05-06-2012, 04:55 PM
Well, if they're making another bog-standard Fantasy MMO then they are going to have to pull off some really creative stuff. It is already a super competitive market, and by the sounds of it the TES MMO is not going to have quite a few of the things that makes TES games so popular to begin with, so they wont have that factoring in too much.
They either need to pull in numbers and get them to stick around, or it's just going to bomb out like Age of Conan, Warhammer Online, etc etc all did.
And the reason why I am not expecting some creative stuff is because this industry is playing way to safe right now when it comes to AAA games. If you don't have a stranglehold on your fanbase already, you really can't afford to stray too far from the formuli that are known to work, that's just how it goes.
And since companies like money... They typically play it safe. That's just how I see any TES MMO working out. It'll be safe, it'll make some money, and then regress to a low-playerbase MMO like 90% of the rest of the MMOs that have come out recently. Not worth my time to look into, in the end.
That's not to say some of us here wont enjoy it, of course, but I am not expecting much at all.
They either need to pull in numbers and get them to stick around, or it's just going to bomb out like Age of Conan, Warhammer Online, etc etc all did.
And the reason why I am not expecting some creative stuff is because this industry is playing way to safe right now when it comes to AAA games. If you don't have a stranglehold on your fanbase already, you really can't afford to stray too far from the formuli that are known to work, that's just how it goes.
And since companies like money... They typically play it safe. That's just how I see any TES MMO working out. It'll be safe, it'll make some money, and then regress to a low-playerbase MMO like 90% of the rest of the MMOs that have come out recently. Not worth my time to look into, in the end.
That's not to say some of us here wont enjoy it, of course, but I am not expecting much at all.
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