. I am probably missing a few that we dont know much about like Blackstar and others.

dont forget darkfall

DarkFall get's no listing till it's proven it exists as something other than a nice website and some modeled screenshots

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Originally posted by Thomas2006
I think the biggest issue with SANDBOX games are the players themselfs. The players go into a sandbox game thinking they must somehow beat the game or make it to the end level or max out all there skills. Players entirely miss the point of sandbox games and that is to do almost anything you want. To live another life, to have a truely open ended gameworld where you do what you decide to do and not be lead around with a series of quests or fixed paths.
SANDBOX games have always had the hardest entry barrier to get into because theres no way to ease someone into a game where the rules are decided by you. Where there are no predefined goals layed out to you (like in truditional mmorpg games where you are trying to make it to the last level or finish every quest, ect.) a sandbox the only goals are whatever you create for yourself. You try to explain that to someone that has only experienced the truditional mmorpg's, you completely lose them as they are used to having everything prelayed out and determined aka a liner path like in a fps where there is a beginning, middle, and end.
Will we ever see a major company pickup and create a sandbox game. I highly doubt it. Sandbox games are ALOT more difficult to market to customers. The customer base itself is alot smaller then your casual gamers market where currentl mmorpg's are focused in.

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I second everything mentioned here, especially in regards to those who miss the whole purpose of what a "SANDBOX" MMO is.

Thank god we've seen the last of that primitive type of development.

When I want the kind of sandbox experience described above, I turn on MSN messenger.

guild wars 2 will be a sandbox