The Agency

[Tbone]

Wow, a website. Actually, DCUO looks kinda...lame. lol. But I haven't done much research on it.

[Anonymous]

Kind of veering off topic aren't we?

[Phienyx]

Kind of veering off topic aren't we?

Yes, but it doesn't sound like there is any additional information on The Agency from our end or the dev end.

[Lits]

Who exactly is in charge of keeping track of updates?

[Adad]

I'd just play to hang out with batman...

[Phienyx]

I have to admit, an MMO where everyone in the world is a superhero kinda defeats the purpose of being a super hero for one and is just plain lame for another.  I would never play it.

[Adad]

but you can hang with batman!

[Lithium]

Found this, its a week old, but,

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/292/feature/2359/A-Day-in-the-Life-of-An-Agency-Intern-Part-One

(Sounds like we need to get her in the faction when we go live for this game, hahah, yeah. The name eris or something like that comes to mind, hahaha.)

[Anamodiel]

I was doing some perusing around about the Agency because I have nothing to do tonight, and I found this forum. It isn't official, but, so far, two Agency game developers have signed on to the forum and posted multiple times (but not with any information about the Agency). This place seems to have a good array of information about the Agency and seems to stay pretty updated (plus, it has information from Fan Faire that hasn't really circulated that well among many of the gaming sites that we've been looking at), so I figured that I would give you guys the link.

http://forums.massivehq.com/index.php

You don't need to register to view the forums (at least I didn't), so I wouldn't bother unless you REALLY feel like posting there. However, since I think that we're still trying to keep everything of what we're doing under wraps, you might want to use an alias if you do end up registering.

Happy readings!

[Lits]

Sweet, thanks Ana

[Anamodiel]

This may not be entirely relevant or related to the Beta/release of The Agency, but Free Realms (another SOE MMO) is now sending out Beta invites.

From many of the interviews throughout The Agency's short history, the developers have commented on maybe following Free Realms decision to use transaction-based payments (rather than pay-per-month). They said that they would monitor how it does before they come to a final decision. This is hypothetical on my part, but I'd like to wager a guess that we'll see the Beta of the Agency near the time that Free Realms decides to go Gold (give or take a few weeks).

Of course, I could be entirely wrong, and we could see the Beta invites sent out in the next few weeks for the Agency for all I know.

[Phienyx]

Have any of you seen this yet:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/87525-The-Agency-Has-Not-Been-Cancelled-Yet

[Tbone]

Even if it gets axed for the PS3, I'm sure it'll still be developed for the PC. Maybe they took it off the queue since there is no set release date yet. There was a link someone else had which blogs about an intern who just started working on The Agency. I imagine as long as that is still being updated, The Agency is alive.

[Phienyx]

Very true, but they sure aren't doing much to encourage people's interest.

[Jeyk]

Heh, I guess this is why we haven't seen much at these recent shows...they were too busy working on the game!  Apparently we'll see something next Summer.

http://kotaku.com/5095570/the-agency-underground-emerges-next-summer