Perry's Secret MMOG - A Beast Riding Game

The strange tale of the Massive game built by committee gets a little less odd, as a Q&A session with Jamil Moledina at GDC Austin unveiled some details about the MMOG former Shiny director David Perry has been working on. The 'Top Secret' Acclaim MMOG has been said for months now to be a 'racing' title, and Perry unveiled this week that it will not involve vehicles of any kind. Instead, the game will involve racing beasts of many kinds. The beasts can be bred and traded, used to engage in Player vs. Player battles, and will help the player explore the game world. For the first time since the project was announced, the idea of players using tools provided by IGN to make the game doesn't sounds quite so out there.

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[weirdcrashingnoises]

and i don't really think it's a bad thing. not in this case anyways... when you think about how this game is going to come together and just the way they are doing it sounds totally different from a regular game development plan... it makes sense to ship it free and just let it build revenue in other ways.

also, i really like the idea of a racing mmo, not that it's an original idea or anything, but hopefully something that is based more on skill and not strictly the # of hours spent in game doing grinds.

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[Blakey Rat]

Uh, how is that different than any other MMO game on the market?

When the WOW expansion was released, it was easy to find Outlands *green* items in the first hour of questing there that were much better than the blues or purples you'd been repeatedly entering boring-ass dungeons for over the last year.