Watched a few episodes of Wakfu anime and thought that was pretty cool. I noticed someone suggested I should list the Wakfu MMORPG in the sandbox section. I’ll check it out. But anyway, my first impression is that it doesn’t qualify due to the presence of a rigid Class structure and so forth. but still looks cool!
Taikodom is a game I’ll be adding to my list of space games however, since it seems to ofc fit into that genre quite nicely
Saw this Indie MMO that is in closed testing called Gnostaria. Looks pretty cool will be sure to keep an eye on it. Also noticed Saga of Ryzom servers are backup trying to get logged on right now
Just saw this post by HanshotFirst at mmorpg.com:
“Silk Road Online immediately comes to mind (though I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it). Another is Dream of Mirror Online, which despite being “cute” actually has a pretty cool multi-profession, skill-based system. Oh and another I believe is Mabinogi by Nexon, though I never got much farther than the tutorial.”
Had no idea will have to take a look 
Lively looks very interesting might have very nice potential for 3d chatrooms and meeting places created by users. Lots of rooms up already. Reminds me of Habbo Hotel or something. Massively wrote up a short article on it.
MMORPG.com has an interesting writeup about a turn based mmorpg called Atlantica Online. My guess is that the mmorpg market has become so saturated that developers are finding the need to innovate. PErsonally mostly look forward to MMOFPS but Turn based gameplay also gets my attention because that’s a lot less ping dependant and could possibly allow for some interesting innovation in regards to UI and strategy.
Hm, okay found a film on youtube it’s not really the hex grid type of strategy RPG I had in mind. I still might check it out but it’s not quite the board game based combat I had in mind after reading the article
Massively provided some details about Runes of Magic, a new MMO that allows dual classification.
“Runes of Magic will include a dual class system, where you will choose a primary and a secondary class, armor dying, player housing, crafting, an auction house, unique mounts, a fully customizable user interface and either click-to-move or WASD controls.”
Interesting they choose the ‘dual class’ approach over totally freeform like Champions Online, Well Online, Mortal Online, etc all offer. Their implementation of player housing might be interesting though might be something to follow
Just read an interesting post at DFO forums (Darkfall Online):
One player (the original poster) claimed that World of Warcraft PvP takes skill to play. I agree with that from my experience. Anyway one poster in particular made this interesting argument:
“No, it doesn’t. It takes time invested and knowledge of the game, nothing more. Once you know which talent builds are overpowered in the most current patch, all you have to do is memorize the order in which you use your specific class’ spells/abilities.
That isn’t skill. Skill means not having prior knowledge of all your opponent’s possible moves and being able to adapt your strategy to any changes on-the-fly. World of Warcraft doesn’t have that. It has classes, so you know what each class can do before they do anything.
Skill means timing AND aiming real-time attacks as well as finding the right combination of time spent dodging/blocking and time spent standing still casting. World of Warcraft doesn’t have that. It has auto-attack and chance dodging/blocking based entirely off gear.
Skill means having the threat of death shoved in your face no matter who your opponent. World of Warcraft doesn’t have that. In WoW you are only afraid of people whose gear is on par with or better than yours.
Skill. World of Warcraft doesn’t require it.”
Just added a link to Champions Online, a superhero MMORPG based on HERO role playing system. IGN is hosting the trailer which looks really cool. Get registered at the forums, see ya there
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