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MMOs are just so expensive to develop now that innovation is almost dead. You either make a WoW-like or you die (and many times you die anyway). They really don

• tsgagnon 4y ago
  Social media has taken a significant bite out of what I would consider the more important parts of the older MMOs, especially when it comes to apps like Discord. Not enough people want to interact in games anymore outside of specific gameplay scenarios.
• bob1029 4y ago
  > MMOs are just so expensive to develop now that innovation is almost dead. I look at this differently. I think the extreme cost of an MMO should force innovation. Take the constraints for what they are and run with them. Accepting that you can't do it the "traditional" way is the first step to figuring out a better way. There is nothing that says a high-quality WoW killer absolutely must cost 10 figures to produce.
  • Thaxll 4y ago
    It does though, MMO are very complicated to do and there is a lot of tech to build by specialized people. The content is an other issue. You won't build anythinng close to wow bellow 100M.
  • munificent 4y ago
    Social media apps : MMOS :: Reality TV : Fiction television shows
• dualboot 4y ago
  That's because AC started development before even Ultima Online launched. It was started by a bunch of college students that loved MUDs and had no idea what they were actually doing. It was such a special thing before it was hit with a lot of road grading over the 15+ years of monthly patching that smoothed a lot of the rough edges that made it really unique.