Originally posted by Necrosaro420

I was waiting for AION, but after playing in the betas, it just wasnt for me.  Anyone know what the next big MMO is supose to be?  I dont like sci-fi etc, I prefer more fantasy kinda like EQ/War/WoW/AoC etc.  Thanks!

The next big thing seems to be FFXIV and in its shadow Heroes of Telara.

Next big MMO imo is either: Blizzard's unnamed mmo project and that's assuming it's going to carry on the massive part, Guild Wars 2 which looks promising but looks almost too good to be true for no monthly fee and might carry on the shitty zone instances like Aion did so who knows, Heroes of Telara which is pretty much a shot  in the dark but I'll place my chips there maybe they'll be the ones that surprise us.

Why not SW:TOR? Well the game just looks instanced like hell and they keep mentioning the words "story" and "fully voiced" over and over and over and over , like they don't have anything else to offer.

Sometimes I think that games like WoW classic/Lineage2 won't come for a long long time.

Next big will be the one that has been existing for awhile in the shadows of all the prettier games.

Wurm Online will be the game of 2010! It has everything a mmo player wants and its hard as hell. 

Originally posted by metalhead980

 

Next big MMO?

People need to stop MMO game hopping.

MMOs are designed to be played for years. MMOs don't have year or two dev cycles like console games.

It's almost like a new game comes out and in 1-2 months after people want something new lol.

Try to suppliment your gaming with different genres instead of waiting on MMOs the whole time.

It would drive me nuts waiting on a new game all the time with MMO dev cycles of 5+ years.

 

i don't understand people who can play the same games for years.  how can you ignore all the new worlds to explore, to keep doing the same old repetitive crap over and over?  how could ANY game be that good? i don't care how they're designed to be played, that just seems insane to me.

Originally posted by Preta

Originally posted by metalhead980

 

Next big MMO?

People need to stop MMO game hopping.

MMOs are designed to be played for years. MMOs don't have year or two dev cycles like console games.

It's almost like a new game comes out and in 1-2 months after people want something new lol.

Try to suppliment your gaming with different genres instead of waiting on MMOs the whole time.

It would drive me nuts waiting on a new game all the time with MMO dev cycles of 5+ years.

 

 

i don't understand people who can play the same games for years.  how can you ignore all the new worlds to explore, to keep doing the same old repetitive crap over and over?  how could ANY game be that good? i don't care how they're designed to be played, that just seems insane to me.

 

Well that's because you haven't found one that you love to play for months. Simple as that.

Next big ones for me are

Star Wars: The Old Republic

Final Fantasy 14

Guild Wars 2

I'm hoping funcom's the secret world will be good because I was a huge anarchy online fan, but I know little about it and if Conan is any indication of the direction they're going in...

Oh, maybe DCU? Well, you can always hope, ok? ^^

Originally posted by Necrosaro420

I was waiting for AION, but after playing in the betas, it just wasnt for me.  Anyone know what the next big MMO is supose to be?  I dont like sci-fi etc, I prefer more fantasy kinda like EQ/War/WoW/AoC etc.  Thanks!

The next BIG mmo is already here . You must have slept through it or something (prob achieved lvl what....umm 10 in the Beta?) And that game will be/is AION. Move over WOW you are done!

The next BIG mmo will be FFXIV. All the rest are done in WOW's former glory or by shitty companies like Cryptic and will ruin any future mmo that might have had potential.

Next small but BIG in my mind right now is Fallen Earth but I'm gonna wait a couple of months for it to get a coat or two of "polish" before undertaking.

SW-TOR, Star Trek Online, will both be pretty much crap after they get through ruining the whole concept as so many developers somehow manage to do.

However in the distance there is a small gleam of light and hope for games like The Secret World, World of Darkness, Tera, ...all I can think of so far...

are you guys blind?

guild wars 2

lets see, guild wars 1 has about six million copies sold (they dont sub)

and at least 3 million of those players are transitioning to guild wars 2, thats already quite a player base

and it is going to be one of the biggest mmo's out there with no sub, which will draw many more players

its also revolutionizing grinding by booting quests and adding an event system and much more

how could this game fail....

Originally posted by hekimo

are you guys blind?

guild wars 2

lets see, guild wars 1 has about six million copies sold (they dont sub)

and at least 3 million of those players are transitioning to guild wars 2, thats already quite a player base

and it is going to be one of the biggest mmo's out there with no sub, which will draw many more players

its also revolutionizing grinding by booting quests and adding an event system and much more

how could this game fail....

As long as you can't go out of the city without being in a group to interact, i refer to that MMO as much as i refer to Diablo as an MMO.

All i can say to that is ,I'll definatly try GW2.

Playmobil World, duh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abBzmlTDu2Y

its a tie between legoland and hellokitty online

or whatever genious designs playboy online

Originally posted by acidworm

Playmobil World, duh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abBzmlTDu2Y

Lego is going to be pissed

Originally posted by Harabeck

Originally posted by TheHatter

 

 

Idk about Darkfall, dead game is dying.... but FE may not be a "big game" when compared to giants, but I guarantee that in a year each one of the devs will be making more per month than you will cumulatively make in your entire life. While, it may not be a giant, it does fit the description of "big".
 

