Whats going on?

[[TFU] Thegoon84]

Had a read through the forum... Just cant find anything of worth!

I remember a new MMO coming out monthly, all flopped ofc!

Have we polluted the waters too much to be hopefully for the next Wow, CSS, BF2!

What are the OG's looking forward to?

Sods law, my kids are growing up and i have more and more time to play but cant find anything!

Star Citizen? Amazon new MMO?

 

[[TFU] Thegoon84]

Wow, seems its just me being a grumpy old man!

Cheers for the replies! What a nightmare.... Would love to jump into a MMO man!
Prehaps its time to go back to the old trustworthy....

Arma 3!

 

[[TFU] Thegoon84]

MMOs are currently in a hibernation phase, whether or not the genre ever awakens again is a question of some doubt currently. Chronicles of Elyria died out, Pantheon is still in late Pre-Alpha, Ashes of Creation increasingly looks dubious to me and I fear that its "node" system is doomed to failure, Amazons New World is an MMO for people who have never played an MMO imo. WoW continues, somehow, to exist with another expansion, Shadowlands. Elder Scrolls Online soon releases yet another expansion which pretty much looks like the previous expansions...seriously I have never seen a game with so restricted a palette. They could make that game in monochrome and it wouldnt look much different. Guild Wars 2 has another expansion coming but is knocking on a bit, perhaps time for them to consider a Guild Wars 3?

Overall, I'd say the MMO market is on life support and needs another big hitter to come out but gaming has shifted a lot since the MMO golden era (1997-2005) and the focus today seems to be more on online shooters and small group online games (2-4 players)

Thankfully I lived through that golden era and have many great memories of it but after over 20 years I think the genre is suffering at the moment, we can but hope it recovers.

Same the comment above, i missed out a bit of MMO... My first one was Age of Conan. That was such a great game, but what i didn't know at the time that the end content wasn't there!

Just supprises me how tech has advanced, there is clearly 100 times more money in gaming yet nobody is yet to pull the millions and millions in to month subscription like wow did.