I think that the market will become saturated very quickly. Right now there are really only 2: Everquest and Ultima Online. 10Six and Asherons Call haven''t been so successful. Verant is made Everquest, and they''re also working on a Star Wars, a fps called PlanetScape and a RTS called Sovereign Massively Multiplayer Game. Also, Westwood is now working on a Massively Multiplayer Game. The''s few more coming out two. The scary thing is that they all look like really good games, but there''s not enough room for all of them. Personally I think that Sovereign will do well because it''s the only rts coming, and it looks pretty cool

These day''s, majority of game have to be atleast multiplayer to be any good.

I myself am sick of playing against/with AI...
Playing with or against other human player''s seem''s to be the future, and masively online game''s will become ever more popular, especially when connections to the internet become faster and faster.

IE. Throw out that dial up modem, install Satellite, or Cable, or DSL, ADSL, and all the other new technologies coming out.

Also with computer speed increasingly ever more each day, more speed, more memory, better 3d games, faster connection''s....
There''s only one way thing''s can go... unless some moron thought he would be smart and target the key building''s which connect the "world" to the U.S... Well so it seem''s to be that way.

Anyway just blabering.

I agree that the market is going to be getting very crowded soon. I'm guessing the result of this is that the games will get more specialized and will be forced into targeting specific markets. I'm also guessing we'll see a quite a few failures as everyone rushes to get their game up and running.

Edited by - _Josh on November 13, 2000 6:03:50 PM