Besides the balance issues already mentioned.

I'm rather disturbed at the fact that I very distinctly remember RJ as having a major issue with Red Eagle at one point and wanting nothing further to do with them.

Its sad that this only starts to happen after the great man is dead... and sadly suspecious too.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Originally posted by KyutaSyuko

Do people get a kick out of bashing stuff?  There's always at least a handful, though usually more, of people who just go around and bash stuff all the time.  Sure no one's heard of any of these names.  Sure it could be a scam.  But at the same time it could be an honest new company trying to bring something good to the consumers.  Only time will tell.

Well when two relatively unknown characters jump up and announce a movie and a MMO, it pretty much screams to be a bit skeptical.   Even experienced development teams have tilted at windmills lately with their MMO's and you don't understand why there is a lot of skepticism on announcement like this?

 

No no, I totally understand their skepticism which I'm totally fine with, but there's showing their skepticism twoards something, and then there's outright flaming something which I consider the post above the originally quoted remark I made to be.  I admit I'm a bit skeptical about this myself, but I hope it's a real deal and they do take the time and effort to make it the great game everyone knows it could be.

Originally posted by Mithios

Originally posted by Rhannek

Yay! But I was hoping for a Sword of Truth MMO... :(

 

Agreed.  Terry Goodkind did a much better job of things.

Goodkind copied Robert Jorden admit please!

The Dragon will be reborn!

Originally posted by streea

Originally posted by AlienShirt

Let me preface this comment with sadly I have never read any of the Wheel of TIme books...but do we really need another epic fantasy MMORPG?

I don't think so.

 

If it's Wheel of Time, then yes... yes we do.

 

If it doesn't suck complete ass... yes we do.

I have been reading (on and off) the Wheel of Time since it first came out in 1990.  I was in the 8th grade at the time, as some friends of mine all started reading them the same time as I.  As the years flew by (and the series became longer than originally intended) a friend of mine said something I'll never forget, "Ya know what's gonna happen? He's gonna up and die before the series is completed."  That was back in 1996-7.  Little did we know how *prophetic* that statement was, even with the knowledge that Robert Jordan had started becoming ill even at that time.  As even more books and time went by we became even less-interested in the series, as it seemed that there was no end in sight, and that Jordan had lost his mind with all the *tangents* he was exploring with more and more characters.  So, I stopped reading the series.  About 2 years ago I was looking at my bookshelf and saw that I still had several of the books (I think had about 8 books then), and I decided to re-read them.  Now, I had re-read the series about 3-4 times (through book 5) about 4 times, but I had forgotten so many of the details that I started over.  Needless to say I fell in love with the story all over again.  It wasn't until about book 6 or 7 that I started to get worried that I was going to *run out* of reading material soon, so I started looking online for the last few books in the series.  It was at this time that I discovered that Robert Jordan had succumbed to his disease only 2 months prior.  I was in total shock.  I forwarded the site announcing his passing to all the friends of mine that began this wonderful adventure in the WoT so many years ago with me.

I have now finished book 10, and have ordered book 11.  I await it impatiently.  All things seem to be building up to a very climactic ending.  Whether for the good or bad of the world, we'll just have to wait and see.  I for one will be one of the millions waiting to open the cover with both anticipation and regret.  Regret that these characters...and this story...that I have come to love will soon be ending.

For those that haven't read it, read it.  I think fantasy-lovers will like it.  But, if you don't that's fine.  There are over 40 million of us that do :).

P.S.  I have hoped/longed for an MMO set in this setting for a good while now.  Many people are worried about them screwing this up, and they have *every* reason to be worried.   Most MMO-makers are interested in one thing...money.  I hope that the developers of this MMO have a true desire to make an MMO and games that do justice to the story...and the spirit...that Jordan has gifted to us.

Peace.

"We rode on the winds of the rising storm,

   We ran to the sounds of the thunder.

We danced among the lightning bolts,

   and tore the world asunder."

---Anonymous fragment of a poem believed written near the end of the previous Age, known by some as the Third Age.  Sometimes attributed to the Dragon Reborn.

Wow! I haven't been this excited in a VERY long time. I can't wait to see what they do with this property. Looking forward to the movies and the MMORPG.

I'm in.. I'd play any WoT game..  I played the original PC WoT rpg/fps game when it came out in the late 90s.  Great game.. Really well done, an somewhat innovative at the time. I know during that making of the game, Jordan had his hands pretty involved, to insure it went along with the book(s).  Not sure how that would work out, but anything less than stelar would be in insult.

Besides the games, it would be great if they would come out with a movie.

Its just nice to have Fantasy MMORPG's in the pipeline able to take advantage of Hardware and software advances. I have read most of the WOT series and enjoyed them. Since given the limitations of current hardware and software noone can create a world as deep and complex as that described in the books, it should however be possible to make a good, fun game based upon it. In fact I would welcome any game that is not another cheap attempt to cash in on WoW. So many developers set out with great ideas only to be forced to conform by publishers to a guaranteed money making formula and create another 1 month wonder.

Please God let RJ come down here and make sure the game does him justice.

We can always hope his wife/editor wont let things get bad.

i think this would be good they did make a single player game along time ago  that was ok the way games are nowit would be great i would hope. i would love to see a movie made about the series that would be great as long as it was done well like LOTR

Well if they can pull off and stay true to the books, this could be an awesome MMO.

However....

The characters in the books are rather unbalanced for an MMO.  Channeling the One Power is supposed to be a relatively rare gift but I'm sure a lot of players would want to be one.  Also, how do you handle the issue of male vs female channelers?  The books (til the end) stated that any male who channels goes mad. 

Not to mention, people would demand PvP but not sure how they would handle it.  Children of the Light attack all Aes Sedai on sight but not others?  Red Ajah only can attack male channelers?

Although I'm excited about this news I have one advice for Red Eagle: everyone channels, or no one channels...there's no way to balance it if you're staying true to the book save by allowing players to control huge armies to bash at the channeler or enabling one shot arrow shots...

And I'm of the opinion that the magic system of WoT just gives way too many options in regards to spells you can conceive to let it go to waste. I mean, you can have standard channels that one can learn, secret ones you can learn from certain channelers AND if you want you can experiment and find really wicked weaves...or die.

Anyway, the movie comment indeed makes me skeptical we should expect much out of this

Good grief, I would not play it even if they PAID me for! Jordan is the most over-hyped fantasy authors. Absoultely horrible. If we really have to plunder fantasy IPs, I'd rather see David Eddings Belgariath.

Well that's a bit harsh Elikal, he created a very detailed fantasy world.  No short 200-300 page books, they were all meaty reads.

I will say, however, that I feel he dragged the story on a bit too long.  The original WoT story could of been completed in  5-6 books.  Instead he seemed to keep it dragging along, almost like he didn't want to let it go or for it to end.  I lost interest at Crossroads of Twilight, just got tired of the No Ending endings.