(05-13-2014, 01:19 PM)TheLastCandle Wrote:(05-13-2014, 12:07 PM)Ignacius Wrote: My bad. Â I actually have had so many conversations about MMORPGs with people who seem to develop bulletproof love for games that are derivative or not very good in objective criticism (not really here, people here seem to care a bit more) so my first reaction to that is that people aren't being sarcastic, they're being real.
That, and I never played Tera. Â I've just seen enough MMORPGs to know what they look like now.
When you think about it, it's almost shocking that people would make MMORPGs so derivative of another game. Â MMORPGs, by definition, tend to involve a lot of time investment, so people aren't going to leave an MMO for one or two features that will be added in their game in the future. Â They also take so much money to develop and maintain, each should be a flagship franchise.
You'd be surprised. From what I've seen in various communities, there seems to be a subset of MMO "nomads" who are constantly moving on to the next New Shiny Game, whatever that happens to be, regardless of the game's originality. As baffling as it may be, they're out there.
That is baffling. Â Maybe I'm too far behind the times; I only just took on another game other than WoW last year. Â All I know now is that as much as I thought I played WoW because I'm stodgy. Â What I've learned is that I played because there really aren't any better games out there a decade later.
Actually, I'm kind of interested to see how FFXIV and Wildstar play out over time. Â I don't know that they're better yet, but WoW may finally be so antiquated that it will finally die of attrition.
Not that I haven't already pre-ordered Warlords to see what they're doing. Â It's still Blizzard. Â It's just a little disappointing that we haven't gotten anything that's 100% upfront better than World of Warcraft in ten years. Â I mean, Doom 3 released that year. Â FFXI got the Chains of Promathia expansion that year. Â FABLE released that year. Â I mean, all credit to Blizzard for being a great developer, but in ten years, if we haven't had a better game, that's as damning an indictment of the industry as we could ever have.
