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Did anyone on here play Earth and Beyond?
tenkaris
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And I'm curious if any of you were disinterested in playing MMOs after EA shut this amazing game down for their own lack of advertising? I thought it was such a good game that I was unwilling to adapt to the World of Warcraft open beta weeks after it closed down. I've often thought of it as huge turning point in my gaming life, because if I had enjoyed WoW and not felt as I did, I might be a different person these days.
Sorry if the thread stinks, I saw it as a prime forum to unite with other people who could talk about the glories of this MMO from beyond the grave.
Sorry if the thread stinks, I saw it as a prime forum to unite with other people who could talk about the glories of this MMO from beyond the grave.
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It's still turned me off ever buying an EA MMO though.
...and then you had shit like insta-death when mobs a zillion levels higher would suddenly pop out of asteroid you were mining.
The game had some potential, I'll give it that. But I wasn't all that sad to see it go. It didn't do anything that Jumpgate didn't do better years before.
It was actually a Westwood-made MMO, and they were then purchased by EA, who quickly ruined the game.
Oh I'll agree the combat was simple, but fun with guildmates all the same (and yeah, formation did nothing)
And I guess I'm a little too young for Jumpgate
EA is stupid.
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Every game since then has not lived up to the nostalgia. Thanks alot EA. Jerks.
(This was back in like 2001)
I can still mournfully recall Earth and Beyond. I loved this MMO a bunch.
Fuck you EA. Fuck you hard.
Essentially it was Need for Speed, using cars from the 30's through the 70's, where you could completely customize the cars right down to the size and type of cylinder head in the engine.
Then you'd race people, either on the dragstrip, on a purpose-built racetrack, or on a street course through a city environment or somewhere out in the backwoods country.
It was the best racing game I've ever played, and they started killing it before it was even halfway through development. They failed to support it properly from launch day onward, deprived it of development resources, and didn't market the game right at all.
To this very day I'm an active member on a forum full of ex-MCO'ers. We've moved on, but while we might forgive we'll never forget.
After this failed he moved his "This is going to be cool!" rallying to Shadowbane. One look at that mess and I didn't even bother.
His track record is pretty awful.
Edit: Although I still enjoyed this more than my short-lived experience with Eve Online.
I mean fuck.
EnB: buttfucked by EA
SWG: Started out shitty and was changed to slightly less shitty but everything was so shitty that it didn't help
Planetside: Nice concept; terrible terrible terrible execution. Also there was no point to paying to subscribe. You were better off constantly doing trials. Also shitty support from SOE
EVE: man I'm not even going there. How can a game so pretty with such cool dudes playing be run by a company so corrupt and be managed so poorly?
Anarchy Online: I will always have a chubby for AO, it was my first "real" MMO and I still love it to peices. But time hasn't been kind to it and the shift from a skill based system to a generic shitty level based one ruined it forever and made camping a mainstay.
Am I missing any? I mean, yeah, little turds here and there I'm sure, but "mainstream" sci-fi MMO's?
Is there anything on the horizon? Stargate? God I love stargate in all it's iterations. Because of this there is a very high bar for it to live up to. I'm not holding my breath. Firefly? Nice concept and I'd jizz forever if it was actually made but I just don't see it happening. Huxley? Every time I read about it some other feature has been cut to the point that when it is released it'll probably just be a persistent FPS with no RPG elements.
the whole thing makes me want to cry.
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Does The Matrix Online count as a little turd?
Well yeah, but I guess it could be in the "mainstream" list.
I was thinking more on the lines of space sci-fi, planets, spaceships, aliens, that sort of thing. MxO is definitely sci-fi, but not really in the vein that I'm pining for.
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I have to say, it's the worst part of playing and loving a game that fails that is MMO..
you can't ever play it again, no matter how much you loved it, payed for it
you can't play it ever again
DAMN IT EA.
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Let's call it a steaming two coiler and never mention it again.
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But here are some screenshots of way back when....played from Beta --> End.....
Such a fun game before EA sunk their talons into it.. *sniffle