Post by Oatik on Feb 23, 2010 12:51:04 GMT -5
I had a thought pop into my head...yes, just the one. Maybe we should just take that first M off of MMO and go with multi-player online. Today games are sliced into servers and shards, instances and portals, I mean we're all playing the same game, but we're not really playing it together. So dwell on that a bit...
The thing is, that doesn't bother me, I rarely interact with people I don't know, unless they are trying to kill me (then I try to kill them right back). So overall I'd probably be happy with a single player game if we could all group up in a 4-man co-op.
So here I am, playing solo in my MMO, paying $15/month to see other people run around doing their own thing. If we're lucky we sell each other some items in the auction house. So where are we going?? I don't think we're headed back to the glory days, not when people play for ten hours a week instead of forty. It's not like you have time to build community in two months when 50% of the people have already rage-quit.
I leave you all with the empty pit-of-the-stomach feeling because I offer no answers, only vague grumblings. Maybe I should re-title this "Feel good blog of the year..."
The thing is, that doesn't bother me, I rarely interact with people I don't know, unless they are trying to kill me (then I try to kill them right back). So overall I'd probably be happy with a single player game if we could all group up in a 4-man co-op.
So here I am, playing solo in my MMO, paying $15/month to see other people run around doing their own thing. If we're lucky we sell each other some items in the auction house. So where are we going?? I don't think we're headed back to the glory days, not when people play for ten hours a week instead of forty. It's not like you have time to build community in two months when 50% of the people have already rage-quit.
I leave you all with the empty pit-of-the-stomach feeling because I offer no answers, only vague grumblings. Maybe I should re-title this "Feel good blog of the year..."
