• rbar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know. As a fan of the genre there seems to be renewed interest from some very grass roots developers. I would have agreed with your take in 2020, but in 2023 we have announcements of:

    • the Riot MMO
    • Ashes of Creation
    • The Ghost studios MMO

    These are all still in development, some still in the very early stages. But I would say there appears to be renewed interest in the genre by developers. These projects are major investments by industry veterans. There is more hope for a major new game.now than there has been in the last decade.

    • Goronmon@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      There has always been a steady stream of “promising” MMOs from smaller developers over the past couple decades. So that’s not really a new phenomenon.

      As for the Riot MMO, I’ll believe that when they actually have something that people can play.

    • lorty@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      AoC will fail in the eyes of mmo players since it cannot possibly live up to the hype.