i've been waiting for a game to come out with this genre for a long time.  White Wolf would be a good company to look at for ideas on how to design the game around Vampire the masquerade.   But I would rather it be much like the idea of Underworld type atmosphere.  That way you and have different clans of vampires vs. werewolves.  

i'm all for it...

Isn't CCP working with White Wolf to do a Vampire MMO?

sorry to lazy to check the other 116 posts

I'm sure you would get a decent amount of girls involved in a Vamp MMO.

But as an old time pen & paper World of Darkness player  I react this way "Vampire, Werewolves, Mages OH MY....  YAWN 

10 years ago the genre was sweet now it's just DULL, at least for me anyway.

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

I would play a Vampire MMO, but only if I could play a vampire hunter.

 

As for women liking to buy things? Yeah, and water is wet.

This. I'll be a hunter, ty. I'd love to PvP a bunch of "emo /wrist vamps" online in all their hot topic gothiness.

It'd give a whole new meaning to "corpse camping" wouldn't it? lol

Originally posted by Daitengu

World of Darkness is a rather vast IP. 

 

It has core books for :

Vampires

Werewolves

Hunters

Psychics

Mages

Changelings (think of all the fairy tales not related to the previous types and lump them together)

 You forgot Wraith

I haven't read the one on psychics, but all the other ones have clan/tribes/faction and plenty of in fighting plus fighting between types.

 

I Hope World of Darkness starts out with vampires, werewolves, and mages since they are the most popular, and concentrate on content, then add in the others as expansions with their own content later.  I'm for three realm type+ pvp because it has better power struggle vs just 2 where one side more often than not has higher population and permanently stays on top on the server.

Vampires, Werewolves, and Hunters would be a good start. Mages would take forever to work out right... the Paradox system would be awkward and never be balanced (though it'd be funny if the character abused the Time sphere and Wrinkle himself erased the character from the server as if it never existed lol!) If they did get it to work though, I'd love to be a part of Iteration-X, but any part of the Technocracy would be just fine.

Wraith or Changeling... Changeling could be worked in, but wraith would need a special touch to function with the rest.

All in all you could have one hell of a world... but lore would be a must, and time to do it right... I honestly don't think there's a big enough "Sandbox" out there to fit it all in.

If you are thinking about Masquerade as a MMO do remember that MMO’s can end up changing huge areas of the dynamic and rules of an IP. Take Star Treks’s no guild staffed star ship decision, it is Star Trek Jim, but not as we know it.

Same for a Masquerade MMO, who knows what would get changed or dropped to fit a MMO game design?

Keep in mind that, if WoD MMO ends up focused on vampires it's gonna be Requiem, not now dead and buried (pun time) Masquerade... which is a good thing in it's own right, mainly because CCP will be free of huge metaplot burden that was present in oWoD and it'll essentially give them free reign to craft their own version of WoD world.

The thing People who crow about 3 factions forget is that whilst the expectation is for the 2 weaker sides to team up & beat on the strongest what often happens is the 2 strongest team up to beat on the weakest, I saw this happen in DAoC quite a bit & being on the recieving end of that for too long forced many to just quit.

So 3 factions can be a blessing or a curse, I'd rather there were multi factions with some background story every so often encouraging some alliance, & some checks and balances, like some npc factions perhaps or npc "heroes" that join up with the weakest side to help them out when needed.

With that offtopic aside, I think the WoD is a great starting place for a MMO at least from a lore & factions starting place, but I also really enjoyed the lore surrounding the Legacy of Kain series.

I would love to see the game build its "zones" as "timezones", so you would be in the early middle ages for the starter zones & as you developed you would then move into zones of a later time, with the later zones being set in early 1900s & then as the game expanded it would add more in. But the "time curve" would be a bit higher as the game grew, so the first set of zones would be set in the 1000 -1500 era, the next in the 1500 -1750 era, then the 1750 - 1875, 1875 - 1925, 1925 - 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010 wherupon it expands into a global game and new zones add new cities, etc.  Or something like that anyway.

I would love to see various factions of Humans, Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, Demons etc though there could be something like 3 "arch factions" to which these could belong, Where you have alliances of good humans, good vamps good werewolves....but there could be splinter factions of for example Puritannical humans that will not ally with the "filth" of the other factions & seek to cleanse them from the globe.

The game would have PvE core with some PvP & the PvP would centre around instanced battlegrounds but these battlegrounds would be say a set of 10 from a possible 100+ around the "world" & every so many weeks the "battlegrounds" would shift to different areas.

But yeah I would love to see a well done Vampiric-MMO.

P.S. Fix the freaking forum so I can use apostrophes in IE8 already ffs.

I wouldn't play a MMO that was just dedicated to vampires but I would play a MMO that implemented vampires into its lore system, make vampire a race that you could pick in game & give that race a nice back drop & features to enhance the feel of being a vampire.  Then you could work with that by giving human a class to pick from like vampire hunter or a class that allows transformation into a were-wolf, but a vampire only mmo would be kinda boring.

Wow, I didn't think a writer could be that stupid. There is a vampire MMO.

Its called Dark Eden.

Correct yourself, There is no SUCCESSFUL vampire MMO.

I would adore a good vampire MMO.  Although make it a bit of a fight between vampires, lycans, and other evils.  Nothing buffy like, but something more  like Hellsing or Underworld.

Personally, I like the idea of the vampire mmo.  But I'd like to see it from a different angle.  I'd like to see more options available on parts to play.  I love the idea of playing a beautiful girl who encounters a dangerous, yet strangely hypnotic "bad" guy.  I've actually searched for this very thing prior to reading this article.   Guys love to conquer and live it out through mmo's.  Why not a game that appeals to woman's love of romance.

