Originally posted by jdnewell

No the world is not ready.

Not every single player game needs to be raped for every cent of profit by making it into an MMO that more than likely would be half arsed at best. Milking IPs for every cent IMO is whats wrong with this industry today.

If the thinking behind the scenes was more " lets make the best game we can" and less " lets see what we can milk the players for"  the industry would be more respected.

And a mass effect MMO would probably be more of the latter and less of the former.

Just my 2cp

 

EA has destroyed every other good IP they once had, they are going to ruin mass effect eventually.

Command and Conquer never had a chance, Dragon Age 2 sucked  and spore.... *cries*

Originally posted by Unlight

Originally posted by TuppuP

Right after Guild Wars 2 announced to have this feature it got copied to WoW...

This is the way of WoW:

• Liberate the ideas of others;
• Incorporate these ideas into your own game;
• Decimate the competition with their own brilliance turned upon them.

Nothing new here.

 

Agreed. Blizzard is adding every possible feature, even those taken from other games, they have a huge staff who no doubt dable in video gaming themselves. Sadly though blizzard is probably gonna try milk people for more cash, and the worst thing is this allows players to always be in touch with a world that isnt real, it just seems like an extension of a bad idea for those that are already addicted to wow.

Originally posted by Argonian

Originally posted by Dragim

Looks like it is heavily alliance favored by the positioning of the targets on the map.

 

it won't matter, Horde FTW :)

 

Haha Alliance will need all possible advantages

Originally posted by Radoo

Originally posted by drazzah

I like this idea a lot, simplifying is awesome!

 

Yep, WoW needs so much more "simplifying" that pretty soon it will be played with 1 click to reach endgame.

 

Yeah getting into a fight then hitting 1, 2, 3 , 1 , 1 is way too hard, I just need one button

SChool could be only the initial area, if the games world is expanded outside the school, in a world of magic with a civil war going on this could be pritty kick ass. Fresh out of school all trained up and owning some dark wizard in diagon alley. Combat would be strange though if made like current mmos, eg wow, you would just stand around throwing magic at each other, need some sort of a cover, fire and maneouver system. IDK seems to hard to implement and therefore a major risk ($$$$$$$$$$$) for companies. Currently companies like Activision blizzard and EA, make it rediculously hard to make a successful mmo, as to be successful you reqire millions of people playing, rather than simply enough to make a profit, they need massive profits.

Everyone knows Games Workshop are a bunch of wankers right?

The way i heard it from a friend is some former employee causing trouble

http://www.anzsc.com/index.php/topic,37.0.html          check out Jaffakre 's post

that said though, they do seem to be in quite a bit of trouble, hopefully the game goes ahead but lately with game releases I have lowered my standards

Originally posted by Airwren

Considering Cryptic's absolute failure at launching Champions Online and their launch day "debacle" with that game you'd think the folks running the show would have figured out how this was going to go over.  Sadly, some day we're going to be remembering when Cryptic developed MMO's because they're going to run themselves out of business if they keep *ucking this stuff up.  I really don't care about this that much but I personally think this is just a precursor to them "announcing" that respecs of your skill points will only be offered via C-Store purchase.  If they aren't planning on doing this then there is absolutely no excuse for not having respecs in the game already.  The engine for STO and a great deal of the game is just ripped off from CO and they had a functional respec system in CO at launch.  It isn't like it should be hard for them to code and implement that system now, unless oh wait they are going to get as many initial orders on the game as they can, make as much money up front as they can, and then drop this little gem after the initial free 30 days have ended. 

 

P.S.  Can the MMORPG staff please sticky this post so that I can reference it when I'm right?   thanks =P

Haha sticky that, yeah disappointed, not really surprised so many companies screwing over their loyal clients, Infinity Ward with no dedicated servers, STO with this crap, and I wait in anticipation to see how blizzard with screw over yet another group of gamers with starcraft 2

Originally posted by Angorim

I was waiting for an unofficially official announcement about this project ever since Bethesda registered the Elder Scrolls online website domain.  I have no clue how they would begin to implement an Elder Scrolls game into an MMORPG setting but if they can pull it off I'll be there in a heartbeat.

I do have a bit of a fear about the "World of Warcraft style MMOG" comment, however.  I'm hoping that is just a placement used as a reference to MMORPG's in general since it would be identifiable to more people and not showing huge similarities (see: clone).

Who knows, I certainly do not.  I'll continue to keep my eyes on Bethesda and wait rather impatiently for the officially official announcement of the project.

