Lego Universe Shutting Down in January

[ThePurpleStuff]

Monthly fees for any MMO (that's not WoW, it's the only one I've seen that worked at all IMO) do not work. At least not with me, a lego mmo would have been fun to mess around with, I'm 19 years old and I just recently went back to neopets, I'm a big child, lol. I mess with any F2P mmo I find interesting, too bad this one wasn't it. I know you have to make money but look at maplestory, a game in it's American server swarming with young kids and tweens. I'm sure they're supporting it and its a F2P game. If they took off the subscription and offered maybe some cool lego sets or outfits to build with for a fee, etc, it would have survived.

 

[Ldude893]

Another MMO bites the dust.
Sad really. I expected a Lego-based MMO to have so much potential. The closest thing to a game where you can create anything is Minecraft and this other online game with a very annoying community of 10 year olds [http://www.roblox.com]

 

[YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH]

That's a very good point. One of my other problems was that the chat filter was so constrictive it was impossible for me to actually help other players finding certain NPCs, locations, and items, because many words were blocked for no good reason. In an MMO where people can't even communicate very well (to protect the kids, of course), you're going to have issues.

Yeah, but can you imagine the shitstorm if some mom called her local news station about internet language in a Lego game?

The brand as a whole is more important, so without having actually used the filter I think the right decision was made.

 

[LegoDudeGuy]

I also played this game while it was in Beta in 2010.

Man it was fun in beta.

Shame it had too little content to be worth a 9.99 (or something, I don't know the numbers) sub fee. Wish they ether dropped the monthly fee and just made you buy the game or just do a TF2 and make it F2P.

It was fun, Lego Universe, you will be missed.

 

[Merlark]

add another failure to Netdevil's list of games that didn't make any money because they have zero skill as game developers. Hopefully this company stays broke and disappears so they can stop making half baked games with half baked idea's.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Wait...there was a Lego MMO???

That's what I thought. It is so clandestine that none of my kids have yet to hassle me about it.

 

[duchaked]

gaahh all this talk about MMOs failing. almost doesn't seem worth it to try sometimes with certain ideas :/

 

[silenticecream]

I'll be honest- I 've never played any lego games, due to demands of time/ money/ bluechip titles being released. Are they any good (giving example of genre etc) ? I say this completely ingenuously, and as a very experienced gamer. The latter definitely pushed me away from the series, but I am willing to be convinced otherwise.


Edit: there was a MMO? My ignorance is confirmed! But the single player games...worth playing?

 

[PinkiePyro]

i am surprized this didnt happen sooner

I just dont really see that age group playing a MMO let alone a subcription one while there are F2P ones already popular(neopets and monkey quest)

not to mention that whole code thing was essentially shooting themselves in the foot to boot