Originally posted by halflife25

Originally posted by TwoThreeFour

Originally posted by ForumPvP

What was that company after,what is casual game? product for people who dont play much?

now if they dont play much,is that a flop or not?

 

Mike O'Brian aims to make Guild Wars 2 the number one MMORPG on the market; i.e. beat WoW.

 

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/04/23/arenanet-founder-mike-obrien-will-be-satisfied-when-guild-wars-2-is-the-most-successful-mmo-period/

NCSoft may have other goals, and so may other key people within Arenanet, so I suppose it depends on who you ask.

Well Mike can keep day dreaming. He painted a bull's eye on his back with a comment like that. GW2 beat WOW...lol. Ok what ever Mike.

LOL no kidding. Mike, tell that to the 2,000 ahead of me in the que to log into MoP.

Originally posted by Loke666

Take Elder scrolls. When Bethesda made Daggerfall they custom made the mechanics for the world and they perfected it since then. Suddenly they decide to make a MMO and instead of basing it on their mechanics or make new ones that fits the IP they slap Wows mechanics with a dash of DaoC on top of it.

We dont know that yet....Im still leaning more on your side on this one....but Im holding my breathe still hopign for the best, but not getting my hopes up too high as to be saddened by the probable dissappointment.

My fondest memories in UO were hanging out on the logs right outside Trammel and  hunting down Pen Fifteen on the Pacific Server.

Making friends with Dawg and Pyrostasis only to jack their house keys and loot everything they had.

Making player cities with houses and tents.

Halloween when they would let you play on the Abyss server as a Dragon

Pretty much everything before they came out with Trammel which totally killed the game for me.

Originally posted by Quirhid

IP is like a paint job on top of the game - the nuts and bolts. I strongly feel that the game should come first and IP should be developed around it, not the other way round.

For example, the Jedi sound nice in the books and movies but they translate poorly into games. As they are portrayed, they are outrageously overpowered compared to anyone else in that universe. Same for the wizards in Eddings' books, they're practically demigods.

Authors rarely create their fiction with games in mind. Also some have no clue about developing good games: quidditch anyone?

I didn't play SWG enough to really get that into it but I liked the idea that only a few people could be Jedi after a MASSIVE amount of grinding. Then killing them would make them lose their status...or not logging in for a while? I believe thats what SWG did pre NGE, that was pretty slick.

Originally posted by ZigZags
Not me but man, the title sure makes me want to order some chinese food.

After eating some panda express and watchin the trailer....I may actually try this out. It looks fresh and new and a welcome change to the WoW clones I've been playing.

I think its a shame that some of the greatest intellectual properties of our life time were made into MMOs that utterly failed. I remember watching movies and reading books thinking to myself, "I wish I could live or play in this world" and eventually some corporation got involved with the creators of the IP, made a game and it ended up sucking, going free to play or closing down.

HOW CAN THIS BE? Ironically, some of the best MMO's still in play and going strong didn't really have a big following before the game ever came out. I find that kind of funny.

Originally posted by bunnyhopper

Originally posted by AntiFear
Warhammer Online has the best open world PvP system..

Wait wut?

This is a joke right? WAR wasn't an open world at all. Just a series of mini BGs with scenarios