Just One MMOre » casual http://www.justonemoar.com The culture of games. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:34:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 QotD: The action-MMO as a trend http://www.justonemoar.com/2011/08/11/qotd-the-action-mmo-as-a-trend/ http://www.justonemoar.com/2011/08/11/qotd-the-action-mmo-as-a-trend/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:39:04 +0000 Jeremy Stratton http://www.justonemoar.com/?p=367 Whether it was content that X-Play knew would bring in views – because they knew it was something we wanted to hear, or if it really was rooted in the writer’s opinions, I still agree. X-Play released a small clip online of the three things that currently scare them in the game industry. Number three is RPGs slowly disappearing while the mainstream is now all action-based play. I can see this in the MMO world too, but I also agree when X-Play said it’s just a trend.

I’ve referred to changes I saw in the MMO industry today and in the near future as a pendulum swinging from one side to the other. I don’t think MMOs will go back to exactly the way they were before. Too much new technology and ideas have sprouted up to allow that. But I do think the pendulum is already swinging back to what MMORPGs used to focus on: greater depth, more activities to accomplish, immersion.

I’m just wondering what’s going to happen to all the MMOs that have been and are being imported or created in the West that are heavily built around action?

These are ongoing worlds that were built on a foundation – a framework – that isn’t easily recoded to change the core mechanics. Will they die, survive, stop being imported or something else?

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