Softpedia writes: " We all know that Ensemble Studios, one of the biggest developers of strategy games out there, is closing because Microsoft, the owner, says its games won't attract people in the long term and that the IPs that were in development there didn't have a high number of fans.
The studio is currently working on its last game, the Halo Wars RTS (Real Time Strategy) title, which is set to hit the store shelves at the beginning of next year, on February 2. The game does indeed promise to bring the Halo universe to the gamers in a way that hasn't been explored by any other title and has made fans very anxious to test their strategy skills.
But the team also had in development a Halo based MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) that was one of Microsoft's tickets to the very profitable online game market. A few details about this project did appear a while ago, but because the Redmond-based company canceled it, nobody could get any other information about it."
What MMO or MOBA titles do you know that never made it out of beta? We list down six interesting game ideas the online gaming world missed.
David Jagneaux of MMORPG writes: "As has become customary here at MMORPG, this week’s list is the reverse of last week’s! Previously, we covered five MMOs that we think could be turned into great singleplayer games. Now, we want to look at five singleplayer games that could be turned into great MMOs. With the extreme level variety the genre we know and love experiences in today’s industry, there is plenty of room for new concepts. In fact, several of the games on this list already have MMO-esque counterparts on the market in the form of different IPs."
Wow...aside from Pokemon...replace with red dead...and thats my list too.
Now...I love mmo's. I do for so many reasons. Good mmos have few draw backs. I ALSO love single player rpgs. And if done right, a company could make an epic single player mmo. Hear me out.
My example is Dragons Dogma. It has an amazing single player experience...very rewarding. Why? Because u could create ur own pawn that others could borrow. They could have easily been real players in an mmo. At the end, there is the online UR dragon, but also a rich endgame dungeon with many monsters and great loot.
Now, if a company could manage to offer something akin to Dragons Dogmas system for those who want to play alone, allows them to borrow other ppls pawns for example. It could work. It would need balancing.
For those who want the mmo experience, they simply group up and tackle things together. They also hav the pawn option in case they want to use it and level it.
Now, maybe single player content is a bit easier or comes later with a buff...and its loot would need to be a lower level, but it would giv all those who dont want to group up to continue playing.
OXM: "It was a very exciting time at Ensemble," reveals Halo Wars developer.
Microsoft does not want PC platform game they want console game. and MMO RPG are dead on consoles. name 5 that did well and profitable list stops at 2.
the company that made halo is making a MMORPG but not halo as they do not own it.
This would be like an FPS version of WoW for Xbox. What are they gonna have? CTF quests? Oh, and instead of the Horde and Alliance, there would be one side where everyone looks like Master Chief and on the other side, everyone looks like the Recon guy.
I don't see it happening because the xbox online servers aren't big enough. MAG servers will be able to hold up to 256 people on the PS3. Until the 360 has servers this big, I don't see a MMORPG for Halo.
A Halo MMORPG would take over peoples lives, fast, if it was as complex as WoW. I'm not a fan of MMORPGs and despise WoW. The only reason I know so much about it is that the internet is WoW-infested. The same with Halo.