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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. server written in Java?!?! by Secret+Rabbit · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yah, they'll get good performance out of that.

    Seriously, when dealing with the c2k problem, people should run away screaming from Java. I guess they'll have to find out the hard way when they run into performance problems.

  2. Re:OMG! Firecrack! by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Troll

    thankfully I tried it with a free account And that immediately disqualifies your opinion. No-one who plays a MMO on a free account enjoys it. They will make up any reason to dislike it. It's a self defense mechanism. You don't wanna have to part with money, but you want to play, so you have to rationalise your decision. On the other hand, anyone who buys the game in the shop for $99 or whatever, and has already parted with their money, has a desire to like the game. They will put up with all the unimportant stuff and try to have fun.

    That said, I quit The Matrix Online. The writing was just too shit. The "live team" had no idea WTF they were doing. The balance was poor. The skill tree was shallow. All in all, a pretty poor effort.

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  3. Re:OMG! Firecrack! by Ash-Fox · · Score: 0, Troll
    Any one who is really after a good space game is already playing EVE Online
    Sorry, I still find 'Frontier: Elite II' more interesting and fun than EVE Online. Fighting other players constantly isn't that interesting to me.
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