I was waiting for AION, but after playing in the betas, it just wasnt for me. Anyone know what the next big MMO is supose to be? I dont like sci-fi etc, I prefer more fantasy kinda like EQ/War/WoW/AoC etc. Thanks!
I'm guessing whatever Blizz has planned. They hit gold with WoW and now I'm betting that since they're seeing what MMO players want more of, what's working and what's not they'll create a near perfect storm.
Before that, Hello Kitty Online will be the biggest game.
Originally posted by GTwander:
How are you an MMO? Or any of us for that matter?
I say we strike all users from the site for not being MMOs.
No idea, though I'm personally keeping an eye open on several developers & hoping their projects turn out to be quality products.
Just because something is popular it doesn't mean it is also good, each game will have an audience, & it wont necessarily be the best game that becomes the most popular, because which is best is very subjective & down to personal tastes. MMO are only equatable in the very loosest sense with other forms of entertainment & are much more organic, it's as much to do with the way the developers grow the game after release as it is about initial box sales.
There will be many good AAA MMO's released in coming years but if any match WoW's success I'll be very surprised, I am not even expecting Bizzard's own next MMO to equal WoW in subs.
Next really big MMO will be SW:TOR, after that I'm not sure but here's my "Hot-List"
For us who have something of the old days in mind (all pre-WOW) MMOs are pretty much dying. I loved SWG and EQ2 a long time, but everything after that was "meh", and I dont see anything on the horizon to give me that back.
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Darkfalls Expansions are nothing more than patchs for their beta client. Basically they're adding in skill caps because hackers/macroers maxed out every single skill to become uber characters who cycle through AOE's during sieges, etc...
Last expansion all they did was lower requirements for crafting some stuff and make the grind less (everyone was macroing anyway).
Darkfall is dead, I played it just recently the world is void of people. Lets scratch it off from even a remote mention anymore k?
Well, now that Champions is out I guess the next "Big MMO" would be SWTOR, FFXI, or GW2. Maybe STO as well, though I doubt it'll do as well as SWTOR.
In the meanwhile I'm going to play around with Fallen Earth, Aion, and whatever else comes out that seems like it'll offer a week or two of fun. Mostly looking forward to Jumpgate Evolution, though it's F2P.
I was waiting for AION, but after playing in the betas, it just wasnt for me. Anyone know what the next big MMO is supose to be? I dont like sci-fi etc, I prefer more fantasy kinda like EQ/War/WoW/AoC etc. Thanks!
The next big thing seems to be FFXIV and in its shadow Heroes of Telara.
Next big MMO imo is either: Blizzard's unnamed mmo project and that's assuming it's going to carry on the massive part, Guild Wars 2 which looks promising but looks almost too good to be true for no monthly fee and might carry on the shitty zone instances like Aion did so who knows, Heroes of Telara which is pretty much a shot in the dark but I'll place my chips there maybe they'll be the ones that surprise us.
Why not SW:TOR? Well the game just looks instanced like hell and they keep mentioning the words "story" and "fully voiced" over and over and over and over , like they don't have anything else to offer.
Sometimes I think that games like WoW classic/Lineage2 won't come for a long long time.
World of Warcraft is a proof that MMORPG quality should affect schedule/budget and not the other way around.
MMOs are designed to be played for years. MMOs don't have year or two dev cycles like console games.
It's almost like a new game comes out and in 1-2 months after people want something new lol.
Try to suppliment your gaming with different genres instead of waiting on MMOs the whole time.
It would drive me nuts waiting on a new game all the time with MMO dev cycles of 5+ years.
i don't understand people who can play the same games for years. how can you ignore all the new worlds to explore, to keep doing the same old repetitive crap over and over? how could ANY game be that good? i don't care how they're designed to be played, that just seems insane to me.
MMOs are designed to be played for years. MMOs don't have year or two dev cycles like console games.
It's almost like a new game comes out and in 1-2 months after people want something new lol.
