Pirates of The Carribean MMOG in 2007 64
Gamasutra reports on an update to the Pirates of the Carribean MMOG currently in the works at Disney. The current plan is for a 2007 release, with some teasers and information upcoming at this year's E3. From the article: "The game will allow players to interact with movie characters such as Jack Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, as well as allowing users to create their own custom pirate avatar, form a crew and captain a ship."
Elizabeth Swann... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Elizabeth Swann... (Score:2)
"We wants the redhead! Give us the redhead!"
What about Pirates of the Burning Sea? (Score:2)
Re:What about Pirates of the Burning Sea? (Score:2)
Re:What about Pirates of the Burning Sea? (Score:2)
its not like the tech doesnt exist to log time spent in game. If I fancy playing Eve online an hour a month its $12/ hour. If I play it 5 hours a days thats... errrunder 10 cents an hour.
That excludes causal gamers and just appeals to the hardcore. Its a business mistake if you ask me.
At the very least have stepped plans, a hardcore plan for $15 a month unlimited, and a casual plan for maybe 1hr/day for half the price.
Re:What about Pirates of the Burning Sea? (Score:2)
Yeah, they like to point out that one game with no hard fee - whatever it's called - but please, just ignore him. He is a CLASSIC troll.
He's right up there with the guy who posts on a 360 thread to say he isn't buying a 360 because he dislikes MS.
My Question is.... (Score:2, Funny)
lighting a fire? (Score:2)
Ironic, how these things with multi-year development times all seem to come out at once....WW2 games (jillions of them), Space 4x games (nothing for a long time, then GalCiv and MOO3 like the same week), now pirate games.
Arrrrrr! (Score:1)
Re:Arrrrrr! (Score:2)
Billions of blistering blue barnacles! What in the seven seas were they thinking!?!
Isnt this going to die a quick death? (Score:1)
Anyone else have thoughts?
Yay! . . . awwwwwww (Score:3, Funny)
Wish it was Sid's (Score:1)
Re:Wish it was Sid's (Score:1)
Also, being a Carribean pirate is just downright fun.
No!!! (Score:2)
Terrible terrible game.
Let's hope they learn a thing or three before this comes out.
Re:No!!! (Score:2)
how would you like to be THAT developer?
"Well guys, our budget pirate game is almost ready, we're looking at 19.99 price point with a - *RING RING* - oh, hold on.... uh-huh... yeah..... wait, who!?! WHAT! you wanna..... us?!?!?! THANKS! okay everyone, change of plans, we're now a 49.99 triple-A title with a major Disney m
Re:No!!! (Score:2)
Rob
New game genre (Score:4, Funny)
Re:New game genre (Score:2)
Re:New game genre (Score:4, Informative)
Re:New game genre (Score:5, Informative)
Eh? Puzzle Pirates [puzzlepirates.com] has been doing the MMOArrrrPG joke to death, it's been going for years... So how can the next one be the first?!
Re:New game genre (Score:1)
And on top of that, PotBS will be a better game.
The ToonTown guys are working on PotC and obviously their design will be informed by lessons learned there. But the subject matter is a little... darker. I bet PotC will be targeted at T for teen, and marketed mainly to 12-17 year olds.
Fantastic. Great. Excellent. (Score:4, Insightful)
Hollywood should not be allowed to touch games. And if that means the loss of companies like Tigon Studios and Buena Vista, so fucking be it.
And despite what people are saying, it probably will be a WoW Clone. With Boats.
Re:Fantastic. Great. Excellent. (Score:2)
The Mask of Zorro and Pirates of the Carribbean brought back from the dead once popular film genres that have been dormant since the 1950s.
What Pirates brings to the table is a mix of action, comedy and black magic. I'll not complain if an on-line game has the dramatic twists and turns of the best theme park rides.
it probably will be a WoW Clone. With Boats
And this would be bad because...?
Re:Fantastic. Great. Excellent. (Score:2)
Re:Fantastic. Great. Excellent. (Score:2)
Re:Fantastic. Great. Excellent. (Score:2)
Late April Fools Joke? (Score:1)
Re:Late April Fools Joke? (Score:1)
No thanks..
Yohoho Puzzle Pirates (Score:1)
cool idea (Score:2)
Hopefully better (Score:1)
the death of single player adventure goodness... (Score:3, Insightful)
Sorry for the rant, but I hate seeing so many good video game ideas turned into a pay-per-month-bleed-me-dry MMO deal. This is just my opinion, I'm wondering if anyone shares it, or if its time I just succumb to the MMO style of gaming and accept it as the way of the future.
Re:the death of single player adventure goodness.. (Score:1)
Re:the death of single player adventure goodness.. (Score:2)
At least try Guild Wars, no monthly fee and dramatically reduced requirements for re-rolling characters.
Those two mix well with me.
Regards
Re:the death of single player adventure goodness.. (Score:2)
The sky is falling!
can't wait (Score:1)
This will make the whole game worth it.
MMOs based on character-dependent franchises (Score:3, Insightful)
I feel like this another indication that many of the suits don't *get* MMOs. I don't think most MMO players care about interacting with the static characters from your franchise. For passive media that's fine, tell us more about Jack blah blah. But for interactive media, I'm less interested in your characters than I am in your world. (And is the Pirates of the Carribean world rich enough to support the demands of an MMO? I dunno.)
I feel like the City of Heroes folks have made some similar mistakes. They spend (what seems to be) a lot of time and energy documenting the ongoing activities of the main good guys (Statesman, Positron, Synapse, etc.) and the main bad guys (Lord Recluse, etc), but I don't care. In an MMO, if it's not interactive, I don't really care about it. (That's not to say that it's not important to provide a rich history for the locations in an MMO; but that history needs to be reflected in the interactive present to really have any meaning for players.)
Re:MMOs based on character-dependent franchises (Score:2)
Should be. If you stretch from lower US Eastern seaboard down to, let's say, the Brazil Coastline, that's a hell of a lot of territory. The Bahamas alone boasts of over 700 islands and cays. Not to mention a quick glance at the relevant history yields dozens of famous pirates, hundreds of offical ships, towns and ports galore, not to mention a plethora of history, even if you're willing to slice it thin (sa
yea sounds great (Score:3, Funny)
A game for pirates? (Score:1, Funny)
never going to launch (Score:2, Funny)
Re:never going to launch (Score:1)
Yes, but... (Score:2)
What I'm left wondering is.. (Score:1)
Pirates! (Score:2)
I remember spending hour after hour playing the old game "Pirates!" on my Tandy 1000EX with a whopping 256k of system memory.
If they adapted a like game model with modern graphics and multiplayer game play I would be very interested.
Hopefully they don't screw it up.
I wonder which might be better... (Score:2)
I think I'm placing my bets on the former just because movie licenses don't tend to end well.
Rape, Pillage and Plunder with Disney (Score:1)
Or some elements like Battlefield Pirates. (Score:2)
Off topic but relevant (Score:1)
Too many MMORPGs? (Score:1)
Re:Too many MMORPGs? (Score:1)
It's not like this is Yet Another Fantasy MMOG-- its gimmick hasn't been attempted before, save by Puzzle Pirates (which really can't be compared outside of the similarities in theme) and Pirates of the Burning Seas (which is still in development Hell). It will sink or swim on its own merits, not because of market oversaturation.
Jack Sparow? (Score:1)
Re:Jack Sparow? (Score:1)