World of Darkness
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They would have to make an AI to give constant tutorial-style advice for you to screw yourself over or kill yourself. Would be awesome.
Randin
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Well, yeah, free form spellcasting is never going to work in an mmo, but I think they could pull off something reasonably satisfying with a sufficiently comprehensive list of premade spells, especially if they focused on creating spells with non-combat applications.
It's good to see some proof that this game's still going. I still kinda wish they were going to go with the newer version of the world of darkness as the setting, but eh, what're ya going to do?
Malkav
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Yeah, new WoD sucks balls. First time I read that shit, I was like "MALKAVIANS AS A VENTRUE BLOODLINE? WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?"
Erronius
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For me I can get into Vampires, but I doubt WoD will do them justice. What attracted me to the White Wolf games were the instances of particularly brutal, no-nonsense non-romanticized characters and settings. Get of Fenris? Check. Gangrel? Check. And there is a grocery list of interesting subsets that you could easily have tear through a bunch of faggot Ventrue in the blink of an eye.
The setting itself screams open world roleplaying and a looser playstyle - but they don't seem to be focusing on that at all.
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Aaron
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Not surprised, but I have to say this. Instead of canning the endless money pit that is Dust and focussing on completing a game that fans want, has a loyal fan base and actually has some chance of making CCP some money one day they decide to throw more good money after bad with Dust. Well...
Heylel
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I don't think it was publicly disclosed, was it? I want to say WW was having financial difficulties of their own at the time, so it was a necessity to sell. In the subsequent years I know CCP has shuttered the publishing division and licensed out their IP to Onyx Path, who now do PDF publishing with a number of old WW veterans.
I think so, but we know for sure they laid people off right before Christmas few months ago.
CONFIRMED: Layoffs Hitting CCP Atlanta - World Of Darkness Team Affected - GAMEBREAKER - Video Game News, Videos, Reviews and Community
Poor slobs. They dodged the Xmas knife only to get it in Spring but I'm guessing that by then, those who avoided it could see the writing on the walls and were putting resumes out once they saw there were only 56 of them left.
Randin
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Pity. Well, if they aren't going to do anything with it, hopefully they'll have the sense to license the IP out to someone else and let them make some games. I certainly wouldn't turn up my nose at someone doing some single-player WoD games in a similar vein to VtM: Bloodlines.
Heylel
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The IPs are already licensed to Onyx Path to continue making pen and paper games. However, of all the video games licensed by White Wolf over the years, Bloodlines was pretty much the only one to make it to shelves. I remember seeing a Werewolf game back in the day at DragonCon that looked pretty great but never made it out of development.