Try to suppliment your gaming with different genres instead of waiting on MMOs the whole time.
It would drive me nuts waiting on a new game all the time with MMO dev cycles of 5+ years.
i don't understand people who can play the same games for years. how can you ignore all the new worlds to explore, to keep doing the same old repetitive crap over and over? how could ANY game be that good? i don't care how they're designed to be played, that just seems insane to me.
Well that's because you haven't found one that you love to play for months. Simple as that.
I'm hoping funcom's the secret world will be good because I was a huge anarchy online fan, but I know little about it and if Conan is any indication of the direction they're going in...
I was waiting for AION, but after playing in the betas, it just wasnt for me. Anyone know what the next big MMO is supose to be? I dont like sci-fi etc, I prefer more fantasy kinda like EQ/War/WoW/AoC etc. Thanks!
The next BIG mmo is already here . You must have slept through it or something (prob achieved lvl what....umm 10 in the Beta?) And that game will be/is AION. Move over WOW you are done!
The next BIG mmo will be FFXIV. All the rest are done in WOW's former glory or by shitty companies like Cryptic and will ruin any future mmo that might have had potential.
Next small but BIG in my mind right now is Fallen Earth but I'm gonna wait a couple of months for it to get a coat or two of "polish" before undertaking.
SW-TOR, Star Trek Online, will both be pretty much crap after they get through ruining the whole concept as so many developers somehow manage to do.
However in the distance there is a small gleam of light and hope for games like The Secret World, World of Darkness, Tera, ...all I can think of so far...
are you guys blind? guild wars 2 lets see, guild wars 1 has about six million copies sold (they dont sub) and at least 3 million of those players are transitioning to guild wars 2, thats already quite a player base and it is going to be one of the biggest mmo's out there with no sub, which will draw many more players its also revolutionizing grinding by booting quests and adding an event system and much more how could this game fail....
As long as you can't go out of the city without being in a group to interact, i refer to that MMO as much as i refer to Diablo as an MMO.
Idk about Darkfall, dead game is dying.... but FE may not be a "big game" when compared to giants, but I guarantee that in a year each one of the devs will be making more per month than you will cumulatively make in your entire life. While, it may not be a giant, it does fit the description of "big".
I think you overestimate the profit margins of an MMO.
Unless we are talking about casual or web-based MMOs, this is absolutely true. Mostly its due to factors like cost and risk. If a studio is dropping 30-40 million on an MMO, seeing a substantial return on that investment is fairly unikely unless they have the sheer production savvy of a place like Blizzard. However, if you are dropping $500k (or less) on a lightweight casual/web MMO... this is when you start seeing the absurd profit margins. And it's a lot easier to pull off.
My prediction is the next big MMO will be a very highly polished RMT casual web-based MMO, maybe with a $5/mo subscription model that is supplemented with an item store. It's also a lot easier to do sandbox features in high level programming languages, such as Java.
MMOs are designed to be played for years. MMOs don't have year or two dev cycles like console games.
It's almost like a new game comes out and in 1-2 months after people want something new lol.
Try to suppliment your gaming with different genres instead of waiting on MMOs the whole time.
It would drive me nuts waiting on a new game all the time with MMO dev cycles of 5+ years.
i don't understand people who can play the same games for years. how can you ignore all the new worlds to explore, to keep doing the same old repetitive crap over and over? how could ANY game be that good? i don't care how they're designed to be played, that just seems insane to me.
MMOs evolve overtime. So in reality you aren't really playing the same game if devs do their jobs.
As for new worlds to explore Most of todays MMOs stopped being worlds and tend to be more Linear maps with mini-games. This helps me stay in older games.
I played UO for four years, I believe thats the longest i've spent in one MMO. I don't consider a MMO good unless it could hold me for a year.
and APD. I could actually see this being the next wow or something. Especially if console open up as a viable platform for MMOs. This also suffers from the problem of being one of the most expensive games ever made, so if it does not turn out to be a wow killer it will go down in flames when dedts are called in. Given the fact EA is publishing it i have a feeling they smell blood and want to take it over once it keels.
