Star Trek Online
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Ki!ler-Mk1
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Panda with issues...
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Like herpes!
Hoy, 
Can't say for sure, but I think it has to do with how much it cost them to develop the thing...
Cheers,
J.
Can't say for sure, but I think it has to do with how much it cost them to develop the thing...
Cheers,
J.
Star trek online currently has 1.4% of the MMORPG market.
They screwed up when they released this game way back in Jan 2009. It was essentially still in beta testing phase but they released it anyway. It kind of went down hill from there.
Amazingly they had a 'special deal' where you could buy a life time subscription, from memory it was just over £400.
They screwed up when they released this game way back in Jan 2009. It was essentially still in beta testing phase but they released it anyway. It kind of went down hill from there.
Amazingly they had a 'special deal' where you could buy a life time subscription, from memory it was just over £400.
Velaphor
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Glad I didn't take that up.
Kasatka
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Aye - the game when originally talked about was going to allow you to play as different factions... that ended up being Starfleet and some limited Klingon PVP content after you ranked up enough as Starfleet. Several years later and we still have no playable Romulans, Cardassians, Breen, Borg, Undine etc
That said, the game does what it sets out to do quite smoothly. The ground combat is bland, a-typical sci-fi mmo fair but where i feel the game shines is it's starship combat, especially in groups of players.
It's worth checking out if you like Star Trek of fancy a sci-fi mmo experience that isn't Eve Online or Star Wars.
That said, the game does what it sets out to do quite smoothly. The ground combat is bland, a-typical sci-fi mmo fair but where i feel the game shines is it's starship combat, especially in groups of players.
It's worth checking out if you like Star Trek of fancy a sci-fi mmo experience that isn't Eve Online or Star Wars.
up from 1.4% to 2.1% share of MMO.
Probably a lot due to it being free to play now.
We would have got all the other races (romulon, borg etc) if enough people had paid/played the game. Sadly as I said earlier they released the game too early and screwed themselves over.
With MMO's they have to "hook you in" early enough, if they don't, it's all too easy to return to WOW.
Still watching SWTOR and wondering if that will hook enough players in. If it does, the game, unlike Star trek will get bigger and better.
We shall all see in time.
Probably a lot due to it being free to play now.
We would have got all the other races (romulon, borg etc) if enough people had paid/played the game. Sadly as I said earlier they released the game too early and screwed themselves over.
With MMO's they have to "hook you in" early enough, if they don't, it's all too easy to return to WOW.
Still watching SWTOR and wondering if that will hook enough players in. If it does, the game, unlike Star trek will get bigger and better.
We shall all see in time.
Kasatka
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Eve has been seriously struggling the last year or so with CCP losing the plot and throwing all sorts of crap into their game. I'm only idly playing now i can do it for free but it is no way worth the sub imho.
Panda with issues...
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In a desperate attemt to feign interest, how normal is that 2%? What does the overall market share look like for KOTOR and WoW? Can someone produce a pie chart? Is it just WoW with everyone else fighting over ~2% scraps each?
Huung
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http://www.xfire.com/genre/mmo/massively_multiplayer_online/
That shows the Xfire stats, at least. WoW is a huge step ahead of everything else (except this 'other' game - if it's that competitive I'd have thought we'd have heard more about it).
Panda with issues...
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THere's actually a reasonable amount of market share available in the miscellaneous 'other' designation. Suspect perhaps it's people who aren't interested in a AAA MMO if they aren't playing WoW, TOR, or if this is broken down by time, stuff that scratches a different itch to the majors.
Narly Bird
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Didn't there used to be a Warhammer MMO? What ever happened to that?
I've never played an MMO before, but thats mostly due to me having very little free time. And in my younger, headier days, when i did have more time, i always blanched at having to pay a monthly subscription.
I've never played an MMO before, but thats mostly due to me having very little free time. And in my younger, headier days, when i did have more time, i always blanched at having to pay a monthly subscription.
thatbloke
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The warhammer MMO is still (barely) alive, as far as I'm aware. I played for a bit, and it had some nice ideas (e.g. being able to have a separate "friendly" and "enemy" target), but there was a massive lack of content when you got to max level that killed the game off very early.
Narly Bird
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Thats a shame.
It seems that all the pc games based on the warhammer fantasy universe have flopped, whilst those based on 40k have done well. I was always a big fan of warhammer fantasy on tabletop over 40k, so its a bummer that they can't translate it into a decent pc game.
Panda with issues...
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Some of the very early pc games were very good.
Shadow of the Horned Rat, and particularly it's sequal Dark Omen were fantastic.
In some ways, they were forerunners to a lot of today's crop of RTS with RPG elements. I hadn't seen an RTS with any persistent units gaining experience and needing to be reinforced and reequipped before them. Things like the Total war franchise, a lot of relic's games and even the crap that is DOTA owe a lot to those two games. People often claim that Warcraft III was the first RTS to incorporate RPG elements, but that's fallacious.
Narly Bird
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Never played Dark Omen, but Shadow of the Horned Rat was a good one. I just remember there was 1 insanely hard battle though and I had to replay it about 25 times before i won it with enough survivors for the following battle. That one battle meant i only ever played through the game once. Couldn't stomach the insane difficulty to make it for a replay. Otherwise a great game though.