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• • Top 5 MMORPG's you would like to see

  • Here are my takes:

    1. Non-SOE Star Wars MMO (to stop the so-called SWG veterans from crying ffs)
    2. Blade Runner MMO (hell yea, that'd rock)
    3. Diablo MMO (with both fractions playable - humans as well as demons)
    4. Snow Crash MMO (based on the Stephenson cyberpunk novel)
    5. 10,000 BC MMO (we have SciFi and Fantasy, but nothing prehistoric, I think it might rock if it has the crytek engine, vast landscapes and large monsters/dinosaurs - "Shadow of the Colossus" style)

    Hm, I could think of a dozen more cool IP's to make MMORPGs, MMORTS or MMOFPS's out from.

  • Posted: 3/30/08 4:11 PM
    General Discussion
• • The Great Darkfall Conspiracy

  • I don't think its necessarily two camps. You don't have to think the screenshots are fake to think they are milking this cash cow.

    What they are basically doing is this:

    • create a name/brand/identity (first video which appeared somewhat around 2002?)
    • use viral marketing methods (aka mouth to mouth propaganda, providing a video to youtube is a good start)
    • produce information to make the game seem legit (website, devblog, screenshots, etc.)
    • setup either a beta-registration or at least a newsletter (number of signups are used for projectories of userbase aka subscribers aka customers)

    All that and the information they get this way is being used to charm investors to pump as much money as possible into this project.

    I am not making this up, this is how most enterprises start when they don't have the financial backing or a sound finance plan / business plan at first. A friend of mine has sold screenshots of a website to an investor, used to money he got to hire web programmers who actually built the site then. I even sold a powerpoint presentation once, thats how entrepreneurs work, especially with venture capital.

    The only problem with Darkfall is, that they not only tricked investors with it, but also fanboys, who are out there trying to defend Darkfall for whatever reason. My prognosis is that Darkfall will either remain what it is now: Vaporware - or they will find a large enough investor to hire a project manager and devs to built it, at which point it will be clear, that the game won't be released before 2010, which would conclude a total of development time of 10 years.

  • Posted: 3/30/08 2:25 PM
    Darkfall
• • Invisible walls, Fact? Fiction? Rumour?

  • Fact, Fiction or Rumour? Fact, but an outdated one, so by now its history, with a few exceptions maybe.

    How do you prevent someone from swimming out to the open sea without invisible walls? Imagine someone thinks its funny to swim out for an hour, then realizes there are no invisible walls, but no secret islands either. Then he will be pretty pissed off and annoy GM's to warp him back to civilization.

    AoC will be more restrictive as WoW in some fashion, but the PvP system, the graphics, the story and so much more make up for it.

  • Posted: 3/30/08 10:57 AM
    Age of Conan
• • Age of Conan Developer taking cheap shots on Darkfall

  • Originally posted by Aragon100
    

    Originally posted by Sam123jo0123
    

    
    There have been alot of 'rumours' that you can't stray from a certain path of terrain in AOC, similar to guild wars.

    
    Other "rumours" about Pizza Hut on their shields. Hope it not ruin the inner feeling of Conan world.

    Yea, I heard that too. I also heard that you need to rest in a McDonalds if you want to re-gain your health points and that you can do long-distance travel in a Mercedes that looks like a dragon ... dude, what are you smoking?

    The invisible walls have been bugs that have been fixed, as for your "rumour", I guess it will take a shrink to fix that one.

  • Posted: 3/30/08 10:52 AM
    Darkfall
• • Age of Conan Developer taking cheap shots on Darkfall

  • Originally posted by downtoearth
    

     

     

    I can garrentee beta this year if it doesnt happen im not going to follow it either just play something else

    On the Darkfall website a new Press Release just appeared! They are hiring 20 more developers and are in talks with a Publisher. As for the reason for this unexpected move they stated: downtoearth wouldn't play Darkfall if we don't have a Beta this year.

    

  • Posted: 3/30/08 10:44 AM
    Darkfall