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Posted: Jul 11th 2007 3:58PM Stevorino said

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"Only the Playstation Network can support the types of games that NCSoft has become famous for" says Tretton.

O RLY?!

Posted: Jul 11th 2007 4:46PM (Unverified) said

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Fact: Microsoft still locks the hard drive, despite being huge, from having retail channel games installing on it. So even if the hard drives had a 1:1 attach rate on the consoles, which it doesn't... thanks Core, Microsoft wouldn't let them do it anyway.

Now if NCSoft somehow learned to magically shrink their games to under 256MB, the current DLC limit as mandated by Microsoft, as well as loosen the certification process (which apparently does fuck all to stop the glitches anyway), 360 would be the perfect spot for PC style MMOs in the console world. But that's not happening anytime soon.

Just be glad you have Phantasy Star and FFXI. Two of the greatest console MMOs of LAST GEN.

Sometimes I feel like being mean.....
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Posted: Jul 11th 2007 4:02PM (Unverified) said

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What does that mean? As far as I can tell, their games don't exactly push technical boundaries.

Posted: Jul 18th 2007 3:00PM (Unverified) said

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They aren't limited by hardware boundaries, they are limited by Microsoft policies.
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Posted: Jul 18th 2007 3:38PM (Unverified) said

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Ah... I suppose that makes sense.
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Posted: Jul 11th 2007 4:09PM captnred said

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Dumnuts, its cuz PSN is free and Open. MS has a closed network. Look at it from a developer point of view. Not to mention NCSOFT is a Korean company...360 fails in Asian countries.

Posted: Jul 11th 2007 4:22PM Stevorino said

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I'm just wondering why they didn't make a bigger deal of this exclusive action...maybe it's console exclusive or something.

Full exclusive rights to NCSoft would probably be the biggest announcement from their keynote...yet they put little emphasis on it.

Posted: Jul 11th 2007 4:29PM WiNGSPANTT from TopTierTacticsco said

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I think they mean PSN is the only console willing to do free live updates, a la Guild Wars ( since guild wars is basically updated 2-3 times a week with fixes and additions, as well as items and whatnot)

If they add GW to PS3, it will rock, I always like more people seeing how great GW is.

If GW becomes a PS3 exclusive... well... forget Guild Wars. time to /ragequit, along with 3 million other PC playing fans

Posted: Jul 11th 2007 4:32PM Stevorino said

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Haha, you're right about losing the PC Base if it is completely exclusive...I'd imagine this is just console exclusive.
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Posted: Jul 11th 2007 4:57PM Telprydain said

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"As part of the partnership, NCSoft will begin developing exclusive online titles for the Playstation 3 and its Playstation Network."

NCSoft is not a PS3 exclusive devaloper yet, they are just developing exclusive online titles for the PS3.
The are still doing Marvel Online, with is PC/360 exclusive.

Posted: Jul 11th 2007 6:14PM (Unverified) said

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NCSoft doesn't have anything to do with Marvel Universe Online. Cryptic is the developer and Microsoft is the publisher.
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Posted: Jul 11th 2007 5:01PM Ordeith said

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Partnering with Son¥ is a good way to fail.

Interesting to have that as a goal, NCsoft. Hopefully Son¥ will cover your losses.

Posted: Jul 11th 2007 5:08PM (Unverified) said

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I was playing City of Heroes last night and even though I drift away from it for a few weeks here and there, I always end up going back to it. It is the only MMO that has captured my attention over a long perion of time. I tried Guild Wars as well, but I am just so sick of fantasy online games that I'm burnt out on them.

Posted: Jul 11th 2007 5:39PM (Unverified) said

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While a lot of the comments above there are true and worth discussion, Jack sure is crapping on every PC user who's been playing Guild Wars for a long time without any problems.

... on top of that, I'm sure NCSoft could work something out to make a game on the 360 happen. Recall Final Fantasy XI, which was kind of in the Live world, but kind of not either ... it would be like that.

Posted: Jul 11th 2007 5:52PM (Unverified) said

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Meh. NCSoft can't make a good MMO to save its life.

Posted: Jul 11th 2007 6:08PM (Unverified) said

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"O RLY?!"

Yeah, I imagine it has something to do with MS wanting to control everything on Live...

Posted: Jul 11th 2007 6:25PM Telprydain said

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WF:
You're right. I got mixed up. Looks like Cryptic did city of heros and NCSoft published
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Posted: Jul 11th 2007 7:29PM Mr Khan said

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PSN is server hosted (unlike LIVE and WiFi Connection), which is much better for MMOs

so technically, yes

Posted: Jul 11th 2007 7:58PM (Unverified) said

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The only one of those games mentioned above that NCSoft ACTUALLY made is Lineage. ArenaNet (Guild Wars) and Cryptic Studios (CoH and Marvel Universe Online) are completely independent development studios and are not involved in this deal at all.

Posted: Jul 11th 2007 8:45PM (Unverified) said

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Wonder if this is another play for the unmined console market of korea.

Posted: Jul 13th 2007 10:32AM (Unverified) said

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doesnt sound like ANET is independent according to the NCSoft Press release
http://www.ncsoft.com/eng/NCPress/list.asp
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