World of Darkness
Setting: Horror | Developer: CCP Games | Announcement: 2006 | Cancellation: 2014 | Planned Platforms: PC
What was World of Darkness supposed to be? A large MMORPG was planned based on the pen-and-paper RPG system of World of Darkness. In this world, vampires, werewolves, mages, and ghosts exist in our world. Players were supposed to start as humans in the planned MMORPG and then become a vampire and choose one of several clans. These clans would have been at war.
There were supposed to be quests, action-packed battles, and PvP would have played a role in clan wars.
What was the special feature? World of Darkness is a very popular pen-and-paper RPG that players have long wished for a MMORPG version.
Just the setting with vampires and werewolves in our time would have made the game something special. Role-play classics like “Vampire: The Masquerade” gave players a delicious taste of how an MMORPG in that world could look.
Why was it canceled? The development of the MMORPG dragged on longer and longer. The release was planned for 2012, but by 2014 it was said that World of Darkness would have to wait years. In the same year, the project was then canceled. Allegedly, the development was so plagued by problems that a good game could not have emerged from it.
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