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Originally posted by: Modelworks
Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
Originally posted by: Modelworks
Yep, going dec12th for interview.
Fingers crossed !
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If you find out what it is, be sure to keep us updated 😛
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All that I know thus far is that they liked my character rigging enough to ask me to travel for a meeting with the staff. I applied about 2 months ago and got a phone call about two weeks ago. Said its a new project and wanted me to meet the staff.

Of course I have to sign an NDA before I learn what the new project is.
So , sorry no info will be provided 🙂
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Oh come now! If you get hired then you could come back here and say something along the lines of, "I got hired guys! I can't tell you what the project is but I gotta say that the idea of a Diablo III MMO is REALLY COOL!"
 
Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: Modelworks
Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
Originally posted by: Modelworks
Yep, going dec12th for interview.
Fingers crossed !
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If you find out what it is, be sure to keep us updated 😛
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All that I know thus far is that they liked my character rigging enough to ask me to travel for a meeting with the staff. I applied about 2 months ago and got a phone call about two weeks ago. Said its a new project and wanted me to meet the staff.

Of course I have to sign an NDA before I learn what the new project is.
So , sorry no info will be provided 🙂
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Oh come now! If you get hired then you could come back here and say something along the lines of, "I got hired guys! I can't tell you what the project is but I gotta say that the idea of a Diablo III MMO is REALLY COOL!"
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ok, ok.
I'm more graphically inclined, so maybe something like a wheres waldo graphic, with a hidden demon 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Modelworks
Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
Originally posted by: Modelworks
Yep, going dec12th for interview.
Fingers crossed !
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If you find out what it is, be sure to keep us updated 😛
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All that I know thus far is that they liked my character rigging enough to ask me to travel for a meeting with the staff. I applied about 2 months ago and got a phone call about two weeks ago. Said its a new project and wanted me to meet the staff.

Of course I have to sign an NDA before I learn what the new project is.
So , sorry no info will be provided 🙂
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So I take it you didn't get your name from competitive Gundam assembling.
 
I will never pay $180 dollars a year for any game. Especially one that requires me to spend hundreds of hours of my free time per month to be "decent".

How would an MMORTS work anyway? Everyone owning a separate territory/world/server space a-la Second Life? If so, what happens when they log out? The world just gets locked down?
 
Originally posted by: irishScott
I will never pay $180 dollars a year for any game. Especially one that requires me to spend hundreds of hours of my free time per month to be "decent".

How would an MMORTS work anyway? Everyone owning a separate territory/world/server space a-la Second Life? If so, what happens when they log out? The world just gets locked down?
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Back in the late 90's there was a game proposed called 10Six and it was pretty much like that. When you logged off, the AI would defend your land for you. Aside from bugs and technical limitations it worked about as well as it sounds, not well.

Now-a-days MMORTSs are mostly free turn-based games.
 
In the next generation of MMOs, you can buy a giant frigate and hire a crew to use trawling devices to reel in lots of bottom feeding fish while you are afk. But watch out for bycatch, because not only will you get fined by the green elves for by-catching the endangered shaolin monkfish, but you might hook in a level 120 hydra accidentally.
 
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Originally posted by: irishScott
I will never pay $180 dollars a year for any game. Especially one that requires me to spend hundreds of hours of my free time per month to be "decent".

How would an MMORTS work anyway? Everyone owning a separate territory/world/server space a-la Second Life? If so, what happens when they log out? The world just gets locked down?
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Back in the late 90's there was a game proposed called 10Six and it was pretty much like that. When you logged off, the AI would defend your land for you. Aside from bugs and technical limitations it worked about as well as it sounds, not well.

Now-a-days MMORTSs are mostly free turn-based games.
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"shattered galaxy" was my favorite MMORTS; not turn based

 
Originally posted by: torpid
In the next generation of MMOs, you can buy a giant frigate and hire a crew to use trawling devices to reel in lots of bottom feeding fish while you are afk. But watch out for bycatch, because not only will you get fined by the green elves for by-catching the endangered shaolin monkfish, but you might hook in a level 120 hydra accidentally.
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What in the hell? 😕
 
One could say the last time they went to a real theater was last year, and that was once every 4 years.

