MMORPG, the genre that is being destroyed.

I started playing MMORPG's at the ripe age of 9 years old, on a dial up 2d turn based MMORPG called The Realm Online. The game was raw, very little quest information was given and you just went out and killed stuff. I saw my first example of how a MMO cou

Author: Andrew0988

So far I can only think of maybe a handful of premium mmo's to close, you attribute the fact that those older games still being around as them being good then in the same sense one can argue any game not closed is a good game.  Too many mmorpg players just jump on the everything is crap bandwagon unless you are just asking for the exact same old DAoC,AC,EQ with updated graphics then the problem may be that you need to find another hobby as mmorpg's have passed you by?

too bad u dint check out eve online which is consistantly updated, has a great huge community with alot of meta gaming happening also.

I fear u are too much into fantasy.

Soon World of Darkness will be released, another non-grinding-leveling mmo which is social-political based

You knowother than neophobia, the only problem I see here is less communication. If it pisses you off that much, strike up a conversation. Go play Puzzle Pirates, most of the problems are much less prevalent there.

True, Eve online might be a great semi-sandbox game, with excellent graphics, good gameplay and a decent community. BUT the combat is horrible, and you know it... That is the only reason I sometimes take a break from Eve. I can't stand such trivial combat.

I come from the same gaming background and have to agree with you. I have just spent the last 4 hours looking for a game to play. My guild and I are lost at the moment. The last good game was Vanguard, but it was trashed by SOE. I don't see anything on the horizon either. It is so so sad.

Surely there is someone out there able to create a game worth playing that isn't part of the FTP micro-transactional grind crap? Maybe it will never happen again and the industry is forever lost in the graveyard of bad MMOGs. It must be very hard to fund and get the time to develop a good game nowaday, but surely someone can deliver us from the void?

For me the place where ALL recent serious contenders has failed is content and world immersion. Everquest ONE was the last time I felt in a unique and immersive world. Even at release it had more content than almost anything on the market, and each zone was lovingly crafted. Who can forget lower and upper guk? The hard to find passageways to small underground rooms and caves, rivers with secret tunnels etc.. lovingly crafted by real dungeon crawlers. Nowdays it's crappy, unrealistic, symetric, repetitve caverns that just don;t seem real or hasve had the same energy put into them.

An good solid combat system, interesting and complimentary (but NOT NOT balanced to hell) classes, a genuinely realistic, big, world and you would have another good MMO. I have yet to see that since EQ1. Nobgody has put the same care into the world. Nobobdy.

My first MMO was Asherons Call. At first I thought it was just that urge to play my first love again that made me think most other mmo's have felt dull. The more I remove myself the more I realize that its simply I havent found the gameplay, story, and world that made AC great. An origional IP. A reason to go out and explore the mostly (only a handfull of instanced dungeons) seamless world that rewarded you for going out and exploring. So much the game did right I havent seen in another MMO since.

hate to break it to you, but the older mmos sucked too. even the text based muds sucked really. the only fun thing to do was pk.

i think some of the sandbox mmos might be where the real innovation and compelling gameplay is happening and will continue to happen. the themepark mmos are content to copy the mud model with little variation.

If devs actually read reviews instead of try to make money first then make a game maybe there might be a few decent games out. But in reality i just think mmos is a dieing breed . We have seen it all and done it all .. as a gamer i would like a mmo to surprise me but i dont hold my breath anymore .

Well , here goes nothing SUNLIGHT!!!!!! ahhhhhh see its just time to get out of the house for about 6 to 12 months and see then if anything drops thats worth a dam. Reason  being most of us check this site and sites like this one for upcomming games or  ,open / closed beta  almost all the games out atm are garbage BUT on the other hand we are still paying for cash shop items and loggging into  grind wasteless hours in these "garbage" games take wow for example how many ppl you know got 8 or 9 lvl 80's with 5k gear score or more . A lot but everyone still biches about how bad wow is but yet we still suscribe and  play. JUST STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER~!  , im much better now im on the mmorpg patch yup thats right 20 mg's of mmorpg through a transdermial patch ahahahahhah   

The main problem I find with these games is this - a equal representation of quests AND grinding, and end game content. Seamless worlds, and non linear story lines, and bad updates (maybe because they dont have a staff who can even update the game) and crappy communities.

There's your problem. Those features are prevalent on every game in one form or another. MMORPGs these days define themselves on quests, and grinding (although you may look towards Guild Wars 2 to try avoiding that) is probably a universal concept, not only supported by MMOs. As for story lines, well, it's becoming a prerequisite that every game has a fable, a background story (or more), and a distinctive history against cliched classes.

What everyone's forgetting these days is that games are made not for entertainment, but for money. Micro-transactions (aka Cash Shops/Item Malls) are the biggest money-reapers of the lot.