MMORPG's Doomed in 2010

MMORPG's Doomed in 2010 By Daniel Tack Daniel Tack has been playing MMO's since they came into existence and loves competitive online gaming. With a degree in Journalism from Michigan State University, the only thing Dan likes more than playing games is writing about them! Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/dantack

Well the end of the world is still a few years away in 2012 but for these poor games the end may come sooner. While in the industry it's very hard for a MMO to actually "die" per say due to the low cost of keeping servers around with minimal content updates, these are games that are dying on the vine.

1.) Warhammer Online

Warhammer Online

Endless free trial. Come back and play free! These statements should ring warning bells in the heads of any gamer. When Warhammer launched, it was touted as a WoWkiller, a PVP paradise, and a loregasm of epic proportions. Servers were packed, there were waiting lines to get in to play, the battlegrounds were insanely fun and everything was going smooth.

So what happened? Well, people got a few levels. Then they began to see the cracks in the facade - Horribly imbalanced classes, five man dungeons with lockout timers (lol?) and more crashes and bugs than a highway accident involving a hive of bees.

The wait lists dried up. It stopped being fun to be a Greenskin, pounding your shield as a Bright Wizard killed you in 1 hit from 1000 yards away. Servers disappeared as the shrinking playerbase was corralled into the remaining seven servers. The Land of the Dead "expansion" was released. Aptly named, because the game was quickly becoming a ghost town.

If this game doesn't die in 2010, it deserves to. Like a wounded animal this one just needs to put down.