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I think what the industry needs to do is get rid of the first M in MMORPG.
They keep trying to make games that will draw hundreds of thousands of concurrent players which inherently causes a lot of detriment to the product itself.
If they would instead focus on making MORPGs that you play with your friends, they can exclude the cost of server farms and GMs/ customer support.
Also, they wouldn't have to deal with customers getting upset and quitting the game due to cheaters, griefers, bots, etc.
On top of that, creating a game focused around a small group of concurrent players, the developers can enrich the graphical aspects of the game. Plus character classes can be inherently more over powered because there's no need to balance classes in a game where it's just 50 or less people playing in a private server.
If they took a game like valheim and modeled it after Everquest, it would be amazing. Sell the game for a base price, and then sale expansions to add on to the game that every one that plays on that private server has to buy to play.
They keep trying to make games that will draw hundreds of thousands of concurrent players which inherently causes a lot of detriment to the product itself.
If they would instead focus on making MORPGs that you play with your friends, they can exclude the cost of server farms and GMs/ customer support.
Also, they wouldn't have to deal with customers getting upset and quitting the game due to cheaters, griefers, bots, etc.
On top of that, creating a game focused around a small group of concurrent players, the developers can enrich the graphical aspects of the game. Plus character classes can be inherently more over powered because there's no need to balance classes in a game where it's just 50 or less people playing in a private server.
If they took a game like valheim and modeled it after Everquest, it would be amazing. Sell the game for a base price, and then sale expansions to add on to the game that every one that plays on that private server has to buy to play.
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