MMORPG Game List....

Luiden

I'm pretty sure that over the past 5 years.. maybe more, if you sort the game list at mmorpg.com by rating/hype that the first 10 games haven't changed at all.  That.. makes baby Jesus cry.

Amathe

It used to be that if you didn't like a mmorpg you were playing, you could wait 6-9 months (or less) and another big one would come out. I know I hopped from EQ to SWG to EQ2 to CoH to WoW without missing a beat.

Not these days. Big AAA mmorpgs are getting fewer and fewer. Now it's mostly MOBAs and Battle Royale games, and indie games that get worked on for many, many years. 

Luiden

And cash shops, loot boxes, scams that basically have nothing to do with a MMORPG yet they keep spending a considerable amount of development time building them.  That has hurt the industry far more than anything else.

One thing that left 10 years ago was focusing on the user experience. 

SBFord

Luiden said:

I'm pretty sure that over the past 5 years.. maybe more, if you sort the game list at mmorpg.com by rating/hype that the first 10 games haven't changed at all.  That.. makes baby Jesus cry.

It's just so sad, isn't it? It really reflects the state of the genre.

aummoid

Now try filtering the results to only include released games and sort them by date. You'll see that the real amazing thing isn't the lack of games and isn't the state of the genre but is the number of games that have come out but haven't "gotten enough votes to be rated".

Which is pretty mindblowing, for some of them. I guess the influencers in this genre haven't been getting paid recently.

Luiden

aummoid said:

Now try filtering the results to only include released games and sort them by date. You'll see that the real amazing thing isn't the lack of games and isn't the state of the genre but is the number of games that have come out but haven't "gotten enough votes to be rated".

Which is pretty mindblowing, for some of them. I guess the influencers in this genre haven't been getting paid recently.

You can't influence turds.. they still smell like turds. 

Quizzical

I think that's more a statement about the votes on this site predominantly being old.  It's kind of like votes continuing to be counted the day after the election, but not affecting the results much because most of the votes were already counted on the day of the election.

Dwaaawfful

Two ways to look at this.

1) The bigger the planet, the greater the gravity.

2) The mangier the dog, the more it attracts missiles.

Phaserlight

Luiden said:

I'm pretty sure that over the past 5 years.. maybe more, if you sort the game list at mmorpg.com by rating/hype that the first 10 games haven't changed at all.  That.. makes baby Jesus cry.

Those would be:

Final Fantasy XIV
Guild Wars 2
Warframe
Ashes of Creation
Secret World Legends
Elder Scrolls Online
Pantheon
Rift
Black Desert Online
Eden Falling

So... not all these projects are even 5 years old.  I'm not sure what you mean?  The ordered list hasn't changed, or the games themselves ranked above haven't changed?

aummoid

Luiden said:

aummoid said:

Now try filtering the results to only include released games and sort them by date. You'll see that the real amazing thing isn't the lack of games and isn't the state of the genre but is the number of games that have come out but haven't "gotten enough votes to be rated".

Which is pretty mindblowing, for some of them. I guess the influencers in this genre haven't been getting paid recently.

You can't influence turds.. they still smell like turds. 

Yeah, I'm sure that if people here tried a game and didn't like it, they would refrain from giving it a bad rating. Probably because they're just too polite.

*eyeroll*

Caffynated

aummoid said:

Now try filtering the results to only include released games and sort them by date. You'll see that the real amazing thing isn't the lack of games and isn't the state of the genre but is the number of games that have come out but haven't "gotten enough votes to be rated".

Which is pretty mindblowing, for some of them. I guess the influencers in this genre haven't been getting paid recently.

When Minecraft (one of the most popular games ever) doesn't have enough votes to be rated, you can pretty much take away that people just don't use the rating feature. So you're left with a short list of games that MMORPG.com hypes and the genre defining MMO classics.

Wizardry

I have tried to state my opinion in many different ways but to simplify it and i have mentioned this often.....$$$$/business over passionate game design.It works because the gamer's,a large majority seem dumb to the whole idea,all they see is NEW GAME..must buy..must play gimme gimme.

I see the young kids around 20-27 in the truck in the morning and all they need to see is a marketing video and they are sold,OH MAN that looks COOL,i'm getting it.No reasoning,no common sense,just it's look cool i'm buying it.So my point is that the market is for the most part a VERY easy sell,developers don't need to create great games,just offer what the other guy is selling and people will buy it.

it is sort of like computer hardware,just give them a small improvement each year and people will buy it,even if the purchase makes no sense,it is NEW,must have.

Cell phones,something wrong with the one you had last year,nope but that new one just came out,MUST buy gimme gimme.People will find the most minute reason to warrant buying something new...oh oh that car has 5 horsepower more than last years model,i'm trading this one in and buying that one.I can get 5 frames per second more,i'm buying that new card.

pretty simple really,people are very archaic in how they think,more like robots and puppets very systematic and very little logic used.