BioWare Opens New Studio For MMORPG

[sirkillalot]

BioWare announced that it is planning its own massively multiplayer online RPG, and is opening a studio in Austin, TX to work on the game. According to the press release, the MMORPG will combine "the best of BioWare's great past games with a compelling persistent online experience". BioWare is hiring for the new studio, with job postings available at
http://jobs.bioware.com/.

 

[Aids]

This should be interesting 8)

 

[choknuti]

Seems like everybody is jumping into the MMORPG wagon these days. Hope that this won’t distract them from making single player RPGs.

 

[Sugarbuns]

Everyone has already jumped on the band wagon. Anyone else who joins now is considered to be a straggler. These software companies (unfortunately) feel they better do something or else they're missing out. What that means for the rest of us is a lot more of the same old stuff. Hopefully Bioware will come up with a new idea entirely and steer clear of the fantasy genre. Only time will tell, I suppose.

 

[choknuti]

Bioware doing a non-fantasy game ????? 8O That might be good.

Maybe they’ll do a MMOFPS :twisted:

 

[Forlorn]

I was thinking that would be really cool if they did like a futuristic civil war setting.

Maybe even add a slight RPG element into it. Commanding ranks an what not.

 

[choknuti]

I can see the headlines “Bioware does MMO Fallout Tactics with real-time battles and first person view”

Heaven forbid!
8O

 

[guruofchem]

Maybe not Fallout Tactics, but I would be all over a Fallout based MMO game. Can you imagine how much fun a development team could have with that universe...

 

[Arucard]

And if that doesn't show,
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2006/20060329.jpg

 

[choknuti]

Unfortunately with the current holier than thou attitude in the US it would take a real brave developer to do that. I mean the game has sex, drugs and ultra violence.

Too bad. Something like this might convince me to jump the MMORPG bandwagon.

 

[sandmannight]

the truth is that only a few can be really popular and I am worried that there are coming out with to many