An expansion pack for MxO has been discussed numerous times before, but I am worrying that we will never receive a true expansion pack for MxO.
Expansion packs not only give an incredible amount of new content to a current MMO, but it also shows that the development team is still working on the game, and putting in time, money, and effort into their project that they have been doing for years on end. It's work, but it should be fun for developers to brainstorm and create ideas for an expansion pack for their game. Also, expansion packs usually imply that the game is deemed a success for the developers, in which they create expansion packs for their current subscribers, bring back old subscribers, and attract brand new subscribers. And expansion packs don't require as much work as the initial project because the expansion still uses the basic in-game engine, it's all about expanding the engine to its full potential.
Now, I always wondered if Monolith had plans for an expansion pack in MxO's future, but we will never know now that SOE has taken over. Usually, their is a seperate team to design the expansion packs for an MMO, but since SOE MxO's staff is, well, understaffed, it seems pretty grim to see any type of expansion pack in the near future. This is the Matrix, there could be so many cool new additions and expansion packs to keep MxO fresh, both for current subscribers, to bring back old subscribers, and to try to gain new subscribers who didn't particularly like MxO, but now see an expansion pack that suits there needs (i.e. SWG's Jump to Lightspeed expansion, which opened up real time space combat, and introduced a plethora of new players).
Is there anything going on behind the scenes, or can we pretty much forget about any major expansion for MxO?
Expansion packs not only give an incredible amount of new content to a current MMO, but it also shows that the development team is still working on the game, and putting in time, money, and effort into their project that they have been doing for years on end. It's work, but it should be fun for developers to brainstorm and create ideas for an expansion pack for their game. Also, expansion packs usually imply that the game is deemed a success for the developers, in which they create expansion packs for their current subscribers, bring back old subscribers, and attract brand new subscribers. And expansion packs don't require as much work as the initial project because the expansion still uses the basic in-game engine, it's all about expanding the engine to its full potential.
Now, I always wondered if Monolith had plans for an expansion pack in MxO's future, but we will never know now that SOE has taken over. Usually, their is a seperate team to design the expansion packs for an MMO, but since SOE MxO's staff is, well, understaffed, it seems pretty grim to see any type of expansion pack in the near future. This is the Matrix, there could be so many cool new additions and expansion packs to keep MxO fresh, both for current subscribers, to bring back old subscribers, and to try to gain new subscribers who didn't particularly like MxO, but now see an expansion pack that suits there needs (i.e. SWG's Jump to Lightspeed expansion, which opened up real time space combat, and introduced a plethora of new players).
Is there anything going on behind the scenes, or can we pretty much forget about any major expansion for MxO?
