MMO Domination of This Generation

MMO Domination of This Generation By Daniel Owens To better my writing skills and establish a presence in the MMO gaming community are the passions that bring me here, I enjoy writing about new and upcoming MMO's. My goal is to bring to the reader as many promising MMO's as I can find. Offering insight and advice on what's worth playing.

I am sitting here in my recliner, staring at the overpowering glow of my 42" plasma in which my computer is attached to and pondering about the gaming industry. I like to do this sometimes, relax and just let my mind run away with crazy game ideas and go over what's happening in the industry and where I see it going over the next few months.

Today my thoughts are all about Multiplayer functionality in titles whether it be RTS games, FPS games or MMO's. A multiplayer capability within a title has gone well beyond a nice bonus, to an absolute necessity. Looking over the upcoming and existing MMO's as I consider which time sink to invest in next, I notice that almost every single niche market and every single universe created most likely already has or will soon have its own MMO.

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Are the days of single player titles coming to an end? Have we become so reliant on the internet that even our gaming lives are dominated by it as well? It is great that the MMO genre is growing stronger by the day but now it just seems to be used as a cash cow by developers. Developing your own MMO seems to be the fad of this generation; it seems if you don't have an MMO title under your belt then you're not a developer worth paying attention to.