The Secret World Preview
Come to The Secret World, the unMMO. Now with Cthulhu!
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Come to The Secret World, the unMMO. Now with Cthulhu!
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It's releasing next April.Primus1985 said:My only question is when the hell is it coming out? I mean it was announced like two years ago and since then we get a vid every few months telling us how great it is.
Just set a date for crip's sake. If ya have too work on it an extra month people wont mind waiting for polish, hell they may get more excited over it. People(myself included) just want to have a general idea of when we can expect it.
Also Ive heard off and on rumblings about it being on 360, I'd like them to confirm that as well.
Damn me -- I've sworn off MMOs, but I can't help but be curious/excited about this one. This preview did not help. You're enabling my habit, Ms. Arendt.Susan Arendt said:The Secret World Preview
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My work here is done!Dastardly said:Damn me -- I've sworn off MMOs, but I can't help but be curious/excited about this one. This preview did not help. You're enabling my habit, Ms. Arendt.Susan Arendt said:The Secret World Preview
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I assumed WoW would be the only game to continue doing this.Mooboo Magoo said:Subscription fees AND microtransactions?
No thank you. The game looks awesome though.
Give it time, they all cave in the end if there is money to be made.Loop Stricken said:I assumed WoW would be the only game to continue doing this.Mooboo Magoo said:Subscription fees AND microtransactions?
No thank you. The game looks awesome though.
Indeed. I'll watch the game closely... but I feel there's really no way a game can get me back into paying a subscription. MMOs have lost the feeling of "virtual real estate" that gave them real persistence. In all the current offerings, you're playing a single-player game that has some multiplayer options in it, but the world is a transient "visual lobby" in which you chat while looking for a group.Susan Arendt said:My work here is done!
Key differences being that Age of Conan was published by Eidos, who stopped funding Funcom prematurely, forcing them to release the game in an Alpha stage if the game was going to ever fly at all.cursedseishi said:Aye, with the cash shop selling cosmetic items and possibly crafting material, which goes against their statement of not selling power in it, even if it's just indirectly.2xDouble said:It's not going to be Free-to-play. It's going to combine a subscription and microtransactions.
http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/26/the-secret-worlds-business-model-to-feature-subs-and-cash-shop/
Otherwise, no amount of praise is going to buy me on this game, especially praise about the beginner experience. And you know why? Age of Conan was being lavished with love about its beginner experience, something many people only got to try out in the betas before launch. (That said, the quality really picked up in the first year after launch, removing most of the bugs and restoring and adding content)
And after launch, people found out the game after that point was sheer crap compared to it. It's simple to polish a tiny part of a game to get some easy loving, instead of ensuring all of the game is well off, at launch.