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I agree totally. Even just working a couple of months on our little practice project has illustrated many of your points. Even the cool ideas that do work and look like they will be fun for the long term, have such far reaching ramifications in an MMO since every thing is so tightly linked...

the one thing I would want to see removed from MMOs is developers asking what the 1 thing players hate about MMOs. Seriously, MMOs are far to complex to be summed up into 1 major flaw that if solved will drop everything else into place. These things don"t exist in a vacuum, and very few of the...

I"d like to see the situation where an Ogre is the best tank via a certain method, brute damage absorption, while the gnome can achieve the same tanking level via a different method, better avoidance for instance. Combined with that, I hate how come classes get no use from certain stats...

Making classes unique is such a tricky challenge. I think wow made the right choice in having reduced number of classes, and that"s why they are probably closest to what you describe, but even they suffer from cylical over / under balance problems. EQ2 attempted the solve the problem but...

I would much rather see more niche games survive and even thrive in the future. You only ever going to get a maybe 1 or 2 AAA titles that have the potential to reach wow numbers. Games like Eve though show that there"s plenty of room for developers who design their games towards a very specific...

I love the fact that this thread gets referenced in other threads now.

Maybe they"re just fans of the genre in general and enjoy talking with other fans about it.

wtf you talking about? This thread is $$, it has everything! Definitely check out special edition if you saw Abyss and thought it didn"t quite flow properly.

I had to read it 3 or 4 times to work out wtf is meant.

When and Where will 38 Studio"s fan fairs be held?

Detecting Sarcasm for $100 Alex

That doesn"t help us! Tell us the scenes that were in the movie, but don"t bare any resemblance to any scenes that appear in the Abyss.

Perhaps it was the sequal, Son of Abyss

THAT IS STILL THE ABYSSS! I"m starting to think you"re just playing some wierd perverted game with us 8(

It still sounds like the Abyss!! Is there a scene you could describe that wasn"t in the abyss ?

From the script: INT. MESS HALL 154 The discussion, still in progress. ONE NIGHT You think they"re from down there originally? Or from... you know. She jerks her thumb toward the ceiling. LINDSEY I think they"re from "you know". Some place that has similar conditions...

Having watched it more then a dozen times I can assure that it does. Not to mention referring to them as NTI"s. They also mentioned that they"ve been there a while, as opposed to being there always, somewhat ambigious I admit.

Pretty sure they are aliens who developed on another planet in conditions similar to the very deep.

In the normal version there is no tidal wave scenes and no references to them. It was cut out for time purposes. In the special addition they were restored along with news reports about the situation, and better scene between harris and the aliens that shows what they are doing and why. It...

hehe that still sounds like the abyss, albeit a looser description of it.

You mean the Abyss special edition by James Cameron? Probably one of my favourite movies of all time. The normal version is little ghey though.

As long as there are Dirge Singers then there will be enough 40+ content in vanguard!!

I agree that Ut and Brad are the same person, but he"s got a Jekyl and Hyde thing going on.

Damn T-Shirt Shills!! 8)

R.I.P. Green Monster Games (the name! )

You got any feedback from your teammates about making your own game company?

Also, can you make sure your game has enough hardware and coding to support 1,000 + player battles?

I think the secondary market was brought up in this thread so you might want to skim through to see if it answers your question.

I"ve always wanted to see a makings of documentary of an mmo, perhaps it could be included on the collectors edition of the game!

What"s it like setting up a new company in the location you are compared to some of the more tradition locations? Curious to hear from the people you"ve got that have worked in those other places.

I think SWG, and to some extent EQ2, proved that a franchise doesn"t translate into successful MMO. The game itself has to be fun, and at that point, it doesn"t really matter if its tied into a existing IP or a whole new one. In fact, trying to tie into an existing franchise is liable to cause...

200-250k is my guess, but its going to be hard to tell with the whole station pass. How many extra people will try it because its monthly cost is effectively free is anyone"s guess.

Depending on how you are timewise, you"d be better of doing the advance skills since the expansion lets you train them when the basic ones are at 4 instead of 5. Makes things a little faster over all.

Personally, I"m far less concerned with mistakes that were made in the past, then with evidence that the person has learned from that mistake, and shows that either it will be avoided in the future, or at least handled better. Unfortunately, is far too risky for people to stand up and admit...

You should try and still some people from CCP. They"re easily the best MMO company in the industry atm and set the benchmark for how a company should operate.

Sony would be crazy to let Gallenite go. He"s the biggest positive they"ve got atm and I hope they treat him as such.

Another major factor in Eve is that everything can be reprocessed down to its base metals. So nothing becomes worthless no matter how common it is. So even is newbie quest spits out 100 shield booster 1 item"s, There will be people who have buy orders for however much the base metals are worth...

Just log into Eve to see that system in action.

I would love to see npc merchants have more dynamic pricing structure. If you try to sell them 1000000 boar tusks, perhaps the price their willing to pay for them should drop so they become worthless?

Oh, and by Secondary Market, I Was refering to buying and selling in game currency for real money. Personally I"m against it, but when you make the assumption that it"s going to happen no matter what, I prefer to see the game company itself profiting from it rather then some other company.