Do you think you will? Or do you think life commitments will get in the way eventually? Do you already have kids and can play alot of MMOs?  I sometimes think how can people possibly play MMOs with babies or young children, it seems negectful.  

Father of a 10 months old baby here, play when he's asleep, mostly... in 10 years time hope to play them with him... :)

No. Probably wont be able to due to progressive illness...

So in the meantime i sort through the underwelming mmorpgs to find the gems that shine.

Well I havn't been playing MMO's in the last 2 years...so no not with the direction they have been going..

(those two years exclude a day or two to try out...)

Aion

Rift

AoC

FFXIV

Warhammer

Eve

and a few others.

Yes, as long as they don't continue their trend of "Easy-Mode NOW!" from WoW-cloning. Also, this "Free to Play" gimic is getting old. Pay to Play puts you on an even playing field with premium support EXPECTED by default. This Pay-To-Win crap is just horrible, and reeks of low-quality content across ALL boards.

It's all ready been ten or so years for me, so I could see myself still playing them in ten more.

They're like any other game as they fill a purpose of entertainment, usually to network with friends or rpg buddies, so they'll live until their purpose dies.

I don't think the question is whether or not you be able to play in 10 years. The question is whether or not there will be a game worth playing.

The trend has been sucking.

Yes, I just won't play it as much.

The first game genre I got highly interested in were platformers (mario, spyro, crash bandicoot, tomb raider), and I still am interested in platformers, however back then I played at minimum 10 a year, while today I play 1 a year...I predict the same will occur with MMO's eventually.

On the kid thing: Playing mmo's doesn't make you neglectful. I don't have kids so many would say my opinion doesn't matter, but I have 2 good parents and they didn't need to watch me 24/7 and had hobbies, they just were smart. I mean if you're kids are playing outside, being fully immersed in a MMO in you're upstairs study isn't very smart, but if you're kid is playing with Legos or whatever inside, just play MMO's in the same room.

I do not see why not, personally. I like my mmos, and getting my friends to play them with me. Of course I may die in some freak accident which was really set up by the government to DESTROY me. But seeing that is unlikely, yes.

If SWTOR is still kicking out content, or BW releases a ME MMO, then yeah I probably will for the story aspects.

I've been playing MMOs since the launch of UO in 97, or even back in 94/95 with Gemstone/Dragonrealms if you want to count MUDs, and I'm still playing. 

Now that isn't to say I enjoy most of what I play - I don't. MMOs have declined in the past 5 years or so but I credit that to a genre which became stagnant with ideas and cluttered with clones not to mention that a lot of developers/publishers backed out due to WoW's dominance. 

However, we finally have some new life coming in with some major developed MMOs on the way (finally!). I think a few of them will be good but I'm really not going to love this genre until we get some more large scale, well funded sandbox MMOs that take ideas from the more virtual MMO model rather than the theme park ones. 

I'll always play them until I'm old most likely. But the genre develops/changes slowly, with changes taking years to mold and shape the genre, so I'd say the truely good MMOs are still years and years off and we won't really see anything truely revolutionary until technology catches up with our ideas. 

I mean imagine a gigantic open world that's far too large in scope for human developers to physically shape all of it - where basic AI helps create mobs, land structures, weather patterns, and so forth. Be interesting ... but decades off.

Another ten years.  Yep.  I'm long past the child raising age.  Will probably be teaching my grandkids to play by then.  Heh, or them teaching me :-)

I've spent the last 12-15 years playing MMO's, mostly MMORPG's and within the next ten years I hope to being doing the same and will be but hopefully within a clan or something? Maybe make it a more social entertainment.

Depends on the games, if Facebook-MMOs take place i will probably end up playing oldies from GoG.com and stopping to play MMOs.

But possible that TSW may run ten years, Archeage is a hit, WOD isreleased, Bethesda does it right or SOE desperately trying to get a niche to survive makes a Blockbuster Sandbox/Temepark/Virtual-World-hybrid, who knows?

That probably depends on how the next two I play go.  If I like at least one of them enough to stop MMO hopping for a year or two, then I probably will still be playing in ten years.  If I don't, then I won't be.

God (or insert diety of your choice) willing, I sure as hell will be!  Should I still be alive, I'll only be 57 - and thanks to some great investments will have been fully retired for 7 years.

  So, yes, unless something drastic happens, I'll definately still be playing!

If GW2 fails me... I'm pretty much going to be waiting for WildStar Online and will keep to my strategy/single player rpg/couch co-op/fps games.

GW2 and WildStar Online are pretty much my last hope for MMOs unless Titan is something spectacular for me.

Of course not if Archeage doesn't meet my criteria I'm pretty much done with the genre once and for all. I want MMORPWs not a dumbed down lobby version known as MMOG.

Originally posted by DerWotan

Of course not if Archeage doesn't meet my criteria I'm pretty much done with the genre once and for all. I want MMORPWs not a dumbed down lobby version known as MMOG.

Although i feel the same as you,i don't think it is fair to pin all hopes on AA,after all they need to see the players response before spending more money and making the game better.

There is something that scares me and that is their ability to find a publisher here.I hope they are  not asked to change the game so it meets up with Wow's design,that woudl be a big no no.When Jake was asked about localization ,he seemed iffy on his answers,that sort of tells me they might have to change the NA version up a bit .../sigh

This game is going to try and do soooooo much it is scarey,i hope people give them a chance to tweak it after launch and not bury them.I highly doubt the game will feel polished,they are just doing too much.All i want to see is a decent fan base so it encourage the developer to spend more money and further develop the game.I don't want to see expansions with just new maps and quest hubs,that would turn me off bigtime.

XL games needs to feel the love,so they will continue down their path,i hope they get it,we need it in this very bland genre.

Will Vanguard still be running ?

Will SW:TOR be that good that I can play it instead (very unlikely, always only Jedi is boring) ?

Or will there be another game like Vanguard - classical fantasy, with compareable depth in its class system and compareable size of its world and compareable high quality of quests, dungeons, and raids ?

I wont complain at all if it has less bugs, meaningful sportive PvP, more players and developers and the guy who actually designed the game would still be in charge.

If not, well, I would probably have some other hobby instead.