Ian The Great said:
Fun? MoH: Heroes is the most boring online I have ever played honestly. But they did do as good a job as possible for their first try.In what you quoted I have already disproved your point
What? MoH is a big title for EA ,of course they are going to put time and money into the game. Just because they have the assets and the ability to publish the game doesn't mean there going to take it on.
Money is not the issue
Don't be silly of course it is High Voltage can't be throwing money around they will need the extra help (moneywise) they need to make a profit (or at least break even or build a good fanbase for a sequel).
Also, there is a market for FPS's on Wii: Metroid Prime 3 sold over 1 million fairly quickly, and that's despite the fact that there was next to no promotion for it.
I'm talking about the hardcore FPS fans have moved to x-box (lets face it x-box crushes the wii in the FPS department). Metroid is a nintendo game most buyers would be fans of the series and not FPS nuts.
Whether you found it boring online (I do not) is subjective, what is important is that they were willing to put that effort in to a Wii game, as you said.
Also, MoH: Heroes is NOT a big title for EA. It is a minor, spin off franchise. It was upgraded for Wii from a PSP project. Ungraded well, but certainly not something they were going to put a lot of effort into.
In other words: online doesn't require that much effort. Majesco have also gone on record to say its easy to make it on Wii. The reason for lack of online is that devs are not just being cheap, but incredibly lazy too. High Voltage are clearly not being lazy.
I would also argue, financially speaking, that they believe they are opening up a market: competition leads to progress when someone raises the bar. This game came about because other projects proved what was possible graphically (MP3) and in gameplay (MoH:H2) while this game attempts to raise the bar on both and create a new market for the stuff, since a fair few 360/PS3 owners have a Wii too, I'll bet.