cool

dosen't look half bad

When they named it The Secret World they weren't fucking about.

So little is shown of this game. I can't but be a little bit skeptical about this.

I hope it's good. The current state of MMOs doesn't grab me. 

Cataclysm was a huge success. 
The Old Republic looks really promising. 
Guild Wars 2 dev. interviews give off a good vibe. 
I enjoyed the hell out of the DC: Universe PS+ beta. 
 
 Excuse me for sounding cynical, but why exactly is Funcom still doing MMOs?

FINALLY!!! Now they can get that thing out the door and finish The Longest Journey series!!!!

Nice, good luck Funcom - you have great ideas for games, but a bit low on patience for polish. :D

Knowing FunComs penchant for making bad MMOs I'll be skeptical about this ones game play. If it actually works and is fun I may give it a try.
 
I heard about this one before they shelved it. Always seemed interesting. Maybe being partnered with EA will help them make this one good at least. I don't know, we shall see. The concept is a fun one imo.

I totally forgot about this game. Whatever, I still need an MMO besides WoW to get my fix.

Sounds like it has some interesting ideas, but I'm fine with playing EVE Online until TOR comes out. I just don't care for yet another MMO.

I'm over MMOs I think.

Aw man, I saw Funcom and was hoping that this was a renamed Dreamfall: Chapters and that it was coming out, but no such luck.

Y'know I was just looking at some stuff from this game yesterday. The combat looks a bit MMO-y but everything else (well aside from it having servers) is really awesome. 
 
Still I wish Funcom would just start working on Dreamfall: Chapters!

Funcom should stop wasting time on these MMOs and start working on the next Longest Journey sequel.

this is the only mmo i've ever been interested in. glad to see it's back on track.

The modern day fantasy idea is a good one, but need more details and gameplay footage. Also don't release it this year, too many big MMOs, wait a while and make it good.

Still I wish Funcom would just start working on Dreamfall: Chapters! "

Been really interested in this for awhile but wasn't very hopeful about a release. Glad EA Partners picked it up.

Do we seriously need any more MMO games? There's many examples of MMO's failing due to lower levels of expenditure from companies trying to get into the same vein as Wow. I feel like without the absolute most premiere funds and development schedule a succesful MMO isn't 
possible on a large profit scale.

" Funcom should stop wasting time on these MMOs and start working on the next Longest Journey sequel. "

Here it is, the APB of 2011 or whenever they decide to release it.

Sounds like Ultima Online skill focuses character development.

" @IntramanDW said:  

Still I wish Funcom would just start working on Dreamfall: Chapters! "

You and me both. "

" I'm over MMOs I think. "

I found the concept of the game great.  But, if it's just WoW with a different skin then I'm not interested.  That model of game has been beaten into the ground with a ball peen hammer.

Never heard of this.  After seeing that Warcraft: Cataclysm set new records its first month, it's got to be pretty intimidating to be working on an MMO.

Doubt that I will ever play this, but best of luck to Funcom. Nice to see some Norwegian colours always.

I hope this article didn't mean to imply that the world of Age of Conan was inspired by Tolkien. The original Conan stories were written decades before Tolkien's books.

" FINALLY!!! Now they can get that thing out the door and finish The Longest Journey series!!!! "

" Aw man, I saw Funcom and was hoping that this was a renamed Dreamfall: Chapters and that it was coming out, but no such luck. "

The next time I'll hear about this game is when it goes free to play. 
 
Then the last thing I'll hear is that the 360 port is canceled.

I hope this means good things for the game and that the developers are quietly beavering away at making it something really great. The fact that it's been so 'underground' for so long does not worry me at all - there are far too many flash in the pan MMO's that get released to early and never go anywhere. Conan had some great ideas but no follow up and to me tSW always sounded a really interesting alternative to the WoW's of this world. If the game can build on that promise and enter the world with a vengeance (for that is what it'll take) then as far as I'm concerned they can take as long as they like with it!

Age Of Conan was Funcom's best creation. It's a shame it was so incomplete and glitchy, since what it did have was truly amazing. I'll just wait for it to go Free-To-Play D:

The funny thing is i was just wondering what was going on with the development of this game and now look. Hopefully if they do port it to the 360 the controls wont suck

I remember this actually being a really good MMO, but my computer sucked so I stopped. It's cool to see it coming around again, maybe. 

I must just be really into MMO news, because it is surprising to me that everyone is just finding out about this title or thought it was dead. 
 
The last real news/content we had was only back in August. Thats not that long ago, games take time y'know. Cool news that FunCom will join up with EA Partners, man is that list getting long. 

Gonna throw a fireball at Dracula in THE SECRET WORLD

I tried about maybe twenty minutes of the Age of Conan demo, and damn, nothing about that game felt properly polished.   I couldn't really understand how people liked the game at all.   It also ran like crap on my computer at low settings, which I kind of knew going in, but damn if I haven't played games that looked far better than those low settings on my machine without a hitch.
 
So, sounds interesting in theory like so many other MMOs, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

Congrats to those guys for getting picked up.

This scares the crap out of me.  It seems like it's going to be a TOTAL train wreck!  After all, look at how well Age of Conan turned out.  I mean more than a year after the game comes out there are still game breaking bugs in the starting area.

Dopeness.

"Funcom isn't going to use the standard character-class-and-level-up model in The Secret World. Instead, it'll focus on abilities, allowing for some sort of extensive character customization without the MMO grind or pre-defined talent builds."
...Wait a second. Didn't APB do something like this? Hmm.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to it and I think it looks good, but as my experience with MMOs has gone, if it isn't WoW then it's probably not very good.

Not sure why all the Funcom hate. Anarchy Online was an amazing MMO for the first 6 years. Age of Conan isn't THAT bad either; especially since the overhauled update/expansion-pack, in which it's become a great MMO.
 
Only issue is that that bane WoW, no matter how much hand-holding they add to that game, people flock to it like sheep. If that game could get knocked off its undeserved throne, perhaps other MMOs would finally have a chance. At least, that's my opinion.
 
With that said, TSW looks great, but chances are it won't do that great simply because of the lack of people willing to change MMos.