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There Will be another MMO that unifies the masses
sludgebeard
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Even now it looms in the distance, baiting the enemy with howls of PvE emphasis and hacking teeth of enameled group dynamics.
listen....
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Is it a secret ?
Tried to work out which game you might be hinting at but got nothing
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Is that what he's talking about? Really....
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There won't be such a thing, for the same reason you probably hate this music. lol
No
Uh, I think you mean "created" the market.
WoW had 10x the concurrent users of peak UO and peak EQ COMBINED at launch. Many of those subscribers they pulled from other games, as the old MMO's peaks were just prior to WoW. At WoW's peak it was something like 20-30 times. (12 million vs 520k-ish)
I don't like it but it's clear as day why everyone copies it and why none of these MMOs make their target. A huge portion of the MMO market came from WoW and will go back to WoW.
To OP: Yes there will be a game in the future that will draw a huge amount of the market, and hold their attention for longer than 3 months, but I don't think it's going to be soon. If you have a game in mind, I'm sure you're wrong, because I know of nothing in the works that could have held the market. SWTOR was probably the latest, strongest contender, ruined by an early launch and the fact that it was not really designed to even be an MMO in the first place. ESO and Wildstar COULD have done it, but again, early launch and the companies just didn't have the drive to see it through.
I'm pretty sure people don't WANT WoW. Companies make it similar enough to draw everyone's attention, and then they go back to the real thing (or not, since WoW itself is emulating other MMOs unsuccessfully now) because it's just a cheap imitation. Many games that try to distance themselves make the games way too approachable to be fun for most people, even though people claim to WANT casual / accessible. It's very difficult to make a game like UO or EQ where people can try to do what they want and just get completely lost in the age of Google where you can just type in whatever question you have and get it answered. Or, in most cases, ask global and inbetween the trolling get an answer quickly...
Take another look, you are getting closer...
Hilarious
No, you're mistaken. For the first year it was lucky to break 400k simultaneous subscribers. At EQ's peak it had 150k to 200k. UO had similar figures with their pve server fiasco. So it was a little over 1x both combined.
Is the mystery MMO Pantheon?
Uh, I think you mean "created" the market.
WoW had 10x the concurrent users of peak UO and peak EQ COMBINED at launch. Many of those subscribers they pulled from other games, as the old MMO's peaks were just prior to WoW. At WoW's peak it was something like 20-30 times. (12 million vs 520k-ish)
I don't like it but it's clear as day why everyone copies it and why none of these MMOs make their target. A huge portion of the MMO market came from WoW and will go back to WoW.
No it didn't,Wow wasn't that big at release. Eq was the biggest mmo at the time with a peak of 500k. Most of wow earlier player base came from other mmo gamers and not blizzards fans they didn't get it at first. Early Wow was a pretty niche experiance even though it was the second of the type of mmo we see today with quest hubs and all. Eq2 was the first true theme park mmo it came out before Wow.So...wait. Its a sandbox and a themepark? Did you go off your meds today?
I'd need to see real evidence EQ1 ever topped 200k.
We also had dial-up when EQ was launched. Not everyone even had computers. The market for such a game was much smaller.
oh, well if you're talking about EQ launch it was more like 20k. It didn't get over 100k until the first expansion, Kunark. Also, in 99, I had cable internet, 2 rigs and a router so my gf could play in the same room. Alot of people still had dial-up, though, true, and alot of people still had rigs with the side panel removed, blowing air from a box fan propped against it...
laugh now realize later.
I've played ESO, Its nothing special.
According to the everquest Wikipedia page, the last reported sub numbers by Sony were on Jan 14, 2004 at over 430,000. Its Wikipedia so take it with a grain of salt and I cant find the original link and the one on Wikipedia is broken.