PC Games going Online Only

[Orcus The Ultimate]

Is is just me, or we are going to see much more licenses that will go online
just like Neverwinter nights Online ? is this some sort of conspiracy against piracy
or something like that ?

(by the way the news are in french)
http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/2010/00045140-dungeons-dragons-neverwinter-annonce.htm

i hope not...

imagine a world with only MMO's...
that blows!

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Ubisoft tried doing this same thing...and it utterly failed just like this is going to

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

Ubisoft tried doing this same thing...and it utterly failed just like this is going to

I sure hope for it to fail!

 

[Kortney]

I died inside when I heard KOTOR was going MMO. Such a bloody shame.

 

[subject_87]

This can work, like with Team Fortress 2. But to deny a single-player mode for no good reason is a bad idea.

 

[SyphonX]

It's not "Neverwinter Nights Online", it's "Neverwinter Online".

As far as I know, the Neverwinter Nights 3 plans are still open. Anyone's guess as to when we might see that.

"Neverwinter Online" is being made by Cryptic, so frankly.. who gives a damn about this game. It's using 4th Edition rules with only about 5-6 classes.. horrid. It's going to be a content-less craptastic cash-shop nightmare. They'll probably have Drizzt as a general store merchant, who will sell you the ability to use the forward key for 1 dollar, and other such tomfoolery.

 

[Daemascus]

Who needs off-line play?
(Goes to play World of Warcraft}

 

[Continuity]

MMOs are a phase and one that is pretty bad for the industry, the trouble is all the money men behind developers and publishers look at WoW which is a colossal money making machine and they think "We want one of those!" and so the developers have to make one... which inevitably flops because everyone is still playing WoW.

Its a phase that they will grow out of once they realise that WoW is not something that can be replicated without some new mystery ingredient X that will blow everyone away.. and that hasn't turned up yet. Plus they will get tired of sinking $100mil or whatever into flopping MMO's

 

[MikailCaboose]

This will surely crash and burn. Let's just hope that it doesn't bring the entire PC gaming industry down with it. Not like I actually buy new PC games because of a crap PC but still...

 

[octafish]

Everyone wants to be Blizzard and everyone wants their game to be WOW. From a logical business stand point I can understand that. As a gamer I hate it. Don't worry too much about PC games, there are still Eastern Europeans making interesting (if sometimes flawed) games for PC.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Too many expensive and high profile failures. I don't think it will happen any time soon.

 

[rockingnic]

I died inside when I heard KOTOR was going MMO. Such a bloody shame.

I think they were like "Well Blizzard made WoW off of an RTS, why can't we make an MMO off an RPG".

 

[Life_Is_A_Mess]

Impossible!

 

[zen5887]

Me at the start of this thread: Oooh NWN online? My fav part of the first one was playing on the big RP severs, maybe with full dev support this will be even better

Me after reading @syphonX's post: FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I died inside when I heard KOTOR was going MMO. Such a bloody shame.

Likewise.

Ubisoft tried doing this same thing...and it utterly failed just like this is going to

I sure hope for it to fail!

Me too.

Making a game Online Only is the best way to make sure I'll never play it.

Again, me too.

It's not "Neverwinter Nights Online", it's "Neverwinter Online".

As far as I know, the Neverwinter Nights 3 plans are still open. Anyone's guess as to when we might see that.

"Neverwinter Online" is being made by Cryptic, so frankly.. who gives a damn about this game. It's using 4th Edition rules with only about 5-6 classes.. horrid. It's going to be a content-less craptastic cash-shop nightmare. They'll probably have Drizzt as a general store merchant, who will sell you the ability to use the forward key for 1 dollar, and other such tomfoolery.

Horray! I was worried there for a second.