not dying, but the thing people don’t get is EVERYTHING goes down. Westerns did, the MCU will, Star Wars has. WWE has. Walking Dead. MMO’s will.
A ton of kids and teenagers need that instant gratification rush they get from battle royale games and fps games. What i find hilarious is you spend 6 hours playing a game with no leveling, no rewards and maybe some new cosmetics.
Do hours of team deatmatch modes or CTF or Battle Royale and lose, then say an MMO is too hard and you have “no time” for raiding. It dam sure is a generation thing because we got home from school and work and had to enjoy games.
Not sit on our phones at school doing 10-15 clash royale or hearthstone or fortnite matches. Their overall fast and repetitive and don’t take a lot of skill, which is not saying their bad, but the average 10-20 year old will pop in a simple FPS or Battle Royale game over an MMO.
MMO’s, idc what game it is from WOW to Black Desert are a time sink. I also now in my 30s can come home and play a quick 30 mins or the new god of war or red dead redemption and go to bed.
There are times you need to sink a few hours into an MMO and it can be hard with work and the gym and taking kids to see Godzilla and it’s summer now etc.
Wow came out when i was 22. At 37 I can say life is WAY different now then back then
oftentimes time is a factor. I have a friend with life right now, can only play any game literally on weekends. To be able to game only 2 nights a week puts a strain on motivation
As we get older, we are more aware of how we are spending our time because sometimes there isn’t a lot of it.
I personally live for video games and video game discussions but the RPG genre for someone that has played 100+ of them since I was little, is starting to lose its shine.
Innovation is lacking tbh. I look forward to a few titles every year or so but it is sad when games you used to always trust as a quality product are shifting towards something else entirely.
well i mostly feel the same. With games like the Witcher 3 out red dead 2 or Skyrim i just feel bored playing 3 hours of Halo 5 online. I LOVE 4 player co-op. I love anthem co op or division 2.
But pvp just makes me feel like when I’m doing my 100th match in mortal kombat 10 i could be doing another awesome side quest in final fantasy 15. But the rpg genre is like any, some good and some bad.
I have played awesome fps game and fighters and terrible ones. it’s hard to look forward to many new titles because so many come out that are bad we need to filter out more then good from the bad
Haha yes. I don’t like a lot of the hand holding in today’s RPG’s. A lot of them are really easy and require hardly any grinding or offer little to no challenge during the main story which can stretch 20+ hours.
20+ hours is a long time to wait to finally start having fun.
Probably why I like a game like Dark Souls where you can pick it up and be immersed immediately. I’ve actually found myself gravitating towards games where I can pick up and get right into the combat. WoW has traditionally always been this way, but WoW’s combat atm isn’t what I’d consider top notch compared to how it was in MoP or earlier expansions.
I also like MMO’s for the most part because I hate running out of content. I like feeling that my time invested pays off the more I keep playing as compared to some single player RPG’s where your best feature is a possible NG+
When my kids were eight and ten I introduced them to WoW and we did family things in WoW for fun. Once my kids were in high school my wife and I had lots of time to play WoW. Now that they went off to college we have even more time to play WoW and a myriad of other activities and hobbies to keep us busy. Life is good!
lol i remember long ago, i still get game informer because of my gamestop membership. So i read each month and was reading an article about tutorials in games now.
Remember when you had 4 buttons on a controller and just figured it out? Now EVERY game has a tutorial. But to to be fair, the average game is way more complex with more buttons.
Also i do see your point in difficulty, but games do have difficulty options. I just beat halo wars 2 and i put it right on heroic not easy. But some players need easy. Overall though games like the witcher and skyrim you can at any time change the game to hard or extra hard.
But when it comes to wow and games in general, i don’t blame companies. Sorry but it’s a business. You HAVE to make money, employees have to get paid. I don’t blame a company for making a game easier in say lfr to please casual games but then they also have mythic Jaina for more hardcore people.
No one who plays this game or any other would be happy if their company started making employee cuts. While yes mmo’s are always endless content in a sense, i still can’t deny the massive scope or red dead redemption or the witcher or skyrim
You can clock 6 months or more into any of those games and never feel bored.
when nobody is around to play wow with, and no raids are going on, I play Starcraft 2, as I am territorial in nature and have dark fantasies of nuking places I don’t like, so that’s a suitable game for me to play, especially as Terran
It isn’t MMOs that are dieing, just WoW, ESO has gotten up to 13.5 million players, which is a farcry to the 1.5-3 million players we need to estimate now because Blizz doesn’t wanna announce how screwed they are, even the game I play, FF14, has 6 million active players and is only growing more and more, especially now with Shadowbringers coming out.
I don’t know if MMOs are dying per se, but I’ve definitely been getting back into games with good stories, so mostly singleplayer games.
Plus I feel more free honestly, with wow being sub-based I feel I have to play enough per month to justify the expense. Right now, I haven’t been logging on enough to keep justifying the cost.
Singleplayer games are nice since once you have them you can take them at your own pace, put down and come back to it whenever. Could technically do the same with WoW by just waiting for all content to come out then doing it (I did this with 8.1.5 content for the ZD and KT AR), that way it almost feels like a singleplayer story experience since all the gating is out of the way (story wise).
Loving Divinity Original Sin II. That is a masterpiece, believe the hype and reviews. 200 hours in and I havent finished it yet. It looks incredibly good too.
![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")