JVC Working on a Fantasy MMO

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 03 Jun 2008, 14:07

Jon Van Caneghem's new company, Trion, has revealed their new project and announced a partnership with the Sci-Fi Channel. The first game will be a fantasy massively multiplayer online game. Trio CEO Lars Buttler told Shacknews the following:

"Trion's San Diego studio and our platform and publishing groups in Austin and Redwood City will work closely with Sci Fi's creative team in developing a dynamically evolving, massively social, connected entertainment franchise across multiple formats and platforms of choice. We are laying the foundation for an exciting new co-development model between top cable entertainment and lifestyle brands such as Sci-Fi and connected game and interactive entertainment companies such as Trion."

Buttler made the headlines last year when he said that "the days of the console are numbered," and "one more generation of gaming consoles and that is it." For more information about the project, check out this interview at Gamasutra with Lars Buttler and Jon Van Caneghem.

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Infiltrator · Unread postby **Infiltrator** » 03 Jun 2008, 14:29

MMO? Not the best timing with WoW and Blizzard having another MMO in the pipeline.

Good luck to him though.

valtor2 · Unread postby **valtor2** » 03 Jun 2008, 15:01

MMO? Not the best timing with WoW and Blizzard having another MMO in the pipeline.

Good luck to him though.

Wait, what? There were no announcements, and I don't think there will be... Why would they kill off WOW??

Anyway, if it's anything like heroes I wanna see

Edited on Tue, Jun 03 2008, 11:01 by valtor2

evilp · Unread postby **evilp** » 03 Jun 2008, 15:06

oh god..

Infiltrator · Unread postby **Infiltrator** » 03 Jun 2008, 15:47

There were not any announcements, but I can confidently say that there will be..

Moragauth · Unread postby **Moragauth** » 03 Jun 2008, 16:23

Another one?

jeff4815 · Unread postby **jeff4815** » 03 Jun 2008, 18:11

I'm looking forward to it, even though I'm judging a book by its cover and I'm not really a huge fan of MMORPGs.

Akul · Unread postby **Akul** » 03 Jun 2008, 20:38

Well, good luck with that project, specially since there are WoW, GW, Age of Connan, Warhammer Online and other...
Edited on Tue, Jun 03 2008, 16:39 by Akul

Tress · Unread postby **Tress** » 03 Jun 2008, 20:45

Took quite a while for jvc to do some public movment since he found trion company. Considering long time between now and then could asume that there is some work alredy done

Toejam · Unread postby **Toejam** » 03 Jun 2008, 22:58

A fantasy MMO , now that is something original that everyone is waiting for ...

Ravenheart87 · Unread postby **Ravenheart87** » 04 Jun 2008, 08:12

"A fantasy MMO , now that is something original that everyone is waiting for ..."

Do you really believe that there will be any original games in the next hundred years? I don't care if a game is unoriginal, if it's good.

"On the flipside, If this game makes enough money, maybe JVC can buy back the franchises he started. Then we can have a true M&M sequel."

Sweet dreams. I don't belive Ubi will ever sell the rights.

darknessfood · Unread postby **darknessfood** » 04 Jun 2008, 09:29

Well, there is gonna be some sci-fi in it. Sounds really nice, and it's well thought of. Only question is if they really can accomplish what they want to do...

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 04 Jun 2008, 09:41

Ravenheart87 wrote:>>Sweet dreams. I don't belive Ubi will ever sell the rights.<<

They're french... just get some germans to "ask nicely"...

Moragauth · Unread postby **Moragauth** » 04 Jun 2008, 14:06

True, originality is immaterial if the game is good, but how likely are any of these new "fantasy" MMORPGs to be good? They're just clones of other games. I expect Warhammer will be good, and that AoC is good. Guild Wars is too. WoW strikes me as at best mediocre. I wonder if these MMORPGs will even succeed...

One game which has got me excited - though I dunno if you could strictly call it an MMORPG - is Project Offset.
Edited on Wed, Jun 04 2008, 10:07 by Moragauth

Darmani · Unread postby **Darmani** » 04 Jun 2008, 14:06

"Do you really believe that there will be any original games in the next hundred years?"

Of course not! I mean, did you really think anything of worth would have been invented since 1899? That's when Charles H. Duell, the head of the patent office, tried to shut it down because "Everything that can be invented has been invented."

Anyway, I daresay Spore will be pretty original...

Akul · Unread postby **Akul** » 04 Jun 2008, 18:11

@deadguy118:

Even if the game menages to make a good deal of sales (a chance for that right now is 10% and the number is falling) I doubt JVC would get enough money to buy it from Ubisoft (who won't sell it for less then they bought and judging by competition they gave a lot of money), not to mention that JVC might not be interested into M&M any longer.
Edited on Wed, Jun 04 2008, 14:12 by Akul

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 04 Jun 2008, 18:56

Akul wrote:not to mention that JVC might not be interested into M&M any longer.

He probably isn't.

Ravenheart87 · Unread postby **Ravenheart87** » 05 Jun 2008, 07:26

"Anyway, I daresay Spore will be pretty original..."

Truly original: first you play pac-man, then sims, populous, civilization (light) and master of orion. It's just a mix of good games, but nothing really originial.

XEL II · Unread postby **XEL II** » 05 Jun 2008, 07:40

"Jon Van Caneghem's new company, Trion, has revealed their new project and announced a partnership with the Sci-Fi Channel."

Setting = old M&M universe?

darknessfood · Unread postby **darknessfood** » 05 Jun 2008, 09:29

XEL II wrote:"Jon Van Caneghem's new company, Trion, has revealed their new project and announced a partnership with the Sci-Fi Channel."

Setting = old M&M universe?

I doubt it, cause Ubisoft got the rights...

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