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SOE Picks Up Former Monolith Employees

Posted by Zonk on from the shaking-out-the-good-ones dept.

eXxy writes "1UP.com talked to SOE about the Matrix Online announcement, and came away with some info that wasn't in the public PR. SOE is picking up many former MxO employees and offering jobs at their Seattle office, the DC Comics game is PSP/PS3/PC and should be cross-compatible between all three platforms, stuff like that."

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  1. Re:PSP-PS3-PC?!? by Babbster · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I doubt that the PS2 version of FFXI "needed" a hard drive. Square probably just didn't want to optimize for running from DVD - it's far simpler to decompress everything once during install, and with hard drive access you've got a much better speed cushion. As one example, Sony's own EQ Online Adventures ran straight from DVD on the PS2 and used memory cards for patches/network/login info.

    As for "making all assets twice," that's not really how it works. After all, you don't need to make all assets twice (or many times) for a PC game that will run from 800x600 to 2048x1536 on computers running a myriad of different video cards and a wide range of CPUs. Art assets (which take up the majority of space) can fairly easily be scaled down. Even the MMOG game engine itself requires much less space than those in single-player games because the majority of computations are done on the game server, not the client.

  2. DC game!!! by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 4, Funny

    > the DC Comics game

    * a_Street_Thug_with_kryptonite_in_his_pocket punches YOU for 8 points of damage!

    * You have died.

    Yeah, I can't wait. :rollseyes

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