[SOE] Announces new free kids MMO in dev.

[tad10]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/bu...ss&oref=slogin

Smed announced a new "free" MMO due out in Winter 2007.

Article is interesting for two reasons:

1. Smed says he wants to move away from subs to velvet rope (pay for special areas), RMT transactions for in-game items (EQ2 does this already), and in-game advertising.

2. This particular MMO is aimed at 10-year old girls who like horses (I kid you not). So here come the niche super-targeted MMOs.

I personally can't wait for Everbaby.

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Anyway, the "velvet rope" idea is interesting considering how much content gets developed for raiding guilds that isn't seen by a lot of the rest of the playerbase. I'm wondering if Smed is thinking of charging a premium for raiding.

[Dildo Faggins]

10 year old girls who like horses? This is setting the stage for some excellent shit.

bubuigirl530 tells you, "EVER SEEN WHAT A HORSE IS PACKIN LITTLE GIRL?"

[Cascow]

And somewhere Cuppycake is having a My Little Pony full body orgasm.

[Mist]

10 year old girls who like horses is not exactly a niche, that's like every 10 year old girl thats not explicitly afraid of horses. DUH.

And I'm sure Cuppy will play it.

EDIT: Beaten to the punch.

[Kreugen]

MMOPedo

[tad10]

Originally Posted by Dildo Faggins

10 year old girls who like horses?

And puppies. Read the article. Actually I think its fucking brillant. Sounds like My Little Pony meets that funky Japanese Kitten.

I can see it now -- a million 10-year old girls begging their moms for $1.25 to buy the little pink horse from Sony.

[Mist]

Originally Posted by Kreugen

MMOPedo

I'm sure they will have to maintain a huge CS policing force for this game.

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Level 24 Palomino LFG!

[cenoxx]

“Right now our revenue is almost all subscriptions,” John Smedley, the unit’s president, said in an interview. “In two years, we would like to see no more than 50 percent of our revenue coming from subscriptions, and five years from now we think less than 10 percent of our revenue will come from subscription sources.”

That's an interesting perspective. They don't see EQ/VG et al growing with the current subs approach. Hardly surprising but now they admit it.

His boss, Yair Landau, vice chairman of Sony Pictures and president of Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, said: “We are clearly moving beyond men in tights with broadswords. Women in cocktail dresses and stilettos and men in tuxedos with silencers is a very natural place for Sony Online to be expanding.”

Way to denigrate the people who keep you afloat, dude!

Cen.

[redjunkopera]

That's what they are reworking VG into...

=)

[Antarius]

Originally Posted by ...

Level 24 Palomino LFG!

It's your own fault for rolling an overpowered soloing breed if you can't find groups. If you want to be able to tackle the group content, roll a healer breed, like a thoroughbred, or a tanking breed, like the ever popular clydesdale.

[Coren]

Quit chewstealing my hay spawns dammit!

[Glaive]

Originally Posted by Antarius

It's your own fault for rolling an overpowered soloing breed if you can't find groups. If you want to be able to tackle the group content, roll a healer breed, like a thoroughbred, or a tanking breed, like the ever popular clydesdale.

Best post in thread.

[Mkopec1]

Hey Cuppy,did you hear that? Fucking PONIES!

[brekk]

so is the high end raid zone a glue factory?