Would you play a Witcher MMORPG?

[Darkirian.424]

No, definitely no...

I've got an idea though. It'll be so great if one could fight a real person in the Arena. A Multiplayer battle)

 

[duskey]

I imagine the process would ultimately be like for Warcraft which is by far the most popular MMO. Shall we go down the list of phantasy MMOs that WoW has killed in their cribs real quick? Naw, let's not.

I LOVED Warcraft III and its expansion. For me it was the first time where the story and the characters really came to life in an RTS. Don't get me wrong, I also loved WoW from the start and played it for years, but it wasn't for the story. Anything concerning narrative and impact goes out the window in an MMO.

The Witcher is like most RPGs, you are "the chosen one", everything pretty much revolves around you. In The Witcher, you play Geralt of Rivia, the White Wolf. A VERY important and prolific person in the world. Your fame precedes you and people look as you with disdan and fear because there are so few witchers that few people have ever met one.
A huge part of the franchise and Geralts character development is coming to terms with the fact that you're part of a dying breed. A freak, with no place in the world. In an MMO, all of this is discarded because everyone is special or "super" as Syndrome puts it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8I9pYCl9AQ

I can already see it now: The character "Gerraltt" from the witcher school is jumping up and down in front of you, whispering: "Giev glodz 4 respec plz".

Now if you'll excuse me, I see some kids on my lawn!

 

[tobias_everett]

Only way this would work would be if no-one could play a Witcher as a PC character class as you would have too many
witchers running about the place. And who would play a Witcher MMO if you couldn't be a Witcher?

 

[jedi31293]

An MMO would destroy the Witcher's amazing non-linear storytelling. As someone stated earlier, MMO's are all about questing and grinding, not about storytelling. The Witcher series is all about its story.

 

[chromie92]

Only way this would work would be if no-one could play a Witcher as a PC character class as you would have too many
witchers running about the place. And who would play a Witcher MMO if you couldn't be a Witcher?

Who would play a Star Wars MMO if you couldn't be a Jedi? A lot of people actually. There weren't a ton of Jedi running around either. It was a long long process and like I said there weren't a lot of Jedi. Fyi this was in Star Wars Galaxies and before the terrible changes Sony forced on the game.

 

[hotnels]

MMO's all end up being the same in the end. No I would never play it just like Im not going to play the elder scrolls MMO. Why does every RPG need to be an MMO, sometimes I hate online multiplayer so much. Why does it need to be a part of every game I like?

 

[aeddgynvael01]

No, absolutely not. Ever. The Witcher is a PERSONAL story with interpersonal interactions and characters close to one another. An MMO CANNOT work in this world.

 

[whiplash27]

No, I feel that MMORPGs stink.

 

[wichat]

No, no no and no! We cannot all be Geralt at the same time in the same game!! And what would be of the rest of characters without Geralt as the prime guest? NO!

 

[Maerd.298]

If shortly: NO. It's just an absurdity.

 

[malanu]

I have never played one and I stopped playing Final Fantasy when it became one. Not because I don't like them. I just know as much as I like gaming I could easily take it to far and be one of those folk who'll spend $125(real cash) to purchase a Vorpal Sword!

 

[Emloch.435]

I think an MMO would taint this IP. I'd rather see more sequels. I have nothing against MMO's as I play them but there's just something very special about this IP and I don't think CDP Red should mess with the formula.

 

[Infernisle]

Ultimately, that would depend on a lot of things. Would everyone be a witcher and just divided among the wolf, cat, griffin, and viper schools as far as attributes and basic abilities go?

Would witchers be a death knight sorta thing where you had to hit a certain high level to be able to start a fresh character as a witcher, and to begin with you'd have to be something else in the world of The Witcher?

Also the lore would need to be a huge component. Not only that, but it'd absolutely have to have action combat. I outright refuse to play another WoW clone. I didn't play SWTOR, I'm not playing the Elder Scrolls MMO both for that very reason.

