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Throwing Out the Rulebook For MMOs

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-as-soon-as-i-collect-these-twenty-wolf-pelts dept.

MMORPG.com's Dana Massey asks about the possibility of throwing out the rulebook for MMOs, suggesting that the next blockbuster title in the genre will be one that ignores many of the features and conventions that have come to be standards over the years. Quoting: "Who said that MMOs require hot bars? Who proclaimed that it's not a proper MMO unless you have quests? Blizzard took a formula that almost all MMOs had been using for years and distilled it down to addictive perfection. Love or hate WoW, it's a polished, polished title. It's no coincidence that on hardcore MMO sites, like this one, WoW is not the most hyped or trafficked game around. It's not that it's bad, but veteran MMO players don't have the same love for it, simply because we've all seen some variation of it before. The WoW community has always been a bit apart from the larger MMO community. Based purely on the number of subscribers, WoW articles should statistically annihilate every other game on this site, but they don't. A huge percentage of people who truly love WoW, I've always believed, do not know or particularly care about this whole world of MMOs out there. They're WoW players and that's it."

6 of 245 comments (clear)

  1. yes the WoW community is different - by timmarhy · · Score: 1, Funny

    - they have females, real ones.

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    If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
  2. Something larger than WoW? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The WoW community has always been a bit apart from the larger MMO community

    I don't think that word means what you think it means...

  3. Re:No Love by digibud · · Score: 2, Funny

    I played WoW and that was it for MMO's. Now I'm a recovering WoW player. I know it will always be a struggle. I take it day by day. Living life without WoW. wow.

  4. Re:Dancing Elves On Mailboxes And Cows In Skirts by CyberSlammer · · Score: 2, Funny

    LOL I meant boars...if I spent two years killing boards in the forest I would have been one hell of a carpenter....or have a shitload of splinters.

  5. "Hot bars"? by argent · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who said that MMOs require hot bars?

    Because salad bars are wimpy?

  6. Re:Help Me Help You by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 2, Funny

    You've got procedurally generated content in my player made content!

    No, you've got player made content in my procedurally generated content!

    Woah, what we have here is a unique, complex world that exists as we found it, but we can change it, defeat its challenges, and create new ones!