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CCP and White Wolf Games To Merge
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Zonk
on Sat Nov 11, 2006 08:44 PM
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Evod writes "Crowd Control Productions, maker of the MMORPG EVE Online, announced today at their annual fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland that a merger between White Wolf Publishing and themselves is a done deal. From the White Wolf Press Release: 'The merged company will enable CCP to integrate White Wolf's leading expertise in offline gaming development to enhance and create physical products for its MMOG, EVE Online. Products to be introduced in 2007 will include strategy guides, enhanced collectible card games, role-playing systems, and novels all based on EVE Online. White Wolf will leverage CCP's industry-leading technologies to bring its offline role-playing titles online. Conceptualization and early development has begun to bring White Wolf's World of Darkness, one of the world's strongest gaming properties, into the online world.' Each company will keep its own name and Hilmar Petursson, Chief Executive Officer of CCP, will step up as CEO of the merged companies." If you're a MMOG fan, or a table-top RPG fan, this is some interesting stuff right here.
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My prediction (Score:3, Insightful)
In a few months, we'll get an announcement *with screenshots* about a "World of Darkness" online MMORPG game. They'll never specify a release date, and over the next couple of years, we'll hear less and less about it, until it is finally quietly cancelled. At that point, the companies will split up again.
Honestly, I don't expect either company to be around much longer no matter WHAT happens. EVE Online is getting long-in-the-tooth, and really doesn't have mass-market appeal. And White Wolf is just screwed in general, because pen-and-paper RPGs that aren't Dungeons & Dragons are almost completely dead.
Re:My prediction (Score:4, Funny)
Re:My prediction (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Sunday February 04 2007, @04:09AM)
I need to start playing more games (Score:2)
(http://www.saynotocrack.com/ | Last Journal: Friday February 09 2007, @03:02AM)
So when I looked at some of the screenshots of EVE Online [eve-online.com], I was blown away. Are these in-game shots? If so, wow wow wow.
Hopefully this merger helps them create better Online RPGs with those type of graphics, rather than detract from each of their focus's since White Wolf appears to be less focused on video games.
well... (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://ultimateassassins.com/)
Two very neat game companies. (Score:4, Interesting)
I do believe a well-minted 'Exalted Online' could be a competitor to WoW. I don't know if CCP can pull it off though. Spaceships and Planets are easy compared to a MMORPG like WoW. I'd be happier if WW had teamed up with Arenanet and their GuildWars line. A GuildWars MMORPG based on Exalted would totally kick ass and would be fitting aswell.
Then again they could combine the Trinity/Aeon Universe with Eve - which would rock just as much I suppose. Nice prospects indeed.
A perfect match (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Tuesday May 30 2006, @08:29PM)
I hope CCP doesn't screw this up... (Score:1)
(http://zenipex.com/)
I for one... (Score:2, Interesting)
Reykjavik (Score:1)
(http://varsztat.com/)
Benefits to CCP, not WW (Score:1, Interesting)
-A Metamorphosist.
Great news! (Score:1, Flamebait)
(Last Journal: Thursday May 11 2006, @03:17PM)
You know you've thought about politics too much (Score:2)
(http://www.codemonkeyramblings.com/)
Re:You know you've thought about politics too much (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.victors.ca/)
World of Darkness's next MMORPG (Score:1)
Contract details (Score:3, Funny)
(http://home.primus.ca/~ronsharp/tororg.html)
EVE CCG (Score:1)
Reychavik (Score:1)
No comments on technical expertise? (Score:3, Interesting)
What I don't get though is the reverse. CCP has experience with building an MMO true but in terms of building good game clients CCP has only ever touched the space genre. I'll fully agree CCP has great artistic vision going on but rendering space takes a few less polygons than rendering some grass.
I personally doubt they have the technical know-how to create the software that would be required for one of White Wolf's games without a significant learning period. It's too much of an apples and oranges thing.
Could the Masquerade function as an MMO? (Score:1)
Just given the secret nature of the World of Darkness, could an MMO survive?
CCP started out as a board game producer (Score:1)
(http://sindri.info/)
It's Reykjavík, not "Reychavik", FFS (Score:2)
Zonk, it's so sad you're illiterate, but maybe you could USE SPELLCHECK. Please.
Yay for White Wolf (Score:2)
(http://www.neverwhen.net/)
at the fanfest (Score:1)
WW, eh? (Score:1)
If it's anything like their MUSHs... (Score:2)
I'm not worried about a P&P game based on EVE Online, as WW has already done P&P based on Everquest, and though no one plays it, I think they made money on it.
And looking at the new WoD lineup, it does look like they designed the games to be more MMORPG-friendly, with emphasis on every supernatural creature being based on five "races" and five "groups" each one having a "power" stat, each one having a limited choice of roughly the same number of powers (Mage, in particular, was severely "nerfed" in the name of play balance.)
But what I'm worried about is that White Wolf has had an absolutely horrible experience in massively-multiplayer gaming. They operated an online chat called "New Bremen" and it was resoundly hated - so much so that people compared other White Wolf mushes (and WW gamers were generally seen as having really bad games to begin with) unfavorably. This was mostly due to the horrible, horrible nature of the administration which functioned on a suck-up/catch-22 model. Those who sucked-up in the "in-crowd" were promoted, everyone else could have their characters deleted for any number of un-written, illogical and arbitrary "catch-22s."
This was including particularly hellish and outright abusive treatment from the moderators [rpg.net] there which was encouraged by their administration, a White Wolf employee.
Keep in mind that White Wolf is also DRM-heavy [boingboing.net] and treats their fanbase like crap by asserting phony IP rights [boingboing.net].
They made me the Dark Prince of Muncie (Score:2)
(http://www.unity08.com/)
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (Score:1)
(http://mcc.id.au/)
No Confidence (Score:1)
Based on this, and this is only my opinion, I don't have much faith in WW's ability to carry out projects in an efficient and cost effective manner. More than likely they may sqeeze a few bucks from an RPG ruleset for EVE before they pocket the cash and bail, but I don't think they have the wherewithal to actually take effective advantage of a partnership with a (video/computer) game production house.
World of Darkness MMO? (Score:2)
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Re:Rey who? (Score:1)