I did not start reading Massively until after I had done the beta for TR so no one knows my assessment of TR (not that I would have posted it here anyway). That assessment was the failure of TR. I predicted that it would go the way of AutoAssault within 2 and one half years. Looks like its decline, well, it has nothing to fall from by the looks of it. the horse died around the first turn.

The reason I made this statement was the absolute lack of real content. It is not an MMORPG. It is a shooter. It is hollow and has not the life players demand of a MMORPG.

The problem is not that is it a science fiction MMORPG, which I am sure some one is going to cite as the reason for its lack of attractiveness. The problem is it is very small and very undeveloped. There were some good ideas going into the development of TR, few of which actually surfaced and the few that did were less than stellar.

The thing I find most interesting is this is the first MMORPG that tried to capitalize completely on the idea of ‘rock star’ developer branding. My next prediction is that ‘rock star’ developer branding will not work. Only solid world building narrative can work anymore but no one really knows what that is... yet.