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01-21-2011, 04:39 AM | #1 |
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CCP (EVE Online etc.) took over . . . White Wolf??? In 2006? WoD MMORPG in 2012?
Greetings, all!
Heard recently that CCP, the company known in the RPG community chiefly for its maintenance of the EVE Online spaceship warfare, asteroid mining and trade economic simulator. And that planning to release a World Of Darkness MMORPG in 2012? How did I miss all that? |
01-21-2011, 06:49 AM | #2 |
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Re: CCP (EVE Online etc.) took over . . . White Wolf??? In 2006? WoD MMORPG in 2012?
No idea, but it happened. Technically a merger rather than a takeover, but CCP has a whole lot more money and seems to be calling the shots.
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01-21-2011, 10:55 AM | #3 |
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Re: CCP (EVE Online etc.) took over . . . White Wolf??? In 2006? WoD MMORPG in 2012?
It's likely to suck though. I'll be surprised if they don't do to it something similar to what was done to Champions. What developers perceive as working in the MMO market is just too different from tabletop games.
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01-21-2011, 11:38 AM | #4 |
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Re: CCP (EVE Online etc.) took over . . . White Wolf??? In 2006? WoD MMORPG in 2012?
Thread moved from Geek Culture to The Industry.
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01-21-2011, 01:21 PM | #5 | |
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01-22-2011, 12:18 AM | #6 |
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Re: CCP (EVE Online etc.) took over . . . White Wolf??? In 2006? WoD MMORPG in 2012?
As long as there's more to it than vampires, I may be interested.
I've become very jaded by MMOs as of late though. Many of them promise a variety of interesting features, but these features can only be accessed if one plays the cookie cutter portion for approximately 300 hours or more. The portion that is exactly like every other MMO out there and involves a lot of boring and repetitive content, and these content is especially boring and repetitive if you've done it before in another game. |
01-22-2011, 03:41 AM | #7 | |
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Re: CCP (EVE Online etc.) took over . . . White Wolf??? In 2006? WoD MMORPG in 2012?
And as long as it's not World of Spreadsheets. Eve Online has the problem that it's, frankly, boring. It's possible to play it almost entirely offline simply by logging in ever so often, starting something going, then logging off and doing your daily business.
If a World of Darkness game ends up having similar game play it'll probably bomb so bad it'll take the tabletop game down with it. Now I'd love to see how they take a tabletop system designed for pure roleplaying and turn it into an MMORPG. If you ever play an MMO (and I just finished a 10-hour spree on Star Trek Online) you'll know that the missions/quests/whatever that are intended to develop plot and characterization are usually dull and you get through them as fast as you can in order to kill more things. Unless they develop some kind of revolutionary natural language AI I'm not sure how it would work. Now, unless the reviews early on were just awful I'd probably try it out. And again if they put Changelings in it later. (It's hard to judge an MMO early on since they tend to change so much as they progress.)
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01-22-2011, 12:24 PM | #9 | |
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