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So what happen?
Maurgrim
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Battle Royal are the new thing, survival games are like locust cropping up everywhere, so what happen to the good old classic MMORPGs?
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Also, there has never been more options to play old MMORPGs than right now and this is increasing (Classic Wow releasing in summer). Some modern, yet true MMORPGs are in development right now too.
I find the only people concerned are the one's expecting the big developers to continue their focus on MMOs. I find this odd considering they are the ones who destroyed the genre to being with.
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It's never been about being the majority audience. The emphasis on a majority audience ruined the genre.
We only have Classic Wow to reveal the interest in subscription MMORPG gaming. We merely wait and see.
Some of you will use hollow predictions to try and prove otherwise. To that I say, wait and see, wait ... and ... see. It's not far off.
F2P players who play for free are powerless lemmings of the industry and they get the games they get now because of this.
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Would make bouncing between multiple games much easier.
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More loading screen, less open world.
More lag in mass player battles.
Less RPG, less social gameplay, less non-fighting skills, less skills overall.
Less long quest lines.
More anonymity through mega servers.
Everything got tuned down except of the graphics.
Vanguard was the last real MMORPG, everything afterwards was just a RPG light with zones, tuned down roleplay elements and 15min instanced dungeon crawler gameplay. Where the open world and quests are just a necessary evil to get into the instanced dungeon endgame instead of the main attraction.
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It won't be more than a pit stop on my way to playing Classic this summer however.
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Also, I prefer to try games with a trial before i sub.
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Philosophy of MMO Game Design
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Personally labels have been a joke,devs just call their game whatever they want even if it does very little to support what they call it.
Example.how can you call yourself a rpg if you don't have any housing of any kind,it's like dumbfounded.
i guess my point is the same as it always has been,I don't want crappy old game designs,those were nice for that era because it was about the best they could muster at the time.Develoeprs are capable now of soooooo much more and sadly a survival game is taking the steps forward.These survival games from Snail were actually an idea 10 years ago with Dark N light,so they were light years ahead of the rest in THINKING and being creative and still after 10 years we get crap that looks like baldur's gate with locked cameras ,puny models,nothing looks real or immersive,just real bad cheap games.
Then the common argument i hear often is "you know how costly that design would be?".Well it shows you how clueless people are because i GUARANTEE Wildcard studios didn't spend squat making their games and went about it the fast way by using other people's work like nvidia physx and the Unreal engine.Now a days licensing is WAY more doable than in the past,now licenses are cheap and offered in forms of incentives and based on your success instead of one large payment.
So let me put Blizzard in the dumpster yet again.You know and i know how much money that corporation has locked up with Activision,can you imagine if they had the brains and care to make a great game the kind of game they could do would vault miles over what Wildcard studios did with Atlas but NO NO<Blizzard would rather make god awful cheap ass games because the turnover profit is so high and fast.
"Whahoppen?"Developers became greedy and cheap at the same time,they could be giving us 5 star rated games but choose not to.
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With Albion and SotA, these are the only two I know to be out?
The genre has become rather tired, innovation occurs much more frequenlty and becomes taken up across the board in solo games. Look at the way SoM infulenced its genre and how quickly that gameplay was put into other games of its ilk. MMORPG's have great ideas which do not become standard from buddy levelling systems to RvR.