MMO's: Is there hope for the next generation?

[TsunamiWombat]

Need to fundamentally change the setup of MMO's. It's always traditional fantasy, or traditional classes, and it's always two factions at war. Why not five smaller factions at war?

Telling you man, Alliance of Opportunity system...

 

[Caliostro]

Nop. Something GOOD.

Have you tried either?

Ultima. Saw gameplay videos of Conan, just SOS, didn't want to waste the money.

 

[Yog Sothoth]

I'll start caring about MMOs once one comes that is something more than grind and spreadsheet-based-"combat".

In other words: When they stop sucking.

check out a MMORPG coming out in 2010 called "otherland"... it's based on the best selling cyber-punk epics by tad williams, and is promising to be VERY different than any other MMORPG... there's not a lot of info out about it yet, but you can find a couple of articles via google...

EDIT: interesting read, mr. fang....