CCP Teases New Vampire: the Masquerade MMO

[RobfromtheGulag]

The old PC RPG was quite good, I thought. Of course turning such a thing into an MMO is always touchy, but at least it's an interesting proposition.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

V:TM was one of my top 5 Table-top RPG's when I was younger. When White-Wolf decided to re-do the entire World of Darkness series, I attempted to assimilate, and found it wasn't as cool the 2nd time around. I sincerely hope they revert to the original Camarilla/Sabbat world and not the Requiem version, which I can't stand.
All that aside, MMOG is not where I would go with this anyway. WoW remains king, and everything else seems to fall to the wayside. I do hope this isn't a quick cash grab by White-Wolf attempting to capitalize on the current (and much hated) Twilight kick. I used to attend DragonCon yearly, and I have met a lot of the people who work (or worked) for White-Wolf and they didn't seem to strike me as the "sacrifice good story/art/whatever for cash" mentality.

 

[Zer_]

V:TM was one of my top 5 Table-top RPG's when I was younger. When White-Wolf decided to re-do the entire World of Darkness series, I attempted to assimilate, and found it wasn't as cool the 2nd time around. I sincerely hope they revert to the original Camarilla/Sabbat world and not the Requiem version, which I can't stand.
All that aside, MMOG is not where I would go with this anyway. WoW remains king, and everything else seems to fall to the wayside. I do hope this isn't a quick cash grab by White-Wolf attempting to capitalize on the current (and much hated) Twilight kick. I used to attend DragonCon yearly, and I have met a lot of the people who work (or worked) for White-Wolf and they didn't seem to strike me as the "sacrifice good story/art/whatever for cash" mentality.

WoD MMORPG has been in the works since CCP merged with White-Wolf. Nobody even knew about Twilight at that time.

 

[grammarye]

I can see alot of Twilight fans playing this.

Dear god, I hope not. Bring back the days when vampires were creepy, subtle, with intrigue and menance - not sparkly teenagers playing baseball in the rain, and filled with teenage angst (edit: and as another poster pointed out, they'll all go out into sunlight and wonder why they died...)

That said, I do hope we won't get a replay of the huge flamewars that erupt any time anyone mentions rulesets to do with WoD. It can be set in the WoD world without even going near those, if it makes a better MMO.

Personally I hope it captures the atmosphere of Bloodlines (once it was patched up properly).

Of course, none of the people who replied that actually play EVE.
EVE is about corporations, their player base is 30 years old with a high paying job ON AVERAGE, and there are parts of the game that are literally exactly like running a successful company. Finance, projection graphs, high executives, etc.
Now tell me you think these people would be willing to join a game where you play a vampire and use mystical powers. Someone convince me this isn't going to be 90% teenagers trying to rip each other's heads off and teenager girls trying to date Edward.

Actually I play EVE and I also played Vampire: Bloodlines - this World of Darkness MMO is pretty intriguing. At this stage it's very hard to tell where it'll go, but if it retains the gritty, no-nonsense, dark world that White Wolf & Troika created (long before Twilight rubbish) then it's got great potential for all that EVE does, for a slightly different demographic - a lot of female gamers who are interested in EVE but don't like the lack of an avatar will be interested in this game, and not just a bunch of teenagers (not that I have anything against teenagers per se, though I do have a lot against Twilight

 

[BobisOnlyBob]

Fuck the Requiem and the new World of Darkness, they suck nine inch dick. Instead of focusing on and highlighting vampires being monsters who do awesome shit like murdering people while hiding their existence from the shadows they focus on lame angsty preppy Ricean vampires who mope around while being romantic.

Just flipping through one of their sourcebooks gives you the impression that it is a trashy goth romance story aimed for lonely young women.

Have you actually played in a game of it? With people?

D&D comes off as a mindless fantasy romp for tweenagers who just read Lord of the Rings.
GURPS comes across as a mindless set of fiddly numbers for autistics who want to play god (or kill gods, thanks to the convoluted and inevitable metaplot that everyone knew).
Old WoD comes across as pretentious goth arrogance and power-fantasy.
New WoD comes across as fluffy romantic vampire nonsense for girls.

The GM - or the Storyteller, in this case - makes the game, as do the players. While CCP aren't necessarily the best people to to do it (EVE is somewhat tiresome), slamming an entire game line just because of your attachment to a prior system is ridiculous.

I stand by what I said earlier. If it's Requiem, fine, I don't care. At least it'll be an original story. If it's Masquerade, it had damn well be better using the mechanics - not the fluff, not the "ricean" Vampires, just the raw statistical mechanics and attributes - of New WoD. And Masquerade's plot would work fine. It just has the slight problem that everyone knows about the freaking Primogens and Cain and all the rest, when the Camarilla are meant to be in denial of it.

 

[Bobzer77]

I find it interesting that by showing the teaser in America they got shouts, whistles and many similar types of boisterous noises. Whereas if they had shown it anywhere in Europe the most they would probably have gotten was some mild applause.

 

[Jared]

...another MMO? Dont they think they have given people enough of one time sink? Another one is just gonna send them in sane.

 

[_Cake_]

Ohhhh I hope they do the crazy vampires who hear stuff right.

 

[Firia]

I wonder if it will be as ball busting as EVE is. Which is the appeal to me. Lets me get my "living on the edge" fix without actually putting anything real at risk.

 

[procyonlotor]

I certainly enjoyed the concept art.

But the narration?

"It all begins.... when you die!"

Cringe.

 

[DayDark]

I loved the Masquerade Redemption back in the day, bloodlines was hit and miss but news of a MMOG just ruined my day.

This! Redemption was epic.

 

[tehroc]

I doubt it will be Masquerade. White Wold has been gung ho the past decade pushing their new product WOTC style. Masquerade is a dead world where Gehenna, the Apocalypse, and whatever else they called endtimes in the other books, has already occurred in 2004.

 

[bobknowsall]

An MMO based on a franchise I love, with a focus on interaction and political intrigue? Ah, they're pulling our legs.

 

[HuntrRose]

But I don't play MMOs....
I want another VTM but it is an MMO. I cannot make up my mind, my vow against paying for MMOs or VTM....

Help?

I will have to think on this while playing bloodlines.

I know your pain... After too much time in wow, here comes something that will probably drag me in even further.. I may as well get fired now =P

 

[Snowalker]

All I hope for is werewolves.......

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

Why does every single good franchise have to go on MMO's nowadays... that pisses me off !

unless it's a free MMO... that would be adequate.

Free MMOs tend to be terrible. Normally not really free, either. They offer premium items and content which usually means that if you want to do well in the game, you will need to cough up money for. Which, of course, means you end up paying MORE money than simply 15 dollars a month.
On top of that, the free accounts always come with severe restrictions which are there to encourage you to spend money.

Pay to play is better. One standard payment a month for all the content. Regular updates and fixes.
Of course, now-a-days, since companies have figured out some people will pay for DLC they've started getting stingy about that stuff.
Gone are the days when you got new content for free. I don't think you'll see that sort of thing in games anymore.

and in that time expansions at least expanded the storyline with interesting new campaigns and other goodies, instead of an armored horse, or a new weapon/gun...

 

[poiuppx]

I swear, if this IS based on the oWoD, I'm in. If they intend to add Mages and I can run a Son of Ether, I'll be a lifetime player and sell blood if needs be to pay my way. Till then, I'll make due with a Gangrel. Or maybe a Brujah...