When I was younger, I played AT LEAST 12 different MMORPGs (Think ToonTown, FusionFall, Runescape, etc.), but most of them are gone now. Why the decline in popularity? What type of MMORPG do you think it would take to be massively popular like the ones in the past?
Dead MMORPGs
A lot of that was the novelty of having online communities. Second Life and all that. People wanted to enter the future. Now that we've seen it, not so much.
MMOs were also the first true "open world" games. Now that we have that in single player games, people are getting that "exploration" need fulfilled (without griefers).
World of Warcraft pretty much killed the market. Nobody else can compete with Blizzard's enormous budget, the enormous amount of work that Blizzard already put into World of Warcraft, or World of Warcraft's enormous player base, so they're left competing on price or offering vastly different gameplay experiences. New MMORPG players who can afford the monthly subscription fee end up in World of Warcraft sooner or later, players playing World of Warcraft have no need for another MMORPG on the side, and players leaving World of Warcraft tend to leave MMORPGs altogether.
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