 

[jackalvonriva]

Hello everyone, first post, signed up just for this, simply couldn't resist.

I actually like the Idea of an Witcher-MMORPG.
Even if it will probably never come true, I imagine something like this:
Set in the past, where Witchers weren`t as uncommon as today, maybe even before/around the time Kaer Morhen was raided?
This would allow for a logic explanation why there are more monsters/less payment per monster and why there are more witchers.
Classes are pretty obvious I think, e.g. Hunter, Criminal/Thief, Knight/Soldier, Headhunter, Wizard/Sorcerer and ofcourse Witcher. If it is made WoW-Style, hardly anyone would like to play something beside the Witcher-Class. However, if it was made like the storysystem of Star Wars: The Old Republic, it gets more personal, which allows to keep the charm of the single player games while making the classes about equally attractive. The Idea of actually changing the story with my decisions could be kept, too.
As for the "job's" of a class, you could give different skill-trees to the classes like in WoW, as in "Alchemy, Swordmastery, Signs" for the Witcher or "Traps, Stealth, Chase" for the Hunter etc etc. Maybe add in more Diversity by making it a little like the "Inquisitor-> Become either an Assassin or a Sorcerer" of SW:toR.
Race could be more of a Problem, as there would be close to no reason for a Dryad to leave the Brokilon, but then again, this is way back in time, there may be more Dryads around/more battlefields than around the Brokilon.
You could also introduce the limitation-system of Star Wars: Galaxies or the "reach lvl x to make a twink of this class" of WoW to limit the number of Wizards and Witchers.

As for Factions, you could have the several Kingdoms vs each other, criminal xenophobic Organisations, the Witcher's schools, the Magicians Order. I already have an Idea for an Add-on, too: The Rise of the Empire =P
A "horde vs alliance" wouldnt make much sense with the world we`re dealing with here. More like the coloured-scarf
-system of Silkroad: Anyone thats not your team, is/might be an enemy.
All in all, Character creation would be: Male/Female, class, race, faction, cosmetic changes.

As for Quests, ignoring the storyline and a Witcher's/Hunter's, Knight's, Sorceress's daily work, you could have instances like the Raid of Kaer Morhen =D

So yeah, I`d love to see this and I`d definately play this, but there is no way this will ever be made, so this whole post is pointless. Also, the feeling would be TOTALLY different from Witcher 2. More like one, but still not there. And that`s something many people probably wouldnt like.

greetz

 

[cmdr_silverbolt]

To OP: No. I like the insular experience of the Witcher games. I might play co-op in the installments after W3, though.

 

[CostinRaz]

WoW is the king of themepark MMO's

Considering all the shit Blizzard has done and gotten away with means that every single themepark MMO has failed to beat it.

Even the much acclaimed Guild Wars 2.

I'd love to see the day someone manages to win the MMO race over Blizzard, but CDPR doesn't have the resources to do it right now. Elder Scrolls Online looks like it might potentially do it though and I say potentially.

 

[GamaH]

Would it really work? In no time there'd be more Witchers running around the world than ordinary people. Besides, the Witcher is interesting because the characters are interesting; having a bunch of random people who aren't remotely interesting littering the online world would be a huge negative not only to the game, but to the Witcher world in general. "LOL im witcher lets kill monstrs guyz." I suppose if you weren't allowed to speak with other online characters and were forced into a more linear sequence of events it could technically work, but then again, that would really just be a single-player game.

It'd be funny if six out of ten people who paid to play the game died during the trial of grasses and weren't allowed to log in anymore, though.

Or they could login but are unable to create Witcher characters, only normal humans, dwarves, or Scoia'tael.

 

[Sirnaq]

Witcher: The Old Republic eh? Or witchers of the old republic?

 

[charmes]

MMORPG? Sounds interesting, but i can't imagine it. I'd like to try it, but i really don't know if i'd like it.

 

[arkblazer]

Ill be honest, im not a big fan of mmorpgs. I need Rpg's with good plot and characterization something most mmorpgs lack by their very nature.