Garriotts See Shakeup To MMOG Industry Coming

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 9, 2006 @09:59AM from the hold-on-to-your-hats dept.

Next Generation is reporting from the annual DICE event, and has the gist of the presentation given by Robert and Richard Garriott about the future of the MMOG industry. From the article: "Richard Garriott, father of the Ultima series said, "After a period of growth, opportunities are closing, budgets are increasing to tens of millions of dollars, and companies need global infrastructure in order to publish. My guess is that over the next 3-5 years, only five companies will operate in this business, and unfortunately, many of the startups will be gone.""

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Re:Five companies? by MarkChovain · 2006-02-09 10:11 · Score: 4, Interesting

There's a good site that tracks subscription numbers on lots of different MMOGs here. It has dozens of games, and has been tracking subscription stats since 1997.

There is also regarded as a immune system copy, which is very comfortable usable. It does take a couple of years from now.