World of Darkness
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A lot of the staff was cut after CCP's Incarna debacle. CCP's focus switched much more to EvE and Dust514. Would not be surprised if this never saw the light of day.
gogusrl
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That would suck pretty bad, CCCP is one of the few companies that could make a truly innovative mmo.
Heylel
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It's functionally mothballed. In 2006, CCP purchased White Wolf Publishing, the owners of the World of Darkness IP. The White Wolf offices were transitioned over to CCP, along with a major expansion and hiring spree in Atlanta. Several prominent folks from White Wolf took new roles in the merged company, many of them involved in the World of Darkness MMO. All was well.
Then CCP went and introduced microtransactions to EVE, and the CEO got outed as saying some fairly insensitive things about his (very sensitive) player base. EVE took a major hit, CCP's projections started to look grim, and they had some hard choices to make. They were balls deep in Incarna despite it's relative unpopularity with EVE players, but they also needed the technology base for the WoD MMO. Meanwhile, they also had Dust on the horizon, and it was determined that Dust had a better chance of success for whatever reason.
The Atlanta office of CCP took a really major hit with some widespread layoffs. A lot of the old White Wolf folks who had stayed on with CCP were let go, and production on WoD was severely curtailed. It's technically still "in development", but I haven't heard anything in the grapevine about it for a long time. Meanwhile, a group of the old publishing wing of White Wolf have launched a new company called Onyx Path which has bought a few of White Wolf's lesser known properties (Aeonverse, specifically), and licensed the rest. They're now continuing to publish PDF books for all of White Wolf's games, including 20th anniversary versions of the original WoD flagship titles via Kickstarter. It's been a great success for them. Whereas the PDF business was starting to thrive but had virtually no support from CCP (who only bought White Wolf in the first place for it's IP), Onyx Path is doing quite well as a small start up that's dedicated to publishing new rpg books without all the overhead and scheduling hassle of a print business.
Then CCP went and introduced microtransactions to EVE, and the CEO got outed as saying some fairly insensitive things about his (very sensitive) player base. EVE took a major hit, CCP's projections started to look grim, and they had some hard choices to make. They were balls deep in Incarna despite it's relative unpopularity with EVE players, but they also needed the technology base for the WoD MMO. Meanwhile, they also had Dust on the horizon, and it was determined that Dust had a better chance of success for whatever reason.
The Atlanta office of CCP took a really major hit with some widespread layoffs. A lot of the old White Wolf folks who had stayed on with CCP were let go, and production on WoD was severely curtailed. It's technically still "in development", but I haven't heard anything in the grapevine about it for a long time. Meanwhile, a group of the old publishing wing of White Wolf have launched a new company called Onyx Path which has bought a few of White Wolf's lesser known properties (Aeonverse, specifically), and licensed the rest. They're now continuing to publish PDF books for all of White Wolf's games, including 20th anniversary versions of the original WoD flagship titles via Kickstarter. It's been a great success for them. Whereas the PDF business was starting to thrive but had virtually no support from CCP (who only bought White Wolf in the first place for it's IP), Onyx Path is doing quite well as a small start up that's dedicated to publishing new rpg books without all the overhead and scheduling hassle of a print business.
tad10
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They were talking about it in March 2012 so I think it's still indev. But per 38studios if there's not actual gamplay videos i assume vaporware.
Convo
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Laura
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EVE Online Fanfest is almost there, I can't wait to read more about this MMORPG. To me this is the only MMO in development worth waiting for.
Anyone knows when CCP is going to hold EVE Online Fanfest?
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Erronius
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Translation: WIS and NEX were simply a testbed for our WOD model, which will consist of emo glitter vampire faggots buying gear reminiscent of 2nd life fish-net stockings and leather bondage gear for exorbitant prices from our fully integrated online store. If we were to have player crafting, as in EVE - a game not originally designed with microtransactions in mind - we would only be undercutting our own game's design,AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT!
It is actually, literally saddening that it sounds like CCP, one of the only companies I would have thought capable of creating a sandbox MMO that would do WoD justice, is going to take such a gigantic shit on WoD as a whole.
I mean, maybe I'm wrong and my impressions are way off the mark. Maybe it WON'T be an MMO based around buying gear for your vampire Barbie-doll character. I mean...I actually hope and pray that I'm completely wrong, srsly...but so far I haven't actually seen anything that makes me thinks otherwise, sadly enough.
BubbySoup
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it seems that they are alluding that it won't be a minecraftmmo and more ... social -- perhaps to further appeal to females and to be different.
as a sidebar, generally the type of player (female) who i envision trying out a game (not knowing anything about it other than the fact it has vampires in it) would not be the type of player with whom i would want to play with being that vampires are largely teen idolized fad right now. moreover, i don't like playing with women when there are other guys around as it changes the dynamic (at least, in pug fps).
then again, if it's new gameplay, i'm intrigued.
But probably the easiest for players to understand and developers to make/code.
Trying to squish Mage into an MMO would be disappointing no matter who much time and money you spent on it.