The Transformers MMO Game That We Can't Play

Cool I wonder if it's based on the cartoon G1 or the movie and if there is a way to be Devastator.

I'd rather it's made by one of our own american companies that are veterans of the MMO genere.

Personally, I'm MMOed the F out. I don't much care about this franchise, I'd much rather play a really great MMO RPG based on something much cooler, like Star Trek. Am I the only one who likes the original toys, but thinks that the whole thing has gotten a bit lame? I mean, they're cars. What next, amazing skyscrapers that come to life and defend mankind against trains? Little boys like cars. Little boys like robots. Little boys like cars that are robots. Grown men like Megan Fox. Grown gamers like MMO's but not if they don't feature a lot of Megan Fox.

I see what you did there, you wrote a funny.... hyuk hyuk!!!

MMO's are less popular in the West than they are in the Far East.
They have hundreds of the damn things and all the stories of gamers dying after marathon 80+ hour gaming session are in Korea or Japan.
Just cos in the West we have heard of WoW, Eve and Starcraft doesn't make the USA anything close to the saturation and uptake over there.

Grown men don't need Megan Fox featured in a video game to be entertained.

where the hell is my good gundam mmo

But it doesn't hurt either.

I think it's Japanese, it's definitely Japanese...

Bah, don't need it. I remember MMO's back in my days were listening to PinkFloyd and Weed - I created my own world and real women..lots!

Having worked on a few MMO's myself, I can tell you that this will likely bomb. NetDragon doesn't yet seem to have the designer brain power pool yet to make anything beyond the typical formulaic MMO, and Transformers is one of those titles that gamers would expect to be a bit different from the regular bill of fare.

i don't know about this one. War for Cybertron was actually a very good game, but I'm guessing NetDragon's MMO will neither look nor play at all like that title.

The one thing I do know is...it was all Hot Rod's fault.

I don't know you but I'm loving War for Cybertron... I would play an mmo based on it immediately! However, the multiplayer does the job quite well IMO

I agree, and I wouldn't object to Blizzard looking into this as long as they steer away from having users pay per month. Call me old fashioned, but I don't see the logic in paying for a game I just bought. I know why Blizzard does it with WOW, but that doesn't mean I like it.

Pay to play has been around since 98 here in the states...

It's ok, I can live with just farmville.

Lol jk.

Anyone think that the reason Netgradon only got a liscense for Asia is because there is already a game in production for the West. Just sayin'.

As long as the game is better written than the movies, it should be fun. (The first movie wasn't good, but not bad as well, but the second one was really, really bad...)

i want to be the original Jetfire,
who cares about Macross/BattleTech copyright.
I want to be the cool transformer!

You mean Battletech / Mechwarrior

I suppose a Transformers MMO would be sad. Though, sad, because there's not a whole lot of premise behind it. Minimal story without many directions to take it. I suppose there may be Transformer novels that I don't know about, but in an MMO from "over there", it will turn out to be just as all the others have - linear, grinding, identical quests with NPC's and things to blowded up being mostly the same with slightly different names or colors.... wait, I guess that's what we get from WoW too.


The most we could hope for would be an expansive, multi-planet, multi-faction emmersive environment that Battletech has to offer. Mechwarrior (from rules and game-play perspective) already has everything built-in, from single-play RP as a person on the street to Merc missions, to raids and large-scale combat, even espionage, logistics, and running corporations. (Yes, I know no one wants to play a game/MMO and do the same things they do in RL).

Most likely anyone who licenses it for North America and Europe will use the same software with localization applied on their own servers. Several MMO's have moved from Asia over to the US in this way.

meh, bumblebee probably still would be a big fat assed camaro car if this MMO came out. no thanks.

and you didn't.

It's only a matter of time before 3rd party servers are made and we have it for free over here...

doh

Personally not interested in playing an MMO.

Actually it does. Video games need to grow out of the "lol boobs!!!" phase and start substituting eye candy for actual gameplay and good story lines.

So you're saying they can't have both? I disagree. I will take great game play and amazing graphics WITH porn (and beer and pie?) over plain old good game play any day.

As for the above poster who questioned my manhood, I'm a 30 year old guy with an Air Force job who is 6'7" and has a daughter. I don't really feel insulted by some kid on the net but good try.

NetDragon is a pay to have good equpis MMO style company, i play the conquer online game for the last few years, which is a direct rip off of diablo2, they have 4 other games, one called Zero is like a mix between gundamn and mech warrior. all these games netdragon runs you have the option to spend real money for credits to make or buy better and better gear. netdragon always tests out new games in china first, same with all expansions before letting them role out to the rest of the world. i have a laugh because they have been calling conquer online 2.0 3-D since it rolled out in 2003, the 3-D is a joke, no special plastic lensed glasses needed, they just say it's 3-D, still looks like diablo and diablo2 to me, and it's the only reason i play it til diablo3 rolls out. oh also NetDragon doesn't do anything about botters or hackers, they don't care as long as it forces you to buy more credits, but if you find a way to farm, they patch that right away!
transformers is a good start to a good new game, just hope they don't try to follow the movies, and make it more cybertron war like. hope netdragon doesn't screw it up and make it styled like conquer online 2.0 or Zero..i would be severly disappointed

That's still good for me.

Yup, if your product sucks just toss in Megan Fox. I know I'm suppose to toss in my "Man-Card" after this, but here goes...Yes, she is attractive, but after that what have you got? If we refer to her as an actress isn't it mandatory to suppress a snicker afterwords? Hell, even Michael Bay realized this and made sure to give her ass more screen time than her face. My point: just put her in an adult magazine for men to gawk at, that is the extent of her abilities. A box full of crap with Megan Fox's face on it, is still a box of crap.