The Way ONLINE ?

[Kyle]

Flibbo, it's not because Lun's making it himself that he'd approve of others making it. Intellectual property is a strange thing. Some people want to guard it more than their actual property.

[BlueWarrior]

The problem with MMORPGs is that they're really hard to make. Even harder to maintain and add new content.

The replayability of a Plunge game is really low. Sure, it would be a novelty for a while, but would get boring really quick. The MMORPG would be...nice, but to implement it and keep it running with new content every now and then would be really, really hard to do.

Oh, and before everybody gets all excited, remember that the Way is not completed yet as a RPG. Wait until the series end, and then we can speak of a way to do a MMORPG.

Also, Lun must approve it. It IS his creation after all!

Yeah, it's right. The Way series must be finished first, lots of mysteries of The Way aren't explained yet.

Slowly I begin thinking OTS isn't the best way to make The Way Online. Think about The Way battle system: in battle you absorb XL by hit: in Tibia you have all mana: it isn't regenerating. Or skills... The Way has specifical skills, notches, auras, blade arts... in Tibia it doesn't exist.

PS. What about Phantom Slasher hunt?

[Telephalsion]

unless the PS is killed in the way ep 'X' then the ps would still roam and you'd have a chance of getting killed anytime in the mmorpg

[SpaceBoy2000]

I'd like to point out that we don't know exactly what/who the Phantom Slasher is and its aims/goals. Everything must have a motivation and/or a driving force behind them in a good story.

We don't know how The Way will end, and hence, we won't know what the MMORPG world will even consist of. For example, what if The Way blew up and everybody died at the end or something (think End of Evangelion)? There couldn't be a MMORPG then.

Sure, we certainly can speculate on what happens and all that stuff, but at the end, we just need to wait for the series to end.

That said, we probably can write out a simple framework for a MMORPG. Assume it's 2D, and have a similar pathfinding and scripting solution as RM2K. Many stuff like that can be written and tested, which will save time when The Way actually ends, assuming as well that the ending of The Way leaves room for a MMORPG to follow it.

But do keep in mind the manpower needed to write the MMORPG and to mantain it. It would be really difficult (nothing is impossible after all) to make one. Of course, I believe Lun has expressed a deisre in the past to head up any efforts to create a MMORPG based off The Way after the RPG is done.

[War]

I once had a idea to make a MMORPG based of of Crestfallen. That might be easier.