World of Darkness MMO Cancelled

[Hotfoot]

Full Story here:

Short version? CCP has too many games in development and lost too much money last year, the game's been announced for nearly 8 years now, and even for an MMO that's well into development hell. It got shoved to the backburner a while ago, so that it got shitcanned in favor of their far more lucrative EVE projects isn't surprising.

But hey, at least there are the 20th Anniversary editions, right?

[Lys]

The project's been in development hell forever and they don't have so much as a screen shot to show for it. I'm completely unsurprised it got shit canned. If you really want a WoD-ish MMORPG there's always the Secret World, you play human members of secret societies rather than any supernatural being, but it has the same urban fantasy vibe of there being a supernatural world full of magic, mystery, and terror behind the veil of the normal modern world.

[Hotfoot]

Yeah, The Secret World hits the same vibe, but it's always a shame to see a project fail. The creators of EVE could have done something interesting with the Old World of Darkness, I'm sure, but we're not going to see it sadly.

[frigidmagi]

Well it's probably for the best then. Still a shame that we won't get a decent game from this, but better to cut your loses then make another Duke Nukem Forever.

[Cynical Cat]

Not surprised for the reasons everyone else has mentioned. Old World of Darkness remains a valuable property, as the last couple of kickstarters have proved, so we haven't heard the last of it.

[LadyTevar]

A buddy of mine was doing a WoD MMO with a small startup, when they got a Cease&Desist so CCP could take over. That version already had the modeling up and running for shifting forms and a base code for fighting.