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See for yourself (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperator_(computer_game)).

Not necessarily a great loss, but it certainly fits in with the Threshold-scrubbing that occurred recently.

Just an FYI.

It says that the importance of the article was questionable in the deletion log.

So true.

Hell, the importance of the game was questionable.

Wasn't it canceled years ago? Like, back in 2005?

2006-ish, I think. I don't know, I can't check the wiki.  :awesome_for_real:

Fortunately Google is all-powerful -- 2005.

And yet, the website for the game is still around...
http://www.imperatoronline.com/home.php

The blurb on the Mythic Entertainment page is plenty.

 :awesome_for_real:

More proof that MMORPG.com is usefulless!   :why_so_serious:

I removed your XFire sig. Too big.

Not a problem. I had hoped to get the small thing, but I just don't care enough to figure out how to do it.

I would go so far as to say the unimportance of the game is unquestionable.

It looked interesting.........

I for one would have liked to see the product.  Too bad. 

They should have kept working on it, couldn't have been any worse than warhammer.

It would have been mostly PvE with PvP confined to very specific regions.

 :oh_i_see:

Wasn't it supposed to be SWG 2.0?

I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

I don't really find PvE that offensive, if done well.

I wonder if Mythic is going to trademark 'Realm vs Environment'.

 :grin:

How about Player vs. Developer?

edited because it sounds better.

Neither do I. My point was that WAR ended up following Imperator's lead.

Personally I think MvP (Mythic vs. Player) rolls off the tongue nicely.

I thought that the importance of Imperator was that it took Mythic's eye off the ball when it came to DaoC. Focus shifted away from Camelot, it went down the shitter. Or is that too HRosey a view?

You need more "I am to bridge" to get a proper Hrose effect.

This is probably the most devastating thing they did. They fucked up a lot, the entire end game for one, but straying from what they made their money on originally was just plain stupid. Business wise, marketing wise, player base wise, they totally shot themselves in the foot by straying from their DAOC model for the end game.

I believe that straying from a DAoC style endgame was entirely the point.  DAoC topped out at around 250k subs, Mythic wanted a bigger game than that.  I think if they had stuck with their guns on building the game around scenario based PvP, they could have appealed to a sizable market.  As it turned out, they had to divert resources from building scenarios to tack on a half-assed implementation of fort warfare to try to please the DAoC playerbase, which many DAoC players found wanting.

Nah, Imperator was announced only 9 months after DAOC released. I don't think DAOC had even yet really hit its stride at that point personally. Maybe there's a case to be made that somehow the Imperator process somehow saddled us with that Mackey clown, dunno.

was it really on 9 months?  Seriously?  I was pretty sure it was more like 2 years roughly from the launch.

Press release announcing it (http://www.imperatoronline.com/article.php?id=5) is dated 26th June 2002. DAOC was released (in the US) on the 10th October 2001. So yeah, 9-ish months. Having said that however, there was little in the way of hype or buzz until Oct 2004 when the first trailer was released.

Well, the most appalling thing about late implementation of ORvR is that if these are the scenarios they came up with after all that work you really have to question what the hell they were thinking.  The scenarios in this game are just not up to snuff.  Put a timer on WOW's BGs and they would be a million times better than any of the scenarios in WAR.

His very name fills me with rage to this day!  :angryfist:

(http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/2259/lurkmoaryu6.png)

Schild's or (tazelbain) gonna nuke this eventually, so enjoy it.

Why would we nuke it?

I think he means move it to politics.  :why_so_serious:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythic_Entertainment

Imperator Online
In 2002, Mythic announced it was working on a new title, a science-fiction themed MMO called Imperator Online. This MMORPG based on an alternate history where the Roman Republic never fell, and advanced to be a space-travelling multi-planet Empire. This project was cancelled in 2005.



You are confusing this with the other space-travelling multi-planet mmog without spaceships at launch, and which also descended into farce in 2005.

We aren't allowed to talk about that other one, but the supreme overlords have determined that Romans in Space is an acceptable conversation topic.

I think that "Environment vs Retention" is more apt.

I wanted Roman's in space so bad. Like, not whatever Mythic was going to potentially release, but the idea 'done right'.  :oh_i_see:

This is how I've felt about almost every single MMO announced, ever. Not one has yet managed to be "done right"  :oh_i_see: