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Will MMO gaming make it in the long-run?
outlaw101
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MMO gaming has been around for nearly 15 years now, commercially.
My question is, do you think it has a future.
The MMO industry makes up under 5% of entertainment online, with the PC singleplayer and Multiplayer games in their prime, where will MMO games be in 15 years? 30 years? dead? alive?
I personally believe the MMO industry wont make it, with the amount of linear titles we have out today people are getting put off, When crysis comes im out for a few months.
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There will always be an industry out there for MMO's.
Why do you think that?
"Don't hold breath about another KOTOR game coming from Bioware" - Chris Preistly
"Bioware is more intrested in pursueing development of it's own Intellectual properties"
- James Henly
Why is 5% to you a low number? perccentage wise it is, but that's still a lot of players number wise. If you are so worried about linear titles then why will Crysis have such an impact. There have always been blockbuster titles coming out over the years, none of which dealt the death to MMO.
I don't believe singleplayer or multiplayer games will kill MMO's, i believe that the industry will kill itself off with bad titles. Yes, crysis may be a great game, but it appeals to a certain audience, you won't see people leave warcraft online for crysis, because it has 2 different audiences.
"Don't hold breath about another KOTOR game coming from Bioware" - Chris Preistly
"Bioware is more intrested in pursueing development of it's own Intellectual properties"
- James Henly
There are plenty of horrible games out there from all game genres. FPS, RTS, sports...... the list goes on
None killed off the genre they disgraced.
Since I started playing MMORPG's 6 years ago I have played exactly ..... zero other games to completion.
In fact, I only play MMORPG's, and I suspect there are many others like me. Devs will keep coding games for us....
But I do think the day is coming when MMORPG's will translate in a big way to console games.....
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because bandwidth is getting cheaper and cheaper. simpler design pardigrams for multi user mangement are coming out. computer languages are bending to the will of the internet and supporting it more, and more and more extensivly.
MMO's and particularly multi-useriness is pratically a requirment for quite a few games coming out.
investors look at people paying for the same game 3-4 times every year for the monthly subscription alone. they're going look at the price of server hosting and realize that those, a maintance and update teams could easily be the same yearly price of making a single new game(while making a profit off it right then and there instead of a 3-5 year delay).
I find it amazing that by 2020 first world countries will be competing to get immigrants.
While that may be true, the number of choices for PC games outnumber MMO choices ALOT, so every a developer releases a product that doesn't meet satisfaction , people may loose hope. While this can also be applied to PC games, there are lots of titles to choose from.
"Don't hold breath about another KOTOR game coming from Bioware" - Chris Preistly
"Bioware is more intrested in pursueing development of it's own Intellectual properties"
- James Henly
Quantity does not dictate quality.
People are social creatures..We NEED interaction with others. I don't see an end to the MMO genre. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
"People are getting put off"? For people who are getting put off, they appear to joining MMORPGs (mostly WoW, granted) at an exponential rate. I don't see MMORPGs dying ever, basically. If I could be here one hundred years from now, I'd expect to see virtual reality MMORPGs going strong.
CHris Mattern
You'll be a lot more convincing when you actually have a fall-off in the number of MMORPG players to point to, instead of a massive, and accelerating, inflow of new players. It's OK, we'll wait.
Chris Mattern
i play a mix of MMO and consoles game. Personal i like non-mmos better just becuase i like the fast pace fps stuff in BF2 CS:S and Halo 3. But i like MMOs for the community and the ever changing world. It will not die out it will only go stronger as more and more different types of mmos come out.
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When cars were new, every old farmer with a screwdriver thought he could build a car and sell it and with that become a millionaire. At the same time, in the papers, people were discussing the future of the car, and it was considered a fad that would soon die , since horses carriages and trains took people places a lot better, faster and more comfortably.
After several years of development and evolution, people stopped buying any old junk just because it was new and fashionable, and suddenly demanded some sort of quality for their money. It was no longer the creators market, it was the costumers, and the farmers had to go back to their cows and building cars was now made by the scientists, the designers, the people devoted to that one area of expertise.
