What kind of major changes do you think we will see?

I think gaming will become even more popular and thus more players for MMORPG's as the years go by and people get wealthier and wealthier and end up having more leisure time with nothing to do.

I think there will be new concepts for how an MMORPG is designed and how it's gameplay is handled, something quite drastically different than the basis of Everquest and games like World of Warcrafts gameplay. Also the action-element based MMORPG's of recent will take some unusual changes too I think.

Me personally, I'll keep a little bit of an eye out on how things are going, but I won't try out any games unless something just miraculousy captures me like how I felt about games when I was a young boy. Which are slim chances heh.

lol in 2030? there will probably be virtual reality games played by yourself so we won't hear whinings on skill less games.

full Motion gaming might be possible, like in the movie Gamers lol

Hopefully we will see significant technological leaps by that point, allowing for more tech-heavy games to be produced.

Originally posted by ImmortalBird

What kind of major changes do you think we will see?

I think gaming will become even more popular and thus more players for MMORPG's as the years go by and people get wealthier and wealthier and end up having more leisure time with nothing to do.

I think there will be new concepts for how an MMORPG is designed and how it's gameplay is handled, something quite drastically different than the basis of Everquest and games like World of Warcrafts gameplay. Also the action-element based MMORPG's of recent will take some unusual changes too I think.

Me personally, I'll keep a little bit of an eye out on how things are going, but I won't try out any games unless something just miraculousy captures me like how I felt about games when I was a young boy. Which are slim chances heh.

Trick question.There will be no MMORPG's in 2030. Dec. 21st, 2012 we will all be dead.

However in the unlikely event that we all live... I highly doubt the term MMORPG will be used 20 years from now, either by political correctness of evolution of the genre.

10 years ago, the majority of MMO pioneer people were playing Everquest, Asheron's Call, Ultima Online, or Meridian 59...  on their 56k modems, PII cores, 256 Megs of ram and 16 Meg vid cards.

10 years ago, the first Silent HIll on the Playstation came out, Nsync, Backstreet Boys, Ricky Martin and Britney Spears ruled the airwaves... The Force was revealed as a parasitic infection in The Phantom Menace, the term "Bullet-Time" was coined from the Matrix, and there was a movie about a witch with three kids running around in the forest and a chicks runny nose that went on to be the most successful indie movie to date.

That's just TEN years ago... and you're projecting TWENTY?

What exists now will be a laughable shadow of what "once was" idealism followed by teens saying "Oh my god, why the hell did you SIT at your computer for hours, days, weeks, years... on end? Talk about archaic!"

Mark my words and archive them.

in 2012, nuclear disasters and attacks will happen world wide, many will die, and then the non immune will turn into zombies. the immune will rally and try to fight the walking dead off, but will probably fail. by 2030 the earth will be desolate and baren, nothing will be alive

hah

Originally posted by ImmortalBird

What kind of major changes do you think we will see?

I think gaming will become even more popular and thus more players for MMORPG's as the years go by and people get wealthier and wealthier and end up having more leisure time with nothing to do.

I think there will be new concepts for how an MMORPG is designed and how it's gameplay is handled, something quite drastically different than the basis of Everquest and games like World of Warcrafts gameplay. Also the action-element based MMORPG's of recent will take some unusual changes too I think.

Me personally, I'll keep a little bit of an eye out on how things are going, but I won't try out any games unless something just miraculousy captures me like how I felt about games when I was a young boy. Which are slim chances heh.

Considering some of the recent announcements about 80 core processors, I think computer and internet technology will be amazing. However by that time I'm sure I will be far more interested in things like the technological advancements in products such as dentures, adult daipers, baldness cures, hip and knee replacements, viagra, and where the bloody hell my slippers have gotten to.

in 2030, cyberpunk has become real. what u see in Ghost in the Shell today is reality in 20 years^^

well. i wish it does...

and 30 years from that Eve online becomes reality 

Originally posted by Vinterkrig

in 2012, nuclear disasters and attacks will happen world wide, many will die, and then the non immune will turn into zombies. the immune will rally and try to fight the walking dead off, but will probably fail. by 2030 the earth will be desolate and baren, nothing will be alive

 

hah

You forgot to mention this nuclear exchange will be caused by a flaw in the new Windows 7 operating system. Bloody Microsoft!!

Before 2030 Microsoft will buy up the majority of the social networks (facebook, twitter and such) and develop them into a giant social mmo network similiar to Second Life but only 100x bigger.

Indie mmorpg developers will be bought into the Microsoft Online Social Network. These will include a list of popular indie games (e.g runescape) and some defunct games by then (e.g. WAR and AoC), and of course Microsoft will also buy Club Penguins from Disney for an outregeous price to promote their kiddy products.

By 2030, we will have major breakthrough in space technologies or may even discover lifeforms from outerspace. So a lot of mmorpg will be sci-fi instead of fantasy.

