Well it seems that GW decision to adopt the Crowdforging system of making a MMO is being picked up by several developers to use in making their games.
In a Dev hangout (chat) done Wed, Richard Garriot, who is creating Shroud of the Avatar came right out and said that they were definitely going to have the same level of community involvement as GW in creating SotA.
Mark Jacobs has been saying for some time how he plans to bring the community into the creation of Camelot Unchained, the successor to DAOC.
I'm really excited to see these companies take this approach. Both companies are also using Kickstarter so they won't be as "under the thumb" of a publisher as usual. Honestly I'm unsure if a studio could use Crowdforging to create a game while a big name publisher like EA is involved.
I thought it was interesting that we now have 3 games being made with input from the players.
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I thought it was interesting that we now have 3 games being made with input from the players.
& eventually output from the players too, with UDC!
A new mmorpg announced, Divergence Online also the devs mention they want players in early:
MMORPG: How soon could backers expect to see the game in its beta or finished stages?
Ethan Casner: At least six months, but what we're considering “beta”, but with the way our development process works we're planning on having contributors actually logging into the game much much sooner than that. Our way of saying “thank you” to our contributors is a sort of “module-based development practice”, wherein we plan to let people log in and test individual functions within the game as they're developed instead of waiting for the entire game to be ready. One week players might be throwing punches, the next they could be digging holes in the ground and placing harvesters. We want our community and following to grow along with the game.