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The future of MMOs are non-MMOs?
nariusseldon
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and I quote:
"Perhaps it is natural for MMOs to die off. There’s one problem with this idea, though, and that is the fact that MMOs aren’t dying – they’ve just changed. Wilhelm and I may automatically think of MMOs as WoW, Eve, Everquest, SW:TOR and the like – but honestly, those aren’t the only MMOs out there. You might think that there have been no truly successful MMOs launched since 2004, but I know at least a couple titles that would disagree."
"Destiny, for one. The Division, for another. It isn’t that MMOs are dying, it’s that the concepts that made MMOs revolutionary and distinct from all other gaming experiences in the days of 2003 and 2004 are now bread and butter for the gaming industry as a whole. Persistent progression for characters, always-online requirements, levels, loot, dungeons and bosses and raids? All those things exist in varying forms and ways in a half dozen AAA titles at this point."
"Sure, you know and I know and every blogger knows what you mean when you say ‘MMO’, but honestly we’re just the old fogies holding onto old definitions that are being constantly undermined by progress and innovation."
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so is 7 days to die for that matter, and Rust
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THE FUTURE OF FLYING IS NOT FLYING!!
just /facepalm
If you come here for the entertainment value much like stupid videos boy does this deliver.
Beat that dead horse Nari, you beat it good...
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The genre is FPS, RPG, RTS and the like.
The problem here is people confusing the delivery mechanism with the genre and trying to talk about a genre using the delivery mechanism.
WOW in an MMORPG.
The Division is a MPFPS. (although from playing it myself it is more like a SPFPS).
an RPG shooter that is online...snore
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The future of online games is almost limitless though...
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Sure, it may hold opinions opposed to some here, but hey ... you don't think we should only read articles that agree with us, do you?
You mean a SUCCESSFUL RPG shooter that you don't like, but like by many?
Sure, you can try. Incidentally, are you one of those described by the author of the article? And i quote:
"but honestly we’re just the old fogies holding onto old definitions that are being constantly undermined by progress and innovation."
surely not paid to say that regarding a system that is basically Fallout 4 online (RPG + shooter + online)
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In fact, isn't Borderland 1 & 2 kind of like that? Those are very successful games too. May be the marginalization of "proper" MMO starts right then.
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nor do I have any idea what your point is
what does more fun or less fun of a 'proper' MMO have to do with the standard understanding of what an MMO is?
I think a motorcycle is more fun then a car, does that then mean a motorcycle should now be called a car?
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"The future of MMOs are non-MMOs?"
Hitting the bottom of the barrel are we?not a direct quote but pretty dang close to what I read today
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