Agreed about a Shadowrun MMO, I've been hoping someone would buy the rights and do it properly for years. Alas, nobody seems to have done it yet. There was an independent group of developers working on a project for it at one time, but they were issued a cease and desist by Microsoft.

Originally posted by Brambey

:( After trying for hours last night, I wake up this morning and now they have suspended applications.  Why, Square, why!?!?

 

I was really excited about this beta too.

 

Anyone have a spare key?

Yeah, looks like they are down for maintenance now.  We musta broke the servers.

Looks like their servers are a bit overloaded.

Originally posted by Wolfenpride

9:07 Eastern time, are keys being handed out yet?

I used to play this game as a dragon and I was even a Guild Master for an all dragon RP guild.  I made it to Ancient dragon.  I enjoyed being able to fly anywhere I wished in the game world.

Ultimately I left because of the dying player population and the troubles that were going on prior to its current development team incarnation.  I don't think I could get back into in now simply because the graphics are so dated now.  Although I am primarily playing only single player games now since I'm not really all that excited by anything out there currently in the MMO world.

If Istaria were to undergo a graphics overhaul, I'd gladly try it out again.

I am already keeping an eye out for this game.  The concept is really cool and seems really different (something that has been lacking for a while in MMOs).

But I've seen too many games with great concepts end up dying before they make it to release, i.e. Trials of Ascension.  I do hope this one makes it and it lives up to its description, but with so little information about the game so far, I'm not holding my breath.

I'm not really hoping any game will be a "WoW Killer" as much as a game coming out that is interesting to play and offers something new since most games out there now are either old or have nothing that interesting to offer.

So what does this mean?  Just that they are looking for money to invest in the business, new projects, current projects?  I'm by no means a business person type.

Oh, and I'm currently playing DDO -  Unlimited beta thingy.

I started checking their forums and Ragnar's blog back in March (I think) when I first heard about the game.  There's not been much activity since then really.  Ragnar rarely posts anything about the game on his blog, there's almost no information on their forums (which are nearly impossible to make sense of for a casual reader who's not been involved since it first started).

Supposedly 2009 is to be the year that they start releasing information about this game, but considering it's been nearly 5 months since they said that, and that there's only 4.5 months left in 2009, I'd doubt there will be any action on this game at all.

I was excited and interested when I first read about this game.  But it's hard to maintain that feeling when there's so little information available about the game.  I've seen a games that started forums and what-not way too early in their development that end up shutting down development or just fizzling away entirely.  It's entirely possible that will happen with this game.

For me, I think I'm just going to write it off.  If it actually goes to release, I'll be pleasantly surprised.

I think I read earlier in this thread that someone said that they were going to do Fallout MMO rather than an Elder Scrolls mmo.  But after doing some research (albeit online and you can't believer everything you read of course), it looks like Interplay still holds the rights for Fallout in regards to an mmo based on Fallout.  Interplay has partnered with Masthead Studios recently to publish an un-disclosed mmo title that Interplay has been working on in-house since 2007.  So.....maybe Bethesda/Zenimax Studios can't work on a Fallout MMO.

Personally I would rather they work on an MMO based on Morrowind (rather than Oblivion) but with Oblivion/Fallout quality graphics.  I liked the wide-open game world feel in Morrowind much more than Oblivion.  So I'm hoping for a Morrowind/Elder Scrolls MMO since it's one of two favorite games that I'd like to see as an MMO, the other being Shadowrun (which has been attempted and was squelched my Micro$oft before they sold the rights).

Originally posted by xkingofallx

Not sure what AAA means but Mabinogi more or less fills those reqs.Except for graphcis which are a litte cartoonish but still a good game(at least i think so).

linky:http://mabinogi.nexon.net/

A Triple-A title or AAA is usually a big-budget, big studio, top of the line game.

Graphics quality is pretty important to me in a game since it greatly affects the immersion.

While I never played UO, the sandbox game that Dana described is the type of game I would enjoy and I think what I have been looking for.

I played Horizons (now it's called Istaria) when it was originally released, and although it is a level based game, it had a lot of the same feel that Dana described.  There were world-wide initiatives that were often going on and players of any level/skill could participate in.  In this game it was more the players and community really that created that atmosphere.

From the description Dana gives, there was a game that was in development that has stopped development that I think would have fostered the sandbox game he describes very well.  It was called Trials of Ascension.  But it ran out of funding a while back and nothing has happened with it since.

Since Bethesda (or whoever their parent company is) has a division Zenimax Studios that is working on an MMO, it's my fondest hope that they will create an MMO based on Morrowind.  Mechanically I think that would be a great stage setting for a sandbox MMO, provided the non-mechanical parts are there as well.  I prefer Morrowind over Oblivion due to the wide-open game world, where Oblivion was much smaller and more directed.

I'd love to find a game with the qualities he talks about.