cloudancer wrote:
its not that surprising really, bioware always have been a rpg story driven game developer, the 'MMO' descriptive is probably misleading though, as its more properly defined as a multiplayer online - which by the way, is what guildwars is also. i've known for a while now that the game they are developing isnt a replacement for SWG, i doubt really that anything ever will be, even my hopes of startrek online being a good game have taken a beating :(
just for a change of pace ?? i've recently started playing vanguard again... we need some new, better games to be released, or at least, i do, im kind of bored or disappointed with the currently available selections :( another cue for bashing SOE over SWG, but honestly, if the nge had never happened i'd still be playing that game :( rather than this on, off, on, off again can't be bothered to log in anyway, kind of thing....
I agree however I think that game developers are confused over the idea of "new and better", seems to that game developers see this as meaning more like WoW while players see it as games with depth.
It has always amazed me that ever since the days of EQ1 I have heard all the hype from game companies about how their MMO is the "Next Generation MMO" when in reality it is just a dumbed down clone of the current most popular MMO, in all this time only SWG has come close to creating the level of depth in gameplay that the first big MMO had (Ultima Online) and even they then lost the nerve and went off on a WOW tangent.