There are two distinct paths that developers can choose to follow when creating mmorpg games. The first path is when the developers choose to use the latest and greatest technology to power their game, while the second path is for developers to instead choose to cast as wide a net as possible when crafting their system requirements, which means ensuring that older machines are quite capable of running the game. Both paths have their own unique strengths and weaknesses. One game that has definitely chosen the first path is the upcoming Gigantic, the moba-inspired online game currently in development by Motiga. Some players expressed joy over this announcement, but others were not so effusive in their praise. Does Gigantic hurt itself by requiring Windows 10?
Shortly after a major lay off at Motiga, Perfect World and Motiga announce Gigantic is shutting down later this year.
Well that sucks. The game was rescued from cancellation by Perfect World only to get shut down shortly afterwards.
Overwatch completely demolished these new MOBAS. Gigantic was a good quality game, just bad timing.
It did. It sucks. I really think that a lot of these games are hurting from Overwatch.
Perfect World confirms the date and details of the Gigantic shutdown, granting players their final few months of free play in the unique MOBA.
1RBC: Publisher Perfect World has shut down both Runic Games and Motiga. Runic was the studio behind RPG series Torchlight as well as the newly released Hob– after nine years in the business, they’ve finally met their end. Motiga, on the other hand, was a much newer studio- they released their debut game, Gigantic, over the summer. Unfortunately, it seems that neither developer was quite profitable enough for international megacorp Perfect World- hence their decision to shut these studios. The rest of our episode this week is business as usual- new Playstation games from the Paris Games Week and Razer’s gaming phone- all embedded below for your viewing pleasure.
"The most obvious one is that the mmo will definitely take advantage of the latest technology. The fact that Microsoft is working hand-in-hand with Motiga to optimize the game for Windows 10 means that it should run flawlessly with the new operating system. Knowing that a PC game will run smoothly and effortlessly with the latest Windows system is a definite plus for gamers that love to push the technological envelope and who have already made the switch to Windows 10. I can also understand why Gigantic has partnered with Microsoft to make the game a Windows 10/Xbox One exclusive. "
Sums it up really. And the article even mentions SMITE as one its main rivals. This will also be the case on XB1. I certainly have an appetite for this sort of game after SMITE ( which I play every other day with some good friends of mine..two of which are on N4G ;) ).I look forward to gigantic.
Along with fable legends this game will lead the cross play charge on XB1. Their success will be noted by other devs for sure. and given that there are already 75+ million and counting W10 devices, its fair to say this game will have a VERY swollen userbase, compared to most games. Others will want a piece of that action.
It also proves what I have been saying for sometime. That going forward, you will see more of this sort of thing. New IPs that have mechnics in place to support for cross play coming via MS studios. Halo, forza etc, will always be xbox exclusives. But we will see spin offs like ODST and perhaps a third installment into the forza franchise (maybe even ressurect PGR, with the intent of having a cross play racer)
Gigantic, along with the success shown by SMITE on Xb1 and soon fable:legends will start a nice wave on XB1. Im expecting a crossplay MMO next that is for W10 and Xbox only. Neverwinter is over 2.5 million users right now and counting.
and I think its time we got hawken and firefall on XB1. With cross play. xbox gamers are ready for those games, I think
Not when Win10 is free and also available on Xbox One.
No! is the short answer. The reason I say no, is because most windows users will be using win10 shortly, whether they know it or not.
So will Killier Instinct, why do you think MS is going to make it to Windows, just like when they made Halo For PC.