{"id":902,"date":"2008-03-27T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T18:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/27\/a-civ-mmo\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T18:22:10","slug":"a-civ-mmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/27\/a-civ-mmo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Civ MMO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a few blogs are pointing to a Take Two presentation that reveals that the company is considering potential of a Bioshock or Civilization online game\/MMO. <a href=\"http:\/\/multiplayerblog.mtv.com\/2008\/03\/26\/take-two-bioshock-mmo-and-movie-are-potential-opportunities\/\">Here&#8217;s Stephen Totillo&#8217;s take<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiplayerblog.mtv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/slide24.jpg\">The presentation slide<\/a> points to <em>World of Warcraft<\/em> as evidence of the potential size of the market. Which is sort of like pointing to the 1927 Yankees and saying that that is what baseball teams have the potential to be.<\/p>\n<p>The slide also has <em>Bioshock<\/em> in every category &#8211; Online\/MMOs, Mobile Games and Movie Tie-In. Great to know that they have such confidence in their other games.<\/p>\n<p>So what would a <em>Civilization<\/em> online experience look like? With <em>Warcraft<\/em> &#8211; a standard fantasy world &#8211; it was easy to see how it would look in an MMO. Just take <em>Everquest<\/em> and make all the characters Blizzard IP. But Civ would require a total rethink.<\/p>\n<p>Armchair designer suggestions welcome in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a few blogs are pointing to a Take Two presentation that reveals that the company is considering potential of a Bioshock or Civilization online game\/MMO. Here&#8217;s Stephen Totillo&#8217;s take. The presentation slide points to World of Warcraft as evidence of the potential size of the market. Which is sort of like pointing to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-ey","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}