Hasbro News: New TRANSFORMERS Online Game

Please let it be an MMO.

i hope theres no monthly fees if there is im not going to bother. Ill buy the game but i refuse to pay every month to play. Just because its being made by the guys who did runecape doesnt mean itll be free to play. Also hope its not like runecape cause that games not that great.

Oh man, I would love to play a Transformers MMO.

I love the War for Cybertron multiplayer.

Oh My Freakin Banana Boat!!!!! This would be SOOOOO AWESOME! Imagine, instead of race you choose what era: G1, Armada, movieverse, Beast Wars. Then be able to customize your own chassis and colors and abilities!!!! Oops. I just had a nerdgasm....

GetRightRobot wrote:Oh My Freakin Banana Boat!!!!! This would be SOOOOO AWESOME! Imagine, instead of race you choose what era: G1, Armada, movieverse, Beast Wars. Then be able to customize your own chassis and colors and abilities!!!! Oops. I just had a nerdgasm....

I doubt it would be along those lines for character creation, and I also suspect it would be more along the lines of either War for Cybertron, TF Prime, or the Movieverse. Half the fun of this thread is going to be the speculating...

I hope they design the style out to be like WFC was. Least that'll do a better job of satisfying both ends. But I wouldn't be surprised if they just decided to make it look like the slagging movies.

See, the problem with free-to-play MMOs is that they're free. There's no money coming in, so there's no money to invest in further development, or bug fixes, or server maintenance.

Take Exteel. I am NOT crying! They adopted a "Free to play, but if you'd like, you can pay with real money and get stuff faster," as well as turning billboards on maps into ACTUAL billboards. And it still wasn't financially successful enough for NCsoft to keep it going, even after a big content update. I just have something in my eye, shut up!

That said, I don't imagine this being a big major hit. I would dare to assume most of the people here haven't even heard of Exteel before, and that was from a major MMO developer. This is from the people who made Runescrap for Christ's sake. I've heard actual MMO fans use it as an insult. I can't imagine this would make a big splash, I'd be surprised if it made a small ripple.

First-Aid wrote:Another interesting thing: the target audiences are going to be virtually identical between MMO gamers and Transfans. Geeks rule the world.

MMos are usually targeted at the "18-to-35-year-old males" crowd. And as it's been said time and again, adult collectors are NOT the target audience for Transformers, it's always been for young boys. (Maybe not the movies so much)

Editor wrote:Or, of course, people could play the existing online transformer based game hosted on this very site.

If you post on Seibertron and don't play Heavy Metal War you are missing out.

HMW is a text-based team-management game. No offense to HMW, but it doesn't compare to a game where you can not only do things yourself, but you can see yourself do it.

Shadowman wrote:

Editor wrote:Or, of course, people could play the existing online transformer based game hosted on this very site.

If you post on Seibertron and don't play Heavy Metal War you are missing out.

HMW is a text-based team-management game. No offense to HMW, but it doesn't compare to a game where you can not only do things yourself, but you can see yourself do it.

Very true. But it is still a good game and it deserves to receive more promotion and coverage than it does.

GetRightRobot wrote:You know, I have really been wanting to get in on that. But I don't even know what it is. How does Heavy Metal War work?

Command a team of up to 12 bots or cons, send them into missions with other faction members or on their own into the arena. Earn energon and experience to power your members developing their tech specs and tactics.