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MMOFTW - Big News Galore - MMORPG.com

This week's MMOFTW is a ton of huge news - from Breach's first testing phases to the shut down of WildStar, and the selling of CCP to BDO's maker, it's been a busy week. Take it in and learn!

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some-clueless-guy

10/10 on the audio. Finally the balance between music and voice is just right for me. I still prefer no background music when am listening to someone talking, but this is the next best thing.

Tamanous

I'm interesting to hear more about the new Lotro mmorpg. I doubt I am capable of hype anymore but at least there's always hope I suppose.

BillMurphy

I forgot all about that! Probably because there’s not a lot on it yet.

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Wizardry

Well the mobile idea was Smedley's idea before he got to Daybreak,so it was expected.I now know how their smaller team operates,so i wouldn't expect anything good to ever come out of DB games ever again.
Breach,looks cheap,might be polished sure but i would expect 5% of a complete rpg to be polished.
Game development seems so easy now that too many devs are getting in,quick to make cheap games,the market is flooded with stuff i have no interest in playing.

I wonder with the current trend in making half assed games,easy to make games ,will i ever see another large "complete" mmorpg. Who is going to build it,there are maybe 2-3 devs that could pull it off ,instead we will keep seeing more stuff that looks like moba's/arpg's.
The one tidbit that caught my ears was the mention of THQ's acquisition of Amalur.My hunch is the simply want the assets or want to turn it into some superficial cash shop game,basically they saw a price they couldn't refuse.So i wouldn't hold my breathe expecting much good to come of this.

Alverant

I'm glad you're back to mention the bad Wildstar news. I enjoyed it too but it didn't really pull me in enough to play it daily like other MMOs. Maybe if I found a guild I meshed with (I admit, I didn't really try after my test run of a PvP guild failed) things would have been different. I hope there will be private servers. I'm just not sure how I'd be able to access them if I ever want to go back and play. But I do have to disagree about the speed to get to the level cap. One of my complaints about the game was how quickly I reached 50. When I played CoX it took me months to reach 50, here it took weeks. To me the journey to 50 is more important than actually being there. Wildstar seemed to rush everyone there. Thanks again!

Ilaya

Great Vid!! Can't wait for next Week's News
Rock on!

Chaserz

Sad news on Wildstar. Very excellent MMO.

Azaron_Nightblade

Haha, "Into the Abyss"! Now that's fitting xD

meonthissite

I welcome cross platform myself. It's about time!

I cannot wait to hear more about the new LOTR game! I hope it's an mmo and that it goes way beyond what turbine did with the game and then later with the classes. I did enjoy the hell out of my loremaster here's to hoping they bring that class arch-type over to a new platform!

Darkkrow13

so when is WILDSTAR going to shut down have they set a date for it yet?

Scot

I don’t think we are “lucky” seeing any MMO go mobile, it is a downgrading of the title, taking gaming from its best platforms to its worst.

AoC – I have never seen a spell that makes you go invisible have so much sparkly give your location away lights needed to cast it.

More seriously, if AoC has a BR mode before the game is launched the chances it will be there in some form at launch does raise its head. I don’t think I need to go over the problems that occur from having different sorts of PvP and the rewards issues that can spring up. Hey, I am not even going to mention lore, who cares about that in MMO’s these days anyway?

Sad to see Wildstar go, another nail in the coffin for any MMO setting that is not fantasy. Diversity is the spice of anything and without it in setting MMOs become lesser. But was it just pushing the boundaries too far? Sci-Fi plus Western plus the comedy? MMO setting is incredibly conservative, right form the start I questioned if that would be too much.

Kingdoms of Amalur was one of my favourite RPG’s, will it finally become a MMO, we can only hope. The lore (remember that’s the thing nobody cares about in MMOs now) was really nicely done.

klash2def

sad news about wildstar, good luck to the devs, hopefully they find a better situation soon.

Beowulfsam

Lol Wildstar. Our guild was in testing and devs literally listened to none of our complaints, what's more, they were arrogant saying they know stuff and we're just some chumps that play games and in the end wouldn't even discuss things anymore. I guess they just wanted free bug testers. The initial fast player decline to F2P to closure had been pretty well predicted. Well, here ya go, devs, guess who was right. Sorry, not sorry for you.

DijonCyanide

Good entertaining & informative video ... thanks.

EvilGaming

I actually loved wildstar but the community was just toxic i capped out long before the f2p launch and ended up quitting the game due to 0 progression after max lvl couldn't get into raid because people would literally bash you and not let you in because you didn't have a high enough gear score but the only way to get on your feet was to do raids to get the gear for the gear score so i quit and came back after the f2p launch and had a hoot of a time by lvling a separate character to max lvl with a few friends only to run into the exact same situation and everyone stopped playing once again

esc-joconnor

Beowulfsam said:

Lol Wildstar. Our guild was in testing and devs literally listened to none of our complaints, what's more, they were arrogant saying they know stuff and we're just some chumps that play games and in the end wouldn't even discuss things anymore. I guess they just wanted free bug testers. The initial fast player decline to F2P to closure had been pretty well predicted. Well, here ya go, devs, guess who was right. Sorry, not sorry for you.

Arrogant people, what can you do with them!
What were your guilds complaints anyway?

Gutlard

I hope the industry doesn't move toward mobile-only, but if it does I won't play games anymore. That won't be years from now, but I hope to hell that when I can retire in 20-30 years and work on my Steam library, it will be on a big HUD of some kind and not some small shitty screen.

Gut Out!