Any promising MMOs on the hoirzon?

[FreddyThump]

I was wondering if there are any interesting MMOs that might be coming out soon? Something that would utilise current technologies (multicore + SLI) well and have a 64 bit client would be a good start. Rift has been great but it hasn't kept up with the times.

[Laeris]

What? One of the most technologically advanced games on the planet (open MMO without micro instancing that can bring hundreds of people together anywhere in the world) isn't good enough for you?

Jeez. You're probably going to be waiting 5-10 years for a native 64-bit MMO client.

[FreddyThump]

You're probably going to be waiting 5-10 years for a native 64-bit MMO client.

In 10 years we'll probably be saying goodbye to 128bit....

[Salamol]

The more advanced you make a game spec-wise... the smaller your potential market for players. MMORPGs tend to take a while to make, so they generally look worse than their non-MMO counterparts that are released at a similar time.

[Antigonos]

Elder Scrolls Online is the next messiah. Will be crucified in about a year prbly.

[Shibi]

In 10 years we'll probably be saying goodbye to 128bit....

128 bit is not optimal for CPU use outside of registers alone, sure it's good in NPUs and GPUs but you are seriously wasting resources when your address and operand, which should be RISC anyway, is using up that amount of bandwidth.

And yes, I know Gates said who would ever need 640KB of RAM but honestly, 2 Zetta bytes of RAM? bah.

[FreddyThump]

128 bit is not optimal for CPU use outside of registers alone, sure it's good in NPUs and GPUs but you are seriously wasting resources when your address and operand, which should be RISC anyway, is using up that amount of bandwidth.

And yes, I know Gates said who would ever need 640KB of RAM but honestly, 2 Zetta bytes of RAM? bah.

You're probably right - it's just that Rift is the only game I like and my PC is geared for Call of Duty and that kind of game. What a waste of money

[dorfadin]

Think elder scrolls mmo will be popular, from what i hear its abit like gw2 so no tanks/healers and more of that dodge/block crap, personally I'm waiting for EQ next.

[Reticularize]

Elder Scrolls Online is the next messiah. Will be crucified in about a year prbly.

Nah. Elder scrolls will sell amazing then the RPG fans will like it till it gets to the mmo part. Mmo fans will love it till it askes them to do stuff that actually requires thought (dodge/block). Then we will see the mass exodus like we did from GW 2. We will see how long it lasts, and how well executed it will be.

I think FF14 will be alright and somewhat innovative on questing from what i saw of the game.

[Maverick827]

MMORGPs are not really designed like cookie cutter FPS games. When CoD 27 comes out next year, most of the development efforts would have went into making the graphics slightly better, because modern FPS games are just pixel pornography. Obviously this type of game can push the visuals because that's all it has going for it anymore.

When the next big MMORPG comes out, most of the development efforts would have went into literally everything else.

[Tookmyjob]

What is with this stupid idea of removing dedicated healers from mmo games? PvP sucks when you rely on very short encounters. Either you play with caution to the level of cowardice or expect to rez a lot

[Laeris]

What is with this stupid idea of removing dedicated healers from mmo games? PvP sucks when you rely on very short encounters. Either you play with caution to the level of cowardice or expect to rez a lot

Well, like with Rift... 70% of the players polled in that big poll they did a year or so ago (I forget) 70% of the people listed that their mains were rogues. Of the remainder, "other" DPS classes made up all but just shy of 10% sharing between tanks and healers.

The reason games like GW2 are phasing out tanks and healers is for the same reason you have long queue times in Rift if you're a DPSer. There's a very wide gap between people who play tanks/healers and people who want to DPS. That's pretty much the standard everywhere.

I play a tank and a healer as my two main characters. I can tell you that the reason why you don't see more of us is because DPS players in pugs ruin the fun for a lot of us. "Pull faster! WTF ARE YOU DOING?! CHANGE YOUR SPEC!" Then, every rogue in the game seems to like to roll on all of the STR heavy warrior weapons, rings, trinkets, and necklaces.

