@Stiler @EvilTyger I was actually playing Werewolf And Vampire and a little of most of the gamelines from 2nd edition onward. (And stopped as my groups imploded one by one) so at the time, I was keeping up with several 'official' mailing lists. (Started on Oracle, and moved to WW's own.) and the websites.

MMO without PvP? Not gonna survive. The raw physical power of even initial Werewolves will hurt that.

Introducing elements from Mage via a 'Blood Magic' expansion with some heavy leanings on Sorcerer and Inquisition might work out a bit better. (But I have a hard time seeing Mage translating well, due to the open ended nature of the Mage magic system.)

@Stiler No. They've already said they are focusing on Vampire.

And I wouldn't expect to see Werewolves as PCs in the same game. Play balance would just be all off kilter. And I would cringe at the possibility of it's own MMO, since the PvP aspect (having read Book of the Wyrm and Freak Legion)

Because White Wolf = CCP.

They merged about the same time WW switched to the new setting.

Of course, I remember seeing a nearly done version of the Werewolf: The Apocalypse game at Gencon before that company bit the dust.

It isn't the guns. It isn't the violent games. It isn't the violent movies.

It is the culture that surrounds them, glorifies them, and promotes them. These cannot be legislated away. Take them away and something else will replace it. (Anyone want the WWE to try to make another new football league?)

Bah, bring back Psi-Ops, then buy someone else's IP.

@Metronoid @dono14

I hate the 'always connected single player'of Diablo. Starcraft I can play offline. SimCity... login que? I haven't even seen that in World of Warcraft in 4 years.

I still wish that Liara's parents would become crossover characters. Bright blue flashing Asari Commandos would fit in perfectly here.

Ug, I hate steel cases. Sure, they protect the disk, but it's always so hard to take the disk out.

I think the problem with EA isn't quite so Scrooge-like.

I think they have an eye for talent. I think they actually want these studios to succeed, and give them the money to make better games.

I also think that once a small studio no longer feels the financial pressure to succeed (they know they will get paid if the game isn't up to standard), but still feel the pressure to get it done NOW! (crunch time), it winds up burning people out fast with no incentive to get past the burn.

I'd also like to point out that all EA was using was disk-check before they got DLC checks from Bioware (ME1 and NWN1).

Blizzard handles this well with their 'it's done when it's done' mentality.

If you noticed, Blockbuster has movies that now say 'rental copy', with trimmed content. (No deleted scenes or interviews or alternate endings.)

They'd probably do the same thing with games.

That said, 'no used games' would still have the potential to do as much harm to the gaming industry as E.T. did.