{"id":3383,"date":"2011-10-26T05:13:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T02:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2011-10-26T05:13:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T02:13:28","slug":"secret-world-sucks-in-a-half-million-for-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/10\/26\/secret-world-sucks-in-a-half-million-for-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret World sucks in a half million for beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just can&#8217;t see the attraction of multiplayer PC games (and yes, I&#8217;ve tried some, from <em>LoTR<\/em> via <em>Ryzom<\/em>, to <em>SL<\/em>), but it&#8217;s interesting that Funcom has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesecretworld.com\/\"><em>The Secret World<\/em> MMO game<\/a> has sucked in more than half a million registered users. <em>The Secret World<\/em> is basically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2011\/03\/10\/preview-the-secret-world\/\">Lovecraft meets the Illuminati\/Knights Templars in the modern day<\/a>.  And those figures are for a closed beta test, which makes the figures even more impressive.  Size isn&#8217;t everthing with MMOs though, and as <em>Age of Conan<\/em> showed.  What matters is the quality of the users.  Get a half million 13 year-old idiots and the game is ruined. Although the website graphics for <em>Secret World<\/em> seem to pitch it at the early-teens market, the storyline is from Ragnar Tornquist &mdash; creator of the excellent <em><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectworlds.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/29\/dreamfall-the-longest-journey-review-pc\/\">Dreamfall: The Longest Journey<\/a><\/em> &mdash; which might give it some adult appeal. The game goes live in April 2012.  There&#8217;s some nice concept art floating around the web&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/screenshot_pc_the_secret_world001.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"screenshot_pc_the_secret_world001\" width=\"529\" height=\"374\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3384\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/screenshot_pc_the_secret_world008.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"screenshot_pc_the_secret_world008\" width=\"529\" height=\"356\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3385\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/secret-world.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"secret-world\" width=\"529\" height=\"286\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3386\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just can&#8217;t see the attraction of multiplayer PC games (and yes, I&#8217;ve tried some, from LoTR via Ryzom, to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/10\/26\/secret-world-sucks-in-a-half-million-for-beta\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}