As they tend to say in academic circles: uh oh.
Petroglyph is officially out. Trion is taking direct control over development.
Wow , missed both those news posts.
Petroglyph should give up on RTS games, they don’t seem to have good luck with them anymore. :(
Or maybe made a SW: Empire at War 2 .
I wonder what prompted Trion to take it in-house at this stage of development? Hope the Petroglyph guys land on their feet.
Petroglyph needs to move to iOS while the moving is still possible and become the king of RTS on mobile.
Their games are never great and I don’t know if they ever will be or that they ever can be, but they have imagination and a diamond in th rough imprecision. Empire at War had so many cool parts and so many poor decisions, overall lack of coherence and balance. They’re an idea and aesthete RTS developer. Well, that’s exactly what iOS needs! Empire at War and Universe at War would be mind-blowing awesome on iOS.
Seems Petroglyph is now working on a kickstarter game.
Not sure its worth it’s own thread, till the kickstarter is actually successful.
That Kickstarter is off to an abysmal start. I feel bad for them, but I have been unimpressed with their last offerings and the game description isn’t really what I’m looking for in a RTS.
It looks like they are bringing this back now, but redesigned it as a MOBA. Isn’t that a quick turnaround to change it from an RTS to a MOBA? I was actually looking forward to a MMORTS, not sure we need another MOBA in this space though.
I closed the email the moment I read they’d turned it into a MOBA. If there’s any way to make my interest disappear, it’s abandoning the original, potentially interesting vision of the product in favor of yet another MOBA that nobody asked for.
Actually, I’m pretty sure someone did ask for it. Most likely the folks hoping to actually make money from End of Nations. :)
But, yeah, I have even less desire to play whatever this is going to be than I did when it was a more conventional RTS. And I already had pretty much zero desire to play that.
-Tom
Yea… no thanks. Whatever interest I had left is killed by that.
Moba’s are great fun. Cool to have another one.
Haha! Perfect!