*shrug*

I suppose a little niche mmo catering to a woman's self destructive attraction to the idea of a 'bad boy' could be rather quaint however i think a different approach could do well.  By this i of course mean the old pnp series Vampire the Masquerade.  Still, i've no idea how you would begin to keep the flavor and turn it mmo at the same time...

 While I'm not a huge vampire fan, I have to say, Dana, this is a brilliant idea. I despise Twilight from every depth of my soul, but vampires do take their root in romanticism. The two paths definitely need to be there. It would be tricky, but a big hit if done correctly. And it would need to be done now.

It would be nice to have a human faction as well so the PvPers can play as vampire hunters. That would make it an epic win. But the two paths of vampires alone would be a lot of work within itself.

Originally posted by Dana

Originally posted by aleos

 pretty tired of reading these "Why nots" got anything else to write about? i got more why nots than you.

 

I know you're trying to troll, but honestly, I agree. This was pretty close to the bottom of my "why not" barrel for now ;)

...I'm likely going to adopt a new premise in the coming weeks.

Anyone got any suggestions? ;)

Considering how badly  the gaming community seems to hate every new MMO that comes out. And considering how many people these days say they want to play an MMO but really just want a solo game with a chat room. How about you contemplate the future of MMOs in general. You could title it "Why Bother". =)

Originally posted by Dana

In this week's column, Dana Massey explores a genre that might well finally solve an age old problem for game developers. How do you get guys and girls in the same game? The answer? Vampires!

There is one genre out there that is relatively untested by MMOs and even games in general. It’s popular, one of the hottest sub-genres out there right now in fact, and perfectly suited to gaming. It also appeals to both men and women, albeit in different ways. So today, I ask you: Why not a Vampire MMO?

MMOs have always been a bit of an old boys club. Sure, women do play them, but no game has come even close to an even split. It could simply be that women don’t like video games, but if anyone can overcome that and make a game that both men and women enjoy equally, they’re going to be a very rich company.

Read it all here.

You need to keep up with the times. World of Darkness is already making a Vampire MMO. How do you not know this? It will be the new Vampire (Requiem) . There are also rumors of a Twilight MMO. I bet vampires will have the sparkle ability. Also the thing about getting the female vampire fan? Won't happen unless the game has a big emphasis on story and most MMOs don't. It's just about kill this person, level up and get gold and loot. So unless other MMOs follow Biowares idea of the 4th pillar I can't see a Vampire MMO attracting the female vampire fan.

Originally posted by maji

I'd play an MMORPG based on the p&p rpg V:TM. Would have one big problem though: expectations. V:TM has been there for dozens of years, has lots of fans and tons and tons of background and stories and lore and whatnot. I don't know how an MMORPG could pick up all that and then not disappoint.

In theory though... it would be great. The intrigues... games with might and power... the hunt for blood, the clans and stuff with their abilities and whatnot. Practically though, I doubt that there is a company out there who would have the patience and knowledge to successfully create an mmorpg about that without disappointing. I mean, creating an mmorpg about v:tm that does not disappoint... it's about as possible as writing the complete history of egypt onto your fingertip. Or if someone would try to wrap up the contents of all star-trek episodes within 3 words.

I would more likely play an MMO based on VtM rather than VtR. The Original World of Darkness was much more Fun.

Originally posted by Blutmaul

Vampire Bloodlines was one of the very best action-adventure-rpgs ever!

Anyone who likes the setting should try to find a cheap version of it and install it together with unofficial patch 6.x...

This Setting translated into an MMO could be working very very well.

I completely agree. I  would pay a monthly fee to play in an MMO that was designed like Bloodlines =D

A vampire-centric game really would be great.  As opposed to a Vampire (good) and Vampire (bad) game... why not offer a slightly more open game with more 'factions' involved?  Vampire (good) vs Vampire (bad) vs Humans (vampire hunters) vs NPC/PVE (other supernatural forces, werewolves, changlings, humans of various types (some might be vampire slaves/protectors). 

I think this could be done.  I think it would have a chance... a very good chance, honestly. 

The setting would be key, imho.  Are we talking old world or current timeframe?  Are we talking recreating our Earth and utilizing that? 

Something along the lines of Vampire of the Masquerade would be quite cool. 

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Off topic... Whoever mentioned a Highlander game... could be cool. But if there 'can be only one'... how cool would it really be?  I would see this as more of a FPS-ish game like Call of Duty.  Each round you (team v team or every man for himself styles) you would simply fight until only 1 player was left alive.  I mean, surely someone could manage to create a MMO out of this, and I would certainly look at it... but I'm just not sure how that would be done. 

The vampire-genre just seems like 'low hanging fruit' at this point for some dev to come along and snatch up.

Oh no. No more Vampires please!

On the other hand... If there where other parties like werewolfs, dragons, tree-spirits, giant water snakes (all playable of course) or whatever has been invented in years of high fantasy it would be a nice thing apart form all this "Human, Elven, Dwarven vs. Villians" grind and yawn games.

Originally posted by Eisdrache

Oh no. No more Vampires please!

No offence intended, but I wonder why some people freak out and go "aww, hell no!" when they hear about vampires in gaming media. Sure, there are some works out there that give vampires a bad name (primarily, Twilight and it's ilk), but actual video game vampires? I don't really recall them being all that bad (Vampire Rain, khm) or there actually being a whole lot of them, and in most cases they're good to average titles (Legacy of Kain, both Masquerade titles, Blood Rayne.... nothing really to run around and cry how bad it was).

So "sure" I say, bring them on, make ANY vampire game you can think of... I sure think we could use more of them.