Ughh. Just yesterday, I was reordering my collection of old cds and games. Upon seeing the Vampire Bloodline discs, I thought “I wonder if the MMO is going to be launched anytime soon, they have been in pre-production for too many years already”.
The writing had kinda been on the wall for a while, especially after they laid off a bunch of people that were on it. But despite that, and despite the likelihood that it would not have resembled what I would want out of a WoD MMO, it’s still a shame to see it officially dead.
Not surprising. Sucks, but not a shock to see it dead.
Delicious reddit lies by CCP:
Like how in the second comment the CCP guy put in a smiley face. Nice.
— Alan
Yeah. He has a couple dickish replies in there too, further down. It’s kind of amazing.
It seems like you can always count on CCP employees to throw gas on the fire with their posts. They have an entertaining history of making bad situations worse with poorly thought out replies.
Wow, that was really stupid of the CCP guy to deny the rumor. Why not just remain silent? I get it that the layoff was scheduled for today and someone leaked it this past Friday, which makes for a difficult situation, but silence is better than an outright lie.
KevinC
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That’s exactly what I was thinking.
And now CCP_Falcon pretends somehow redditers did him wrong by calling him out on the lie: http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/230cnr/ccp_games_halts_development_of_world_of_darkness/cgsq8cb?context=3
Seriously, how is this dude employed in any sort of public facing position?
Pretty sure he’s the one that convinced me to cancel my Eve subscription a few years back when the walking in stations and monoclegate etc things were going down. Or maybe it was some other blabbermouth… too many to keep track of at CCP.
Anyways, I went from buying subscriptions a year at time to not giving them a single cent since.
Dammit! I started reading this thread from the first post without noticing the date, and I was getting all psyched up about this new Vampire MMO that was coming out…
Sort of off-topic, but how does this impact White Wolf? Are they actually an active publishing company?
As I understand it, the tabletop aspect of White Wolf was licensed to a company called Onyx Path? I assume it’s made up of former WW employees, at least partially. I think they’re responsible for any current development of WOD and their license apparently hasn’t changed.
Oghier
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I wonder if they might work out a licensing deal with another studio? I’d really like to see what a WOD MMO might look like. I guess they’re too expensive to really fund via Kickstarter, though, and I’m not sure what other options there are.
Interesting. I went to the White Wolf site yesterday because I was curious to see if there was a post about the MMO cancellation or something, but the site looks like a throwback to the early 2000’s. I wasn’t sure if the company actually did anything or if it was just a license-holder.
Did White Wolf turn out anything great after the mid 90s? I sort of remember their material going completely up its own ass as the year 2000 loomed, and then the reboot being kind of sucky.
It’s always been slightly ironic that CCP’s full name is “Crowd Control Productions”.
Shame about this, although I’m not terribly into the whole vampire thing, I thought the models and clothing and graphics stuff looked seriously next-gen, and if the character creator in EVE was anything to go by, it would have been an awesome dress-up game at the very least.
But whither CCP now? They’re stuck with EVE, which they all probably loathe by now :) Did anything happen with that Halo-ish console game?
I think you just answered your own question! It does seem like CCP’s forays outside EVE are not only meeting with underwhelming success, but also consistently pissing off the EVE fanbase.
(BTW, it’s called DUST 514.)
That is a pretty concise description of what happened with the World of Darkness. However, they did some pretty great stuff with two other lines: the Trinity/Aberrant/Adventure universe, and Exalted. The setting for Aberrant wasn’t that great because it was as gritty and angsty as superhero comics were in the 90s (and as White Wolf stuff was, come to think of it), but the system was fantastic for power customization and distinctive heroes. I played more of that than Trinity/Adventure, but the psionics and proto-transhumanism of Trinity and the pulp action of Adventure were both really awesome as well. Then there was Exalted, which was wuxia/anime-inspired fantasy, and had a ton of cool stuff to it.
I have a copy of Adventure! in my closet somewhere. I picked it up at Half-Price without knowing it was a White Wolf systems product. I think I grabbed it because I was on a pulp hero high from Savage Worlds at the time, plus I saw that it had a lot of flavor stories. In fact, I think at least half of the book was pulpy stories.
Once I read the stories and got into the rules, I was surprised to see that it was part of the Aberrant universe.
