Where did it all go so wrong, MMO genre?
Where did it all go so wrong, MMO genre?
Michael Miller
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Ian Cooper
Wow bc
Jayden White
People stopped caring about fun and only cared about bigger numbers. Devs and players alike.
David Howard
The inherent problem with the MMO genre is that it has a highlander situation going on, there can only be one.
Obviously, there can be multiple "alive" MMOs at any given time but any good MMO thrives on having not just a robust population, but a fucking massive one. It's why World of Warcraft and Everquest even worked in the first place. How could you run full raids to hit up the world dragons if each server couldn't house a city population? How can you have active world pvp if only a few people are leveling at any given time? How can you have a dynamic economy and lively guilds without the people to engage in them?
The more MMOs there are, the less the MMO genre works. This is further worsened by the introduction of massively multiplayer online games that aren't RPGs like mobas.
The MMORPG (in any style where a truly big game like WoW could come again) genre is dead and its never coming back. Its a relic of a specific time and place where the internet and internet gaming just started hitting its pace and everyone wanted to take a part in it.
Dylan Butler
I remember the whole fun of vanilla wow. Leveling up and seeing a level 30 and thinking wow holy shit. Seeing a fully geared level 60 and being in awe.
Questing and exploring shit I had no knowledge on.
Now u can buy a almost full levelled character and everything is shoehorned into the easiest way possible.
They just catered for the lazy cunts who pay money instead of keeping it sacred
Daniel Morris
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best explanation
Logan Johnson
You are retarded. Even giant MMOs like WoW or Everquest never had more than a few thousand players on any server. You don't need a million fucking people to fill a server.
Jace Allen
Basically this. Everyone wants instant gratification. It doesn't help that companies care more about making quick buck from the .1% whale population than having a long-running game that's successful. People will just jump ship into the next new shiny MMO when it happens.
VR is the last hope for MMOs.
Andrew Hernandez
Because they keep doing the same stupid shit over and over again. People can only stomach so much before getting bored of something.
Cooper Thomas
You just got old and bitter
I'll enjoy my FFXIV that me and my friends put thousands of hours into while you go and sulk about your old school days being a NEET in FFXI.