I saw Superman Returns for $9 and I thought, I paid $9 for that crap?!


 
wrong wrong wrong, they just merged with Activision, I think it'll be an Activision game that will get the treatment. It'll be MMO:THPS = Tony Hawk Pro Skater MMO, millions of people paying $15 a month to skate around aimlessly
 
The last time I ate out, it was at a Ruby Tuesday. The food was no good (which is why I usually grill steaks at home), and with the tip it cost a bit more than $15. ::shrug::

Originally posted by: QueBert
It'll be THPSMMO: or Tony Hawk Pro Skater MMO, millions of people paying $15 a month to skate around aimlessly
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You know it's going to happen sooner or later.
 
Please Be Diablo and please don't be a MMO.

I would totally take Diablo 2 wiht new levels, stick to the isometric view, pump the resolution up to today's standards and don't change the gameplay 1 lick.

Hellgate London is proof that messing with the formula = bad results.
 
Originally posted by: QueBert
wrong wrong wrong, they just merged with Activision, I think it'll be an Activision game that will get the treatment. It'll be MMO:THPS = Tony Hawk Pro Skater MMO, millions of people paying $15 a month to skate around aimlessly
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:laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Jadow
Please Be Diablo and please don't be a MMO.

I would totally take Diablo 2 wiht new levels, stick to the isometric view, pump the resolution up to today's standards and don't change the gameplay 1 lick.

Hellgate London is proof that messing with the formula = bad results.
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Hellgate: London could have been good. But it wasn't. When I think Diablo III, I think the demon stuff from Jericho with the openness of Crysis. Drool.
 
Not sure why everyone is so against MMOs.....

D3 MMO would help prevent some of the problems that plagued D1/D2: 1) hacked items/servers and 2) lack of consistent content updates. Blizzard provided some remedy for both for free but they found with WoW they could charge you monthly for it. 🙂

Once people get past the pay-to-play aspect of MMOs I think they find its worth it. Most MMO vets will tell you that while you're playing an MMO, you don't have much interest in playing (or doing! 😉) anything else. That translates into savings since you're not buying everything else that comes out looking for your next fix. Unless you're someone who pirates all their games, in which case you need to GTFO!
 
Originally posted by: lupi
Originally posted by: QueBert
wrong wrong wrong, they just merged with Activision, I think it'll be an Activision game that will get the treatment. It'll be MMO:THPS = Tony Hawk Pro Skater MMO, millions of people paying $15 a month to skate around aimlessly
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:laugh:
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Think Guitar Hero MMO. The entire band, real people.... and the people in the pit are playing a derivative of dance dance revolution in one giant MMO!
 
Originally posted by: chizow

Once people get past the pay-to-play aspect of MMOs I think they find its worth it. Most MMO vets will tell you that while you're playing an MMO, you don't have much interest in playing (or doing! 😉) anything else. That translates into savings since you're not buying everything else that comes out looking for your next fix. Unless you're someone who pirates all their games, in which case you need to GTFO!
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/agree - once you find an MMO that fills your niche, you will more than likely play nothing but that MMO [you'll stop going out with your friends, you'll purposely call in sick on patch days, etc...]

I use to be part of the "eh? $15.00 a month to PAY to play a game? What a waste! I'll go spend $50.00 a month to play MP games on FREE servers!" ...Then I decided to see what all the hype was about [SWG] and have been hooked ever since [not on SWG - but MMO's in general]. An MMO costs about 50 cents a day if you subscribe month to month [cost goes down if the MMO gives 6 month, 1 year, etc discounts]... so the costs are insignificant when compared to other forms of entertainment.
 
I'm glad there are still people who refuse to subscribe to the MMO fees. They look so draconian in this day and age. Like people riding around on horses refusing to try out those new gas guzzling vee hickles.
 
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