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Next big MMO?
People need to stop MMO game hopping.
MMOs are designed to be played for years. MMOs don't have year or two dev cycles like console games.
It's almost like a new game comes out and in 1-2 months after people want something new lol.
Try to suppliment your gaming with different genres instead of waiting on MMOs the whole time.
It would drive me nuts waiting on a new game all the time with MMO dev cycles of 5+ years.
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Waiting For: Earthrise, Perpetuum
Next big MMO is SW:TOR, now just have to find something fun to play for the next year.
I'm guessing whatever Blizz has planned. They hit gold with WoW and now I'm betting that since they're seeing what MMO players want more of, what's working and what's not they'll create a near perfect storm.
Before that, Hello Kitty Online will be the biggest game.
Originally posted by GTwander:
How are you an MMO? Or any of us for that matter?
I say we strike all users from the site for not being MMOs.
Next big MMO....
No idea, though I'm personally keeping an eye open on several developers & hoping their projects turn out to be quality products.
Just because something is popular it doesn't mean it is also good, each game will have an audience, & it wont necessarily be the best game that becomes the most popular, because which is best is very subjective & down to personal tastes. MMO are only equatable in the very loosest sense with other forms of entertainment & are much more organic, it's as much to do with the way the developers grow the game after release as it is about initial box sales.
There will be many good AAA MMO's released in coming years but if any match WoW's success I'll be very surprised, I am not even expecting Bizzard's own next MMO to equal WoW in subs.
Next really big MMO will be SW:TOR, after that I'm not sure but here's my "Hot-List"
Named:
Unnamed
For us who have something of the old days in mind (all pre-WOW) MMOs are pretty much dying. I loved SWG and EQ2 a long time, but everything after that was "meh", and I dont see anything on the horizon to give me that back.
Maybe SWTOR, but nothing else I know of.
Next big thing?
SWTOR, GW2 or FFIX would be games in the near future (2010/early 2011) that will generate a lot of anticipation.
Of course, Blizzard has a secret project in the works and that would be the 10K pound gorilla in the room.
Outside shots, Secret World, Alganon, STO (has a big IP like TOR) and DC Universe.
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Darkfalls Expansions are nothing more than patchs for their beta client. Basically they're adding in skill caps because hackers/macroers maxed out every single skill to become uber characters who cycle through AOE's during sieges, etc...
Last expansion all they did was lower requirements for crafting some stuff and make the grind less (everyone was macroing anyway).
Darkfall is dead, I played it just recently the world is void of people. Lets scratch it off from even a remote mention anymore k?
Well, now that Champions is out I guess the next "Big MMO" would be SWTOR, FFXI, or GW2. Maybe STO as well, though I doubt it'll do as well as SWTOR.
In the meanwhile I'm going to play around with Fallen Earth, Aion, and whatever else comes out that seems like it'll offer a week or two of fun. Mostly looking forward to Jumpgate Evolution, though it's F2P.
The next big thing seems to be FFXIV and in its shadow Heroes of Telara.
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Next big MMO imo is either: Blizzard's unnamed mmo project and that's assuming it's going to carry on the massive part, Guild Wars 2 which looks promising but looks almost too good to be true for no monthly fee and might carry on the shitty zone instances like Aion did so who knows, Heroes of Telara which is pretty much a shot in the dark but I'll place my chips there maybe they'll be the ones that surprise us.
Why not SW:TOR? Well the game just looks instanced like hell and they keep mentioning the words "story" and "fully voiced" over and over and over and over , like they don't have anything else to offer.
Sometimes I think that games like WoW classic/Lineage2 won't come for a long long time.
World of Warcraft is a proof that MMORPG quality should affect schedule/budget and not the other way around.
