Technology (both software and hardware) has gotten to a point where it no-longer has to be a five-plus year, tens-of-millions of dollars ordeal to create an MMORPG. There are more game developers – and therefore MMO developers – than ever. I believe it’s a combination of factors causing this change. I’m so sure this will be the case that I don’t even have to say “I hope,” and I feel fine saying that any themepark MMO that comes out from this point forward is assured to fail. It could be the year where the “WoW-formula” of generic Themepark MMOs loses its stranglehold on the MMO industry. However, 2017 seems to be shaping up to be a pivotal year in this movement. The industry as a whole is shifting this direction. My prediction for this year isn’t so much a prediction as a sure-thing that I’ve been saying has been in the works for years now: More sandbox MMOs. In fact, off the top of my head, I can’t think of one MMO that isn’t at least a sandpark (Themepark with heavy sandbox features, such Black Desert Online and ArcheAge). There are even more games coming out that aren’t necessarily sandboxy enough to be called a sandbox, but still have sandbox features. And that’s just games that are primarily in the sandbox genre.
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Tons of sandbox games will be playable this year, early as Early Access/Beta titles, or full releases. Life is Feudal, Conan Exiles, Camelot Unchained, Crowfall, Durango… the list goes on and on.
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It seems like every MMO – heck, every multiplayer PC game – coming out in 2017 will be a sandbox. In fact, that’s one of my predictions: more tie-ins for The Secret World, and perhaps some that aren’t games. I’m hoping they continue this, as there are a ton of neat locations in The Secret World that could honestly be a game of their own. That is, picking an iconic location from The Secret World (this time it is Innsmouth Academy, my favorite), exploring it in a bit more detail than the MMO did, offering it at a relatively low price, and offering in-game rewards in The Secret World for those that purchase. They used a similar formula for when they created The Park, though a more bare-bones one. It was released around Halloween 2016, and it was quite fun and got positive reviews.
But not in a shock-and-awe with gore way, but more in a family-friendly way. As you might guess, it’s a jumpscare game. I predict this server will die-off, though.Ī discussion thread for my prediction of Age of Wushu closing was started on the Age of Wushu forums, and there were some disagreements, agreements, and some in-between opinions.įuncom created a new tie-in game for The Secret World called Hide & Shriek. Let’s see (and hope) Snail doesn’t drop the ball. So far the server actually seems to be doing relatively well and is in a healthy spot.
This is an attempt to attract new players and to get older players to return and spend more money on the game. Instead of closing, they opened a new server after further merging older servers. I’m kind of sad Age of Wushu didn’t shut down, as it’s still limping along. My two biggest predictions for 2016 were that Age of Wushu would shut down (and I was wrong) and that Funcom would continue to produce The Secret World tie-ins (and I was right). And so that is the primary focus of my predictions this year: A massive shift away from the themepark genre and a huge focus on sandbox features in MMOs.īut first, what about last year’s predictions? The average MMO gamer now wants freedom, choices, and ways to affect and change the game world. What is that reason, you might ask? It’s an MMO that embraces the psychology of the current average MMO gamer.
Black Desert has been, in my opinion, the only true success story this year and I believe there’s a reason for that. Black Desert Online officially released, Twin Saga disappointed us, Otherland left us asking, “Why?” Riders of Icarus rose to the challenge of replacing Dragon’s Prophet in North America, Blade & Soul had a good start but faltered, and Tree of Savior has received ‘mixed’ user reviews on Steam. A (small) handful of interesting MMOs came out.
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