isn't this what they did with Jedis in Galaxies?
yeah and that worked out really well for them (no it didn't)
"look one story down" -
I always wonder with licensed products if the flaws that show up are the fault of the dev team, the publisher, or the license-holder. With Lucas, I'm willing to put a lot of blame on him. I recall reports from The Phantom Menace of GL saying people should be paying him for the right to work on it, presumably because the first three Star Wars movies are a part of film history and everyone assumed the fourth would be as well. I can see "JEDIS ARE SPECIAL" as a design mandate coming from GL.
It would have been sharper to set up a Jedi Academy game, and let everyone start as low-ranking Jedi (though not Padawans, unless it was a kid-title).
I can see including Eldar and Marines as a prestige class, something to choose after achieving some other milestone, but the wiser idea would be keep it available but gimped somehow.
FTFA:
Note to all the people being blind-linked here. The rest of you can ignore this!
Hi. My name’s Scott. Welcome to my blog.
- I was being funny.
- I work in the MMO industry. Most of my blog entries relate to MMO business decisions and the pros/cons thereof.
- I do not actually own a single Warhammer miniature.
- I specifically was parodying a “nerd rage” rant.
- More specifically, I was pointing out that making “spehs mahreen” or whatever other cute slang term you use for that iconic image of Warhammer 40K not something you can immediately play will be about as popular with the non-fanatic community (i.e. NOT YOU) as making a Star Wars MMO where you have to unlock the ability to be a Jedi.
- I actually have a number of friends who work on WH40K at Vigil, all of whom IMed me 5 minutes after this went up to laugh about it. It was a JOKE. I really don’t want to be THE IMMORTAL GOD EMPEROR in an MMO.
- I did, actually, nerf your 47th level Holy Asperger’s Paladin Of Elven Light. U mad?
