SyFy Network MMO in the works

[clint g]

This can either turn out really cool or really lame

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6214302.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;3

As part of the Trion's arrangement with the network--now known simply as SyFy--the game developer will team with the television channel to create an MMOG that impacts the storyline of a corresponding television show on the network.

 

[darthraidr]

maybe SyFy should get good at the basics of making decent television before they try to branch out to making an MMO...

based on past SciFi channel productions i have amazingly low expectations.

 

[LitmusDragon]

This strikes me as extremely naive. MMOs are notoriously difficult to get right.

 

[clint g]

Who knows? Maybe Sci-Fi...I mean SyFy decided that television as a medium wasn't enough to spread fail throughout the world

 

[darthraidr]

the more i think about this, the more confused i become... so they want to stage events in game that they can then recreate in the tv show based on how the events played out in game... that's great, if there are very few servers and the events all end the same way...

if you have 2 servers and the Battle for Amazingland goes to Faction A on one server, but goes to Faction B on another server how do you resolve that on the show and have it mean something to the players who didnt experience the "correct" outcome?

and really, this is an MMO by a relatively unknown dev based on a SyFy show that has no following...

in related news:
the Matrix Online is shutting down
http://www.massively.com/2009/05/29/soe-is-jacking-out-of-the-matrix-online/

and Curt Schilling's MMO needs $50-$100 million to finish their game
http://www.massively.com/2009/07/28...-it-will-take-50-to-100-million-to-finish-co/

so an MMO based on a popular franchise is getting the plug pulled (granted it's been running for years, but probably never had the numbers execs were hoping for). and the price tag for finishing an MMO that's been in the works for a couple of years now is astounding...

imho, this SyFy MMO has quite an uphill battle. where "hill" is defined as Mount Everest.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I don't get it, isn't the MMO market pretty saturated already? It's not like most games, where you can just buy a game, play it for a while, then move on to the next one. They depend on millions of people paying $15 (or so) a month. And people aren't going to do that if they're already big into WoW, MEO, SWG, EQ2, etc. I could see someone being invested in 2, maybe 3 MMOs at a time, but there's gotta be a limit, and people tend to be pretty loyal to their MMO of choice.

 

[Sheep]

Bring on the Mansquito MMO!

Considering the quality of SciFi's made for TV efforts, this has failure written all over it.