Can we stop this and just have an MMO where it is good on its own merit as opposed to a "WoW killer" which will never happen anyways.
Canceled Halo MMOG "Was Going to Compete Against WoW"
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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Was it going to be on the Xbox? Cause if not it wasnt going to do anything to WoW since the xbox is the home of halo.
Even if it did go onto the xbox, it would do anything to WoW. It would get it's flash in the pan like the rest, then everyone would go back to Halo 3 because it's what they actually want to play.
Even if it did go onto the xbox, it would do anything to WoW. It would get it's flash in the pan like the rest, then everyone would go back to Halo 3 because it's what they actually want to play.
Isn't every MMO that comes out now said by it's creators to "compete against WoW?" If there is going to be a WoW killer then I know it's not going to be Halo.
Yes it would have competed with WoW, the same way generic cola competes with name brand. I honestly don't think it would have even registered in the minds of most MMORPG players.
Despite the initial conception that MMO's "never end", Warcraft has an actual storyline so I don't know how you can compete without a solidly constructed storyline of your own.
Besides, isn't there already an online Halo (Read: all of them)? I highly doubt that the drooling neckbeards that have played every Halo game online wouldn't like the transition of "Shoot button, jump button" to scary numbers like "stats" and "experience points". I mean, look at Halo Wars: Trying to make your fanbase transition from FPS to RTS probably caused a lot more nosebleeds than converts.
Besides, isn't there already an online Halo (Read: all of them)? I highly doubt that the drooling neckbeards that have played every Halo game online wouldn't like the transition of "Shoot button, jump button" to scary numbers like "stats" and "experience points". I mean, look at Halo Wars: Trying to make your fanbase transition from FPS to RTS probably caused a lot more nosebleeds than converts.
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Oh wait...they were serious...
*sigh*
I feel like a game cannot compete with a game like WoW that has basically become the gold standard for a genre of gaming. WoW has built up too much momentum and is pretty much unstoppable. That and Halo itself sounds like a bloody terrible idea for an MMO.
Oh wait...they were serious...
*sigh*
I feel like a game cannot compete with a game like WoW that has basically become the gold standard for a genre of gaming. WoW has built up too much momentum and is pretty much unstoppable. That and Halo itself sounds like a bloody terrible idea for an MMO.
Even if it were a good MMO i think the problem is that their fan base is a bunch of FPSers and that never really combines with an MMO.
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Had to get that out there.
Seriously, whose tired of hearing these MMO developers brag about how their MMO was going to be the "WoW-Killer", only to either have it flop horribly, or collapse before launch. Then they make some kinda vague statement about how it "could" have beaten WoW except for XXXXX reason.
Had to get that out there.
Seriously, whose tired of hearing these MMO developers brag about how their MMO was going to be the "WoW-Killer", only to either have it flop horribly, or collapse before launch. Then they make some kinda vague statement about how it "could" have beaten WoW except for XXXXX reason.
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No it wasn't.
Well YES, if you mean compete in the terms of it attempting to horn in on the market and get some of that proverbial phat lewt, but as for in anyway detracting from WoW: technologically, player-base or otherwise, it wasn't in the same realm of possibility.
Now, I LIKE Halo, and I got tired of WoW a while ago, but play to your strengths. Halo tells a good sci-fi story in a decent sci-fi universe and lets you shoot things. The Warcraft monstrosity is just simply a better world/lore/platform for an undertaking like a MMO.
Not to mention, you can't ALL be a spartan. By the events of the first game, there are what, a half dozen of them left in existence?
EDIT: What is up with the laughter-enducing stories today? Between this and the retarded Crysis writer with foot-in-mouth disease, I'd almost think it was April Fools Day.
No it wasn't.
Well YES, if you mean compete in the terms of it attempting to horn in on the market and get some of that proverbial phat lewt, but as for in anyway detracting from WoW: technologically, player-base or otherwise, it wasn't in the same realm of possibility.
Now, I LIKE Halo, and I got tired of WoW a while ago, but play to your strengths. Halo tells a good sci-fi story in a decent sci-fi universe and lets you shoot things. The Warcraft monstrosity is just simply a better world/lore/platform for an undertaking like a MMO.
Not to mention, you can't ALL be a spartan. By the events of the first game, there are what, a half dozen of them left in existence?
EDIT: What is up with the laughter-enducing stories today? Between this and the retarded Crysis writer with foot-in-mouth disease, I'd almost think it was April Fools Day.
The second Halo book centered almost exclusively on the events meant to have happened on the Halo of the first game; while the MC was off investigating the mysteries of Halo, the marines crashlanded there spent most of their time trying to find what they could in order to survive. Even in the game itself, the level 343 Guilty Spark occured because a small band of Marines were searching for a rumored weapons cache.Thyunda said:
Not to mention, Bungie originally intended for there to be a lot of wildlife on Halo, both indifferent and hostile. That would make for half decent MMO fodder, at least.
Oh, blah! Every new MMO is said to have been a WoW killer and every time it has never transpired. Not all MMO's have fallen under Wow's mighty tread but none are more popular or more profitable than WoW.
Halo of all things, was definitely not going to topple the giant.
Halo of all things, was definitely not going to topple the giant.
Strange how that screenshot looks like a copy of WOW. Same map, same character portrait, same loot system, same 3D view, same bar at the bottom. Damndest thing huh?