Comments on: 2010 – Hopes, Dreams, and Fears

By: /AFK – The New Decade Edition « Bio Break

/AFK – The New Decade Edition « Bio Break — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:44:36 +0000

[...] Meanwhile, Kill Ten Rats looks ahead to hopes, dreams and fears of 2010 [...]

By: 2010 MMORPG Progdictionations « The Ancient Gaming Noob

2010 MMORPG Progdictionations « The Ancient Gaming Noob — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:52:53 +0000

[...] are putting out their predictions for next year, so I am putting this sentence in as a place to link to them as their posts show [...]

By: Sente

Sente — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:48:33 +0000

One part of the fears I will comment on when they drop the NDA. I guess it should not be too long now.

City of Heroes/Villains has done some revamp of older game parts as well, perhaps not to the extent of Cataclysm though. They have left some part though that really would have needed a revamp.
If Blizzard manages to set a trend here I think something good has come out of it instead of the forever race to add a few new levels every now and then. Not sure if I will pick up WoW again though.

Even if games do not go to a pure F2P price/payment model I do hope that the current subscription-models will get a revamp as well so they can be more friendly to other play patterns than “one game, all/most of the time”.

By: Ysharros

Ysharros — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:07:04 +0000

Shout. Shout. Let it all out.

(That is all.)

By: Thallian

Thallian — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:24:49 +0000

It does seem that EA has the opposite of the Midas touch, everything it touches turns from gold to lead…

On a happier note I’m glad you mentioned Lego Universe because that sounds like its going to be a fun game, and nobody else in the blogosphere that I know of has predicted it.

By: heartlessgamer

heartlessgamer — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:14:45 +0000

I think WAR is going to be shut down, just as EA does with everything else (studios, franchises, etc.). If they were going F2P, they would not have cut 80% of the staff. DDO, from my understanding, required a hefty development team to move it over to F2P and requires it going forward to keep the content rolling (which is the key to DDOs F2P success).

Anyways, I don’t see how WAR could go F2P without a massive reworking of the game. I hope in my heart of hearts, WAR survives somehow.

By: Hobbit and Redhead

Hobbit and Redhead — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:17:08 +0000

I do hope WoW improves the new player experience. But they would not be trailblazers in this. Turbine has been excellent at turning Orion loose to redo first the new player intro areas, then the Bree-land lowbie zone, and most recently with the Mirkwood expansion the who epic book storyline a piece at a time.

Great post!

By: bonedead

bonedead — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:11:57 +0000

“the trademark of Mythic slowly dissolves in to EA.”

That just saddens the shit out of me.

These are the things I can do without