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But What Does This Have To Do With Shadowbane?
Todd Coleman’s new project at King’s Isle decloaks: A don’t mention H***y P****r tween-friendly title called Wizard 101.
Which is a key to Wizard 101: It’s pitched as the game for players between Club Penguin and World of Warcraft.
This may be the first hardcore MMOG aimed at the “tween” demographic. Coleman admits, “It’s not what people expect from the Shadowbane team,” but adds that the game does feature PVP, a trademark of the pioneering work the same team did at Wolfpack Studios.
(Edit: story’s gone from Warcry. My guess is, given the lack of coverage elsewhere, someone jumped the gun on posting the announcement! I’m leaving this note up because, well, um, being a competitor and all no one sends me anything.)
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about 2 years ago
This may be the first hardcore MMOG aimed at the “tween” demographic.
Bzzzt. I’d point out Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Online, with its ship-to-ship combat and PvP, and then I’d point and laugh.
about 2 years ago
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about 2 years ago
Looks like it may not have been ready to decloak after all, and warcry posted too soon.
about 2 years ago
It would be funny if it was a smashing success with all ages because by streamling the game concept they left ot the boring crap so many of us long time MMO players are sick of.
I can dream.
about 2 years ago
Will they remember to release the sockets from dropped/failed logins this time?
about 2 years ago
I thought WoW was the first “hardcore” MMOG aimed at the tween demographic
about 2 years ago
In that case, try thinking harder.
about 2 years ago
And Runescape, of course, was the first hardcore MMOG aimed at tweens.
about 2 years ago
I’m clearly slightly out of the loop – what’s the H***y P****r that we’re not to mention?
about 2 years ago
Don’t ever try out for Wheel of Fortune.
about 2 years ago
Hoary Pewter fits.
about 2 years ago
As does Hairy Pooper
about 2 years ago
Horny Panter?
about 2 years ago
Holly Parker?
about 2 years ago
You’re out of it? I had to look up “tween”.
about 2 years ago
I like Club Penguin, it is like pot, give you a 10 minute high
about 2 years ago
I had to Google tween not to long ago, and I’m still in my 20′s.
It is kind of funny to see all these developers that failed at traditional MMOs bum-rushing towards teen/tween games in a futile attempt to cash in. SOE has Free Realms, now this. I fear for the MMO genre as a whole, not because I believe these games aimed at younger players are bad, but because bigger developers would rather piss around with 50 cent micro-transactions than earn an honest dollar making a full-featured product that works on my favorite payment method: monthly subscription.
Oh well.
about 2 years ago
You know, I think there used to be a game called Shadowbane. Ring a bell to anyone else?
about 2 years ago
Shadowbane? Nope, doesn’t ring a bell. Now sb.exe error, THAT brings up memories.
about 2 years ago
Tet, that was Shadowbane. Unfortunately, sb.exe errors may have prevented you from finding that out.
about 2 years ago
I thought myspace was the first MMORPG for tweens.
about 2 years ago
oh, and Heavy Powder fits as well. It’s a revolutionary war simulator!
about 2 years ago
I was in Shadowclan for Shadowbane … we used to shout curse you sbexe to sortof remain in character.
about 2 years ago
http://www.kingsisle.com
Go look.