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The Secret World - Is it going to fail or succeed

It`s Funcom`s new baby allright. They came up with a teaser a year ago, it didn`t mean much other than knowing that they are making another mmorpg. Well, for me they gained a lot of credit with Age of Conan. It was a new IP from a new company trying to out compete a giant - Blizzard - .

Sure, Age of Conan failed in the long term, or let me rephrase it by saying it didn`t meet the expectations, not a total failure, but we should remember that they did a pretty good job on the release and were a geniune threat to WOW for a while. The threat didn`t last long because of their mistakes and inexperience.

Why do I give them that much of a credit ? Because normally, a producer like Funcom would shut their doors and would be written in the history as a total failure when they try to go against World of Warcraft as a new producer with a new game. I give them credit because they remained in the industry somehow and their game was fully of good ideas. Age of Conan was actually a great game. And I believe in the Secret World. Why ?

1- They learned from their mistakes, they won`t repeat them again.
2- They are backed up by arguably the strongest producer in the game industry - Electronic Arts - .
3- There are several great ideas for this game as you play in variety of worlds, not a single one.

As you would notice in the trailer below, the game is shining with bright ideas. With Funcom getting more experienced and stronger by time we shall expect no other than greatness for The Secret World once it gets released.

Godmars2905194d ago (Edited 5194d ago )

Where are your impression of the Secret World? This reads more like, "Funcom took one in the balls because of Age of Conan, but are getting right back up to directly challenge WOW with this other title I'm not really going to go into details about."

And really, who is going "directly" against WOW at this point? If the Secret World is strong enough to stand on its own, exist in WOW's shadow to one day possibly become similarly as popular as WOW, be a draw or appeal to the few millions who have never touched WOW, should at least be part of your focus. How the game actually plays and what its world is like given at least some small attention.

You're also missing a video or a video link.

lareka5194d ago

Maybe I should change the topic to `` My predictions about Secret World`s Success or Failure `` other than impressions.
I never said they are going directly against wow with secret world, i said they CHALLLENGED Wow in the past with age of conan, not with secret world
I fixed the video link but as I said i don`t think secret world is a direct competitor to wow, i certainly don`t .

DigitalRaptor5194d ago (Edited 5194d ago )

I hope it succeeds because I wanna invest my time and money into what looks to be one really promising gritty, modern day, badass MMO!

Everything shown so far just looks badass in a way I have never seen before in an MMO.

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