Update - 6th December:
New location reveal video: The Scorched Desert
Update - 28th November:
Funcom Unveil The Secret World: Part Two (Interview with [partly] Ragnar and colleagues)
Update - 25th November:
PC Gamer massive coverage with interviews and much more.
Update - 23rd November:
Funcom Unveil The Secret World: Part One (Interview with Ragnar and colleagues)
Update - 21st November:
Gamespot video preview with interview and footage.
RPS Preview
MMORPG Preview
New Dev Diary:
Developer Diary - The Secret War
Updates during PAX 2011:
- The Secret World Press Panel PAX 2011 - Part 1
- The Secret World Press Panel PAX 2011 - Part 2 (Very cool part)
- Funcom PAX Showfloor report
Updates during Gamescom 2011:
- Gameinformer Mission Description
- Gamescom 2011: Gamespot interview
- Fantastic writeup about some mechanics and gameplay infos
- Another Ragnar video interview (good)
- Launch date was announced at the EA Press Conference: April 2012
Start of beta invites: 26th August 2011 (subscribe here)
Update: The Secret War
The Secret War trailer details the PVP battles and secret societies a bit closer.
There is a facebook game (doh) coming also - the top member (I guess "who has the most fruends") of a society is presented with a guaranteed beta spot.
More info here: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/...Secret-War-Guaranteed-Beta-Access.html/page/1
What is The Secret World:
The Secret World is a massively multiplayer online world with a unique modern-day setting and unparalleled freedom of character progression.
Imagine if every myth, conspiracy theory and urban legend was true. Imagine a world where you can become anything you want to be, without restrictions such as classes or levels.
This is the premise for The Secret World, Funcom’s upcoming massively multiplayer online game set in the modern-day real world.
Developer: Funcom
Creative Director & Producer: Ragnar Tornquist
Publisher: EA
More infos about the features.
Secret Societies:
As a new initiate of The Secret World, you must choose your allegiance with care, for your choice will forever decide the future of humankind.
In a world where every conspiracy theory, every myth, fable and urban legend is true, three ancient societies pull the strings and decide our fate.
Forced into alliance by circumstance, they stand united against the rising darkness, but remain divided in pursuit of power.
What faction do you belong? Take the intiation test.
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Latest Videos:
Developer Diary - World and Setting
Developer Diary - Story and Missions
CGI Trailer #4
Gameplay Demo of The Savage Coast
Bonus Gifs:
Gif 1, Gif 2 , Gif 3, Gif 4, Gif 5
I am going to update the thread as often as possible. The game will also be shown at PAX next week so maybe we are getting more infos there as well.
Update regarding bussiness model:
During today's quarterly financial presentation Funcom presented the initial overview on the planned business model for The Secret World.
At the presentation we revealed that The Secret World will feature a traditional paid subscription model combined with micro-transactions through an in-game store. This information was provided as part of Funcom's financial forecast going forward, and no further details were given due to the fact that we are still working on finalizing the model.
We are very excited about introducing an in-game store already from launch. Being able to integrate the store into the actual design of the game pre-launch gives us opportunities you do not normally get when introducing a store after you have launched a game.
We will be revealing more information about the store at a later date, but what we can say for now is that it will focus mostly on convenience item and character customization items such as clothing - of which The Secret World will offer a ton of variety! As developers we are being very careful in making sure that items purchased through the store does not give players any unfair advantage against those who do not use the in-game store.
Character power in The Secret World will be determined by how well you play the game, not how much money you are willing to put into it. Funcom already has considerable experience with in-game stores such as these and we have previously implemented these systems without damaging game balance in our other games, and as such we are confident the same will be true for The Secret World.
We look forward to revealing more about the in-game store as we progress towards launch!