Obsidian working on new Free-to-Play MMORPG with Allods Online Devs

Not content with their recent $3.986,929 Kickstarter success Project Eternity, Obsidian Entertainment has been announced as the co-developers of an upcoming free-to-play MMO Skyforge. What's more, the developers will be working in conjunction with Allods Online developer Allods Team.

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Not content with their recent $3.986,929 Kickstarter success Project Eternity, Obsidian Entertainment has been announced as the co-developers of an upcoming free-to-play MMO Skyforge. What's more, the developers will be working in conjunction with Allods Online developer Allods Team.

News of the MMO broke at the KRI 2013, a Russian Game Developer's Conference I admittedly have never heard of. There was an accompanying press release regarding the announcement, but it's in Russian. If by fate and happenstance one of you speak Russian, feel free and read the writeup here and let us all know what it says.

The video above is an announcement trailer for the game that came out back in 2012, before Obsidian had become involved in the project. You can catch a glimpse of the gameplay if you start the video at 7 minutes.

Thanks, PCGamer.

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Michael Dunaway
Michael Dunaway, News Editor

Michael Dunaway has been part of the MMOBomb team for years and has covered practically every major Free-to-Play MMO title since 2009.

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Discussion (29)

Rorinel 11 years ago
This is presentation of team made them game. They speak about conception in game

Adolf H. 11 years ago
Dafuq did i just watch

golgo28 11 years ago
I see this game being a fail.First Obsidian Entertainment is a crap dev these days.The one original IP they released in the last 10 years was a flop.Filled with bugs and piss poor AI.And even IPs they worked on for other companies were less then spectacular.Second Allods dev is notorious for p2w.So much so they make PWE look less greedy.The footage didn't inspire any excitement.It looked very been there done that.But I'll wait til it releases and reserve final judgement on the game.

TailBits 11 years ago
doesn't seem too interesting

random scottish guy 11 years ago
I played allods and it was a great game but, when I found out mounts where cash shop only I just quit. What a shame what seemed like a good game ruined by a cash shop. Im not totally against cash shops I do use them but allods took it to far.

I hope they learn from there mistakes, an obsidian this could stain that company eternally and im sure they know that teaming up with the devs of allods so there might be hope.

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ugurano 11 years ago
im no played allods, but its huge pay to win

and im play wow, its better

ExHuman 11 years ago
Allods has fine graphics and good portion of humor and ultimate p2w model: there's no limit of being out of ballance. More u pay - more u OP

saikhanaa 11 years ago
i cant wait this game russian good game wooow

RapuMIes 11 years ago
Hello donate shit

Roman 11 years ago
mail.ru means anal donation. pay to play

Okofire 11 years ago
Lol for $3.986,929 i would expect much more. Looks like this will be waste of money.

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dark13f 11 years ago
Some information:
Development started in 2010
Target system (oh, sad)
Own engine
15 classes
BIG WORLD, fantasy + some futuristic technologies
When released - nobody knows
Trying to do f2p aaa mmo

I'm not interested in this game, so maybe another player from Russia will translate some new information.

Hearty 11 years ago
Well what the russian article says pretty much is, they are happy to announce that Obsidian is going to take part in the project, and there's a few words by Feargus Urquhart, the guy from Black Isle studios and Interplay who was on of the people who made the games listed - Baldur's Gate etc.
He says he's happy to take part in such a big and interesting project and that he's confident they will succeed in making a superb quality game.
Then the Allods team come in saying that Skyforge is the biggest video game project in russian history and that they are sure that they are going to and are currently setting MMO standards, and that no russian developer has ever before worked with such a high profile foreign company.

Also from what I get, the game will have 15 unique classes, and have no levels, so there will be some other kind of progression that could be related to something else other than experience. I could be wrong since russian isn't even my 3rd language. ~~

Extasist 11 years ago
another hype?

Takerukun3 11 years ago
well for all you have to hate, you have to admit it works.. pay to win seems to work because of marketing strategies... have to accept that pay to win games need to exist. they wouldn't be there if they didn't work. some people may not like them but others do, not me myself very much. i would just like the world to be accepted of pay to wins a little more. its like you condone a game because you can buy power, in the end its all casual and for fun. now if a dedicated game tailored for actual skilled players and widely known competitive play were to be pay to win.then i could understand the hate. most of these companies have nothing else to offer to competitors like WoW or LoL. they need to do these things in order to be able to compete. and also most of these game styles are catered towards eastern audiences. so god just take this stuff with a grain of salt. and go back to whatever game you like and stop making it worse for other people. like what you like.

Zac 11 years ago
Obsidian announcing yet another project, what happened to the Wheel of Time game you supposedly start making... 5 years ago? :X

Andy 11 years ago
A developer known for releasing notoriously buggy games that has no experience with MMORPG's (Obsidian) and a Russian Pay to Win developer with nothing but Allods Online to their name decide to team up to make a game. This sure doesn't sound like the A-Team to me.

Seeker of Truth 11 years ago
As far as I know, games.mail.ru is all about money-sucking p2w bs. And they dare to compare worlds with WoW? pfft -.-

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Shiunsai 11 years ago
Hope something new on this. It seemed very ordinary by the gameplay on the video.

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iEatKids 11 years ago
Mounted and i dont understand

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