Warner Bros. acquires MMO developer Turbine

Still waiting for the next big MMO like WOW. Sometimes I feel these companies are wasting their time =\

Anyone that knows Turbine's history is probably moaning at hearing about this. Companies do so much better when they're independent.

*crosses fingers...

Warner Brothers is eating up some of my favorite companies... Lets hope the digestion is not upsetting....

GET. IN. MY. BELLY!!!!!

Maybe they are have come to realize that video games are the future of entertainment and movies are slowly taking a backseat.

If you have any questions about how WB will effect Turbine, just ask the devs and community of Matrix Online who were around before they sold it to Sony.

Lotro, DDO, but lets not forget Asheron's Call!

Thought Microsoft owned Turbine? Or was that a long time ago (just checked Wikipedia, I guess that was a long time ago), it's been a while since I played Asheron's Call.

Played DDO after it went free, but it didn't capture my interest much although I liked that it was free and supported through microtransactions revenue. Currently on DarkFall, and while I had high hopes for a full PvP loot-oriented MMO without levels or classes, it turns out that grinding for skill and attribute percentages is even less exciting than levelling, and not being able to be competitive in PvP until you spend an intolerable number of hours doing tedious tasks is not my idea of fun. Considering trying Mortal Online, but I can't get the damn thing to work without crashing. It may need some more time in the oven...

Won't someone please make a less-grind-intensive MMO?! People have lives and don't necessarily want to pay X-amount per month just to spend most of it doing endlessly repetitive and pointless tasks just to become half-way decent. I suspect most people want a game that is easier to pick up and play, with an emphasis on time investment in the roleplay aspect of the character (as opposed to number-crunching) and its advancement as much in the social aspect of the world (as opposed to just game mechanics). If anything, spamming up skills/levels is anti-roleplay and despite the 'Massively Multiplayer' moniker, most MMOs lack any sort of meaningful social interaction, which I think is a major fail. Especially in this age of social networking, an MMO that doesn't have extensive and convenient tools for social interaction are probably missing what was arguably one of the best aspects of oldschool MUDs: the people. I've yet to see an MMO that really understands that or solves the problem of how to successfully implement it in the context of a 3D game.

Roleplay is also greatly missing from most MMORPGs, which I think is a pity. Although RP on MUDs when done badly can result in a lot of misused 'thee's, 'thine's and 'thou's, the best of it worked very much like immersive and interactive fantasy fiction. There has to be a better way to rework that kind of interaction into a 3D realm than has been done so far. Too many MMOs resort to Out Of Character interaction in favour of number-crunching and game mechanics advantages, and forget the point of even having a fictional fantasy (or science fiction) setting for the game at all.

BRING BACK ASHERON'S CALL!!!! First one is still best MMO for content and story, Was always better than EQ. AC2 bombed, so use the AC2 engine and redo AC1, people are still paying for this game at standerd MMO prices per month for a game that is 10+ years old.