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MMORPGs Will Change the Future

Posted by Zonk on from the all-your-orcs-are-belong-to-us dept.

Franz Ferdinand writes "An article at PointlessWasteofTime discusses all the unexpected directions MMORPG technology will change the future. From the same gentleman who brought us the Gamer's Manifesto." From the article: "There are 10 million MMORPG users in the world and their population is doubling every two years. Hold your hand about three feet above your monitor. That's where the graph will be in 2010. It's an infection, it's a tsunami, it's a volcanic eruption. All at the same time, waiting, like a nest of plague-infested rats next to a ticking hydrogen bomb in an underwater volcano. Or something. What I'm trying to say is, it's The Next Big Thing. "

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  1. Old logic flaw. by Golias · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "My dog was six inches tall last year."
    "My dog is two feet tall this year."
    "Based on this trend, my dog will be taller than my house in a few years."

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    Information wants to be anthropomorphized.

    1. Re:Old logic flaw. by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Old logic flaw.

      My favorite example of this is projections in baseball. Usually you can count on someone hitting a couple homers in one of the opening day games and then he's projected to hit 324 during the course of the year;-)

      With MMORPG, there is a certain audience that likes the games and will continue to pour money into them. Once that market is saturated, however, the numbers will plateau (same as in every other industry). There are many people, myself included, who don't really care for the genre and will not waste resources (be they time or money) on playing them. I'll bet any of you a shiny nickel that in ten years, the number of people like me (i.e., those who don't play MMORPGs) will still outnumber those who do.

      --
      If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
    2. Re:Old logic flaw. by vertinox · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You're dog is not a multi-organism entity.

      The saying should be:

      "There were 5 bacteria cells in this Petri-dish yesterday."
      "There are 2500 bacteria cells in this Petri-dish right now."
      "Tomorrow it is safe to say as long as I put enough food in the Petri-dish there will be 1,250,000 million bacteria cells."

      Comparing things to a single organism which has DNA instructions to cease growing is a logic flaw in itself because if the number being compared is of things that are independent nature and have no set limit in growth beyond actually consumption of fuel and energy then that would be more correct.

      Obviously, the number of MMOG subscribers are not restrained by DNA programming, but like all things is dependant of fuel and does have a limit, but that limit is more economic related.

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      "I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
      -Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
  2. Leave it to Non-RTFA'ing /.ers.. by MBraynard · · Score: 5, Interesting

    to question the 'logic' of a comedy piece. PWOT is a comedy website. Admittedly some of it's stuff can be serious, but this article is clearly a joke. The charts are jokes. The headlines are jokes.

  3. OH NOES! by theantipop · · Score: 3, Funny

    At this rate, there will be more MMORPG players than there are humans in no time! Yet more proof of the existence of aliens!