| I would like to think SOE and other companies have learned a valuable lesson in the wake of both WoW and Vanguard in terms of polish and completion at release. Delays have taken place in AoC, WAR, and POTBS - all MMOG's with a faithful following whose devs may have realized that their content and game designe might not be quite up to snuff, and that it is all but impossible to recover from a poor launch.
I for one would love to see an EQ3, but to my knowledge there is not one being developed. I love the high-fantasy genre, but SOE may be trying to break away from that. Time will tell.
As for Vanguard, the loss of Aruspex and Hasium are indications of their death-knell. With reports of there being up to a 50% cut in manpower, along with the lacking number of subscriptions, the game will be shelved with a skeleton crew. All things considered, I think I would prefer they shut it down. There are things worse than death in the MMO community.
Whatever game they make, just please make decent lore (or backstory) and have it develop well over the course of the game. |