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MMOs that will stay around
Hey all, with mmos closing down all the time it kind of leaves me considering to even play some. So, what are the MMOs out that are LEAST likely to close down?
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Anyone please?
Like for example, with Planetside 2. It's ran by SoE and I've heard things about them so might be scared somewhat to play it.
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Planetside is still going. So pretty sure Planetside 2 will not close down the massive pops alone are still going strong.
"not closed down" or "actively supported"? Different fish-kettles.
SOE & Vanguard (historical rather than current example).
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.
wich is sad EVE is the biggest POS game i ever played and i played Runescape....
This is an excellent post. I wish more people saw the genre the way you do (including developers and investors.)
Such a silly willy!
EVE rocks and will be around for a long, long time. Look me up ingame and I'll help get you started. It is truly an amazing MMORPG.
They can adjust a game all day, but they can't help the issue between the keyboard and the chair.
Played: UO, DAoC, AC, WoW, EVE, TR, WAR, Aion, Rift, SWTOR, GW2, TSW, ESO, Elite:D
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This statement is also true for every MMORPG except maybe WoW.
They can adjust a game all day, but they can't help the issue between the keyboard and the chair.
Played: UO, DAoC, AC, WoW, EVE, TR, WAR, Aion, Rift, SWTOR, GW2, TSW, ESO, Elite:D
Play EVE for free for 21 days
What you are descrbing is that the MMO market is being saturated by DEV's that want a piece of the pie. It is very easy to make money in the MMO market if you have the right formula that is, For example many many companies came out with WoW rip off just to ride the coat tail of WoW and I would have to say that This style of game play will contenue to be avenue DEVs will use until anouther game comes along and knocks the MMO giant off its mountian. Gamers want despertly a new style of a MMO that does not follow WoW but I personaly do not see this happening anytime soon. So Get use to the idea of many more MMO's to contenue to close down until something new is presented to us in a very epic way.
Well said!
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Maybe this applies only to the jaded gamers on this site. There are far more people who are just fine with other games following in the style of WoW. I think sometimes the people here all suffer from an acute myopic view of MMORPGs.
They can adjust a game all day, but they can't help the issue between the keyboard and the chair.
Played: UO, DAoC, AC, WoW, EVE, TR, WAR, Aion, Rift, SWTOR, GW2, TSW, ESO, Elite:D
Play EVE for free for 21 days
I don't conceder myself as Jaded. I find many MMO's to be fun and intreasting. WoW was just an example. All MMO's have one thing or anouther thing in common with WoW even EVE after all you take on quest to lvl up to a point of were you have to join a CORP i.e. Guild in order to get anywere in the game that leads to endgame devolpment. Sounds fimilar eh?
Until a gaming companie can break this cycle of game play in the MMO market and give us the gamer a game that will knock our socks off. Gaming companies will contentue to close down. No question about it.
I do have hope in Defiance since it is the first x-over with a major network station that will prestent it as a T.V. show to boot. I trurly hope that this new style will indeed knock our socks off as far as raising the bar in the MMO market. Also I feel WildStar will be one to keep a eye on. But I will reserve any kind of opionion on these games until I personaly play them. I feel honesty is the best policy.
Not sure if you're trolling here with this comment, or just making a point that MMORPGs have features in common, but you realize that EVE came out *before* WoW, along with a number of other titles like UO, AO, DAoC, EQ, etc., right?
WoW borrowed from them, and then games borrowed from WoW. In other words, WoW is far from being the "first MMO".
They can adjust a game all day, but they can't help the issue between the keyboard and the chair.
Played: UO, DAoC, AC, WoW, EVE, TR, WAR, Aion, Rift, SWTOR, GW2, TSW, ESO, Elite:D
Play EVE for free for 21 days
SOE has some of the longest running mmo's in the industry, don't always belive what you heard. Prime example is The Secret World and how many people slagged it off without playing it. Now it gone B2P and many of them have bought the game for knock down prices and actually played the game, now they say it's a great game.
Unlikely they'll close it down. More likely they won't do enough about the cheats, hacks, bugs, etc and the population will die down to a few thousand(or less) and it'll limp along like that for as long as possible.
Which begs the question. Does 'still around' also require a game to have a reasonable poopulation and if so what do you consider reasonable?
Well yes very true EVE did come out before so it seems that you want to use that as a point well OK np EVE came out in May of '03 while WoW came out of Nov of '04 so it seems you want to use the point then what is commonly called the Vanilla era of a game. For that matter yes you are also right UO,AO,DAoC and prob the best example would be EQ as to wich all these titles lost thier player base to WoW over the years because WoW did indeed barrow from the best improved and now the formula a few years later is that ppl still play WoW and DEV's see this as a fact. Lets face it they dont make clone games of EQ, UO, AODAoC or even EVE today because these games are not as successful as WoW.
Oh I never did say that WoW was the first MMO. Like I keep saing until the formula changes companies will ride WoW's coat tail for a few then die. Problem is that these fly by night companies dont care they made there million they are set they gave us a WoW rip off and we bought it. They go away. End of story.
You guys derailed the hell out of this thread.
gg.
The games in danger are those that are just a watered down version of an existing game, e.g. how swtor Is to wow.
If you look at the games that have lasted a long time like eve or EQ its because they offer something different that can't be found elsewhere.
Robokapp: your graph might be more convincing if the most recent entry wasn't over five years old.
Vendetta Online has been out for over 10 years, and has also experienced continual growth (fun with search trends; caveat lector). Compare this to, say, a game like Ryzom or A Tale In The Desert.
edit: Vendetta is also made by a team of 4
edit2: nvm: I see you have to scroll right to get the rest of Rk's graph. Nonetheless, the principle of caveat lector applies; graphs can be used to prove just about anything.
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Im thoroughly enjoying Runescape since an American company fed them a ton of money... There have been some great quality updates recently, including the new Port/Sailing aspect of the game. You control ships and send them off with crews (can be customized for stats to better the chance of being sucsessful) for rewards.