Friday, September 1, 2006

The best upcoming MMORPG

There is an interesting article on Bit-tech about the best upcoming MMORPG, and what there chances are against the market domination of World of Warcraft.

In my opinion it is hard to say what games will be hits, just from a feature list, a couple of screenshots, and knowing about the underlying license. Everybody who thinks that WoW got to where it is because of the Warcraft license is deluding himself. A license can only produces some initial interest, and when the game itself isn't fun, it will flop. Matrix Online anyone?

Will there be a World of Warcraft beater? At some point in time, certainly. Like most MMORPG, WoW suffers from players consuming content faster than developers can add it. Sooner or later people will be ready to leave WoW for any half-decent game. Whether that will happen already in 2007 remains to be seen.

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