Tag: vampire MMO

World of Darkness: Elected Prince Deals Perma-Death


Seeing as the game will employ EVE Online’s single-server system, being elected to the leader of a city is fairly important, and besides being a great accolade to put on a resume, the Prince of a City has the power to permanently kill players. Yes, that’s right: World of Darkness is going to have permadeath in one form or another, though it won’t be as widespread as it is in the tabletop game. Hardcore.

World of Darkness is looking to be the MMO of choice for people who enjoy the concept of Eve Online’s hardcore sandbox world controlled and dominated by player interaction, but aren’t exactly a fan of flying in space ships. Following in suit of Eve Online, World of Darkness is set to only feature one server, making control of territory and the walking blood containers that inhabit it all the more important.

At the recent Fanfest, CCP talked about how each city will have a prince elected to it by players, who will be able to have players permanently killed. Compared to the pen and paper World of Darkness, however, permadeath will be much less common and something of an extraordinary event. Still, if World of Darkness keeps on the path that it appears to be going down, CCP might just make exactly the hardcore MMO many of us have been looking for.

The Secret World is set to release between now and doomsday.

(Source: GamesRadar)

Someone Had To Ride The Twilight Coattails: Moonlight Online


Last year news broke at the rumored confirmation of an MMO based on the Twilight books, leading to shock, horror, and utter bedazzling of many MMO websites until it was revealed that the project was a student project by a couple of people who didn’t even have the license for the IP. It was only a matter of time before a company picked up on the coattails of a vampire MMO, and that company is IGG. IGG has decided to dust off their cookie cutter and bake up MoonLight Online.

IGG is the publishing portal of 2029 Online, Angels Online, Galaxy Online, Tales of Pirates Online, Wonderland Online, Freesky Online, Godswar Online, Myth War II Online, Tales of Pirates II, Voyage Century Online, and Zu Online, with Dreamland Online, Lords Online, Tales of Fantasy, and Altis Online on the way. Take a breather before you continue. IGG is a (surprise!) Hong Kong based publisher with a line of games that pushes a new definition on the phrase “cookie cutter Asian MMO.”

MoonLight Online is advertised as players taking part in a vampire vs werewolf war, and being able to build and take down empires across the world. If IGG’s past games are any indication of the quality of MoonLight, I’ll be packing my bags and camping outside of the student dorm waiting for their Twilight MMO to launch, because in the fight between vampires that sparkle and Asian MMOs, throwing on that extra glitter may end up being the smaller step down in dignity.

MoonLight Online will no doubt be sprinting its way to the lowest rung of the MMO market, as soon as the developers finish re-skinning 2029 Online.