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Message ID: 25799
Date: Fri Feb 8 17:16:27 GMT 2002
Author: Daniel Sniderman
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Leaving EQ for Competitors?
>There are several in the works now. Shadowbane I believe is very close.good
>Lord of the Rings is far from - if it will ever - be released. The company
>that holds the long term development (I think it's Sierra owned by EA) has
>wasted three years. - laying off the entire development team and trying to
>start again.
>Horizons showed a lot of promise - but the management of the company was
>completely incompetent - and their best developers quit in frustration.
>They went bankrupt and were bought by NCSoft that will hopefully have a
>product some time in the future. They have been pretty tight lipped - buta
>evidently are concentrating on developing the engine.
>NCSoft produces the largest MMORPG in the world. In typical American
>arrogance - we talk about EQ being the biggest because we only look at our
>market But their BloodPledge game has 2.7 million subscribers. That's not
>typo or a mistake. Those are almost all in Asia and they only recentlyby
>started marketing in the US market. They hired Richard Garriot who's
>heading up the US arm of the company.
>The upcoming 200-pound gorilla of the MMORPG market will also be released
>Verant - sometime this year. You may have heard of it - it's called StarPlease send submissions for the eqbards newsletter to lol@...
>Wars Galaxies
> Slyde
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> >Anyway, have you heard of the TWO persistent world (massive multiplayer)
>Lord
> >of the Rings games which're supposed to come out soon?
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> >And is this (leaving for Anarchy Online or others) why EQ users seem to
>have
> >vanished over the course of the last year or so?
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