![]() PvP in MMOs has traditionally been a second class citizen or when it wasn’t, quickly sidelined. We’re also in an age of serving the underserved. Nature - and game development - abhors a vacuum, especially when there’s the potential for money to be made. That Eastern MMOs (from Asia or even Eastern Europe/Western Russia, which seems to be a hotbed of development in general these days) are stabbing Westward is possibly a result of Western developers just not giving shit about the genre at this time. This situation is rather confounding to me I can’t remember any of them by name, which tells me that I am not interested in them, or that maybe they have tried to tap the Western market but have failed to reach a critical mass. Final Fantasy XIV is probably the highest-profile Eastern MMO right now in the circles in which I personally travel, and there have been several others in the past few years. We’re at a point now where the type of MMO that was being made in the heyday of the movement has fallen out of favor, which leaves it open for different kinds of games that are vying for the mantle…many of which we might not be interested in.Īs I speak from a Western perspective, we are now in an age of imports. We went through “this is the next big thing” to “here’s a specific formula for success so everyone copy that” to “we’re oversaturated, let’s pull back the reins a bit and see how things suss out” to “we see an opening that’s not being filled by the traditional players so let’s throw our hat into the ring” to our current situation of “what constitutes an ‘M-M-Oh’, exactly anymore? /shrug”. The history of the genre isn’t really all that different from what we see in other genres. Now I content myself with the occasional MMO dip, like Secret World Legends during the Halloween season, or Guild Wars 2 when nothing else I have installed is really exciting me.įor me, the current MMO landscape is…tricky. Then I went through several years of in tense MMO immersion with popular titles like World of Warcraft, EveryQuest II, and Warhammer Online, as well as games most folks might not have heard of, such as Istaria Online (ne Horizons) and NeoCron. When it was young, I was only involved in a handful of titles like Ultima Online or Star Wars Galaxies. This kind of mirrors my feelings about the genre. My first blog was a generalist gaming blog, my second two were all about MMOs and less about other gaming, and this one dedicated more to my other hobbies with the occasional game-related thing thrown in. ![]() MMOs used to be my bread and butter of the four main blogs I have maintained in my lifetime, two were dedicated to the genre for a good period of time. Like almost anything, it depends on who you ask, and what stake they have in wanting a particular answer. The massive multiplayer online roleplaying game genre - MMORPG to us old guard, or MMOs to the slightly less old guard, or World of Warcraft to the kids - is alive and well. ![]()
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