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  They've got their work cut out if they wish to be thrown in to the deep of the MMO industry and keep afloat. Being Sci Fi is a good thing as the Sci Fi side of the pie not nearly as crowded as the High fantasy section. They're up against an army of jaded MMO players,especially the PVE only.

Originally posted by IAmMMO

They're up against an army of jaded MMO players,especially the PVE only.

PVE only crowds gonna be disappointed. FFA pvp and lootable players it seems to suggest.

"There will also be another space, outside of the worlds, where there will be a reason for player-versus-player conflict - but Real U refuses to be drawn on the details."

"It's all about bring able to suck information from the world around you -and that includes other players, who you can "hack into" in order to steal their information, take or copy their items, or plunder their virtual remnants after "death"."

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=249125

The sense of something big and dangerous is very, very real in those books. I hope they can capture that haunted feeling of the main characters of Otherland.

Wow, this looks and sounds like it is going to be awesome!  This is one I am going to have to keep track of and I suppose go and read the books as well.

Nice.  Never even heard of the books, sounds like an expansion on "Neuromancer".  But i guess everything cyberpunk or similar is an expansion on that book...

I don't care if it's successfull or not.

More Sci-Fi MMOs = <3

Originally posted by Gajari

As others are thinking, as soon as I heard it was being developed in Singapore, I immediately stopped giving a crap about this game. As racist as it may be, I have absolutely no faith in Asia-based companies being able to develop a good MMO.

Here's comes the next sci-fi F2P grind-fest with great graphics and a tad bit more story than the others.

Spoken in true ignorance of the articles and the makers.  Singapore is a very Western city.  The author, Tad Williams, has a big hand in the game, saying, "it is the sequel."  The designers are all from Australia.  Most grinder MMO's are from China and Korea, not Singapore.  In fact, try to name three grinding MMOs from Singapore.  GG on reading. 

I love the infinite expansion possibilities.  They said in the future, it would be possible for people th reach the level of the world controllers and design their own world, a nice addition of user content.  You could go from playing a WoW-style MMO one day, to playing TR the next.  It's the Matrix with infinite possibilities and without the cheesy Eurotrash styling and rave glo-sticks. 

As said before, we've been given great hopes about a game before, only to have them dashed.  With the "tens of millions" of Euros they are spending, and the fact that the creator is deep into the game's development, there is a good chance for this MMO to live up to the hype.

Originally posted by Gajari

As others are thinking, as soon as I heard it was being developed in Singapore, I immediately stopped giving a crap about this game. As racist as it may be, I have absolutely no faith in Asia-based companies being able to develop a good MMO.

Here's comes the next sci-fi F2P grind-fest with great graphics and a tad bit more story than the others.

ah...L2 is korean. while it may not me your cup of tea, it is one of the finest mmo's to be released in the past decade

And again, everyone will be special, and in the end, nobody are special at all. Im not holding my breath for that one.

This game sounds pretty interesting. I'm looking forward to learning more about the game. But if it is a PVP FFA (like EVE), then I'll have to take a pass. Sorry folks, I don't find that to be very fun. The books sound good too. Is there an audio book version (unabridged of course) I can listen to during my commute?