#and mmo would be the opposite of where i'd go with it tho

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Just catching up on Summer Game Fest. Who thought a Dune MMO would be a good idea? I just watched the trailer and am bamboozled by the whole concept.

"What if Jessica had a daughter?" She would get married to Feyd Rautha and have a monster baby the end

"This is the only good timeline" directly contradicts the concept of the books, in which canon timeline is the closest anyone will get to a good option

But the main thing is that you're making an MMO out of an IP in which worldbuilding was NOT a priority for the creator. The logic of the world doesn't make sense, Herbert didn't really need to elaborate on how the scope or impact of anything work, how the tech works, anything like that. The stuff that holds the world of Dune together are rubber bands made of themes, introspection, and drugs. So rather than developing a tightly controlled linear story, Funcom are opting for placing the world front and centre in a game that will need updated content, seemingly restricted to Arrakis. It just feels like not the right direction to doing the books any justice.

Also I guess we'll just breeze past "the only good timeline is the one where we finished the job and exterminated all the Fremen" like!!!! Okay!!!!