Poll of the Day > Remember when everyone was trying to make an MMO?

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And then everyone was trying to make a MOBA?

And then everyone was trying to make a Battle Royale?

Lol posers
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Remember it, and I was bummed when Mythica was cancelled. It looked like it was going to be pretty cool, but we'll never know.

and now mmo's are dying out. I guess it was just a fad.

So many landed in development hell and never even got released

I remember wanting to play the Firefly MMO back when that was gonna be a thing. Also there was the mostly unfinished Kingdoms of Amalur MMO that the state of Rhode Island tried to auction off for hundreds of millions of dollars simply because they thought it was worth that much because of how successful world of Warcraft was at the time
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also there was the World of Darkness mmo that was personally my favorite never finished one. it sounded really cool

tbh, everybody tries to cash in on somebody else's success. It didn't start with MMOs, you had a glut of shooters, fighting games, beat-em-ups, etc, and pretty much all of these things are still going, you just don't have as many people trying to cash in.

Oh, plus it's hardly unique to gaming. Remember the super sentei fad of the 90s/00s? Power Rangers made it big so you started to see other properties get imported and mashed together, giving us stuff like Beetleborgs (fun), VR Troopers (awesomely bad -- with one of the most hilariously bad catchy theme songs), Kamen Rider, etc.

Zikten posted...

and now mmo's are dying out. I guess it was just a fad.

"Dying out" is a stretch, considering that they're still pretty active.
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Zikten posted...

and now mmo's are dying out. I guess it was just a fad.

No. They aren't. They've just changed form. Most are now freemium games with a lot of the cash-in titles having gone belly-up and a few of the more solid ones holding their own. Currently two titles have a grip on the sub market (WoW and FFXIV) and it seems unlikely that more than two or three MMO's can compete in the sub market at a time.
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I also remember when MMOs and MOBAs were reviewed without partiality.

PUBG was basically "critically acclaimed" despite being a vapid asset flip that's technically broken, rife with hackers, and artistically bankrupt. It can't even hold up its copyright in court - it's that fucking generic. Casual audiences have driven the industry for a while now but the hype train is bleeding into the review scene, making "professional" reviewers more worthless than ever. Hell, IGN (I know) gave PUBG a fucking 9.5. Hollow Knight scored lower in the same year.

...but yeah, everyone chalks it up to Battle Royale being "fun" and "those most tense experience they've ever had in a game" which is an interesting sentiment. It's almost as if these "people" have never played games before.
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Kaeporo posted...

I also remember when MMOs and MOBAs were reviewed without partiality.

PUBG was basically "critically acclaimed" despite being a vapid asset flip that's technically broken, rife with hackers, and artistically bankrupt. It can't even hold up its copyright in court - it's that fucking generic. Casual audiences have driven the industry for a while now but the hype train is bleeding into the review scene, making "professional" reviewers more worthless than ever. Hell, IGN (I know) gave PUBG a fucking 9.5. Hollow Knight scored lower in the same year.

...but yeah, everyone chalks it up to Battle Royale being "fun" and "those most tense experience they've ever had in a game" which is an interesting sentiment. It's almost as if these "people" have never played games before.

Not everyone having opinions that are carbon copies of your own isn't some sweeping problem.

https://imgur.com/gallery/5yCRl1Y

Pretty accurate.
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supergamer19 posted...

https://imgur.com/gallery/5yCRl1Y

Pretty accurate.

I don't feel that's accurate because the games listed ended up being successful and well-liked for the most part; as opposed to the games that got introduced and flopped hard or were blatant rip-offs. Like how Star Wars: Battlegrounds was a blatant Age of Empires ripoff (albet an enjoyable one). Like; putting the Shadowrun shooter in the 'online shooter' catagory would have been perfect.
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