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UK developer Jagex, the fellows behind the free-to-play browser-based Runscape MMO, have secured the rights from Hasbro to release a Transformers MMO in the Americas, Europe, Australia and New Zealand in 2012.
Jagex CEO Mark Gerard stated, "There is a huge appetite for an online Transformers game." He then transformed into a car and said "action-packed" in a cold, mechanical voice before speeding off into the night to continue his fight against the Decepticons.
Considering the short development widow I think we can expect something of the browser-based variety. The action packed browser-based variety that is.
[Source: Gamasutra]
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13 years, 8 months ago
I find myself somewhat bewildered that Transformers is going as strong as it is to be honest. Though I have no interest in anything Transformers, browser based MMO or not, the concept of cutomising some kind of vehicle like a monster truck and giving it some custom paint and wheels, then creating the robot it becomes and how it transforms would be pretty good fun. Though I doubt anyone wants a Transformers MMO where we trade punches as numbers appear above our heads.
13 years, 8 months ago
I.. don't think Jagex can do anything. Is the Jagex team even large enough to make an MMO unlike RuneScape? Something already tells me this is a well-planned move, seeing as Jagex has stuck to their own devices in RuneScape for more than half a decade, but mehbeh they don't realize the Transformers name has been ruined by bad games, bad movies, and bad publicity?
13 years, 8 months ago
"There is a huge appetite for an online Transformers game." Really? People want that? That, and how you come across these pictures, Joseph, baffles me.
13 years, 8 months ago
Yeah, the picture pretty much says it all.
13 years, 8 months ago
I don't think this will work. Browser based MMOs never work.
13 years, 8 months ago
i was into runescape once but after a few months it got so boring to me i started to just not care. so I really have no hope for this even if it has the tranformer license to it. the license really should go to a better developer.
13 years, 8 months ago
i hope they use all the universes in the transformers multiverse so that there'll be a bajillion versions of different colored optimus primes driving around and trolling each other
13 years, 8 months ago
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