Usual Saturday activity includes browsing the newsfeed in FB, then I saw this post entitled Online Games That 2000's Pinoy Gamers Miss".
Surprised to see a list of online games that are very familiar to me. I think I almost played all the games on that list so I'm surprised to see some of them. It made me ponder? Are MMO games really dead?
Rising of MOBILE and MOBA games
With the ever-popular free to play MOBA or Multiplayer Online Battle Arena games like DotA 2 and LoL, then adapting into a mobile one like Mobile Legends, can't help to be sad for the "dying" games of 2000's MMORPG. When I have time to go to internet cafes, there is always either DotA 2 or LoL on the screen. I'm surprised if I see 1 or 2 PC's with MMO's at the screen.
The NOSTALGIA Continues
Games like Ragnarok Online, Flyff, ROSE online, RAN, RF, and more are on the list. The games that I spent hours and hours playing during my childhood and teenage days in the early 2000's. After school, in the afternoon, I always grind and grind to level, to change job, to be rich in this games. IMO I played even during the P2P (Play to Play) days of Ragnarok. Remembering the days when you have to grind in Glast Heim prison as a Acolyte. Joining a guild for the Emperium wars. Leveling with your friends. Nostalgic Recently, Electronic Extreme revived Ragnarok Online as Revo-Classic. It has 2-1 jobs then 2-2 jobs will be out this coming Septemer 27 Patch. Right now, I am playing in the Ragnarok PH official server Loki. But right now, the highest players online is not as much as 40,000. That is so low compared when the ROPH's prime with almost 10 servers with 600k players each servers. As for games like Flyff and Rose, I played them and the numbers are also unsatisfactory.
Are players tired of doing the same thing over and over again? Are the players just want a short game time like in MOBA? What is the root caused why this games have "died"? What will we have do to bring back it's lost glory?
My only hope that this genre is not dead. Maybe a recession or some sort. As in this type of games also friends are met, family's are created, and camaraderie are formed. Long live MMO-RPG GAMES!
The MMORPG genre in the Philippines succumbed because the game companies only pumped low quality mmorpg's into the country and not enough marketing on high quality ones. Besides, those companies were greedy corporate slobs that only wanted to make a quick profit and then exit the market.
But I agree that lifelong friends can be found and even families created in games...literally! I know a couple who met in Lineage 2 back when it had a Southeast Asia server. Now they have 2 adorable children ^.^
That's true. My guildmates in Ragnarok met up in real life in the past. It was a blast having online friends you can lean on.
MMORPGs are definitely not dead. All of the biggest teams on Guilded, which is a very new website, are MMORPG guilds. The trouble with them is that creating and maintaining them is expensive, and everybody wants to feed on the scraps of massive games like League of Legends and Dota2. But when you look at games like WoW, which is 13 years old and still going strong, or FFXIV, which has actually gotten bigger since its last major update, or Guild Wars 2, which is on the precipice of another massive expansion, or Black Desert Online, which makes its way to Xbox One later this year, I'd say there's plenty of demand for MMORPGs, and they won't be going away anytime soon.
I agree, the population of players of these P2P games are low because of the price. These games are expensive to be a member. So I don't some of these games will be a hit here in the Philippines.
Yeah sort of like RTS games have pretty much died :/