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God, donât you just love the forum doomsayers.
MMOs are still being played. The core titles are all still going strong with their respective playerbases.
We all have stuff to do in game. We all enjoy ourselves.
But nah, gotta try and make yourself feel bad about something, donât you? 
MMO genre will eventually conquer all, itâs just a matter of the technology being available and the right game. The fact is, almost every MMO is stuck in 2007 with a few modern gimmicks and QOL features.
The MMO genre has not evolved enough, no meaningful steps forward, just a few more decorations a bit more polish and shine, same old same old under the surface. All that said, Iâd imagine WoW will still be popular in 10 years time.
Especially if Microsoft takes over (at the moment it seems their chances for success are increasing with every day) and they have even more budged to improve WoW, if Microsoft aims for that of course.
Iâm just waiting for the Queen nerf. Itâs so OP.
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Nah. People still loves mmorpg games. The problem is we dont have that many that are good enough. From what i see at big streamers/youtubers, massive amounts of players are wishing for a true mmorpg game to come back.
Thereâs so much interes in games like Ashes of Creation or RIOT mmo. Lots of views when streamers/youtubers are making videous about these games that are not even yet developed.
So the problem is the games, not the player base.
lol.
Itâs quite scary that people trust streamers just because they broadcast something.
I wouldnât be so confident on FF14. The story is really involved and time consuming. Most WoW players donât have the patience. Blizzard have made the story essentially optional these days. FF14 everything is gated by the story⊠including the next expansion.
With regards to the the RIOT MMO Iâm not confident it will come out now. Theyâve shed quite a few lead devs for whatever reason and weâve heard virtually nothing about it. It may become RIOTs project Titan.
Thatâs me. I made it to level 47. Being forced to do every single main quest since the games launch was a drag. I was even skipping every cutscene to cut down on time and it still took ages, not to mention the massive amount of traveling needed for it.
Pc gaming is in genral dying breed. Young ones Play mostly mobile games. And you cannot blame them . Mobile games offer easy fast rewarding gameplay which can be even faster and more run with battlepasses and shop Items.
I have tried several mobile games last year and this and they are objectively a lot of fun to Play
I trust how many viewers they have on a certain topic.
Why you canât blame them tho? if they in general like that kind of stuff, in means they are immature and have a bad taste. That really just proves their lack of character development. But believe me, not all of the young people are like that. Lots of them hate mobile games.
I rest my case.
you have no case my friend. Your logic just fails. Having massive amounts of players watching a streamer half playing a half developed mmorpg game, its a freaking good argument that players have big interes in that kind of games.
Also the massive amounts of youtube views on that particular game its another big argument that proves the players interes in mmorpg games.
WoW set a standard and failed to overcome this standard, many companies tried cloning and sticking to the formula while changing specific things, but people lost interest before such standard was overtaken and the genre deteriorated.
WoW had the hype
WoW had and still has the most fluid control
WoW had the best user friendly latency ( Some people reached gladiator and close to r1 with 200-300 ping )
Wow had and still is the easiest on PCs with low specs ( I raided in tbc with those potato first edition laptops )
WoW is so massive and encompasses so many criteria it would take any other MMO a miracle to come close to it.
For a new MMO to be the best next thing and revive the genre, It needs to have tons of content and repetitive end game content with a huge variety of customization and transmogs, it needs to provide a control system much better than WoW, and it needs to tolerate higher latencies and lower spec PCs to overtake WoW.
It is not feasible or profitable anymore to conduct such a massive undertaking and cost-cutting comes largely into playing whenever a new MMO is created.
The only thing that could ever come close is probably the new riot MMO, though I do not have high hopes for it, the cost-cutting process will probably come into play and ruin the game unlike the already established WoW.
An alternative solution that took the world by storm was single player MMOs like Genshin impact, but even that is in its infancy state and resorts to underhanded tactics to fund such massive projects ( Gacha and 600$ per maxed out character ) but still became a very massive thing albeit in a different genre.
I think many companies did try to make the âWoW killerâ; make WoW but better.
Take Wildstar as an example. They emphasised the hardcore in their game. WoW players asked for action combat and harder difficulty. Carbineâs issue was they listened to the those loud voices not those that paid the bills.
When you make claims like this its extremly liekly you dont have kids. If you had you woudl know that mobile gaming is what most of their class does nowadays do. Baring outliners like for example Hogwart legacy there is minimum interest in other stuff then mobile gaming
Thatâs the future untill next âbig trend in gamingâ
Until real VR or next version of it ( maybe deep dive VR like in fantasy novels / movies ) happens MMORPGs wont change from being extremly niche stuff. There is next to none interest in any of them compared to other genres
Well, teach them to like quality stuff instead of superficial fast stuff. The kids in my family plays pc games and couldnât care less about phone games. But they are gamers. Not just bored kids that needs to play something to entertain themselves. So maybe thatâs the problem.
I honestly think there is interest in them, and a massive one.
But the MMO community is fragmented alot and many of them are just sitting waiting for a new MMO / gave up on finding a new MMO.
You can see this with the huge rise of subscriber numbers every expansion release.
People are waiting for the game to be good, these same people that quit on the very start will hop on to a new MMO that actually fulfils the criteria any second it releases.
And again you are proving that you dont have kids do you ? It doesnt matter what you show them even if they enjoy it unless their peers show interest in that they wont Play IT extensivly . And games liek wow require extensive playing.
But those are not new young players en masse. Its old dinozaurs like us 30+ or 40+ who come back Play a bit and quit fast. And with each expansion there is less of them - even blizz was forced to confirm that launch of DF was absolute flop .