Today, cars are no longer a fad, its something everyone count on owning and using in their lives.
Pretty much all new science has been treated the exact same way. Something good appears, people like it, when nontalented golddiggers notice people like somehting they want a piece of the action, and they throw together any old junk that is bought by the simple and stupid people of the world, and the simple and stupid people of the world are soo proud "Look, I bought the latest thing, its great!!" No, its just new, its a golddigger trap and you fell into it.
It takes years until even the stupid people learn not to buy a shiny box, but actually start demanding quality and knowledge behind their products... and then only the scientists and the professionals survive and the product evolve to unseens heights.
The biggest enemy to quality is people that are willing to throw their money on the gold diggers. The problem for the MMOs is, it normally takes the suckers 20-30 years to learn something, and MMOs has not existed that long yet. But when a few decades has passed and the suckers have finally learned thier lesson, then MMOs will probably evolve to the ONLY game on the market. The singleplayer onedimensional lead-by-the-nose ordinary games we see today will feel as outdated as Pong.
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This is mainly the reason i play MMORPGs. Sure its cool to show off to your buddies, your maxed out characters on your Final Fantasy VII memory card. But to be able to not only brag to thousands of players at once, but also interact with these people in such a way that impacts the entire game. I personally get off on it.
I do not see the mmo genre going anywhere anytime soon or at all for that matter. Since the first few MMO's it has been a growing industry and it will only continue to grow as they become more accepted and more mainstream.
MMO's are at a young age and there is much to be explored.
Give it time and MMO's will become integrated with other systems and media.
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The production cycle for MMO's & multiplayer games in general are completely different from single player games they're also way more expensive and the market is still far more voilitle towards bad releases for MMO's then they are single player games.
The MMO train is only just getting into its stride, infact its not even reached its peak yet. Its a relatively young market compared to other gaming markets, thanks to the huge limitations that dial up posed in the past. Now with broadband taking a bigger presidence there's room to grow.
It takes time to progress and grow. Look how long it took us to get from Pong to Nintendo then slowly etcing its way into the playstation universe. While yes alot of Triple AAA titles are falling into the linear tree of doing things which to some is a step backwards to anyone who's played UO its also a good sign that the crops of newer games in production for MMO's have learned lessons from watching titles that tried to Copy WoW that copied parts of EQ and every other MMO out at the time. Its an especially good sign that many have learned lessons from watching what happened to Vanguard a game that just tried to do to much at once without any realistic timing to budget in mind.
With the increasing interest in Internet gaming MMO's and Internet friendly Multiplayer Games are the future. While you may not agree with me...IMO its blatantly obvious considering how many pc game companies are starting to take advantage of Online features more and more than ever before. It was in pc gaming's past mostly MUDS, FPS games, & some RTS games that took advantage of online ability.
You can say all you want that there are far more PC games releasing than MMO's but honestly there's far LESS PC games releasing now then there was say 5 - 8 years ago. PC game markets have learned that you can't flood the market with mediocre crap and hope to sell anything, thats best left to the console market (and even then if you make a complete piece of crap your likely to never be heard from again).
While you may not like the way that many Western triple A titles are headed there are hundreds of thousands of others that are excited to see whats next. (I dont count those crappy Korean F2P item malls to me thats just not an MMORPG, just an MMO open your wallet play time).
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I'd say MMO's will grow as it gets more accepted to actually be social over the internet.
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I'm curious how far into the future you are looking hehe. I belive one day they will have virtual reality like in the Star Trek hallow deck. MMOs will likely live on as long as people aren't satisfied with their real lives.
"Tip of the iceberg" is what it is. MMOs will grow until something new and better comes along. Holodeck anyone?
Eventually we'll all jack in and play Matrix like games. There should be some actual roleplaying then. Hopefully they'll be better than the actual Matrix Online though.
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