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'Defiance' (Rockne S. O'Bannon/Syfy) -- speculation/discussion/spoilers
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Originally posted by Flibby View Post
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The MMO market is oversaturated with ****ty fantasy games, not quite so much with scifi games, although there has been an increase in new scifi mmo's lately, most of them are failures.
There certainly aren't any good scifi shooters right now. Neocron was amazing, but it's dead until Neocron 3 comes out 10 years from now. Global Agenda was a nice try, but it wasn't a real MMO. Fallen Earth was a failure.
I think that there's a huge vacancy in the MMO market right now, and that's a not ****ty scifi shooter MMO.
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Originally posted by Flibby View PostThe MMO market is oversaturated with ****ty fantasy games, not quite so much with scifi games, although there has been an increase in new scifi mmo's lately, most of them are failures.
There certainly aren't any good scifi shooters right now. Neocron was amazing, but it's dead until Neocron 3 comes out 10 years from now. Global Agenda was a nice try, but it wasn't a real MMO. Fallen Earth was a failure.
I think that there's a huge vacancy in the MMO market right now, and that's a not ****ty scifi shooter MMO.
With anything else, films, books, tv, normal videogames, simply because another product sells doesn't mean that yours won't either. If 10 million people buy Call of Duty, that doesn't matter for most other games, people can afford to buy them as well. But with an MMO the time you need to play and the cost in subscription fees mean that you can only play one at a time. If 10 million people are playing World of Warcraft, that's 10 million people who won't play your game.
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World of Warcraft dominated in 2008 and it still does today, it's number of subscriptions has gone up. And Star Wars: The Old Republic is hotly anticipated and will eat up the rest of the market. People gravitate towards the bests reviewed and most advertised games, and I really doubt that Syfy can compete with the quality or the amount of money in advertising that Blizzard and Bioware will throw behind their products.
Companies look at World of Warcraft and see that it makes billions of dollars per year and want a piece of the action. MGM clearly wanted to do that with their Stargate MMO. But what they fail to realise is that the expense of making these games and the difficulty in breaking into the market mean that most of these games end as abject failures.
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So I am guesting this is there project that suppose to combine TV and Games together and where the actions of the players in the virtual world will affect the events that take during the show.
I look forward to seeing how it will evolve.
I will also be waiting to see how much this game will cost to pay. An whether Syfy can organise the show to be shown on mainstream channels where people will see it.Last edited by knowles2; 09 June 2011, 10:57 AM.
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Wouldn't it be interesting if the game became/continued to be a success, after Syfylis cancels the show? That'd grab my attention a lot more than comic continuations.
Even though the only MMO for me is/will be SWTOR."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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Originally posted by DigiFluid View PostWouldn't it be interesting if the game became/continued to be a success, after Syfylis cancels the show? That'd grab my attention a lot more than comic continuations.
Even though the only MMO for me is/will be SWTOR.sigpic
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I started the Defiance Wiki which will contain any and all information on the tv show and the game.I'VE GONE WIKI-MAD!!!!
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The Stargate Wiki Network - everything on Stargate and a whole lot more!
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Defiance Wiki - a wiki for the upcoming sci-fi show and MMO game!
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Revolution Wiki - what happens when the power goes out...
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Looks like production on the series has started in Toronto. Looking at a Spring 2013 release.
I have to say my interest level increased significantly upon finding out that Jaime Murray is starring in this.
NEW YORK – April 25, 2012 – DefianceTM, the revolutionary transmedia event launching in Spring 2013, has commenced production on the series pilot in Toronto, ON. An unprecedented partnership between Syfy and Trion Worlds, Defiance is the first-ever convergence of television and Massive Multiplayer Online gaming, featuring an interconnected world and storylines that will co-exist on both platforms.
Defiance stars Grant Bowler (Nolan), Julie Benz (Amanda Rosewater), Stephanie Leonidas (Irisa), Tony Curran (Datak Tarr), Jaime Murray (Stahma Tarr), Graham Greene (Rafe McCawley), Mia Kirshner (Kenya) and Fionnula Flanagan (Nicky).sigpic
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