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NorseGod
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There are a lot of threads going on about the genre being dead.
I think a game doesn't have to be shut down to be dead. Dead to me is when there just isn't enough people playing in-game that you can do group content, long instance pops, etc.
So, define "dead".
1. A game is shut down?
2. There isn't enough people to play with?
I think a game doesn't have to be shut down to be dead. Dead to me is when there just isn't enough people playing in-game that you can do group content, long instance pops, etc.
So, define "dead".
1. A game is shut down?
2. There isn't enough people to play with?
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The MMORPG genre is like a bucket, right now the bucket is full. Any games that are made in addition to what is currently running damages all the current titles, will get hate from the players of those games because they fear they will damage theirs and it will not get that many players after the first few months anyway.
Games in this genre don't die out after a few months, they live for 10-20 years. In that kind of situation you can't keep adding more forever, the market will collapse.
Ok, I said all of that to ask you this: Where do you get the information that money per company has gone down? Where did you get the information that user numbers have gone up? This is a very interesting topic.
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Welcome to the Internet. We have a lot of pointless discussions here.
But, in a more semantical, commonly-used sense:
My personal view of a "dead game" is when a game hits that stage of only server maintenance and life support. In other words, the population of paying customers has dropped low enough that continuous or steady development on the game has all but ceased.
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Kinda what Blizzard did with WOW.
Abandon ship - when you know your game is a failure, so you choose not to deliver the necessary things required to at least retain your player base.
IMO, currently all MMO's are in this stage or worse. This is why WOW: Legion is the only option earliest this year, sadly. At least this would give Blizzard another chance to redeem themselves and reinvest in their product, without anyone competing with them until end of the year.
Uh, most recently I played Nexon's Online RPG Dark Ages which is super, super old. It came out in 1999. The last time I played it, I thought that it was almost the definition of dead. No one was even around to play with me. To my surprise, it seems that the game is actually still alive, with people still playing and an event update this month. So I guess this "dead" means when the servers are shut down.
As for the premise here, coming to a general consensus.. You essentially have two groups in these discussions, those who are hyperbolic and those who are not... It's a matter of thinking realistically or not, realistically there are plenty of dying games, not many of them are current triple A offerings, most are older games, or low budget bargain bin games.
As for the genre, one could argue market presence is dying off, then again it could just be a lull , 2017 could be filled with announcements. Hard to say.
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