SOE president sees more MMOs on PS3

Most MMOs these days don't require that much time. The days of EQ1 where logging in and getting something done would take hours is long gone.

I wanted to play an MMO for a while. My pc is not strong enough for everquest or WOW. Agency here I come.

Dude...I saw that last weekend....whoa, killer visuals. Story not so hot, a little bit too campy in a 1960's Batman sort of way, but man those visuals...out of this world!

The box office receipts are telling me that you may have been the only one in the theater :D

Yeah, I was expecting more people. I think there were about 20 people in that theater. Ouch!

When they keep preaching that 10 year plan, I didn't think they ment that is how long it would take to get games. *rimshot*

Serously though, I agree with you. I don't care about Home. I barely like the current load of games. Give us something that makes up for all the BS you've been pushing and actually give the system some compelling features.

Screw it. I'm going to go play my SNES. Call me when the "Year of teh PSTripple!" is over.

Achievements :P

Achievements are a cop-out.

Take Warhawk for instance. Why could they not have mini story-driven cut-scenes at certain rank advancements that give you further insight as to why these opposing factions are at war? It would also give a reason to continue beyond the typical customization options? That could further increase the longevity of the title.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that not many people care why the two sides are fighting in Warhawk. Just jump in and play is what that game is meant for. UT3 tries to shoehorn in a story and it fails big time.

Wow thats awesome. I'm really excited about The Agency now.

Can you maybe post a mini review of your hands-on experience with both games? I'm really jealous that you managed to play them both, how and where did you do get to play them!

It's times like this that I wish I had contacts in the gaming industry.

/saturated with sarcasm.

Well to be honest...Lucasarts destroyed SWG and Vanguard, great concept but the original design team left of a LOT of implementation to be desired...their network code was garbage.

Otherwise its a fine game

@SoulBlade
No, Sony Online killed SWG. Its a shadow of its former self. Its down from like 12 classes to 4. They made one of the 4 start classes 'jedi' so you no longer have to go through jedi training/missions to 'earn' that class and your force powers.

Now its just...boom, your a jedddiiiiiiiii cause you clicked the jedi button when making your charrrracter! Congrats! No effort required!

The changes implemented by Sony Online made every fan of SWG cry out in angony in their parents' basements.

In regards to Vanguard, the original development team were all fired on release day as Sony came in and bought out the company that made Vanguard. Then fired the employees, then rehired some of them.

So effectively, they nuked the team who would have fixed the bugs and made the game more complete, bug-free and start to live up to its concept.

Instead, they are still releasing game updates and its still not right a year after release and here come Age of Conan, War Hammer and WotLK to put the final nails in Vanguard and steal the little marketshare it had.

Sony Online has done a decent job with the FF mmorpg though. FF11. Mind you, I left FF11 after 2-3 months cause the gameplay was just too slow-paced, boring and unbalanced.

I think the day I left was when I spent 6 hours with a looking for group flag on with no party then found a party with two ninjas + two damage dealers who just kept using the 'attack me!' tool followed by the 'dodge' tool to miss every attack.

As a white-mage, I didn't need to heal and wasn't needed in my own party :o. Just being in the group doing nothing though I gained enough exp to level that day... though I didn't do anything. Just buffed and sat there in csae I was needed...

Well wes in regards to SWG... i know the game was killed... i played it from beta all the way until "NGE" but here's the thing, Its not soley SOny Online's fault... its a Lucasarts property, NOTHING happened in the game unless Lucas arts OK'd it.

Thus why i say LA killed SWG, they essentially ok'd the revamping of the whole systems from skill based to level based and broke the whole damn works in the process.


AS for VG, that game was buggy from the start and probably would of never been released unless SOE bought it... dont forget even MS turned down publishing rights for it.

I think Brad had too broad a vision and no way to back it up, i recall some of the original devs saying as much, lots of vision lack of implementation and all that jazz.

Either way the game probably wouldnt still be on Life support if SOE hadn't bought it out.

I think by APD you mean APB. My understanding was that in April they said they would consider placing that game on the PS3 as well as the 360. As far as Huxley, it isn't exactly on the table yet, as there is no release date. I don't know about your claims of superior ports of FFXI and Phantasy Stars universe, as I have yet to play those on non-360 consoles.

I think you are passing judgment on Sony's games too early.

Huxley, I have seen a few videos, nothing special

APB, sorry to burst your bubble, but I think this title is going multiplatform

Champions, ok, this one is a maybe

"It already has superior ports of FFXI and Phantasy Stars universe."

You are comparing the 360 versions against the PS2 versions....hell, you are as good at comparing as GameTrailers...

I really wouldn't point to either FFXI or PSU as anything of value...particularly since they are ports of PS2 titles.

I'm not here to fight a console war with no weapons, I'm here to ridicule MMOs, and the people who play them.