Random Thoughts
Posted by Stropp on July 29, 2008
Now that Mythic has announced strongly hinted at a release date for Warhammer Online, will Blizzard make a similar announcement for Wrath of the Lich King? Will the release date be timed to spoil Warhammer’s release? You know what they say: All’s fair in love, war, and business.
With all the fuss over violent games in the media, do we see politicians and crusaders fussing over comic books, TV, and movies like they once did? Just give it another 20 years and they won’t be bothering about games, they’ll all be focused on some other threat to our moral safety.
I’m finding it hard to get all excited over Warhammer Online despite the launch being only a few weeks away. Hmmm. Maybe I’m just feeling cautious this time.
Funcom is not looking like such a hot investment at the moment with their share price plummeting. That sort of thing makes investors nervous. Of course, the economy is really flaky at the moment, even if they are solid financially, a little bit of bad news could drop the share price. Is Age of Conan performing poorly enough to do this?
I’m on a diet. And I’m very hungry. Damn the television for tempting me.
Is it right that WoW Legendary items that took a huge amount of time and effort to attain will eventually be weaker than greens that drop off common mobs?
Again with Funcom’s share price. A lower share price might make them an attractive investment for a bigger company. Will we see anyone take advantage of this? This time next year will we see Activision-Blizzard-Funcom, or will it be shortened to Actardfun?
Are Blizzard and Mythic playing chicken?
Why do we call quests in MMORPG’s quests? They’re not really are they? After all, throughout literature quests are really quite epic things. I’ve never bought a fantasy or SciFi novel and read about the hero being sent off on an epic mission to kill rats in someone’s basement.
Why do we need politicians? No really. Why? They’re no smarter than everyone else and still make all the dumb mistakes, except everyone else pay for them while they keep living the high life. Oh. And they hate games.
Should I make this post all pretty colors and rainbow flavoured?
Hmmm. I haven’t really discussed all these upcoming Superhero MMO’s at all, have I? Should I?
I said yesterday that I wanted to be a Klingon in Star Trek Online. I’d also settle for Andorian, Ferengi, or Wookie… oops… wrong game.
Is MMO the entire focus of the computer game industry? It seems that every developer and his dog are making, planning, or considering making a MMOG. Even read the other day that Halo is up for this possibility. Could be interesting.
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Not that I would invest in a game company, but you do realize Funcom’s stock “plummet” is really just a return to the value it had before the hype of AoC release.
Hi Buzzregog, thanks for dropping in.
Yep. I just read that a short while ago in fact. And good news for Funcom, the share price is still actually higher that pre-AoC. Even so, it’s still not great that Funcom spent all those years to develop a product that should raise the value of their company, perhaps substantially, only to have a small effect. If I were an investor, I might not be too pleased.
BTW, why wouldn’t you invest in a game company, should you have the cash to do so? I’d have thought a successful game company would be an attractive investment considering they tend to get bought out by the big players. You might make a reasonable return.
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