At the end of the day, people like me might run 1 expert per day and that's enough of the childish drama and we go play something else and sleep well knowing your queues just got longer.

[Laeris]

You're probably right - it's just that Rift is the only game I like and my PC is geared for Call of Duty and that kind of game. What a waste of money

Well, CoD has a lesser system requirement than Rift does. MMOs use up many more system resources. Comparing the two isn't really fair since one typically has 32 to 64 players in a single tiny map and the other can have hundreds on a much larger playfield. The reason why MMOs don't look as good as FPS games or standalone games like Skyrim has to do with system resource management.

If you were to make everything in an MMO super high rez like in Skyrim, you wouldn't even be able to load the game without crashing. Although technology has improved a lot over the years, this basic truth is still accurate: The more visible avatars on a playfield = the less visually complex the world has to be. Until gaming companies get off of the polygon system (and there are some in development), we're limited as to how much our systems can render. The more complex an image is or as more images are added, the more of a drain it has on our systems.

Therefore, games like CoD have small maps in comparison to MMOs. They're like what? 1/100th the size of some of the ones in Rift. Those maps CoD uses don't use very much resources to render. Then, you have a small player limit in comparison to MMOs. Again, this doesn't use many resources. So, the company has extra resources to play with so they make the game look good.

MMOs do the same thing. It's a balancing act. In Rift, we have large, wide-open playfields but our overall world detail levels are a little lower than games like Age of Conan or TSW. The tradeoff here is that TSW and AoC use smaller zones and lots of instancing. The world is more complex and it gives artists more leeway with the level of detail they can add. Their zones also have a small user limit and they create mirrors of the zones as this limit is reached.

We don't have that in Rift. Our playfields are wide open with no visible barriers between areas or loading screens. Our world is slightly less complex but it is more functional and open. In vanilla AoC for example, 2 full raids of people in Rift would cause some of AoC's zones to launch a 2nd mirror. Some of their playfields were literally that restrictive.

[livnthedream]

Well, CoD has a lesser system requirement than Rift does. MMOs use up many more system resources. Comparing the two isn't really fair since one typically has 32 to 64 players in a single tiny map and the other can have hundreds on a much larger playfield. The reason why MMOs don't look as good as FPS games or standalone games like Skyrim has to do with system resource management.

If you were to make everything in an MMO super high rez like in Skyrim, you wouldn't even be able to load the game without crashing. Although technology has improved a lot over the years, this basic truth is still accurate: The more visible avatars on a playfield = the less visually complex the world has to be. Until gaming companies get off of the polygon system (and there are some in development), we're limited as to how much our systems can render. The more complex an image is or as more images are added, the more of a drain it has on our systems.

Therefore, games like CoD have small maps in comparison to MMOs. They're like what? 1/100th the size of some of the ones in Rift. Those maps CoD uses don't use very much resources to render. Then, you have a small player limit in comparison to MMOs. Again, this doesn't use many resources. So, the company has extra resources to play with so they make the game look good.

MMOs do the same thing. It's a balancing act. In Rift, we have large, wide-open playfields but our overall world detail levels are a little lower than games like Age of Conan or TSW. The tradeoff here is that TSW and AoC use smaller zones and lots of instancing. The world is more complex and it gives artists more leeway with the level of detail they can add. Their zones also have a small user limit and they create mirrors of the zones as this limit is reached.

We don't have that in Rift. Our playfields are wide open with no visible barriers between areas or loading screens. Our world is slightly less complex but it is more functional and open. In vanilla AoC for example, 2 full raids of people in Rift would cause some of AoC's zones to launch a 2nd mirror. Some of their playfields were literally that restrictive.

Partially true. CoD focuses more on resource management because consoles have much much less hardware. I mean the Ps3 only has 256 megs of ram and another 256vram. Its forced to do more with less. Different engines and their limitations aside, you can only optimize so much when aiming at how wide of a hardware swath as a computer based mmo does. I mean have you even looked at the steam survey lately?

[Valnak]

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