Let’s hope the Firefly MMORPG will be better than Star Wars GalaxiesXbox 360, developers, television, gaming — by TDavid @ 12:25 pm PST
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The Massive Muliplayer Online scene is getting crowded. From a non-game standpoint there are virtual sites like Second Life and There and for gaming the field is littered with choices.
First Everquest broke through and then Worlds of Warcraft has stolen a lot of their thunder. Somewhere in the process Sony tried to take Star Wars and put it in a MMORPG and then they irritated a lot of Galaxies players by making significant game changes. Seemed like a great idea, but it didn’t turn out very well. It was basically Everquest in a sci-fi setting. Kind of reminded me of the old RPG Gamma World compared to Dungeons & Dragons.
Now comes the idea that Joss Whedon’s Firefly will be turned into a MMORPG on the Multiverse platform (thanks thatedeguy).
Founded by several early Netscape employees, Multiverse hopes to do for virtual worlds what Netscape did for web pages: provide a universal browser that lets users access any world built on the Multiverse platform using the same client software.
Former Netscape employees? Let’s hope this effort is from the original former Netscape employees, like in the nineties when the Netscape browser was decent.
I’m more interested in the Multiverse platform (via multiverse.net, but the site seems to be down as of this writing) than Firefly as a MMORPG, but we’ll see how/if this actually comes to fruition. I’m curious enough to check it out and see if it’s better than Galaxies.
Already, some 7,000 development teams have registered for the Multiverse beta, according to Bridges, and more than 150 are making MMOs and non-game virtual worlds on a full-time basis. The tools are provided for free, with Multiverse taking a cut of revenue only if developers charge for their games, or for virtual items available within their worlds.
Anybody reading heard more about this game framework? Is it any good? I’ve been spending a little time checking out the XNA Game Studio from Microsoft which lets developers create games for Windows and the Xbox 360.
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I’ve been a Browncoat from way back and although I am not into gaming the fact that it’s based on the Firefly/Serenity Universe is enough for me to give it a shot.
Comment by FranciscoIV — December 8, 2006 @ 4:00 pm PST
SWG succeeded in one of it’s goals by sucking in a non MMORPG gamer simply because of the name.
My friends had played Everquest for years and I never had any interest. Once SWG came out they all switched and I started. It was great and I played (too much) for about a year.
I was in the first rebel guild on our server to take an imperial base. I owned a speeder-bike, dewbacks (creature handler), massive house with all the fixins and lived in a great player city with all the amenities available.
Then everyone found out that Jedi could be obtained by grinding each profession until you figured out which one opened it for you. I hated this aspect and thought it was an annoying way to grant the abilities. Everyone I played with was constantly grinding professions and never had time to just explore or do anything not related to their current profession grind.
Then I quit and sold my account.
I play City Of Heroes for a few months but my computer wasn’t up to snuff and found I did not have that much time to invest in a game anymore.
I am interested in the rumored DC universe superhero MMORPG and the Firefly one shows some promise to me. It can provide both sci-fi and a western genres in one game.
Comment by Wayne — December 9, 2006 @ 7:13 am PST