03-13-2006, 10:05 PM
http://www.bioware.com/bioware_info/press_...6_03_15_Austin/
BioWare is perhaps the only company where I will buy their next game just because it has the BioWare name on it (simply because they have yet to let me down), so it makes me happy to see that business is good for them and that they're expanding.
I have kinda mixed feelings about them making a MMOG, however. The market is absolutely jam-packed with MMORPGs right now - plus there's the 800 pound bull called WoW that they would have to inevitably lock horns with. It just seems like a very risky move for a company that has hung its hat on single-player RPGs for so long. Or maybe there is just so much money out there that it's not risky at all? I don't know.
I hope the focus for the MMORPG BioWare Austin is developing will be PvP and not PvE since PvE MMORPGs have absolutely zero appeal to me. It also seems as though it would be easier to survive in a gluttonous MMOG market if you were PvP-centered since so many more of the games are PvE-centered... less competition and such. Signs seem to point away from that however since BioWare has never been much for officially supporting PvP in any major capacity.
Anyhoo, good luck BioWare and I hope Dragon Age and Mass Effect are awesome :)
BioWare is perhaps the only company where I will buy their next game just because it has the BioWare name on it (simply because they have yet to let me down), so it makes me happy to see that business is good for them and that they're expanding.
I have kinda mixed feelings about them making a MMOG, however. The market is absolutely jam-packed with MMORPGs right now - plus there's the 800 pound bull called WoW that they would have to inevitably lock horns with. It just seems like a very risky move for a company that has hung its hat on single-player RPGs for so long. Or maybe there is just so much money out there that it's not risky at all? I don't know.
I hope the focus for the MMORPG BioWare Austin is developing will be PvP and not PvE since PvE MMORPGs have absolutely zero appeal to me. It also seems as though it would be easier to survive in a gluttonous MMOG market if you were PvP-centered since so many more of the games are PvE-centered... less competition and such. Signs seem to point away from that however since BioWare has never been much for officially supporting PvP in any major capacity.
Anyhoo, good luck BioWare and I hope Dragon Age and Mass Effect are awesome :)
--Mith
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London