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MMORPG Circle of Life

Posted by Zonk on from the out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new dept.

The Massive Gaming market continues to change. Wednesday marked the sunset of Earth and Beyond, a decision made by EA back in March due to a refocusing on future projects. While E&B heads out of the picture, the new French MMOG Saga of Ryzom opened its first US server this week after a lengthy beta period. Impressions of the game are available at Gamebunny and MMORPGDot. And looking towards the future, the Dungeons and Dragons Online website just went live yesterday.

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  1. MMORPGs are great ... by monsterhead78 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... except for the fact that you have to put up other people in them.

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  2. Earth & Beyond by jafuser · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Earth & Beyond is no longer in service. After an amazing two years of galactic adventure, Electronic Arts has made the decision to close Earth & Beyond in order to focus resources on future games.

    We hope you've enjoyed the game as much as we have and we'll see you again in another great EA game!

    No you won't.

    EA Bought Westwood Studios and then cut E&B's budget so it would go hurling into the ground.

    E&B had an excellent foundation and it's story was the most interesting of any other MMO that I've played or looked into so far.

    EA bought out Maxis and put an end to their product diversity. Now they just stick with one sure-fire money maker and churn out endless expansions and revisions instead of entirely new simulator games.

    And now they have the nerve to tell me I can't run certian software alongside their games because I might be a pirate. Nice way to treat your customers.

    EA will never see another penny from me.
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  3. Re:Brings up a startling question by chromaphobic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would be fskd is GTA VC stopped working on my PC one day

    In all likelyhood, one day it will stop working. It probably will be a long time from now, but at some point Windows will most likely be updated to the point where old software stops working.

    I haven't had it happed to any of my PC games just yet, but I have a stack of old Mac games that only work with OS 9 whose CD's are headed for the trash bin soon.

    At this point in time, I wouldn't expect the devlopers for the Mac port of the original Driver (for example) to go back and update it for OS X after all these years. I just accept it as one of the costs of forward progress.

    But, yeah, I might be a little upset if I'd put a lot of time into a MMO game and they just killed it one day (despite the fact that it's inevitable that every MMO will one day shutter it's doors.)