On The Over-Saturation Of MMO Games

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @11:56PM from the suspicious-dye-coloration-in-pool dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Stratics has an editorial discussing MMO market saturation, specifically triggered by the recent closure of Microsoft's massively multiplayer PC game, Mythica. The piece argues: 'But there is a dark realization that is now being considered, just when does it end? When does the genre hit the ceiling and all that ends up happening is [that] companies resort to passing around subscriptions with no real growth. This is a question that is haunting corporations who have potential products laid before senior management - just how long can it continue? When does the opportunity cost grow larger than any potential earning?'"

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Re:Well by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-19 00:45 · Score: 3, Funny

You're looking at those text editors the wrong way. Pretty soon, emacs will have a MMO in it.
Re:Cancelled, why? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-19 01:06 · Score: 3, Funny

The projects they invest in-Raising great Cthulu from his sleep in R'lyeh
Re:MMO is just starting. by b0r0din · 2004-02-19 03:11 · Score: 4, Funny

In this, let's just call it a Metaverse if you will...can I keep my Katana?

- Hiro
Over-saturation is right by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-19 05:10 · Score: 1, Funny

There's an over-saturation of articles on this subject. Every second article in the games section of /. is about motherf*cking MMO games..