The Secret World Team Details Plans for Future

If there's one problem most every MMO seems to run into it's a lack of content. Despite having only been out a week, Funcom announced today a plan to add new content every month to The Secret World, with the first update coming July 31st. No specific details are available about what the first update will include, but the press release did detail some bigger picture ideas Ragnar Tornquist, Senior Producer and Writer on The Secret World, first wrote in his initial 'State of the Game' forum post:

• Monthly mission packs, including a slew of new investigation mission


• New weapons (including a big one that will cause even bigger explosions!)


• Raids (clue for the first one: The Big Apple will never be the same)


• Expanded character customization, including plastic surgery


• A player vs. player dungeon set in an entirely new geographical area


• Dungeon finder tool to make grouping for dungeons much easier


• Seasonal events such as Halloween and Winter Solstice


• Two large adventure areas including new characters, missions, monsters, lore and more


• More social gameplay will be added to the London hub


• Combat will be enhanced significantly both visually and mechanically

Many of the planned updates are pretty standard for MMOs, but the monthly update schedule is quite ambitious. Tornquist went into more detail, writing:

The first few packs will contain new investigations for every adventure zone in the game -- but we also have more action and sabotage missions planned for the near future. These missions will feature fully voiced cut-scenes and new media pop-ups, and will match the quality of the missions currently in the game. Oh, and like everything else in our monthly updates, these packs are FREE for our subscribers!

How are you feeling about The Secret World so far? Does the prospect of regular content make you want to keep playing? Maybe start for the first time?

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Source : ign[dot]com