SOE's The Agency delayed until late 2011

Completely agree.

Maybe a year ago people cared, but the lineup that 2011 has, is going to be amazing.

This is what I was thinking as well. Maybe it'll find a niche, but to bw honest, I had forgotten it was even being made until I read this article.

@Arkanaloth the 3 games you mention are a totally different genre with the only resemblence Tor having is guns but not really functioning the same as guns in a shooter based game,so I highly doubt those would have any impact on the population of this game.People interested in shooters are still going to be interested in shooters regardless of how many good non-shooter fantasy based games release.Now Firefall and Hi-Rez's Tribes those will for sure.

@alucard3000

genre discussions aside, most people don't have a lot of money to throw into the MMO obsession. Sure you have some people with 7 WoW accounts, but I suspect more people play only one or two games. At this point, the Agency hasn't presented enough significant information to show itself to be any different than any other MMO. So it uses guns instead of swords meh it's all polygons at the end of the day, therefore it still has to compete with games within as well as outside of it's genre for a slice of the somewhat limited pay-per-month pie.

as the glut of game releases grows next year the Agency will have the task of proving it self as being more worthy. Sure you have "shooter" people vs "fantasy" people, but lots of people overlap.