Now that's a mouthful,I enjoy MMORPGS like a lot of people but sometimes i want to play a game where my actions and decisions have an impact on the world around me, a sandbox type MMORPG on a persistent online world. My first MMORPG experience was with Ultima online more than 10 years ago, I never really made it to the end game content since i was very young but i remember how player housing actually occupied space. Nowadays everything is instanced based and i understand the reasoning of it since having thousands of houses occupying real space in a map will make it very confusing and cumbersome for players, but player housing is just an example of how a player can have an impact in the world around him and with instances its just not the same. In Uncharted Waters Online a player can not only crash markets by trading goods in massive quantities but they can also change a ports affiliation by investing in them, this is another example of how a player can actually have an impact on the game world.
Sadly the more popular MMORPGS these days have a very basic formula and I think we know what game is responsible for this.I remember the week i started playing World of Warcraft with a free monthly trial, i liked the visuals and i liked the setting but after going to the fourth or fifth area i felt like i was just going trough the motions like every other player before me. New area, get all the quests, complete the quests, lv up, new gear, rinse and repeat. I didnt bother paying a monthly subscription for that and sadly this is the format that most MMORPGS follow these days, I decided to stick with DOTA for my Warcraft fix.
Now this year gave us Minecraft an impressive game for sure and im very happy with its success, developers can see that there's a market for this type of sandbox gameplay, its not really an MMORPG but its a start. Later came Terraria with a similar sandbox gameplay and constant updates, things are looking up. Hopefully players will soon grow tired of the whole WOW formula and developers will be forced to innovate, I cant really blame them for sticking with it since Activision Blizzard make so much money with this formula, everybody wants a piece of the pie, Star Wars the Old Republic comes to mind. For now I am looking forward to the content update for Terraria on December 1st, its sure to cure that sandbox fix.
Dont let the visuals fool you Terraria is a very fun and addicting sandbox game.
Minecraft showed the industry how indie developers can excel with innovation
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Shadowbane is about as close as you're going to get. An open world where it was PvP and you could build your own city and attack others. The landscape changed regularly and were affected by what the players did. Game also had the best class, leveling, and skill system in an MMO, even to this date.
A truly open sand box game akin to what we have on consoles won't happen since you can't have the actions of a single player affect the world at a level that a person does in a single player game.
I'm curious: Is your username inspired by an EU character in Star Wars? I recall that name because that was one of Qui-Gon Jinn's apprentices before Obi-Wan. /endnerdmoment
one game, gta sa on pc. it's bloody fun.
Terraria is incredible. I would put that in my top 5 games of the year.