Next big will be the one that has been existing for awhile in the shadows of all the prettier games.
Wurm Online will be the game of 2010! It has everything a mmo player wants and its hard as hell.
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i don't understand people who can play the same games for years. how can you ignore all the new worlds to explore, to keep doing the same old repetitive crap over and over? how could ANY game be that good? i don't care how they're designed to be played, that just seems insane to me.
i don't understand people who can play the same games for years. how can you ignore all the new worlds to explore, to keep doing the same old repetitive crap over and over? how could ANY game be that good? i don't care how they're designed to be played, that just seems insane to me.
Well that's because you haven't found one that you love to play for months. Simple as that.
Next big ones for me are
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Final Fantasy 14
Guild Wars 2
I'm hoping funcom's the secret world will be good because I was a huge anarchy online fan, but I know little about it and if Conan is any indication of the direction they're going in...
Oh, maybe DCU? Well, you can always hope, ok? ^^
The next BIG mmo is already here . You must have slept through it or something (prob achieved lvl what....umm 10 in the Beta?) And that game will be/is AION. Move over WOW you are done!
The next BIG mmo will be FFXIV. All the rest are done in WOW's former glory or by shitty companies like Cryptic and will ruin any future mmo that might have had potential.
Next small but BIG in my mind right now is Fallen Earth but I'm gonna wait a couple of months for it to get a coat or two of "polish" before undertaking.
SW-TOR, Star Trek Online, will both be pretty much crap after they get through ruining the whole concept as so many developers somehow manage to do.
However in the distance there is a small gleam of light and hope for games like The Secret World, World of Darkness, Tera, ...all I can think of so far...
are you guys blind?
guild wars 2
lets see, guild wars 1 has about six million copies sold (they dont sub)
and at least 3 million of those players are transitioning to guild wars 2, thats already quite a player base
and it is going to be one of the biggest mmo's out there with no sub, which will draw many more players
its also revolutionizing grinding by booting quests and adding an event system and much more
how could this game fail....
As long as you can't go out of the city without being in a group to interact, i refer to that MMO as much as i refer to Diablo as an MMO.
All i can say to that is ,I'll definatly try GW2.
Playmobil World, duh.
its a tie between legoland and hellokitty online
or whatever genious designs playboy online
Lego is going to be pissed
I think you overestimate the profit margins of an MMO.
Unless we are talking about casual or web-based MMOs, this is absolutely true. Mostly its due to factors like cost and risk. If a studio is dropping 30-40 million on an MMO, seeing a substantial return on that investment is fairly unikely unless they have the sheer production savvy of a place like Blizzard. However, if you are dropping $500k (or less) on a lightweight casual/web MMO... this is when you start seeing the absurd profit margins. And it's a lot easier to pull off.
My prediction is the next big MMO will be a very highly polished RMT casual web-based MMO, maybe with a $5/mo subscription model that is supplemented with an item store. It's also a lot easier to do sandbox features in high level programming languages, such as Java.
i don't understand people who can play the same games for years. how can you ignore all the new worlds to explore, to keep doing the same old repetitive crap over and over? how could ANY game be that good? i don't care how they're designed to be played, that just seems insane to me.
MMOs evolve overtime. So in reality you aren't really playing the same game if devs do their jobs.
As for new worlds to explore Most of todays MMOs stopped being worlds and tend to be more Linear maps with mini-games. This helps me stay in older games.
I played UO for four years, I believe thats the longest i've spent in one MMO. I don't consider a MMO good unless it could hold me for a year.
PLaying: EvE, Ryzom
Waiting For: Earthrise, Perpetuum
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and APD. I could actually see this being the next wow or something. Especially if console open up as a viable platform for MMOs. This also suffers from the problem of being one of the most expensive games ever made, so if it does not turn out to be a wow killer it will go down in flames when dedts are called in. Given the fact EA is publishing it i have a feeling they smell blood and want to take it over once it keels.