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Firefly MMORPG Announced

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the space-ships-and-capes dept.

bishiraver writes "Multiverse has announced that they have gained rights to a Firefly Massively Multiplayer Online Game. Multiverse is a company started by several former Netscape employees, and they have developed an engine/network that works for all of their games. They intend to break into the MMO industry by being an MMO publisher of sorts. By standardizing, they can provide a less expensive alternative to the tens of millions of dollars and several years it takes to currently develop an MMO. They have said they will hire out a studio to build the game for them. Corey Bridgets, Massive's Executive Producer, says: 'If you're doing science fiction, you have to really think it out and create an incredibly rich environment that is compelling in its own right, and worth exploring and going back to week after week. That's what Joss Whedon did with Firefly.'"

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  1. Re:Because it did so well. by Cameroon · · Score: 3, Informative

    But how could it ever have generated interest, Fox refused to let it play on ANY regular schedule. Only people who were hooked on the first or second show made the effort to figure out when Fox might next play another episode. It was ridiculous. NO show would survive what was done to Firefly.

  2. Re:Because it did so well. by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Informative

    Blah, that's a screenshot from a tech demo. The technology being demonstrated is the network engine, not the graphics. Multiverse intends to contract a studio to make the actual game using their middleware.

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  3. Re:Because it did so well. by rkcallaghan · · Score: 4, Informative
    Lord_Dweomer wrote:
    With games like WoW and SW:G and CoH and GW etc, does ANYBODY think these guys can succeed with a mass-produced MMORPG engine?
    Three of the games you named make up less than 3% of the mmorpg market combined. World of Warcraft and Lineage I/II are the only signifigant forces. (source MMOGChart.COM)

    So yea, there's plenty of room for more competition and plenty of low marketshare games to cannibalize. Whether it can happen with Firefly, I can't say. Someone can and will, though.

    ~Rebecca
  4. Re:But... by ajs · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was obviously an error, but I did like the cover in the books. If I recall correctly, the books described the Kessel Run as a sort of gravitational obstacle course around one or more black holes. Speed would obviously be a factor, but so would navigating the shortest distance (hence the notability of having accomplished the race in some number of parsecs).