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Message no. 1
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: Some more thoughts about the SR video game
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:12:06 +0100
http://forums.waryammer.com/viewtopic.php?t503 (the initial posts are
six months old, but there's new ones at the bottom).

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Message no. 2
From: joannahurley@*******.net (Joanna G. Hurley)
Subject: Some more thoughts about the SR video game
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:03:15 -0500
> -----Original Message-----
> http://forums.waryammer.com/viewtopic.php?t503 (the
> initial posts are
> six months old, but there's new ones at the bottom).

OTOH, that thread led to the link to this:
http://www.shadowrun-online.com/sro/ . A Shadowrun MMO? I wonder if they
really have the license, or if they're hoping no one will notice them
(err...oops?).

Read a bit of the forums, and it looks like the theory is to get it to
"proof of concept" stage and then sell it to Microsoft.

I'm still not an MMO fan, but if this took off, it could sell it for me.

Joanna
Message no. 3
From: adam_carter@******.net (Adam Carter)
Subject: Some more thoughts about the SR video game
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:04:19 -0800
<<
http://forums.waryammer.com/viewtopic.php?t503 (the initial posts are
six months old, but there's new ones at the bottom).
>>

I got a chance to play this game over the summer, and blogged about my
experience here:
http://adnauseam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8EB0A09330108B6C!386.entry
short version: it's a fun Counterstrike style shooter, using some of the
Shadowrun IP. If they'd been completely loyal to the IP, it wouldn't have
been a shooter, and it would suffer since that's what FASA does best.
The FASA team knows that they had to make some concessions to shoehorn the
genre into what they are building. They're in a catch-22 now: Leave the
Shadowrun name on and people complain that it's not accurate, take the name
off and people will accuse it of being a carbon copy.
Message no. 4
From: toast.in.the.machine@*****.com (Mark)
Subject: Some more thoughts about the SR video game
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:14:00 -0800
On 11/29/06, Joanna G. Hurley <joannahurley@*******.net> wrote:
> OTOH, that thread led to the link to this:
> http://www.shadowrun-online.com/sro/ . A Shadowrun MMO? I wonder if they
> really have the license, or if they're hoping no one will notice them
> (err...oops?).

SRO doesn't have anything except that design document and some fan
art, I think. As far as I know, it's just a bunch of fans making up
stuff hoping to get some studio's attention, except they don't have a
playable demo, or even the beginnings of one. I don't want to sound
like I'm slamming them, but unless something major changes or their
work on SRO happens to get them hired by FASA Interactive they've
don't have much resembling a game that has a hope of hitting the
market.

Mark

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