I agree with you completely, hopefuly its done well, and if so ill be there,  but i honestly i couldnt stand a wow like mmo again, so hopefully it will be brilliant, thats if they are making it haha

Originally posted by lornphoenix

Originally posted by someforumguy

Im not really a Star Trek fan, but like watching the series sometimes. The series wouldnt be the same without the scenes on the ships. I find it a bad move for any development team to not include ship interiors.

The thing is in the shows you are watching the actors play out the plot of that episode... you can't really do that in a game.

Edit: Checked the devs' reasons. To me they appear like devs that avoid any challenge in development and hope the IP will be enough to attract players. Too bad I cant change my choice in the poll.

All things consider, the fact that the game is probably going launch early next year, and only having the license for such a short time, I think the push themselves to get where they are. When PE died I thought STO with them.

 

Yeah , I also thought this thing wasnt going to happen, If it does I want it done right but im not sure about this one, but I will definatelygive it a shot, i best be at least able to access vital areas suh as bridge, med bay, engineer, a holo deck and maybe a cargo bay or a corridor of 2, also the shuttle bay (sorta a plane buff). damn thats like most of the shp.. I just dont want to set up another game on a pedastol so high it disappoints... I want a decent star trek or stargate mmo
 

Originally posted by Lydon

Originally posted by Dameonk

 CrapG-1.

Fail at trying to be witty.

lol yeap, but i was still sorta disappointed when i aw these , but who cares what they look like, its a game, its aboutt the gameplay.

Originally posted by HiGHPLaiNS

Well if your a fan on the TV series we see there is another spin off coming later this year. I hear it sounds almost like a Lost in Space, but not to much detail has been said or even if this is true.

All I known from random website is that we have a Ancient Ship called the Destiny and apparently we are going to pick-up where the Ancients left off on this ship.

It should be alright, but if it gets to populare, it will be like SG1 or atlantis or farscape all over again, it will get good, then when it becomes to expensive to produce anyme, they end the show and cap it off will a dvd movie release

Originally posted by Alxgranger

I dont know where the game Stargate Worlds take place and what season, but apparently we dont have spaceships as of yet.

 

Well from what i've read the game is supposed to take place between seasons eight and nine, b4 all of the major changes take place in the stargate unvierse.

we had spaceships, promethius makes its appearence in  season six, and daedalus in ep one of season 2. Plus im sure there will be plenty of gou'auld ships to hijack,

Totally agree, we need more GOOD sci fi sand box mmos, with both fps aspects, and maybe a space combat/ vehicle combat aspect.

Originally posted by almerel

The state of GW's is alive and healthy. There isn't a game that has a much better storyline than GW. Yes the game is 100% instances except cities and pvp launching areas. The game can be solo'd up to maybe lvl 12-14 with just henchies but then the henchies don't do it anymore imo. You need to get into a guild and/or make a few IG friends. I have both and it makes the game much more enjoyable. 

 

How far did you get in GW? What lvl and city? I may be able to help better with that knowledge.

Agreed, i remeber when I used to play , it was reallyfun, me and about 4 mates started playing it together and it and its expansions kept us entertained for ages, but RL took over, and school, then we lost interest, but GW is still going and its pretty good... Like i like the lack of grind at the story line was pretty good, and it was actually used.

Yes you are.... Nah hahaha im sure there are others out there. But it was a good game I liked it, but not enought to keep playing, if u get a chance you should test it out, its just a different mmo, and those ship to ship battles keep things interesting.

Originally posted by Lydon

Originally posted by Zorndorf 

Thanks for the answers. I'll skip Aion grind, Darkfall hype and the Dutch Spellborn (is out already in EU and it doens't sell one box even).

... and save a few Euros on this one.

Lots of CCG Star Trek cards and I let my brother buy all the videos  

Epic fail.

Aion has been designed not to be a grind, and wtf are you going on about TCoS not selling? Really, you spout your misinformed nonsense somewhere else please. In fact, stay out of the two mention games please. Keep believing your lies.

Burnt, spellborn is actually selling, not as  well as expected, but from what i have read, its selling, ow and i cant wait to give aion a try...

Originally posted by mackdawg19

You have been following this game for a year and didn't notice you fly everywhere? Shocking, to say the least. You might want to actually follow the game if thats your flavor.

Yeah ull mostly have abilities to make up for it, but I still wished their would be mounts, just some wild creatures that you could ride, and it provides a massive number of mother jokes, hahahahaha

Im no hate monger, i mean i might sound like a flammer, now but, pre nge was good, not the greatest but it was good and SoE is mostly a company that looks towards short term financial gains rather than a stable long term finabcial status and it isnt that great too its customers.