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After seeing yet another "MMOs are declining" post, I feel the need to say, "STOP IT!!"
The genre is NOT on the decline. The game quality may not be to your liking, or the direction the genre has gone may not please (it certainly displeases me), but NOT in any way, shape, or form is the genre in any kind of decline.
MORE players are playing MMOs than 14 years ago.
MORE games are available than 14 years ago.
MORE money is coming in every month than ever before.
If this indicates a "decline" to you, you had best go back to school. You missed a class or two on basic business.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.
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More crap is being made then ever before!
Except that is our (the players) fault we keep listening to the promises and then spending money on the complete garbage they keep feeding to us.
I don't think MMO's are declining but the quality of the games is certainly at an all time low.
This forum is like the "Facebookexperiment" where people view negative posts and are far more likely to get on the negative road. Would this forum actually have a majority of people writting about the game they like/love we might see a change.
But overall most seem to spend time at games they dislike so I don't think we will see a change anytime soon.
I've got a feevah, and the only prescription... is more cowbell.
I proposed a new section dedicated for such threads a while back.
The doom & gloom really does bring the quality of these forums down. Mods should definitely do something about it.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been -Wayne Gretzky
more innovation in the genre... oh wait, no...
The world is going to end on December 21st 2012. Now you might think this date has come and gone, but according to my theory they actually mixed up the Mayan translations. The actual date that the World will end is December 12 2021.
So enjoy your MMO's as much as you can because in 7 years, 3 months, 22 days, 14 hours, 32 minutes and 25 seconds, They Will Be No More... Muhahaha
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
It's the same way people say "There are 500 channels but nothing on." and TV may have been better when we watched the same 20 channels. Games are more and more shifting from simply trying provide high quality content to using underhanded psychology through cash shops and founders packs etc.
Market is oversaturated with mediocre to crappy games. Few games provide good long lasting experiences. Also why should the fact that a bunch of games are making money matter to you at all unless you are actually an investor in those games?
I think any doom and gloom the genre is dieing thread without any type of numbers or research behind it is just a troll thread and should be treated as such. The conversations never go beyond " I don't like it so no one else can "
If someone actually has something new to offer that might show people really are moving away from the genre post away.
What should we post about then if not our opinions?
If someone's post is ridiculous, it will show for that, let them post it.
If someone's post has merit, it will show for that too, let them post it.
But many provides good (obvious subjective) SHORT experiences. Just play many of them, and you have a long lasting experience.
Bingo.
Shouldn't people be smarter than to fork out their money on a game they might not enjoy or continue playing after a month, with all the options available to them with Youtube, twitch, reviews, friends recommendations, free trials.
If people keep paying without knowing what they are getting then aren't they to blame for the state of the market?
This house belongs to us!!!
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"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
who says they don't know what they are doing? May be they are having fun on games that you do not like.
I think the assumption people keep making is that everyone expects to play these mmos for years like they did in eq/uo People buy every new mmo because they like playing every new mmo. Only getting a month out of a $60 game isn't a big deal to people who play single player or console games regularly.
That may not be the traditional attitude towards mmos but when you think of a game like a pokemon and you got to get them all..../shrug.
Instead of putting water to a flame, you've poured gasoline over it by creating this thread .
Haha funny thing is, I thought of this.... TODAY.
No such thing as coincidence, I am dreaming and I will probably wake up in 7 years to a new world where everything is decided by games because all the players know its a dream and nobody can die and wars won't matter and everything you could ever think is instantly manifest!!!
Looking forward to: Crowfall / Lost Ark / Black Desert Mobile
Doesn't really matter we all gonna die of Ebola anyway.
Doom Doom Gloom