Comments on: The Spiderbot Hop: Earthrise Trailer

By: Lord High Council

Lord High Council — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:09:53 +0000

Makes me giggle you think war is successful, its another failed mmo, yes failed, The game is like eve, are you on crack? this is in very early friends and family testing atm, and I hope some of you braindead elf lovers dont play tbh

By: Thatim

Thatim — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:39:10 +0000

Great article. I am waiting for the game, so maybe I am abit biased but.. I suggest checking out the site before you make a opinion. I know it is the interwebz and such.. but some research can’t hurt you?

I mean.. Spaceships like EvE Online? And.. Low framerate because it was at a GDC? And the game is pre-beta?

Sure, everybody its own, but can we please have a discussion about the game itself? And the real flaws? I mean no game is perfect..

By: Samo

Samo — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:47:36 +0000

I’m just baffled at how many of you know jackshit about the game and are still posting their speculations, baseless opinions or even worse; opinions based on a not-so-thought-out trailer.
Everyone has been assuming about ER since it was announced, at first good thoughts. The negative thoughts started to propagate as they said it’ll be RPG combat and not FPS combat, then the friendly fire being disabled, etc…
The trailer only made things worse. Yesterday two in-game videos were released, a lot of fans were disappointed by the combat, even though the devs said that the used weapon in the trailers was the slowest (being a rocket launcher) and that there’s still loads of work to be done on the game.
Please learn to appreciate the current state of the game, the fact that more could be done on it and READ about it.

By: Nill

Nill — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:52:08 +0000

Wake me up when and if it gets here and actually is good. There’s been too many MMOs failing left and right to muster interest for any new ones.

Also, I agree with whoever said that there’s too many MMOs on the way. Surely, they must be aware that they are all going to crash and burn horribly, except maybe a handful of them at the very most.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:56:21 +0000

Blizzard doesn’t need to do that, they know there is no one out there that is going to steal any of their customers in large enough numbers to require a hositle take over :P

This is good for the industry in my mind. Free market will regulate itself. Once devs and publishers realize that they missed their chance to jump onto the MMO Band waggon this will slow down and you’ll see new and interesting MOOs that try to do things WoW and WAR and others can’t do. Take Eve for example, it was launched in the midst of a bunch of MMO’s coming out and several of them space ones like Ever and Beyond for example. Their business model and game survived while others burned out and died.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:22:09 +0000

““The enemy emerges from the shadows of the past”
“A new begining lies ahead”*

*although that will never beat the universe being at the threshold of a new era”

All it needed to be more generic was IN A WORLD…

But then again, FPS of any kind interests me. That kind of reminds me of Lost Planet, only more coherent. Which is a good thing.

By: MeestaNob!

MeestaNob! — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:43:40 +0000

Surely there will come a time very soon in the future of online/MMO gaming where development studios will have to come to some sort of staggered release system agreement to give each MMO a chance.

There are literally dozens of these available and in development (doubt a semi-regular reader of this website would fail to name at least 20 for starters). These MMOs are killing each other and they have no chance of holding their own against WoW or WAR when they are too busy scrapping with each other in smaller battles.

This volume of competition is killing the industry, not helping it. Something needs to change. And I don’t mean by Blizzard buying all of them and hitting the off switch, either.

And they could, too.

By: Mad Doc MacRae

Mad Doc MacRae — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:35:11 +0000

If the game actually has that framerate, it’ll be unplayable.

By: Brass Gerbil

Brass Gerbil — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:06:45 +0000

I was under the impression this was supposed to be starship based, a la EVE. Instead, it looks more like Anarchy Online.

Pass.

By: the affront

the affront — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:15:20 +0000

“huge PVE world” and “size of Azeroth” is a really, really bad comparison. Azeroth isn’t exactly “huge” by MMORPG standards – it’s rather tiny.
Nearly every western MMORPG I can think of had a bigger world than Azeroth, for what it’s worth.

By: yhancik

yhancik — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:03:28 +0000

“The enemy emerges from the shadows of the past”
“A new begining lies ahead”*

*although that will never beat the universe being at the threshold of a new era

By: COOLMAN

COOLMAN — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:41:17 +0000

looks worth a try