They will be investing more than 50 mil technically, if you count the development costs associated with Americas Army game, which is soley owned by the US millitary as a recruitment tool.
America's Army has been around a long time already... RTFA - the 50 mil is going to be used to develop a new game starting in 2010, while they use a new off the shelf extensible commercial product as an upgrade to the current game that is out of date.
You want a controller? Try playing the Captain class in LOTRO...
Turbine moved away from the 3 class system when they included burglars and captains in LOTRO. The basic system still includes a tank (Guardian), DPS (Hunter, Champion) and healer (Minstrel), but the other 3 classes don't really fall into those categories.
I'm not sure what you define as a hit MMO. LOTRO did fine... until Conan, and after that WAR came out... It remains to be seen if people will head back to LOTRO when the Mines of Moria expansion comes out on the 18th.
Personally, I think Turbine will do fine with this, as long as they can come up with an innovative idea that will make people want to at least try it. I'd prefer an innovative idea that results in a new fantasy, scifi or historical game rather than a MMORPG based on an already established storyline such as LOTR, Starwars, StarGate, Matrix...
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They will be investing more than 50 mil technically, if you count the development costs associated with Americas Army game, which is soley owned by the US millitary as a recruitment tool.
America's Army has been around a long time already... RTFA - the 50 mil is going to be used to develop a new game starting in 2010, while they use a new off the shelf extensible commercial product as an upgrade to the current game that is out of date.
You want a controller? Try playing the Captain class in LOTRO... Turbine moved away from the 3 class system when they included burglars and captains in LOTRO. The basic system still includes a tank (Guardian), DPS (Hunter, Champion) and healer (Minstrel), but the other 3 classes don't really fall into those categories. I'm not sure what you define as a hit MMO. LOTRO did fine... until Conan, and after that WAR came out... It remains to be seen if people will head back to LOTRO when the Mines of Moria expansion comes out on the 18th. Personally, I think Turbine will do fine with this, as long as they can come up with an innovative idea that will make people want to at least try it. I'd prefer an innovative idea that results in a new fantasy, scifi or historical game rather than a MMORPG based on an already established storyline such as LOTR, Starwars, StarGate, Matrix...