Will Defiance Bring More MMOs to XBox?

[dlCHIEF58]

mhh...I was sure it was announced originally under a different name as an MMO, like four or five years back.

Well you are mistaken. 38 Studios had already begun development on Copernicus before they bought Big Huge Games. They (Big Huge Games) had already been working on a single player RPG which they repurposed to the Amalur setting in order to get people ready for the MMO. Big Huge Games was bought by 38 Studios in 2009, so could not have been making whatever game you might have been thinking of. If anything, you have Copernicus (the planned MMO) and KOA: Reckoning (the stop gap SP RPG) confused.

[AZAG0TH]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Destiny yet...

Bungie is making an open world first person shooter due out next year for PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and next gen cosnoles. Between that and Defiance, console MMO's are looking promising. With the fanbase Bungie has on Xbox 360, if they can't pull off a console MMO, nobody can.

Last I heard they said it will NOT come out on PC since 'people don't want to play shooters with M&KB anymore'.

[Fiancee]

Well you are mistaken. 38 Studios had already begun development on Copernicus before they bought Big Huge Games. They (Big Huge Games) had already been working on a single player RPG which they repurposed to the Amalur setting in order to get people ready for the MMO. Big Huge Games was bought by 38 Studios in 2009, so could not have been making whatever game you might have been thinking of. If anything, you have Copernicus (the planned MMO) and KOA: Reckoning (the stop gap SP RPG) confused.

Basically KoA was THQ MMO, 38 Studios bought Big Huge Games when THQ started to go down (dead now..) THQ had two MMO planned, Warhammer Dark Millenium and KoA, such a grim day.

[Doctor Whovian]

I'm really looking forward to Destiny. Bungie never fails to impress.

[Demoniku22]

I'm with you on this. One reason I hope that Defiance will be success on the Xbox is that it will show developers that MMOs can be successful on the consoles and we get more. That's the reason why I'm a bit annoyed with Trion for lack of marketing, because the same applies if it's going to be a failure.

Fun fact: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was developed to be an MMO, but they stopped for some reason. The funny part it, it feels like a WoW grindfest without the other people. It would have been awesome as an MMO.

Actually "Kingdoms of Amalur" was just a base game for them to build off of for the actual MMO code name "Project Copernicus". Also "The Secret World" was supposed to be on XBox as well, but I guess they Scrapped that, and then we have "State of Decay" for the xbox arcade that will be a base build for Undead Labs zombie survival MMO currently code named "Class 4".

[Lupis Volk]

I'm a big RPG gamer, and professional couch potato, so my dream would be something like World of Warcraft on a console so I could grind in comfort rather than have the cat dance in front of my monitor all the time.

I played Final Fantasy XI on PC before it came to XBox 360, then switched over as soon as the option was available, it's still the only true cross platform MMO out there. And I loved playing it on console.

Then Phantasy Star Universe (yes, I know, only the lobbies were really MMO) came along, not cross platform play but instead XBox 360 users were segregated from the rest. But still, my hope was rekindled that we'd get more MMOs.

Along the way there have been some surprises, like Red Dead Redemption, the multiplayer on that game is, to all intents and purposes, an MMO, even though it was a genre to itself.

And now Defiance, what I'd term a proper open world MMO has arrived, and I'm looking forward to it as much as I did FFXI, PSU, Guild Wars 2, EverQuest; it's the same feeling. We're still segregated from other platforms, and I can understand that a lot of that is political rather than technical, but it seems to me we're getting there, that one day publishers will start looking at the XBox/Nextbox as a viable platform for the massive MMO universes currently in production, and that Microsoft themselves might be more receptive to allowing them on their platform. Remember the True Fantasy Live Online debacle? That was a real kick in the teeth to me to see such a promising project canned.

Anyway, I'm glad that Defiance is here. I'm just wondering whether it will pave the way for the MMO genre as a whole to make a more assertive leap towards consoles rather than the tentative tip-toeing they've been doing over the last few generations.

I'd love MMO's to be on console but Microsoft aren't really friendly with their patch system.

[gabrielzero]

I'm with you on this. One reason I hope that Defiance will be success on the Xbox is that it will show developers that MMOs can be successful on the consoles and we get more. That's the reason why I'm a bit annoyed with Trion for lack of marketing, because the same applies if it's going to be a failure.

So true.

That was actually one of the reasons I purchased the game instead of waiting to see how it did. I want to support it's release so hopefully we will get more MMO games for the counsel. (Besides that I think the game is going to be amazing.)

[Mindfix]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Destiny yet...

Bungie is making an open world first person shooter due out next year for PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and next gen cosnoles. Between that and Defiance, console MMO's are looking promising. With the fanbase Bungie has on Xbox 360, if they can't pull off a console MMO, nobody can.

Destiny is not coming to PC and it's not an mmo but i will follow it as i'm looking forward to something new from bungie!

I am with the OP here maybe this will help forge ahead with mmo's on consoles.

[rohan]

I totally agree there should be more mmos, but if bungies destiny is a success then it's likely there will be a massive market for it

[Eriasu17]

I'm with you on this. One reason I hope that Defiance will be success on the Xbox is that it will show developers that MMOs can be successful on the consoles and we get more. That's the reason why I'm a bit annoyed with Trion for lack of marketing, because the same applies if it's going to be a failure.

Fun fact: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was developed to be an MMO, but they stopped for some reason. The funny part it, it feels like a WoW grindfest without the other people. It would have been awesome as an MMO.

Gawd, I wish they finished Kingdoms of Amalur MMO, I loved playing through Reckoning, one of the best RPGs i have ever had the experience of playing. I also did a bit of information searching on it when I got through it, and found that an MMO was being developed for Amalur, sad thing is, the company went bankrupt and...well that was the saddest part. I really felt like, it was a successful game, but people overlooked it simply because of (my guess) the new developer (Big 38(I think)). But yes, Defiance sure looks like the MMO to start everything, and its getting better with each day. Trion is doing an amazing job in fixing all of the known issues, keeping their customers well informed, and not giving up on making this game, a true MMO. I love the game, and I will keep playing for months and years to come.