I think you overestimate the profit margins of an MMO.

Unless we are talking about casual or web-based MMOs, this is absolutely true. Mostly its due to factors like cost and risk. If a studio is dropping 30-40 million on an MMO, seeing a substantial return on that investment is fairly unikely unless they have the sheer production savvy of a place like Blizzard. However, if you are dropping $500k (or less) on a lightweight casual/web MMO... this is when you start seeing the absurd profit margins. And it's a lot easier to pull off.

My prediction is the next big MMO will be a very highly polished RMT casual web-based MMO, maybe with a $5/mo subscription model that is supplemented with an item store. It's also a lot easier to do sandbox features in high level programming languages, such as Java.

Originally posted by Preta

Originally posted by metalhead980

 

Next big MMO?

People need to stop MMO game hopping.

MMOs are designed to be played for years. MMOs don't have year or two dev cycles like console games.

It's almost like a new game comes out and in 1-2 months after people want something new lol.

Try to suppliment your gaming with different genres instead of waiting on MMOs the whole time.

It would drive me nuts waiting on a new game all the time with MMO dev cycles of 5+ years.

 

 

i don't understand people who can play the same games for years.  how can you ignore all the new worlds to explore, to keep doing the same old repetitive crap over and over?  how could ANY game be that good? i don't care how they're designed to be played, that just seems insane to me.

 

MMOs evolve overtime. So in reality you aren't really playing the same game if devs do their jobs.

As for new worlds to explore Most of todays MMOs stopped being worlds and tend to be more Linear maps with mini-games. This helps me stay in older games.

I played UO for four years, I believe thats the longest i've spent in one MMO. I don't consider a MMO good unless it could hold me for a year.

new republic star wars

and APD.  I could actually see this being the next wow or something.  Especially if console open up as a viable platform for MMOs.  This also suffers from the problem of being one of the most expensive games ever made,  so if it does not turn out to be a wow killer it will go down in flames when dedts are called in.  Given the fact EA is publishing it i have a feeling they smell blood and want to take it over once it keels.

Originally posted by metalhead980

Originally posted by Preta

Originally posted by metalhead980

 

Next big MMO?

People need to stop MMO game hopping.

MMOs are designed to be played for years. MMOs don't have year or two dev cycles like console games.

It's almost like a new game comes out and in 1-2 months after people want something new lol.

Try to suppliment your gaming with different genres instead of waiting on MMOs the whole time.

It would drive me nuts waiting on a new game all the time with MMO dev cycles of 5+ years.

 

 

i don't understand people who can play the same games for years.  how can you ignore all the new worlds to explore, to keep doing the same old repetitive crap over and over?  how could ANY game be that good? i don't care how they're designed to be played, that just seems insane to me.

 

MMOs evolve overtime. So in reality you aren't really playing the same game if devs do their jobs.

As for new worlds to explore Most of todays MMOs stopped being worlds and tend to be more Linear maps with mini-games. This helps me stay in older games.

I played UO for four years, I believe thats the longest i've spent in one MMO. I don't consider a MMO good unless it could hold me for a year.

Haha in another thread you posted in today didnt you flame people who jumped games every few months LOL.. Maybe you should listen to you own advice on that thread.

Originally posted by TheHatter

 

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Originally posted by greed0104

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Originally posted by SignusM

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Originally posted by TheHatter

 

There isn't one on the horizon. The next big things are Aion and SW:TOR... but you don't like Aion or Sci-Fi.

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The Star Wars MMO is more of a single player game than anything, not worth really mentioning as an MMORPG. 
 

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Yes, a game will an open world, pvp, grouping, end game, classes, progression, socializing, crafting, multiple locations (in this case, planets) make this game a single player.

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Flaming for the sake of flaming, eh?
 
But yeah, pretty much everyone I know thinks the game looks like it has more Single Player aspects to it than MMORPG aspects.... including myself. It doesn't help that the company that's releasing it, has created some pretty damn good SINGLE player games, but no MMORPGs. There is a such thing as MORPGs, you know. Look at GW.

 

 

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Originally posted by greed0104
Big games, fallen earth and darkfall? LOL

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Idk about Darkfall, dead game is dying.... but FE may not be a "big game" when compared to giants, but I guarantee that in a year each one of the devs will be making more per month than you will cumulatively make in your entire life. While, it may not be a giant, it does fit the description of "big".
 

Funnily enough Blizzard released single player games before WoW, so whats your point?

Listen to what Bioware have been saying about SWTOR, the fact that it's going to have ALL the elements of modern day MMO's plus the  "Story" aspect that is so sorely over looked and seen by the vocalfew as meaning "Single Player".

I'l wager that all those bemoaning SWTOR is supposedly going to be a single player game will undoutedly still go ahead and buy it but never admit to it on the forums.

SWTOR......

Cartoons? Check.

Single player? Check.

Levels? Check.

Classes? Check.

... etc...

So... what we have here is a WOW-clone with "we haz story!" smacked onto its ass.

What can go wrong? Ill predict a huge sucess. Just like WOW today, every 9 year old in the free world will play it.