Judging from the negativity here... It's only doom and gloom.
It's one thing to say mmorpgs are going down hill..... but in regards to the response I'm seeing, it's worst... Seems everyone truly views failure. With that, EVERY future post about ANYTHING at all is a worthless topic.
Has this site turned into a site about semantics ?
An argument just to catch a wrong statement and capitalize on it with creative writing ?
I'm no better, but I recently created a positive post and most everyone bird shit all over it.
We need a good mmorpg to turn things around..... Sadly the next best thing is more than a year away.
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Maybe change the channel?
Controversial topics tend to get more debate (responses), so that may be what you are tuning in to.
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And now you want to know why you get hit with a shit storm of negativity when you post? Self-licking ice cream cone dude.
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Devs are just trying to sell us crap,we don't need to buy it nor do we need to say crap is good.
We also don't NEED to play their lousy games,if that is all they want to sell us well then i'll find something else to do,not like gaming is the only thing on this planet.Example taking family to the car races tonight,watch movies,sports,i like watching MMA,the hockey draft was today and if gaming is all you like,i am sure we all have many choices we can fall back on that does not force us to play crappy for sale games.
The gaming is market is in a decline from a developers standpoint but is not as simple as the statement sounds.15-20 years ago the devs were giving us their best effort or a really good effort,they just had less tools,less tech/smarts.Now a days they have a plethora of knowledge and tools yet still want to sell us old work that has already been done 20 years ago.So although a game might look better than 20 years ago,they are not putting in the effort they could be or should be,usually only visually better is not really better.
I know what devs can do and they could make some absolutely mind blowing great games,but they choose not to,so i choose not to give them any money....simple.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
And most people on this site seem to think kickstarter is the devil and breaking the above model of funding is the devil.
The way to turn it around is not being superficial pricks - support, play, and spend money on mmorpgs. If the genre makes money more games will be made for it. The main issue is people comes to sites like this and get their opinions from the big-wigs that love MMOs and not mmorpgs, so avoid new mmorpgs because they heard they were shit. New mmorpgs fail, and then fail and then fail again, so now we have all MMOs and no new mmorpgs.
Hopefully Classic will turn it around, and hopefully people will actually speak with their wallet and actually try new mmorpgs that come out, like Ship of Heroes, City of Titan, Pantheon, etc.
Like any market, it will supply what people are spending money on - and that doesn't seem to be mmorpgs and that has been true for quite a while. It seems silly to complain about the death of a genre no one is playing or supporting.
You create posts because you can.
Doesn't mean you should.
There is a difference.
But you wouldn't see it if it smacked right on the nose... I give you another hour or two before posting another new post stating exactly the same thing again.
Tin foil hat here... perhaps, just perhaps, the reason there are no games you like to play is because there is a conspiracy against you... that the more posts you make... the more likely they are going to do the exact opposite and make even more games you despise.
Only way to test that theory is to go 1 year without making any more posts.
Doubt you can do it. In fact, I KNOW you can't do it.
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Even the mock surprise and hurt at the negativity is all contrived in an effort to paint themselves as a "victim" of all of the terrible old meanies here on the site.
You reap what you sow.
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Personally, I'm not excited for any MMO, old/new... well maybe the relaunch of Destiny this fall but really I'm just waiting for this moment next year
Yesterday while cleaning my wife found a box full of my old PC Gamer magazines in the attic and it's funny how excited people were back then for MMOs myself included... it was truly the gold rush, I am actually surprised that there were so many MMO covers. Good memories.
I kept the Planetside cover as a reminder of what pure innovation looks like and I kept the SWTOR one as an example of what some innovation looks like when HYPE overtakes it. When the hype is bigger than the game it's destined to fail. Super true for MMOs.
The tagline for the Planetside issue reads "THE WORLDS FIRST MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER FIRST PERSON SHOOTER "PLANETSIDE" FROM THE CREATORS OF EVERQUEST!"
that issue also had a strategy guide for Baldur's Gate 2
The tagline for the SWTOR issue reads "STAR WARS THE OLD REPUBLIC, THE BIGGEST MMO EVER"
lol...we put the rest of the magazines in the trash.
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Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
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