The Next Great MMO: Why SWTOR will Fail
I haven’t done a “Next Great MMO” spot in a while, mostly because MMOs have sort of slipped from my mind a bit. Of late I’ve been spending what I call my “long term game time” in Minecraft, exploring a few different servers in the hopes of finding a ruleset I like. That experience has made me wonder just what will make the next great MMO truly great, and as far as I can tell, nothing currently in development has what it will take, not even Star Wars: The Old Republic.
I wrote a longer piece about the ways SWTOR – one of the most anticipated and ambitious MMOs out there – will fail. I’m sure the game will still sell, but I don’t think it will make a dent in WoW’s numbers. It’s too similar a game and it fails to innovate in the genre. Here’s a quick excerpt from my article:
This is the experience most MMOs fail to deliver. Instead, games like “WoW” and “Champions Online” and yes, probably “SWTOR,” present the player with a paradox. The player is told he or she is going to be a great hero someday, defending the world from some great evil, and yet, as long as the player is playing the evil persists, the villains respawn, and the game world remains virtually unchanged as a result of that player’s presence.
For the full article, head over to our parent site, Bullz-Eye.com. Be warned, there’s a lot of Minecraft talk, so if you aren’t down with Mojang, it’s best not to click through.
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Tags: bioware, darth revan, kotor, MMO, star wars, star wars mmo, swtor, swtor vs wow, the old republic
Hahaha doubt iiiiiiiit. Its going to be EPIC. Dont play it then. Just know you are wrong. Wait.
It’s more likely to fail cause the gameplay is awful. All the official videos and things filmed at PAX and the like just do nothing for me or my regular play group. Generic and bland.
I can only assume their testers are such incredible brown-nosers that they don’t tell bioware what they need to be told in nearly every game they make.
That the atmosphere is excellent but gameplay is atrocious.
check out Guild Wars 2 probly what ur looking for
Yeah Rom, everything I’ve seen from GW2 looks pretty solid, though I wonder if the developer can deliver on everything they talk about. Every dev video I’m just nodding my head in agreement, but can they possibly implement everything they suggest? I dunno.
I have faith Arenanet will deliver far closer to design intent with GW2 than Bioware with SW:TOR though.
The original guild wars’ underlying systems were incredibly design savvy with the campaign missions being a rollicking adventure tutorial for the PvP aspect on which the game was truly focused.
It managed to lure a number of carebears into PvP.
I don’t think I’ve ever been so impressed by elegance of design for an online game as I was for the original GW.
I was 100% on board with this MMO 2 years ago… I have absolutely no interest in it anymore.
That said, Guild Wars 2 looks promising.
gonna be an EPIC FAIL. They might catch some SWG, WoW users and youngsters but they can’t attract any KOTOR player with it. Having no influence on the environment is only of many reasons why they will piss of most fans.
Wow will live on because swtor looks like a piece of shit and will die within about a year or so. Any swtor fans reading this will say Have u played the beta? and ill say no, so they’ll go then u cant say anything bad about it. Well actually i can: i watched 2 hrs of gameplay and it looks fucking awful. Then the same ppl go out and say that the new wow expansion is shit even though THEY haven’t played the beta for that???? Such weird ppl these days.
Anonymous, your english is of the worst kind!!!
Swtor may not kill wow, but it already dented it’s numbers.
I played wow since release and MoP Will be the expansion that kills wow. I already stopped playing wow and play swtor instead. Gives me alot more satisfaction
Who cares if it isn’t a WoW killer? There are plenty of other games out there for people to enjoy, so expand your horizons. I’ve played WoW and I admit, it wasn’t my thing. Same with EverQuest and Guild Wars. Having said that, I haven’t played SWTOR (as I don’t have access to a decent PC) and the only MMO I do play on a regular basis, is Final Fantasy XI Online… which even as old as it is (over 10 years) is still going with a dedicated fanbase.
If people want to play SWTOR, that’s their perogative, just as it is for others to play WoW, FFXI, GW etc etc etc. Be more tolerant of others and what they want to play.