Author has no idea what a mmo is...he mentioned only destiny and division.
Everquest lasted a few years.
FFXI lasted 10 years.
Dcuo is on its 7th year.
FFXIV reborn is going strong after the revamp a couple years ago.

I think next gen if the systems are powerful enough we may see more.

That mysticism is gone. I remember slapping that hdd into the back of my fat ps2 and jumping into a world that changed my life. Sitting in town and seeing a 75 Ninja in full artifact gear wearing the high level goldsmithing glasses...things that dont come easy made you want to play more and more.

That aspect has left mmos to me... now its more about how much money you spend or how much you pvp.

Because the controller support is almost always 100% garbage. Even though I don't like FF14, it circumvented this problem expertly, despite the whining of PC players.

MMOs are basically dead anyway outside of WoW and FF14.

Ya know what would succeed? SW would because it is heavily focused on single player.

Because of greedy publishers

DC Universe

It's usually not the demographic. That's why. The additional monthly fee also is extremely hard to justify in 2018.
Personally I love FFXIV and Elder Scrolls Online are excellent games on the console and they do have large successful community playing daily.
Another reason I have experienced is that majority of the console ports are shallow and they don't adapt to the console controls.

You have to adjust to the controller and the user interface needs to be also set up similarly.
At this point ESO and FFXIV work very well.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau

Wuchang is great. Nine Sols didn’t have a physical copy so I never played it but I’ve heard good things so I will check it out. I stopped playing sports games many years ago when before the card dlc’s or whatever they’re called.

Last comment… ):

Great month for others, but not me. Hate soccer and soulslikes. Maybe Nine Sols is good.

🫡 it was fun while it lasted, N4G.

FC26!