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the_logos · 09-19-2007, 06:41 PM

I'm not sure that's fair to say either. If you look at the most popular MMOs in the world, most of them are not WoW clones, actually. Look at like Club Penguin, Habbo, Runescape (the latter two predate WoW by years), Maple Story, Webkinz, Audition, and so on. MTV (who is pumping half a billion into online games) has released six MMOs in the last couple of years, none of which are anything like WoW.

Metaplace may indeed allow developers to prototype more quickly and might even be good enough to build full-on commercial MMOs in. Raph's company is working on implementing their first "worldy" MMO using Metaplace, for instance. I suspect the devil is in the details here though and until a lot of devs start using it's kind of hard to judge to what extent it'll be useful. The idea itself is freaking cool but see above.....

--matt
P.S. What's really amazing is that Areae/Raph did this in a year, on a relatively small team.

09-19-2007, 06:41 PM	#9
the_logos Legend Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Mill Valley, California Posts: 2,305	Re: The new DIKU? I'm not sure that's fair to say either. If you look at the most popular MMOs in the world, most of them are not WoW clones, actually. Look at like Club Penguin, Habbo, Runescape (the latter two predate WoW by years), Maple Story, Webkinz, Audition, and so on. MTV (who is pumping half a billion into online games) has released six MMOs in the last couple of years, none of which are anything like WoW. Metaplace may indeed allow developers to prototype more quickly and might even be good enough to build full-on commercial MMOs in. Raph's company is working on implementing their first "worldy" MMO using Metaplace, for instance. I suspect the devil is in the details here though and until a lot of devs start using it's kind of hard to judge to what extent it'll be useful. The idea itself is freaking cool but see above..... --matt P.S. What's really amazing is that Areae/Raph did this in a year, on a relatively small team. Last edited by the_logos : 09-19-2007 at 08:51 PM.