Comments on: Daily Blogroll 6/30 – Christmas edition

By: Jeremy S.

Jeremy S. — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:43:26 +0000

I like to speculate but I always try to draw a clear line between that and my opinions on games or even upcoming games.

I’ve also become more and more disinterested in upcoming games.

My favorite is Runes of Magic, and it’s had me hooked for a solid 3 months now, and I’ve yet to get tired of it. But when I saw it was coming out, it was the same old song and dance that you see for a F2P, and slightly before then, it was the P2P’s like Warhammer. I was “Meh, looks interesting, we’ll see…when I play it” and beyond that I only really paid attention to what developers said- even that, I largely ignored as beyond the interesting facts on how it operated, it was just a lot of praise and advertising.

I guess the whole “here comes a shiny new MMORPG” complete with all the phases the community goes through over it, has become a pet peeve for me.

I am interested to see how Wizard101 and Freerealms fleshes out over the next few months, and I’m interested in seeing Aion, and how TCoS play along with some other F2P coming down the pipe like Earthrise(I think it’s F2P).

Oh, also listened to No Prisoners, No Mercy for the first time, and really liked it. I’m adding it to my regular list of MMORPG podcasts which currently have 0:)

By: Tipa

Tipa — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:20:57 +0000

@Atnor — yeah, Brad does a classic “mea culpa” — starting off by accepting all the blame, but then immediately spreading it around. It’s his fault that he didn’t realize Microsoft would be uneasy about continuing to fund a project which kept changing focus to match the changing MMO industry over its long development life. But it’s really Microsoft, you see.

By: Gronk

Gronk — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:07:38 +0000

Tipa…really enjoy the Blogroll ! When I can find the time I read a lot of the same blogs you highlight. It helps “prod” me into making time to check them out !

By: Atnor

Atnor — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:03:02 +0000

To be fair, Brad’s blog post starts off, “I’m going to spend the majority of the time on mistakes we made in development and then what I’d do differently in my next project (e.g. the point of this is to learn from the past and share what I’ve learned here in the hopes that this information would be helpful not just to me going forward, but also to anyone else working on an MMOG). So the finger pointing is mostly going to be at me, not at our partners.”

I wouldnt call that him writing about why it wasnt his fault. I’m at least reserving judgement until he’s done with the series. I think the first one was pretty open.

Also, considering the more casual direction of SOE in EQ2, Free Realms, The Agency, and their commitment to the console market, I cant say I’m all fluttery about EQNext. Hopefully I’m dead wrong and it’ll be something to be excited about :)

Thanks for the roll