just sayin from a nuetral standpoint,it looks like everyone is makin an mmo.what do you,the actual mmo players,and the other nuetrals(don't actually play mmo games)think.
Too Many mmos?
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I only recently played an mmo for the first time. Twas Maple Story. Two days later I realized how much it sucked and moved on to Perfect World and I've played regularly for about 2 weeks now. Its kinda cool how you can work with others to take on bosses etc. as opposed to the repetitive nature of your average FPS. Having a pervasive long term goal as opposed to a good kdr is preferred.
The same could be said for first-person shooters. It's the curse of the market; whatever is popular will saturate the market until something else becomes popular. We're entering the stage where that's going to be MMOs.TheNumber1Zero said:
This. Remember all the GTA clones that came out after GTA III broke such new ground? It's kind of like that.Flying-Emu said:
Also, I originally read this title as "Too Many Memes?" to which is say YES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THERE ARE TOO MANY
Well as a company, its a very attractive idea to make an MMO, they look at blizzard, and the bloody obscene amounts of money they make, and want a piece of the action. But MMO's have fallen into an RTS style rut, where every title is just a tweak of an old model, every RTS is Dune 2 with new graphics and every MMO is everquest/WoW with purdy graphics.
Also, you don't *need* to have the wow playerbase to have a successful/profitable mmo, it's nice but not absolutely necessary, many mmo's have a smaller player base ( sub 1M) and they're profitable.
There's no place in the current market for more than 1 "more-than-10-million-subs" mmo
There's no place in the current market for more than 1 "more-than-10-million-subs" mmo
Not to offend you - but why would we jump at one spelling error, when the post has multiple?TheNumber1Zero said:
I'm saying this as good advice - read your posts before you submit them. A coherent post without errors, helps you convey your point. A badly written post, ridden with mistakes, doesn't seem very serious. Again, it's meant as a friendly pointer. I see you're a recent joiner. Welcome to the Escapist
But I don't think there's too many MMO's. They can't bother me, can they? If anything, I'm just sorry that WoW ties up so large a part of the potential players, since that makes it very hard for any new MMO's to run.
Id like it if there was another clear competitor against WoW, but sadly they are dominating the MMO market.
I've dabbled with other MMOs but they haven't been as polished or as good as WoW. With the amount of time it takes to polish all the creases out of a game the size of an MMO I think it's going to be some time before there is another.
Hoping its the Star Wars one, that looks fun, (although so did Conan).
I've dabbled with other MMOs but they haven't been as polished or as good as WoW. With the amount of time it takes to polish all the creases out of a game the size of an MMO I think it's going to be some time before there is another.
Hoping its the Star Wars one, that looks fun, (although so did Conan).
Yes, indeed to many. The dilemma with MMO's, is that they have to calibrate the requirements to ensure compatability with lower-end PC's. Thusly, an MMO will never have state-of-art graphics or physics engines.
They are also very time-consuming.
From a subjective perspective; I am not particularly fond of the gameplay. The only positive aspect is the social environment.
They are also very time-consuming.
From a subjective perspective; I am not particularly fond of the gameplay. The only positive aspect is the social environment.
I think that there are too many MMOs out currently. I will be forthright and say that I do not enjoy MMO's for the main reason that they do not appeal to me. But in the past I have tried a few (WOW, Perfect World. As a non-MMO player it seems as though all the examples that I listed, and most MMOs do not do anything different from each other, or push the genre to make any one game different from each other or stand out.
My mistake...but shows my point, there are so many MMO's I can not keep them straight
My mistake...but shows my point, there are so many MMO's I can not keep them straight
Erm. Those are RPGs, not MMOs. And both Fallout 3 and Mass Effect gave a pretty good push, Fallout 3 as a game where free roaming is both possible and fun, and Mass Effect as a game that is story based, and involves moral choices that aren't "Throw puppy off cliff vs. feed orphans."JoeyTheItalian said:
Anyway, though, There aren't too many MMOs. There are probably more FPS/TPS games than MMOs, and most of them are TOTAL copy+paste games, unlike with MMOs, in which at the very least the setting is different, and at the very most has different spells, races, settings, characters, play styles, target audiences, etc.
At least now there's something for everyone when it comes to mmos. Now all they need to do is fix the monthly fees and they could dominate the market.
Fallout 3 and Mass Effect are two games that at thier core have not done anything that different. There have been many games before that have offered up moral choices for the player, and some after, like InFamous, that handle moral choices much better.
I agree that there are way to many FPS games, and they are mostly bad copies of those that work.
I agree that there are way to many FPS games, and they are mostly bad copies of those that work.