I would say the last few years have been stagnant. Nothing really revolutionary has been released. Companies are playing it safe sticking to the "whatever works for other companies" models. With the explosion of browser timer/microtransaction MMOs and F2P I think many games will convert to F2P.
Much more money to be made of people impulse purchasing tons of item mall stuff every month instead of just getting 15.00 for subscriptions. Even Blizzard is in on it with the mounts, pets, etc in their item mall.
Don't be terrorized! You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder! More people die every year from prescription drugs than terrorism LOL!
Gaming has been on the decline for years. Technically they have become more advanced but the game play has become more and more shallow and less complex. The entire gaming industry has been progressively dumbing down titles.
Why? Well to appeal to the (younger) masses which in general have a short attention span and pretty stupid.
So yeah, this year will be a bad year and every other year until developers start creating better and richer games and have that as a priority instead of just making more and more money.
To further extrapolate on this,
No patience
No problem solving skills
Raised on console gameplay
And yet all research shows that "kids these days" are smarter than ever...
You know who you are? -You are the MMORPG elderly living in a home, gawking out the window and wondering aloud "Where the world has come to?".
The world keeps on moving forward with or without you.
Care to share your sources for all this research, because the sources i read say different. If you just spend 5 minutes on google you find that your statement is completely false. You can't just come here and make stuff up to fit your agenda. You are going to be called out on it, thats how forums work, buddy.
"The 'high-level thinking' skills of 14-year-olds are now on a par with those of 12-year-olds in 1976."
"Previous research by Professor Shayer has shown that 11-year-olds' grasp of concepts such as volume, density, quantity and weight appears to have declined over the last 30 years."
"The study reviewed test scores of 800 thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds and compared them with similar tests of teens from 1976, a generation ago. The results? In one test, only one in ten of the current teens tested with top scores, down from one in four twenty years ago. In another, only one in twenty reached the top score compared to one in five from the 1976 batch. Professor Michael Shayer, who lead the study, believes the educational focus on testing (rather than learning) is at least partially to blame."
Here's some more data:
The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs commissioned a civic education poll among public school students. A surprising 77% didn't know that George Washington was the first President; couldn't name Thomas Jefferson as the author of the Declaration of Independence, and only 2.8% of the students actually passed the citizenship test. Along similar lines, the Goldwater Institute of Phoenix did the same survey and only 3.5% of students passed the civics test.
On the eve of the Iraq War, 69% of American's thought Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks; four years later, even though proof had been provided that he was not, 34% still believe he was.
18% of Americans still believe that the sun revolves around the earth, according to a Gallup poll.
According to another poll, the average American voter believes that U.S. foreign aid consumes 24% of the Federal budget, when it is only 1%.
The American Association of State Colleges and Universities report on education shows that the U.S. ranks second among all nations in the proportion of the population aged 35-64 with a college degree, but 19th in the percentage of those aged 25-34 with an associates or high school diploma, which means that for the first time, the educational attainment of young people will be lower than their parents'.
In a Newsweek poll, of U.S. citizens, 29% couldn't identify Joe Biden as the Vice President, and 44% couldn't describe the Bill of Rights.
In a 2009 survey of a number of European countries and the U.S. on international affairs, a significant majority of Europeans could identify the Taliban, and just over 50% of Americans could, despite the heavy presence of the U.S. in Afghanistan.
Researcher Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William & Mary analyzed 300,00 Torrance Creativity Test scores of children and adults in the US. Kim found creativity and IQ scores rose steadily until 1990, and were in decline thereafter, and the most serious decline occurring for the youngest children.
In 1966-67, approximately 1.4 million students who took the verbal portion of the S.A.T and a score of 700 or more was achieved by 33,000 students. In 1986-87 over 1.8 million students took the test and a score of 700 or higher was attained by fewer than 14,000.
A new global study of educational systems in major nations ranks U.S. 15 year olds 14th in the world in reading skills, 17th in science and 25th (below average) in math.
According the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress, 68% of public school children in the U.S. do not read proficiently by the time they finish third grade. And the U.S. News & World reported that barely 50% of students are ready for college level reading.
Of the 21 countries participating in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, American high school seniors did better than only 2 countries--Cyprus and South Africa.
According to the National Endowment for the Arts report in 1982, 82% of college graduates read novels or poems for pleasure; two decades later only 67% did. And more than 40% of Americans under 44 did not read a single book--fiction or nonfiction--over the course of a year. The proportion of 17 year olds who read nothing (unless required by school ) has doubled between 1984-2004.
Renowned T.V. producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who has produced many successful T.V. shows, was once quoted as saying, "it is getting harder and harder to underestimate the intelligence of the American public. It now averages well below the previous 6th grade level."
...and many many more.
