The remains of GSC to develop Survarium... a F2P MMO. - by Briareos H
Briareos H on 25/4/2012 at 16:19
(
http://gsc-fan.com/landing/countdown/?hl=en) Survarium has been announced, with a countdown pointing to more info tomorrow.
Inline Image:
http://i.imgur.com/6169n.pngApparently, the developers who were still at GSC when Grigorovitch shut down everything (only to pretend he didn't afterwards) went on to found Vostok Games. Their first game uses the S.T.A.L.K.E.R template, and probably many of the assets they were working on, with a twist: it is a first person shooter, free to play MMO. This is the closest we're going to get to S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2. Yep.
Everything is explained in (
http://youtu.be/Kl812VZv9VI) this video.
catbarf on 25/4/2012 at 19:11
I'm okay with this, really. STALKER has always been a game I'd love to play multiplayer. Here's hoping they go for a more simulation-esque approach to an MMO instead of the usual instanced grinding. More Eve and less WoW I guess, the game concept definitely lends itself to a more persistent, explorable world.
I'm just glad GSC isn't totally kaput with all the developers sacked and sent out to go work on other projects. It may not be another STALKER but I bet it'll have the same style.
Briareos H on 25/4/2012 at 20:17
I don't like multiplayer games at all but what the hell, I don't mind them going MMO. Sounds somewhat logical. The F2P aspect weirds me out tho.
june gloom on 25/4/2012 at 21:55
All dreams shattered. What kind of god would allow this to happen? Pain and death are the only constant forces in this horrible reality.
dda on 26/4/2012 at 07:08
Ahhh this sucks. i was waiting for stalker 2 big time! The new project sounds like it could be good though, time will tell.
Dia on 26/4/2012 at 10:53
I am beyond depressed.
Briareos H on 26/4/2012 at 11:02
I'm waiting for the inevitable moment when a group of modders announce a true singleplayer successor to S.T.A.L.K.E.R after such a betrayal and it comes out in 5 years, underwhelming. Maybe less if they launch through a kickstarter.
redrain85 on 26/4/2012 at 18:18
This is depressing to hear. I thought STALKER 2 was still being worked on, albeit at a much slower pace. Damn.
Unfortunately, for me, F2P means an instant avoid. The problem I have with F2P is that you never really get to own the game. It's constantly tied to an online service. What happens when that service shuts down? The game and its community disappear. (Unless someone goes to the great hassle and effort of emulating the server functionality.)
Imagine if this trend had started a decade or so earlier. A lot of the games we still enjoy playing now would be completely gone.
Muzman on 26/4/2012 at 21:53
This was one of those annoying things where no could stand still and wait until the money appears, wasn't it. So it all falls apart and one guy is left with a useless IP and no team and the team is left with a whole lot of content and no IP (so they opt to rapidly convert to an MMO). Everybody loses.
I don't know. It seems like the sort of thing though. This is why we can't have nice things, boys and girls.
Frankly I don't give a rat's about this. I'm much more interested in that other thing the Stalker artist guy is working on.
