am i the only one with the impression that NOTHING can kill WoW except time? it has a community of over 11 million players mostly investing time and money into it. their not gonna forget all that just because something is a bit better. and besides a barely made universe like halo can't compare with the age of the warcraft universe.
Canceled Halo MMOG "Was Going to Compete Against WoW"
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You can't kill a game if you imitate it. That's why 99% of mmos don't even come close to WoW, they all have almost the same hud and combat. It shouldn't be that hard to not use an outdated engine anyways.
Pah
That's like the kid who said "Yeah, I was gonna kick his ass, I wasn't scared" when the bully decides not to beat the everloving crap out of him
That's like the kid who said "Yeah, I was gonna kick his ass, I wasn't scared" when the bully decides not to beat the everloving crap out of him
No. WoW had a transferable fanbase from the Diablo series, giving them a head start in numbers.
Most Halo fans aren't going to migrate to an MMO. And RPG fans aren't going to a Halo MMO.
Well, they weren't.
Most Halo fans aren't going to migrate to an MMO. And RPG fans aren't going to a Halo MMO.
Well, they weren't.
It looks just like wow. Yeah that'll compete, along with every other mmo that is against wow but just looks like it by coincidence.
It would've competed for all of about 10 minutes, then everyone would realize a Halo MMO was a REALLY FUCKING STUPID IDEA. Possibly even more stupid than a Twilight MMO that, I'm dead serious about this, is supposedly in development.
Not everyone is the same, I'm a Halo Fan(boy...Okay, IDK, maybe) and I would TRY an MMO...Only if I got to play as an Elite, though.Onyx Oblivion said:
IDK, I think it might have worked, there making a 40k MMO, and that isn't very MMO-ish (well, not the setting they seem to be using) yet it might work, as long as something is fresh, fun, and possibly innovative it has a chance to succeed.
It's not an across-the-board statement, you know. Just that the majority of the general Halo population wouldn't bother.Dyp100 said:
Alright, I see ya point, I do imagine the average Halo players is the average CoD player, aka, the person to lazy to use the Internet beyond facebook.Onyx Oblivion said:
Though, I could never see it being a WoW killer, because no one would want to move from WoW with everything they've collected.
To kill WoW you need to have a budget equalling the current value of what it took to develop the game and all of it's expansions at a minumum, and probably more. You need to basically create more content than the competition has at the time you release to keep people playing. Too many games fall into the trap of having decent gameplay, but not enough stuff to do, which is why people quit and go back to other games. The justification that "we have as much content as WoW did when it launched" doesn't work because you aren't competing with WoW (or other games) when they launched, but what they are right now. To get people to pay to grind your endgame, there needs to be decent endgame content, and it needs to be entertaining to get there. Plus you need to have stuff to keep players who aren't interested in endgame type behavior (raids, PVP) entertained and playing.
The Halo MMORPG would not have killed WoW simply because had enough resources been invested in it, it would not have been cancelled since too much would have been riding on it.
That said I'm not surprised it got killed, the very idea of a "Halo MMORPG" is very similar to what Richard Garriot tried to do with "Tabula Rasa". Basically a military themed shooter MMORPG based around fighting an alien invasion. That game failed epically, basically showing (I believe) that a format/world based around shooter type conventions isn't going to work for long term, persistant play. Looking at what happened to a similar game, combined with things like "Old Republic" that have been in development for a while, yeah... I can see why they dropped the axe on this as an epic fail waiting to happen.
The Halo MMORPG would not have killed WoW simply because had enough resources been invested in it, it would not have been cancelled since too much would have been riding on it.
That said I'm not surprised it got killed, the very idea of a "Halo MMORPG" is very similar to what Richard Garriot tried to do with "Tabula Rasa". Basically a military themed shooter MMORPG based around fighting an alien invasion. That game failed epically, basically showing (I believe) that a format/world based around shooter type conventions isn't going to work for long term, persistant play. Looking at what happened to a similar game, combined with things like "Old Republic" that have been in development for a while, yeah... I can see why they dropped the axe on this as an epic fail waiting to happen.
This is exactly the problem. Halo is huge, nobody can disagree with that whether they actually like the game or not. The problem with making a Halo MMO however is that the people that enjoy Halo and fast paced FPS-games don't really like or have the patience for MMORPGs.duchaked said:
Atleast that's what I think, out of curiosity though I really would have liked to see how a Halo MMO would turn out. My guess is that it would have been something like Tabula Rasa... and that one wasn't all that great to be honest :/
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This have prolly been said a million times before in this thread but w/e... I'll post it anyway D:
An MMO that was going to compete against World of Warcraft?
Please, let me show you the way to the Department Of Redundancy Department [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment], Captain Obvious [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CaptainObvious].
Please, let me show you the way to the Department Of Redundancy Department [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment], Captain Obvious [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CaptainObvious].
Everyones idea could have been mint. It's the execution that proves the downfall.
My planned resource managment game where you run a studio that shoots donkey porn; managing the "Talent", dodging the authorities, negotiating with organised crimebosses, picking locations, trying to make a fortune while not going to prison or getting killed etc. was so gonna outsell the sims and civ combined.
Its just a shame I cant find backers who share my vision...
My planned resource managment game where you run a studio that shoots donkey porn; managing the "Talent", dodging the authorities, negotiating with organised crimebosses, picking locations, trying to make a fortune while not going to prison or getting killed etc. was so gonna outsell the sims and civ combined.
Its just a shame I cant find backers who share my vision...
