Funcom receive grant to develop another MMO

News Portal · **Posted:** 5 Nov 09, 4:01 am

I know Funcom is not the most popular MMORPG developer hereabouts, but despite local feeling, somebody out there obviously thinks they're pretty great. The Norwegian company best known for Age of Conan and the upcoming The Secret World have just received a handsome cash hand-out to develop a new MMO based on... extreme sports?!

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SuBw00FeR · **Posted:** 5 Nov 09, 6:32 am

Cos their MMO's so far have been so successful, how bout they put that money towards AoC to actually make it good, rather then bust out another half assed MMO.

LeX · **Posted:** 5 Nov 09, 7:00 am

funcom + MMO = cringe.

No matter how good they make it look I wont be buying it. The treatment of the Aussie gamers was horrible when conan was released. I sent them off an email about getting 10,000 ping between the times of 6pm and 11pm. Their reply was "We are sorry but you are not in a region that is supported by this game." needless to say i was quite a bit annoyed.

Bdn · **Posted:** 5 Nov 09, 7:05 am

Give it up already.

Mr_Cyberpunk · **Posted:** 5 Nov 09, 7:57 am

Anarchy Online was ok, its just Conan that bombed.

Cirok · **Joined:** 5 Sep 06, 9:50 am **Posts:** 539

I thought AOC was amazing, then i left Tortage, enough said.

Sathias · **Posted:** 5 Nov 09, 5:43 pm

An extreme sports MMO would be pretty cool if they could get the physics right, "Skate" style... I'd feel a lot more enthused about it if it wasn't Funcom though :dodgy:

Marius · **Posted:** 6 Nov 09, 9:35 am

Will be interesting. I'm still enjoying Conan. Recent patches I feel have sbustantially improved the game, and they've just started to add social and roleplay content. Playing Dragon Age more now though. Time to go back to single player games I think for a while.

exe3 · **Joined:** 30 May 07, 9:25 pm **Posts:** 3308

it would be nice if devs started to experiment with MMO's, just cuz it's an MMO doesn't mean it has to be an RPG

mokn2 · **Joined:** 13 Dec 07, 5:43 am **Posts:** 15

That seems like a tiny budget, that'd hire maybe 4-6 people here.
Must be a real cheap country.

Phaser · **Posted:** 7 Nov 09, 5:07 pm

Cirok wrote:

I thought AOC was amazing, then i left Tortage, enough said.

lol yeah the first 10 levels were fairly good. After that it was a steady decline for me. The combat system was horrid.

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