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Buffy MMO Announced, Firefly MMO Delayed

Posted by Soulskill on from the you're-my-kinda-stupid dept.

Zonk brings word that Multiverse, the developer who in 2006 acquired the rights to make a Firefly-based MMO, has announced that a Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MMO is now under development. An interview with Corey Bridges from Multiverse seems to indicate that the Firefly MMO, though delayed, is not dead. He also provides a few details on what the Buffy game will be like. Quoting: "What we're doing with the Buffy game then is releasing it in stages. It will first be a flash-based virtual world, with the full Multiverse server behind it. ... So it will start as a 2D flash-based MMO where you can go on missions and interact with other players. This will extend even once we have the 3D client working, where you can both interact with players using the other point of view. We're going to have these shared spaces where 2D and 3D people can interact. All of this will come out in phases, with staged gameplay coming out. We're sort of blazing a path with this concept, and we're really interested in what this might mean for players of the two versions. ... I'd love to get [a public beta] out to players by the end of the year."

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  1. Re:Buffy? by hr.wien · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well the series pretty much ended with the creation of thousands of slayers so it doesn't seem that far fetched with bucketloads of them running around. Makes being a slayer a little less special though, which I guess was your point.

  2. Re:Already is a FireFly MMO by Drooling+Iguana · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean like Vendetta?

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    ... I'm addicted to placebos
  3. Re:Buffy? by Mechanik · · Score: 3, Informative

    Vampire: The Masquerade would be a better vampire theme based MMO

    Agreed. Thankfully, it appears that they are working on one already. Although I assume it's based on the new World of Darkness and not the old one.

  4. Re:Flash? by Earered · · Score: 2, Informative

    You mean, like dofus? http://www.dofus.com/

  5. Re:MMO by Wowlapalooza · · Score: 1, Informative

    MMO = Massively Multiplayer Online, typically used as the prefix in MMORPG (RPG = Role-Playing Game), and sometimes as an abbreviation for same. Although, technically, you could have MMOFPS (First-Person Shooter), MMORTS (Real-Time Strategy), or other variants, due to technology and design limitations, RPGs are currently the predominant MMOs.

  6. It was an air dates joke by roystgnr · · Score: 2, Informative

    Aimed at whatever Fox executive decided to show Firefly episodes completely out of order.