Rumor: BioShock MMO in the Works
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This is like making Casablanca into a Saturday morning cartoon series. Leave BioShock alone, 2K, you have enough money.
MMO's: instead of selling the game one time to a customer, that customer has to pay every month to keep playing. Too many developers see MMO's as money printers. They are certainly not. Players have to have a reason to fork out money every month, and if there's no reason, they will leave. That's why so many MMO's fail in their first year.
Aside from getting to further explore Rapture (which could easily be done via book, maybe something like a D&D module with maps detailing the city and detailed descriptions of rooms/sections and creatures. Why not? Dragon Age did it.) I don't see the need for a Bioshock MMO. I'm pretty sure if we put our collective ears to the doors at every successful gaming devs' office doors we'd hear similar conversations being tossed around.
We recently heard about the Halo MMO, I certainly wasn't surprised there, mostly just glad that it never saw a release.
We recently heard about the Halo MMO, I certainly wasn't surprised there, mostly just glad that it never saw a release.
I am not that opposed to the idea, but I am very esceptical to it.
Yes, there is a lot of material to draw ideas from and yes, the setting of a civil war is appealing, but I believe it would be beating a dead horse (Rapture and it's whole story) If the series wants to move forward they need to leave rapture behind once and for all.
The expansion would add mario galaxy levels and different classes like a bomb-bomb, lakitu and spinarac.... pure sheer awesomenes!!
Yes, there is a lot of material to draw ideas from and yes, the setting of a civil war is appealing, but I believe it would be beating a dead horse (Rapture and it's whole story) If the series wants to move forward they need to leave rapture behind once and for all.
I can picture it, a mushroom faction and a koopa faction, in either of them you could play as a toad a yoshi, a koopa and a goomba, each class with 3 different skill trees for customization...Baby Tea said:
The expansion would add mario galaxy levels and different classes like a bomb-bomb, lakitu and spinarac.... pure sheer awesomenes!!
I think MMOs haven't achieved good atmosphere and story telling, but it's possible and close at hand.The Thief said:
This is still a rumor, and I'm sure if devs don't toss the idea around, marketing divisions will. Seriously, isn't a companies job to make money? I'm sure people not focused with developing Bioshock has posed many ideas. I'm sure that Bioshock fans have also asked them to "Do it again" with another good game. I hope and trust that they have enough integrity with Bioshock to only make more of them if they actually have a good story.
By the end of next quarter, will either have a confirmation or not. A MMO takes years to develop, so if they haven't started there is no way they're going to tell us that. If they have, then we'll have to wait and see.
