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Sadness: Sounds like Matt Miller is moving on

Captain-Electric

By Captain-Electric,
Posted on: 2012-10-29 17:08 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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So, I caught this podcast that Matt guested on today.

http://www.analogholegaming.com/epis...isode-233.html

He talks a little about his plans when he's officially released from his contract very very soon.

Sounds like he's got zero plans about starting a new studio to crank out a CoH spiritual successor.

So yeah. My heart died a little bit more. I thought there was some hope. Guess I was wrong again.



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Starting a new studio would take a lot of money. Even if a whole bunch of ex-Paragon people got together, that probably wouldn't happen.

Still, I think that a 'spiritual successor' to CoH would be great, rather that trying to recreate the entire game from scratch.

 

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Eh. Matt Miller wasn't CoH. I'm sure we could still get a good spiritual successor someday without him. Possibly one without the Incarnate path mess.

 

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Starting a new studio would take a lot of money. Even if a whole bunch of ex-Paragon people got together, that probably wouldn't happen.

Still, I think that a 'spiritual successor' to CoH would be great, rather that trying to recreate the entire game from scratch.
It's already begun.

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It's already begun.
I don't want to say that I feel that the fan endeavor will be fruitless and regardless wont produce anything I'd want to play, but...

Well, I guess I just did.



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Sounds like he's got zero plans about starting a new studio to crank out a CoH spiritual successor.
On the contrary, Positron has stated that he'd love to make another super hero MMO and he's not the only Paragon member who has given it some thought. But you can't just go make a game in the MMO industry. These are hugely expensive undertakings and require investors and the right talent (not just a capable lead designer--lots of working pieces here).

If you had watched Posi's latest Twitch appearance from a couple weeks ago, you'd know that your "zero plans" comment is inaccurate. SO, on that note, cheer up!

On a less-cheerful note, remember that Posi seems to be in the market for a design job FIRST, and in the market for a new super hero MMO project SECOND.

Gotta put bread on that table.

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Here's hoping he finds something soon. in my eyes Posi made CoH the game I love.

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Positron has stated that he'd love to make another super hero MMO and he's not the only Paragon member who has given it some thought. But you can't just go make a game in the MMO industry. These are hugely expensive undertakings and require investors and the right talent (not just a capable lead designer--lots of working pieces here).
Just because he'd like to doesn't mean he will, which is what I wanted to hear instead.

Him being open to the possibility is good, but apparently having no intent to do so in the foreseeable future isn't. The fact that he's looking for a design job doesn't indicate they have any real immediate plans.

In fact, he's not going to say "I hate super hero games now" even if he felt so because someone may just offer him a design job doing one. He could have easily said it because career-wise it's the smart thing to say.

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If you had watched Posi's latest Twitch appearance from a couple weeks ago, you'd know that your "zero plans" comment is inaccurate. SO, on that note, cheer up!
I didn't catch it and couldn't find it archived.

I was hoping when they were released from their contracts that we'd hear some good news. Or at least, something that indicated that they had something up their sleeve beyond a parody music video. But to me it sounds like Matt is moving on.

I can't blame him for looking out for his family, but like I said, it's not what I was hoping to hear.


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Here's hoping he finds something soon. in my eyes Posi made CoH the game I love.
Eeeehh.

 

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I thought it was interesting that Positron said that CoH was the healthiest MMO ever killed.

Positron also said that most of the things we have suggested, were suggested by Paragon Studios to NCSoft and were turned down as non-solutions.

Reading between the lines, I'd say Positron thought that NCSoft was out of line in canceling CoH and that many reasonable things were not allowed to be tried by NCSoft because of NCSoft's "new focus".

 

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On the contrary, Positron has stated that he'd love to make another super hero MMO and he's not the only Paragon member who has given it some thought. But you can't just go make a game in the MMO industry. These are hugely expensive undertakings and require investors and the right talent (not just a capable lead designer--lots of working pieces here).
If the talent and plan can be brought together then Kickstarter can be used to see if the desire to fund exists out there.