Another game I'm hearing a lot about is Never Winter Nights, the official D&D 3E "MMORG". I think
it maxes out at 64 people per server, but that server can be yours, and serveral of those people
can be DMs running the game.
From the list mail, I think it's close to being done. There seems to be a ton of people developing
adventures, campaigns and worlds for it.
Bioware is very good so I'm optimistic that this they'll pull off. Question is will the concept
sell?
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There are several in the works now. Shadowbane I believe is very close.<BR>
Lord of the Rings is far from - if it will ever - be released. The company<BR>
that holds the long term development (I think it's Sierra owned by EA) has<BR>
wasted three years. - laying off the entire development team and trying to<BR>
start again.<BR>
Horizons showed a lot of promise - but the management of the company was<BR>
completely incompetent - and their best developers quit in frustration.<BR>
They went bankrupt and were bought by NCSoft that will hopefully have a good<BR>
product some time in the future. They have been pretty tight lipped - but<BR>
evidently are concentrating on developing the engine.<BR>
NCSoft produces the largest MMORPG in the world. In typical American<BR>
arrogance - we talk about EQ being the biggest because we only look at our<BR>
market But their BloodPledge game has 2.7 million subscribers. That's not a<BR>
typo or a mistake. Those are almost all in Asia and they only recently<BR>
started marketing in the US market. They hired Richard Garriot who's<BR>
heading up the US arm of the company.<BR>
The upcoming 200-pound gorilla of the MMORPG market will also be released by<BR>
Verant - sometime this year. You may have heard of it - it's called Star<BR>
Wars Galaxies<BR>
Slyde<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
>Anyway, have you heard of the TWO persistent world (massive multiplayer)<BR>
Lord<BR>
>of the Rings games which're supposed to come out soon?<BR>
<BR>
>And is this (leaving for Anarchy Online or others) why EQ users seem to<BR>
have<BR>
>vanished over the course of the last year or so?<BR>
<BR>
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