Originally posted by riluliya

I found this game too player-driven. The locations were not very big and it seemed rather empty. Most, if not all of the missions seemed to be exclusively player created.

Too player driven? That was most of FoM's allure. I'm convinced that's whats caused the game to fail. As player driven aspects were slowly removed, the population slowly died.

Two years of retail, not bad for a completely new idea.

FoM

I Was with FOM from CLOSED Beta , it wasn’t until Open Beta I really found out how wonderful FOM could be when I rose up to become a R6 LED and Warden of DMC (guess who !) This time is still the best MMORPG experience I have ever had and will most likely ever have, I Still reminisces about DMC and the things that went on, I have even backed up the hundreds of screenshots I have and cherish them, something I have never ever done with any MMORPG. oh the stories I could tell and the fun that was had… I do not think of any MMORPG in this way, so yes FOM had the potential to become the best ever MMORPG ever known to man.

However the developers made mistake after mistake. Who remember the graphics engine change halfway through Beta? With this engine change saw many other changes, along with a shed load of new bugs, that made the game grind to halt, no more dark places to hide in DMC for example, TURRETS ARGH..( bane of my life and my downfall, but that’s another story), not being able to drop items on floor and many other little things that gradually removed all kind of role play features, simply not allowing items to be dropped ruined what little of DMC role play was left after the turrets killed DMC roleplay. One of the fun things was seeking out weapons drops and caches inside the prison for example.

FOM became more of a PvP and overrun with immature kiddies who had no idea what roleplay is let alone knowing how to interact with others, and so FOM quickly died. IN end it seemed like the developers were trying to make it into too many different things, The main unique selling feature of FOM was the player driven role play and the politics and alliances that can be made, spying and espionage was fantastic could go on and on, but no they decide to make it PvP, if I want PvP I could play almost any other MMORPG going, but no lets listen to the kiddies who want to play with guns all day.

Too many mistakes and wrong directions and decision making ruined FOM and now we see it almost dead. I am not surprised to be honest, I am just sad something was killed before it had a chance to grow, otherwise I would still be playing FOM , there is no doubt about that.

Face of Mankind Open Beta was the best gaming experience I've had in the 16 years of PC gaming that I've gone through.

It had its faults, and those that says it was bug free clearly don't remember some of the pretty nasty bugs and flaws that it had. But even with those bugs it was fun to play because you could still win by playing fair and by the rules (because it was that kind of game).

The people I played with came from a wide section, everything from real life business managers to real life activists to the average everyday person and the society we formed, I call it a society because it really was, was just simply amazing. People held real beliefs and it felt that everytime you logged in you where part of something bigger and fighting for a cause no matter your faction. I personally went from a guy who knew nothing about that game and was on the verge of quiting after the first hour to the leader of a faction within a couple of months. Getting to that position, and then holding it were real challenges and I will always remember the people that I met and played those long nights with.

Unfortunately,  like the op posted the devs went left when they should've gone right so many times. FoM failed because of those bad decisions, a lack for proper project management, and of course a lack of proper leadership. No matter how much you like a game you burnout, and have to leave or take a break. Too many people left and those holes were never filled. Which is the reality that is FoM, it requires talented, and dedicated people to succeed and that I would have to say was one of the major causes of its downfall.

My quest for another MMO will continue and I'll always have the screenshots and videos, this reincarnation might be worth a look, so I'll wait and see.

Good bye FoM.

Originally posted by Jephir

Every time I think of this game I cry. It's the 'perfect' MMO for me - no grind and an active community. Unforunately, one milestone patch ruined it all. I really hope that some other publisher buys this license some day.

license, heh, its a copy of Fallout, publisher better off buying Fallout MMO.

Face of Mankind, has never been anything like Fallout, hell Its an insult to Fallout to say this game was anywhere near like it.

Fallout has a cult following, and was a great series (1 and 2). Face of Mankind is just a niche game, small, and content less mmo with a rabid fanbase.

What do I think FOM needs?

I think FoM needs to turn into a free-to-play MMO. They would get a lot more users, and they could throw up ads on their site and have an item shop or something to make extra money. They would make a lot more money with 200,000 free players, then 5,000 p2p people. And get a lot more publicity.

I remember playing FoM when it was p2p. I was in the LED and it was pretty fun when we did city missions, escorts, etc... But 90% of the time I was stuck guarding the stupid prison. I was a hero at one point, meaning in what I did. We were on an escort mission throughout the prison, escorting some high ranking leader of GoM. Some assassins were sent in to kill them, about 8-9 of them and a few of them were killed by the guards at the door but those guards were ran over by the rest. They ran up behind us and took out some LED High Ranking Official on the escort with me and I turned around and killed the 6-7 of them remaining. It was the only outstanding moment i've had in that game. Other then that, I never really liked the game. I was sick of standing around guarding the prison day in and day out.

I played face of mankind for a while, the best part of it was the community itself cant say one thing bad about them but the game...boy oh boy  it needed a lot of work specifically in the content side of things.

Did i spy Lucy Trent up there

Dropable items had to be removed, If you remember some people liked making world servers crash by intentionaly dropping as many items as possible...

Hmm, turrets...Well LED was another faction it wasnt the police, the government is supposed to have the best equipment and an advantage, and tbh with all the newb ganking that went off,  turrets was good. Or dont you remember all the fun of brooklyn mall in OB?

O and well tbh i remember loads of people complaining about the old graphics, looked like half life 1......I didnt mind the engine upgrade..

guys i looked and there was a anouncement on the closed beta, i dont know about it but if it is tru then thats awesome

http://forum.fomplanet.com/showthread.php?t=2879

No its an aprils fools :)

Sounds like this was a good game at one time.

I would of liked to have seen it O.O.

It will be back soon Wildblade, and the only Major difference is no predefined Justice system.