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According to a recent interview with Wired's Game-Life, Blizzard's next MMO project will be "Significantly different" than what they have now with Mabinogi online gold.
Sams discusses the future of WoW's expansions, the potential of Battle.net across multiple titles and even a bit on micro-transactions. So as we can only speculate at this point, what do you think will be Blizzard's next MMO?
Aion Correspondent Brandon Stiles writes this look at the way that the game's developers mix the design philosophies of a linear theme park with ideas taken from a more sand boxy approach.
Looking at traditional pen and paper role playing games and how a story unfolds, there might help in understanding about the right way to have an MMO story play out.
Game masters that create their own world may have a game that is more of a sandbox style. Players are able to explore the world and learn about it as they go along. Both could be fun to play in their own way.
With a linear style game players experience the entire story, but may not see the whole world. In a sandbox style game players may be able to see everything but not feel that they are doing anything other than killing monsters.
For example, when your character first wakes up in the initial zone of the game and you complete the first few quests, you see that they lead you to your first campaign quest. The campaign quests, in turn, lead you to your ascension quests.