First, you can play all of BF3/COD3 is what? 8 hours? not even that I emagin.. and then it's repetitive online play. So easy to finish in a year.. New engin? great np.. because FPS gamers are hardcore and have the systems to play that kinda power..
Now then, MMO's take.. 4-6 years to make. You need at least a couple hundred hours.. more like 1000. And you have to have a wide enough playerbase that you actualy MAKE MONEY.. esp all the money spent in 5 years of dev. Do you see the issues? Even if you started out cutting edge tech.. in 5 years.. it's not. SImple.. Also you can't make a game with insane grafics.. look at EQ2 AOC, VANGUARD.... they went down in flames because no one could make them run right. No Dev is going to throw down 100mil on making a game that looks awsome.. and no one will play. Thats like lighting your money on fire.
So why don't we have MMO's as great as FPS? Is this really that hard to understand? It's all about TIME mate... TIME...
BF3 runs great and plenty of people have 500+ hours played online for BC2, BF2, etc. Just saying..the correct answer is "there is no reason".
If you are looking for a solid MMOFPS, I'd suggest Planetside. Keep in mind that this was released in 2003 and the scope of this game was really ahead of the current technology of that time. While there aren't as many players on there nowadays as there used to be, it is still quite fun. The graphics are clearly outdated, but it still has very solid gameplay elements. Planetside 2 is looking to be shaping up nicely and will hopefully be the modernized version of the old Planetside, with some of the elements from the latest shooters. Why haven't there been any other MMOFPS games out there? Well, I think that question has been more or less answered in this thread so I'll not delve into that.
And you know, I'll be honest, I havent been on these forums in awhile - like 2 years - and its SPOOKY.. Alot of the old posters are just gone. Up and left. I remember one poster here - I believe his name was "Lobotomist" said that he is done with MMO's unless the direction changes, and just left the forum. Others did as well. I know I did. MMO's have lost all heart and soul. They are just money-grinders.
I think game technology has been crawling along for a good ten years now. BF 3 looks great, but it still isn't the FPS Multiplayer Game I've been hoping for since I first started with Rainbow 6: Rogue Spear quite awhile ago.
Until maps are ten times larger than those found in the original Battlefield 1942 (Like Gazala) and contain hundreds of players, if not thousands, on the same server at the same time I'm not going to criticize any other online genre for being held back.
But what they arent realizing, is that they are marginalizing a larger and larger portion of gamers who are getting sick of Big Macs and Whoppers and want to try the steaming hot stir fried chicken around the corner.
But publishers and developers do not want to make that kind of food and maybe even forgot how to make them. Its sad. If they dont stop marginalizing the larger and larger growing base of jaded, burnt out players who are sick of the raiding and honor-grinding treadmill, the genre will continue to implode.
Would you go to see the circus every night for fifteen years and still enjoy going to the circus? Answer that question honestly for yourself, and you'll know why nothing in the genre makes you happy any more.
In the meantime, the sky is not falling and there is no implosion.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
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BF3 runs great and plenty of people have 500+ hours played online for BC2, BF2, etc. Just saying..the correct answer is "there is no reason".
If you are looking for a solid MMOFPS, I'd suggest Planetside. Keep in mind that this was released in 2003 and the scope of this game was really ahead of the current technology of that time. While there aren't as many players on there nowadays as there used to be, it is still quite fun. The graphics are clearly outdated, but it still has very solid gameplay elements. Planetside 2 is looking to be shaping up nicely and will hopefully be the modernized version of the old Planetside, with some of the elements from the latest shooters. Why haven't there been any other MMOFPS games out there? Well, I think that question has been more or less answered in this thread so I'll not delve into that.
Your point? He's still here, yes. But he used to be alot more active. Just like me.
I think game technology has been crawling along for a good ten years now. BF 3 looks great, but it still isn't the FPS Multiplayer Game I've been hoping for since I first started with Rainbow 6: Rogue Spear quite awhile ago.
Until maps are ten times larger than those found in the original Battlefield 1942 (Like Gazala) and contain hundreds of players, if not thousands, on the same server at the same time I'm not going to criticize any other online genre for being held back.
Would you go to see the circus every night for fifteen years and still enjoy going to the circus? Answer that question honestly for yourself, and you'll know why nothing in the genre makes you happy any more.
In the meantime, the sky is not falling and there is no implosion.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.