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To say that there have been some recent disappointments in highly anticipated MMOs recently might be considered an understatement. So what is it that MMO gamers have left to look forward to as "the next big MMO"? Find out in our latest Pokket Says column then leave us your thoughts in the comments.
Read more of Hillary Nicole's Pokket Says: The Next Big MMO.
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10/15/12 4:12:34 PM#2
Seems like plenty of MMOs have been coming out, or existing ones with expansion packs. I don't see where the main developers seem to be slowing down. The problem is the big developers have been so busy with existing products and recent releases so who knows when their next big MMO will be ready? |
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10/15/12 4:24:56 PM#3
As in most industries, "the next big thing" is unlikely to be produced by any of the big publishing houses because they have simply grown too risk averse and weighted down by thier own internal beaurocrcies to think or act outside the box. It's going to take someone that isn't bound by conventional wisdom to do that. Which usualy means an independant that can build up from a modest base (tough to do with the costs involved with MMO's) or come up with some inventive financing to get the job done.....or maybe a company that's outside the MMO sphere jumping in.
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10/15/12 4:29:11 PM#4
I think for the most part the day of the AAA big budget mmo is over. With GW2 being the exception, recent releases like SWTOR and TSW have probably for the most part put a big damper on any more big budget mmos in the near future. So any next big thing will probably be something low budget with good design that takes off on it's own merit.
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10/15/12 4:46:13 PM#5
TSW will be my "next big MMO" for a while. I'm hoping we will see a real MMOFPS in the near future. PS2 isn't it. Maybe Trion can pull it off with Defiance. |
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10/15/12 4:56:20 PM#6
There are plenty of MMOs on the horizon. We've just, at this point in time, reached a "rest" or break period between developers and their games. We've still got Wildstar, ArcheAge, The Elder Scrolls Online and Neverwinter coming in the next year or so as well as various others in the pipeline from sandboxes to eastern games. All of them look promising and that's all I'm going to view them as. Nothing more, nothing less. I think we've definitely passed the hype zone though. Which might be a very good thing as it seems overhype tends to make these boards go into "riot" mode.  |
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Zekiah
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Joined: 1/06/07
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10/15/12 4:59:28 PM#7
Originally posted by elocke Are you kidding? The next over-hyped fail project is ALWAYS around the corner. The title of this thread proves it lol. "Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever." - Noam Chomsky |
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10/15/12 5:00:47 PM#8
Originally posted by Zekiah What this guy said ^ |
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10/15/12 5:01:33 PM#9
Originally posted by IIIcurrier Clearly you DO need to read it. It's about the relative lack of major hype for any upcoming MMOs and why that might be happening. |
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10/15/12 5:07:07 PM#10
It's all pointless. No one's ever going to be happy with an MMO again the way things have been going. You can introduce new ways of doing things, or you can stick to the old ways. Either way, people will bitch and moan about it.
no GW2 won't kill WoW, but it's time to move on and quit worrying about those people still playing it. - eyelolled |
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10/15/12 5:07:24 PM#11
Until there is Asheron's Call/Wurm with an innovative and world changing options to quests like Fable/Witcher/recent Bethesda quests ( though that's about all they did right ).
Character building, terrain forming, realistic lands and multi-way quest lines.
Add in that I can control the game with my mind, and maybe CCP's carbon engine + Euclideon's engine , and I'll pay for it.
No more shit MMO's, please! |
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10/15/12 5:15:41 PM#12
bump
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10/15/12 5:16:41 PM#13
We are separating into smaller bases spread around the games that already exist.. People think that every MMO gamer is the same fair weather bounce from game to game type, but thats not true.. Some groups of people actually stay and play certain games for a while and don't give 2 craps about the "next big MMO".. Even though the mainstream has given up on games like Rift, SWTOR and even TSW, I am positive that there are still people who have chosen to stick it out with what they enjoy playing.. If you add the populations of ALL currently playable MMO's (that includes F2P), you will see that it is so spread out between soo many types of games that there will really never be that ONE game to attract or please everyone enough to be considered a "big" thing..
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10/15/12 5:19:24 PM#14
No game will please me until it is all games in one, thinking that there cannot be a General game is the limiting thinking that brings us into these situations of stagnate markets and retarded players.
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10/15/12 5:27:18 PM#15
Well you are certainly entitled to your opinion, but personally, if Warz is the next big MMO, I will be quite shocked. After EA stubbed their toe on SWTOR we will have to wait and see if anyone is willing to risk big bucks on a MMO for some time. Lots of cut scenes and voice overs are expensive and definitely NOT the way to go when making a MMO. Small worlds with quest hubs also is not a great thing. If a studio can get some funding for something different it would be interesting. I just don't see that happening at the moment. My thoughts, a MMO needs, an open world that keeps all areas pertinent to all players( no outleveling an area) and allows non instanced housing, has no classes, and has an economy based on crafting. |
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10/15/12 5:30:36 PM#16
Originally posted by Ozmodan +1 don't quite agree with the " ( no outleveling an area ) ". In Asheron's Call they countered this with the Allegiance/XP system and cast on Other buffs.
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Normandy7
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Joined: 3/17/07
"Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.” - Mordin Solus |
10/15/12 5:30:41 PM#17
The next big bag of hype will be The Elder Scrolls Online. Then a few months after it launches we'll be able to put that in the recycle bin too.
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10/15/12 5:34:03 PM#18
Originally posted by Hybrid314 Any online game bethseda comes out with won't even end up in the recycle bin, but never installed.
Single players we're lacking enough without 20+ general overhaul mods, then everything else inbetween. I do not see them producing anything of quality or flexability Online. ( maybe never winter, but who knows what companies will do ) |
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10/15/12 5:34:24 PM#19
i think we need blizz once again. i m sick anymore to all saviors, new gen and next big things. i have payed enough to rift, swtor, aoc, war, gw2. this time i ll just wait blizz to make a new mmo. if i have a hope, i have it from blizz. no1 else
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10/15/12 5:34:57 PM#20
Originally posted by Suzie_Ford Not according to your coverage. "i don't waste my time building relationship in games" - nariusseldon |
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