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I'm not terribly worried about the Marvel deal. The fact that it's going to be made for a gaming console suggests it'll be a faster, shallower game than COH, optimized for a gamepad with what? Eight buttons? I'm pretty sure it'll cater to a different audience than COH either way.
Meanwhile, Cryptic has a big project to work on and train new people on and learn new stuff on etc. One that'll bring in a lump sum of money. One that associates it with 'big names' in the entertainment sector (though I'm not sure being associated with MS is a good thing). These are things that can be used as bargaining chips and credentials in future deals. Once that is done they'll likely go into a follow-up to COH and bring all that experience from the Marvel MMO into the field with them, but this time they have their own properties they can work with.
For Cryptic, I only see good news in this. For the hardcore COH fans, it won't be an issue. The only people who might mind are NCSoft.
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Sorry to say i look at this quite from the opposite. COH is on the way out at cryptic i can say for sure. Though the Devs might say its not, its only probably to prevent a mass exodus from COX before the marvel game is released.
Think of all the growing pains COX went through that the marvel game due to Cryptics experience now will not. Sorry to say that COX just became the guinea pig for MUO. Notice the "Giving players what they want" attitude which is a convient excuse for giving us things that for years we have asked for AKA trench coats, new flight animations etc, that can all be then put into the marvel game once the bugs are worked out here. After all if you cant make a gambit look alike with a trench coat on who will play a marvel game.
Finance wise a small development company like Cryptic that has 1 franchise that keeps it going, and they go into a partnership to make a new game for a new console/MMO company like Microsoft and there 360. And this partnership will be in DIRECT compitition with its previous game releases? To me it is a enormous conflict of intrest. Essentially the same customer base is being draw upon. With COX pretty much past its pinnicle of subscription dont think for a moment that any industry breaking improvments will be seen in COH. Infact im willing to bet that even if the dev team came up with some great new idea for COX that it would be questioned to impliment it in COX or save it for MUO.
Sorry i know its a DOOOOM post but frankly this symbols to me the real begining of the end in a way ED or any other game adjustment of the past, couldnt even have touched.
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Maybe a DOOM post, but is a very likely scenario. Let's hope the two games can coexist, or better still...MUO might be a console only development.
