Your comment bout the UI are understandable, but what with getting a char designer from LUCT? Are they any better? I highly doubt it tho.

Well, afaik, Fung Wan online is the only game developed in 100% in Malaysia, by Malaysian. So Im not sure why a poster ask why theres no other genre. FYI, Fung Wan online started many years ago, unfortunately it been delayed for quite sometime. Its only fair to say that we didnt follow the Korean, coz the idea came out far earlier than that. Its just came out late. Unfortunately.

And theres a poster said making an MMOG is easy, well, either you are ignorance or really good at it. Fung Wan Online was created from zero. We had a bunch of great programmer to build the game engine from scratch. We start from nothing, and yet we succeed in coming out with a playable game, I think the developer deserve credit for that, even the game not selling well. If it was easy, why not you do one rather than talking crap?

Theres no 100% pure local developer in this country, so how can Codemasters kill them? But one thing for sure, Codemasters will bring more exposure to the local developer. Altho they are mainly dealing with providing 3D asset to the main UK HQ, nonetheless, the local game modeller will/did learn something from that. Its a great experience. I highly doubt there would be any local company or new starter will dare to touch the next-gen game. So its good in a way that Codemasters are here to provide such exposure.

But there are some peoples/companies will have problem with Codemasters. They claim that Codematers grab all their employees, well did they know why? Surely they did. They pay them RM2k and require them to work like hell. Now those that had been torture bad enough went to seek better employment and gain better experience that had a lot AAA titles under their belt. Dont see anything wrong with it. The local industry doesnt revolve around few employer, its so unfair to the employees. If the employers are treating the employees good enough, I highly doubt they will go away. The logic.

If Codemasters isint helping the local industry, then who will? We cant expect local company to help themself. Couple years back, an local game magazine (dont want to mention the name of the magazine coz I think its affiliated with this forum, go figure) made a review on Outpost, publish by local company (which obtain RM61 mill fund, so go figure again), and said its one of the must play game along with WoW and other big titles. I do ask, anyone here tried Outpost before or even heard of it? I tried it, and it was crap. But why such a good review? Are they trying to help the local publisher to gain more popularity? Then I found out that the game publisher had a numbers of advertisement in the magazine, so hence the good review. So you see, its all bout the money. Malaysian cant escape that mentality. Thats why we are still lacking way behind.

bman was rite bout mismanagement and corruption, IMO. How come a company can get RM61 mill of fund and yet continually came out with with crappy game (which they bought cheaply from Korea and China), but no authorities made any inquiry bout it? Corruption didnt happen? Whats say you? If this body that controlled the fund isint really helping, then who will? And now some people are blaming Codemastes killing the local game industry, the irony.

If Codemasters is bad news for local game industry, what is good news?