I suppose this is the main reason why most wannabe MMO gamers can only handle World of Warcraft :P
Like many, not currently playing an MMO. Tried several in the last couple years, both sub and "F2P" and not a one was worth the bandwidth to download. I guess I would be considered an "older" mmo gamer and played and enjoyed the pre-WoW generation of games extensively. Since then, not much has come out worth a damn. I do not see 2013 to be any different.
I like what's in there... but I don't like how you wrapped it....
Yes : one should only trust his own experience to judge a game (or anything)
Yes : todays games and even our dear MMORPGs are mainly piece of crap.
Yes : the vast majority of the editors out there just think about the next way to milk us.
Yes ; there have been and there will be tons of scams. Hell, I wish bad things to a lot of poeples in the modern videogame industry (read : buisness)
Yes : things have gone even more crazy ! poeples are trying to milk kids with an impressive amount of F2P-scam-games all around phones and home consoles but it's okay and keeps growing !
BUT NO
We must not give up "hope" and loose "faith". By asking poeples to stop giving money for games in developement (or to stop kickstarting or anything similar) you are only going to help the very same crew that ruined hard-core videogaming.
20 to 10 years ago they were still room for "ideas" and "concepts" and poeples with a great game concept could allways borrow the money and/or try to sell their idea to a game editor.
What about now ? go try to get a loan to create a video-game. I mean a decent loan, not an overrated one or some scam...
Sorry I know my english is horrible but what I mean is nothings comes out of nothing...
so
YES : please don't be a sheep and stop feeding the scammers. No matter theyr name, size and "legitimity"
but
NO : Do not definitly lock your wallet ! Please keep supporting project YOU think are worth it.
Old school french hardcore whiner. Online since T4C.
I was "Namless" and "Daroot" in AO (Rk2) Been known as "Vindicar" (Aion (EU), SWTOR (EU), WoW (EU). Recently Known as "Wundicar" and "Wundee" in Age of Wushu (US) and Wulin (EU)
Franky Rivera Reyes , From the Reyes Brotherhood (Star Citizen)
there are around 6-7 major mmorpgs scheduled for this year, yet you say that it's a bad year for mmorpgs?
look op, i will play the games and decide for myself if i want to continue to support them. I don't need a negative-cheerleader like you to tell others what they should and shouldn't support.
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I would say the last few years have been stagnant. Nothing really revolutionary has been released. Companies are playing it safe sticking to the "whatever works for other companies" models. With the explosion of browser timer/microtransaction MMOs and F2P I think many games will convert to F2P.
Much more money to be made of people impulse purchasing tons of item mall stuff every month instead of just getting 15.00 for subscriptions. Even Blizzard is in on it with the mounts, pets, etc in their item mall.
Don't be terrorized! You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder! More people die every year from prescription drugs than terrorism LOL!
I suppose this is the main reason why most wannabe MMO gamers can only handle World of Warcraft :P
Oh yeah !
TO ARMS !
@ the OP :
I like what's in there... but I don't like how you wrapped it....
Yes : one should only trust his own experience to judge a game (or anything)
Yes : todays games and even our dear MMORPGs are mainly piece of crap.
Yes : the vast majority of the editors out there just think about the next way to milk us.
Yes ; there have been and there will be tons of scams. Hell, I wish bad things to a lot of poeples in the modern videogame industry (read : buisness)
Yes : things have gone even more crazy ! poeples are trying to milk kids with an impressive amount of F2P-scam-games all around phones and home consoles but it's okay and keeps growing !
BUT NO
We must not give up "hope" and loose "faith". By asking poeples to stop giving money for games in developement (or to stop kickstarting or anything similar) you are only going to help the very same crew that ruined hard-core videogaming.
20 to 10 years ago they were still room for "ideas" and "concepts" and poeples with a great game concept could allways borrow the money and/or try to sell their idea to a game editor.
What about now ? go try to get a loan to create a video-game. I mean a decent loan, not an overrated one or some scam...
Sorry I know my english is horrible but what I mean is nothings comes out of nothing...
so
YES : please don't be a sheep and stop feeding the scammers. No matter theyr name, size and "legitimity"
but
NO : Do not definitly lock your wallet ! Please keep supporting project YOU think are worth it.
Old school french hardcore whiner. Online since T4C.
I was "Namless" and "Daroot" in AO (Rk2)
Been known as "Vindicar" (Aion (EU), SWTOR (EU), WoW (EU).
Recently Known as "Wundicar" and "Wundee" in Age of Wushu (US) and Wulin (EU)
Franky Rivera Reyes , From the Reyes Brotherhood (Star Citizen)
there are around 6-7 major mmorpgs scheduled for this year, yet you say that it's a bad year for mmorpgs?
look op, i will play the games and decide for myself if i want to continue to support them. I don't need a negative-cheerleader like you to tell others what they should and shouldn't support.
i agree with most of it, except the aoc part.
for me it started really with swtor