While I am a fan of the shows, I am not that will be enough to make me want to play.
I'd like to throw this out there, and see what would make others want to play this MMO.

As for me, I'd like for them to make the planets very large and fully explorable. Also I would like for them to have a lot of planets, not just a 30-40, but 1-2 hundred.

Heck just the name Stargate in the title makes me want to play it.
 
I am not a ST or SW fan, but I am a SG fan.  Woot.

Good in-game content with a steady player base.

The Sci-Fi genre is really in need of a well put together game which game attract a player base of at least 500k. So how do we do that? I don't have any specific answers but what i do know is that every single MMO i have tried i compare to WoW. And why you might ask? Simply because it's the best implemented game out there. It is extremely intuitive. So simple and straight forward to use that you don't even need the manual to start playing.

A lot of MMOs can learn something from Blizzard. But this alone isn't enough. There has to be some sort of attraction and here are som examples:

City of Heroes
I believe they have a player base because it is a genre that is so rooted in society. Comic books are most for young men agreed, but the chance to become a super-hero, to be something more that you are, is very appealing.

World of Warcraft
Fantasy is more so rooted and generally excepted than comics. It's the largest genre and whoever impliments it best get all the customers. It's not a coincidence that WoW is so huge but what boggles me is that it is THAT huge.

The Sims
Take care of your pets, your friends and your toon. It's like playing in a large virtual doll house. The game addresses everyday issues like romance and work and this appeals to people. We all love dogs or cats so why shouldn't we want to take care of a alternate version of ourself?

So where is sci-fi represented in all this? Well many of you will promptly argue that EVE or SWG are the best games out there and i don't have anything against your opinions. What is apparent however is that these games, in comparison to giants like WoW and Lineage (or perhaps even Guild Wars), do have a very small customer base. So something is clearly wrong, or i should rephrase, all of the sci-fi MMOs lack somthing that the other have. But what?

Let's look at SWG. This is today my all time favorite MMO. Nothing so far has made me feel so, well, good when playing a game. If we compare it to WoW they both have:

• Fantasy elements
• Dragons, creatures and any other beings
• Wizards and magic
• Worlds to explore
• A level based system (at least i think SWG has it now?)
• PvP and PvE
• Cities and towns
• Missions or quests
• A variety of races, classes and professions
• Player based economy
• Auction/Market possibilities for you items
• Guilds or such alike
  

These are just some of the similarities and i do agree that many of them are exercised in different ways. My point is however that they are, in the "core game", very alike. Yet WoW has 6.6 million players while SWG has about 150.000 (approx numbers taken from http://mmochart.com). The only conclusion i can come to is that they are implemented in very different ways and that one have more attractive graphics and characters than the other. In regards of imlementation that is certainly true like i mentioned in the beginning.

The two games have different flow to them and this is important. When playing a game i don't want to feel that the game play gets in the way of my in-game development and this is where the intuitive part comes into play. As an example i sometimes hated playing CoH because their chat system was so complicated to use.

Very important is also diversity in game play which almost all MMOs lack. They seem to be aimed at one sort of player and i'm not talking about differences between playing a wizard and a warrior since they are very unlike. The games themselves only seem to be aimed at only character growth and leveling through combat. One of the things i loved about SWG was that they offered players to have important functions that was not related to combat and leveling. You could be a manufacturer, a doctor, a musician or a dancer. All of these had very important functions in for the game but you never needed to go out and kill or slay. You as a player were allowed to play the game in a completely different way than most other MMOs offer. This to me is very appealing.

Well anyway, i've been rambling on long enough.

Personally i think that SG1 was getting boring especially when compared to Atlantis. The game has a level of detail not available in any current mmorpg due to the fact that it will be using the new Unreal 3 engine. Although i will propably not buy the game if i cant fly around in anything and there will need to be motherships. A Plus would be the a ability to destroy stars and planets like the episode where they throw a stargate into star and dial it to the black hole star.

FPS or third person combat.  None of this turn based point and click crap you see in other MMOs.  Stargate is an action series and deserves to have an action actual skill requirment for combat.

I see the title and im hypnotized.. I wanna play the game cause im a big fan of SG-1 ( Haven't seen Stargate Atlantis et. )

I highly agree with dunny33

"FPS or third person combat.  None of this turn based point and click crap you see in other MMOs.  Stargate is an action series and deserves to have an action actual skill requirment for combat."

I would play it if it were a MMOFPS.  I can care less for WOW,ffxi,eq, etc style combat.   Im hopeing its FPS or third person shooter like ghost recon advanced warfighter but I doubt it.  It will proble be horrible like matrix online shooting.

Im curious though how it will be so I will keep checking up on the mod till I find out.   I love stargate I just dont get how its going to work if you cant shoot full auto and take cover.   I cant imagine the game being any good for stargate fans if the combat is lame like most of these mmorpgs out.  I want to be able to aim and run to cover.

 

If you could just send nukes to other planets thru the stargate for no reason and blow up everyone, that would make me play too :) jk

i would have to say that if they had the concept of world of warcraft and the graphics of guildwars with the option to PVP or PVE server.  that would be nice.  I also agree, there should be a great number of planets - that is where you would get to see the beauty of them with the guild wars graphics.  as much as i am looking forward to the release of this game, if you can't jump or have large raids to where you have many people running them, done deal - game over for me. no one should really care if the game is month to month play because that would allow us to have server upgrades constantly.  i can't wait to start my new addiction - Stargate Worlds.  w00t!