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Cyanbane
Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:38:30 AM


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Saw a link to this on the front page of MSNBC:

Sony Online seeks to reinvent online gaming

Gotta give some props to SOE PR/Marketing.. nice to have an article like that in big media on the day AOC launches :)

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Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:52:32 PM


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Aye interesting article as well. You were totally wrong about them not releasing games on the PS3 :)

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Do you think they are working on EQ3? Also, do you think Blizzard's next MMO will be Diablo Online? I'm hearing rumors of both projects in the works. I bet AOC takes a decent size bite out of both competitors subscriptions. I'd love to be a fly on the wall and hear what they are planning to combat AOC and Warhammer. For AOC, I think EQ2 folks are more likely to jump ship while Warhammer will get the masses of Warcraft kids to migrate over. Should be an interesting year.
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Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:37:20 AM


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Rotacidare wrote:
You were totally wrong about them not releasing games on the PS3 :)


huh?

Cyanbane
Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:38:21 AM


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Lazaretto wrote:

Do you think they are working on EQ3? Also, do you think Blizzard's next MMO will be Diablo Online? I'm hearing rumors of both projects in the works. I bet AOC takes a decent size bite out of both competitors subscriptions. I'd love to be a fly on the wall and hear what they are planning to combat AOC and Warhammer. For AOC, I think EQ2 folks are more likely to jump ship while Warhammer will get the masses of Warcraft kids to migrate over. Should be an interesting year.


AOC will succeed I think for the PvPers, although warhammer has the same focus, I think you are going to be right about the people who will migrate to each one.

(I plan on trying both :)
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Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:06:47 PM


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Cyanbane wrote:
Lazaretto wrote:

Do you think they are working on EQ3? Also, do you think Blizzard's next MMO will be Diablo Online? I'm hearing rumors of both projects in the works. I bet AOC takes a decent size bite out of both competitors subscriptions. I'd love to be a fly on the wall and hear what they are planning to combat AOC and Warhammer. For AOC, I think EQ2 folks are more likely to jump ship while Warhammer will get the masses of Warcraft kids to migrate over. Should be an interesting year.


AOC will succeed I think for the PvPers, although warhammer has the same focus, I think you are going to be right about the people who will migrate to each one.

(I plan on trying both :)


As someone who's tried both, I like AoC better. A *lot* better. And I love both backgrounds. I'm still going to try WAR, but ... yeah. After playing Tabula Rasa, I just don't like the auto attack MMOs as much.

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Lazaretto wrote:

Do you think they are working on EQ3? Also, do you think Blizzard's next MMO will be Diablo Online? I'm hearing rumors of both projects in the works. I bet AOC takes a decent size bite out of both competitors subscriptions. I'd love to be a fly on the wall and hear what they are planning to combat AOC and Warhammer. For AOC, I think EQ2 folks are more likely to jump ship while Warhammer will get the masses of Warcraft kids to migrate over. Should be an interesting year.


Disagree on the Warhammer getting the kids - from my involvement with the community is is without a doubt the oldest core base I have observed surrounding an MMO. This I guess comes from almost 30 years of tabletop and PnP gaming as well as fans of the Warhammer fiction.

As for this year - WoW expansion, AoC, and Warhammer will leave three hugely successful titles simultaneously - don't know where that leaves SOE - you know they are nervous. Despite what was in my opinion the best MMO of the last generation in EQ2- even if you are more for WoW style it remains minimally a near 2nd - it still is way back in population numbers and remains close to EQ1. That shows what a bad rep will do.
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wraith808 wrote:
As someone who's tried both, I like AoC better. A *lot* better. And I love both backgrounds. I'm still going to try WAR, but ... yeah. After playing Tabula Rasa, I just don't like the auto attack MMOs as much.


As one who previously was more eager for War, I like you may not be able to return to auto attack combat. AoC has nailed its combat system - kudos to them.
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