All I ever hear about is EQ, EQ2, and WoW. I hear of the others leading up to and just after their launches, but then all talk of them just seems to fade away.
How’s Asheron’s Call doing these days? What about AC2?
How’s Lineage II doing? I played the beta and it was horrible. Laggy, graphically bland, very little content, buggy, and lots of things seemed exploitable.
How is Dark Age of Camelot doing? I was really excited about this before it launched but I never ended up buying it. Do lots of people still play?
What about Anarchy Online? Star Wars Galaxies? What about that game where you could play as a dragon (was it Horizons?) That game was supposed to be huge, but the one person I know who played it said it was a dud. What about Shadowbane? There was a pretty big lead-up to that and I never heard a word about it.
What about EQ Online Adventures for the PS2? IIRC OpalCat was beta testing it but I never heard much of anything about it after the launch. Does anyone still play that?
What about City of Heroes? How’s it doing?
How is EQ doing now that EQ2 has launched? They’ve been saying that it will be business as usual but I find that a little suspicious. I remember when Super Nintendo launched some paranoid kid wrote to Nintendo Power and asked if they would still be making games for the NES. “Oh yes,” they replied, “we won’t forget the NES. We’ll still be developing for it full force for a looooong time.” Right. We all know how long that lasted. I’m wondering if EQ1 will go the same way within the next year or two.
Are any of you playing these games? Have any MMORPGs shut down as of yet? How was the shutdown handled?
For awhile following EQ’s enormous success they were saying that MMOs were the future of gaming but it’s easy to see that they are extremely costly to develope and maintain and they must constitute a huge risk for the companies involved.