Since microsoft will turn mmorpg into a social/marketing tool, in game visual advertisement system will be in desire so dying mmo such as Anarchy may still squeeze out a few bucks from microsoft.

We will also see gambling and porn mmorpg.

And of course, Bill Gates will be the president of the United States.
 

People with the latest and greatest hardware/software will still be complaining when their machines are brought to a crawl by the latest game release.

Originally posted by NinjaNerf

Before 2030 EA will buy up the majority of the social networks (facebook, twitter and such) and develop them into a giant social mmo network similiar to Second Life but only 100x bigger.

Indie mmorpg developers will be bought into the EA Download Manager. These will include a list of popular indie games (e.g runescape) and some defunct games by then (e.g. WAR and AoC), and of course EA will also buy Club Penguins from Disney for an outregeous price to promote their kiddy products.

By 2030, we will have major breakthrough in space technologies or may even discover lifeforms from outerspace. So a lot of mmorpg will be sci-fi instead of fantasy.

Since EA will turn mmorpg into a social/marketing tool, in game visual advertisement system will be in desire so dying mmo such as Anarchy may still squeeze out a few bucks from EA.

We will also see gambling and porn mmorpg.

And of course, John Riccitiello will be the High Chancellor of the NWO.
 

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Originally posted by grunty

People with the latest and greatest hardware/software will still be complaining when their machines are brought to a crawl by the latest game release.

Depends on if this online stream technology takes off... if network and server speeds grow enough it's possible that absolutely everything will be processed on public servers and the image will be streamed to the players.

Originally posted by Alberel

Originally posted by grunty

People with the latest and greatest hardware/software will still be complaining when their machines are brought to a crawl by the latest game release.

Depends on if this online stream technology takes off... if network and server speeds grow enough it's possible that absolutely everything will be processed on public servers and the image will be streamed to the players.

 

True. In 20 years chances are it will be widely used.

Originally posted by Lansid

Originally posted by NinjaNerf

Before 2030 EA will buy up the majority of the social networks (facebook, twitter and such) and develop them into a giant social mmo network similiar to Second Life but only 100x bigger.

Indie mmorpg developers will be bought into the EA Download Manager. These will include a list of popular indie games (e.g runescape) and some defunct games by then (e.g. WAR and AoC), and of course EA will also buy Club Penguins from Disney for an outregeous price to promote their kiddy products.

By 2030, we will have major breakthrough in space technologies or may even discover lifeforms from outerspace. So a lot of mmorpg will be sci-fi instead of fantasy.

Since EA will turn mmorpg into a social/marketing tool, in game visual advertisement system will be in desire so dying mmo such as Anarchy may still squeeze out a few bucks from EA.

We will also see gambling and porn mmorpg.

And of course, John Riccitiello will be the High Chancellor of the NWO.
 

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Not EA. They don't have the technologies and they are still learning how to make successful online games.

They will be the seller, not the buyer. Look for them to exit the mmo market.

In 2030 we will all get out of our Google beds, take a Google shower, get our Google clothes on, have a Google breakfast, link our brains to the Google network to do work for 8 hours, link to Google social for gaming/socializing, then enter our Google sleep chambers to rest for the next day.

Think The Gamer might be close, not so much how to be able to control another human, but more in how the interface and connection works, kinda NATAL like.

Link below is from 1999 about the Future of Games. Pretty fun read, to see where we at 10 years from that article

http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/tfog.htm

Originally posted by skeaser

In 2030 we will all get out of our Google beds, take a Google shower, get our Google clothes on, have a Google breakfast, link our brains to the Google network to do work for 8 hours, link to Google social for gaming/socializing, then enter our Google sleep chambers to rest for the next day.

Scary.

Originally posted by Interesting

Originally posted by skeaser

In 2030 we will all get out of our Google beds, take a Google shower, get our Google clothes on, have a Google breakfast, link our brains to the Google network to do work for 8 hours, link to Google social for gaming/socializing, then enter our Google sleep chambers to rest for the next day.

 

Scary.

Wait till you meet your Google wife..

Originally posted by grunty

People with the latest and greatest hardware/software will still be complaining when their machines are brought to a crawl by the latest game release.

That is actually assuming a lot about the futures computers.
 

When I started I had a C-64 and then an Amiga. With the exception of lose disc drives and my Amiga extra memory does machines were the same for everyone and games run just fine. That could happen in 20 years again, PCs don't need to stay the exact same way they are now.

Heck, Apple could kill Microsoft, that could at least have some of the same effect.

If people play on a standard computer the games will work fine as console games do today. Or maybe nano tec makes so fast computers that no-one can make games that is too fast for them, we just don't know that.

Anyone that assumes stuff about the future, 'cept that you will die and that the government will tax you a lot is almost wrong 100% of the time.

To quote IBMs boss in the 50s: I believe that the world computer market will be: 5. He assumed that all future computers would be as large and expensive that the current ones were. We now know he was wrong but the guess was as good as any then.