This year will mark the 10th anniversary of TSW, and the 5th of SWL. While some players are content enough to play the existing state of the game indefinitely, this milestone for many is going to be an indicator of whether we can ever expect anything new again. Because, if not on the 10th anniversary, when else would it happen?
I know you’re constrained by resources from Funcom, and that if you haven’t already built anything, it’s probably too late now. But I, like many long-time players, am quietly hoping you’ve got a surprise in stall for us. Please don’t let us down.
There are definitely no threats there lol. We’re trying to get something going for TSW for the 10th anniversary (ran by community) on July 3rd if you’d like to join for that. We’d like to get enough people to join to pop Stonehenge and/or El Dorado.
Tl;dw - Joel Bylos (game designer for TSW) says: no active development for TSW, SWL kinda in the maintanance mode, the TV series is not entirely dead yet, TSW IP comes up every now and then when they look for something new set in the modern times.
Around 24 issues were outlined for TSW, next areas were supposed to be King Solomon’s mines in Kongo, Scotland (Avalon), Sargasso Sea, Guatemala and the Fountain of Youth.
Thanks for the link.
I hope that the TTRPG publisher will be authorized to use the material of the videogame for a campaign with the zones which were intended before Funcom stopped working on it.
This said, I don’t know what was the state of the future issues (surely not fully designed nor written, perhaps just some ideas). But it will be nice to play in the zones as a continuation of the MMORPG campaign, as the medium is not the core interest of Secret World (T or L) but the community and the story are. I’m confident for the quality as original writers are in, but I really expect to have a continuation of the original story. With chance, Funcom will allow this.
Not enough people willing to pay for the expensive to produce content. Subscription model already outdated in 2012. Lots of competition in MMO market. Niche genre I guess. They get into that in catboiler’s videos.