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Originally Posted by Kevris
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Kind of true, but keep hope.
Look at say, Elite: Dangerous. There's a genre that everyone thought was dead. Crowd-funding comes along, Braben presents a vision of something, people who are interested in that thing directly make it happen.
If someone comes along with a business model that can sustain an old-school game like EQ, it will succeed.
It's worked for Space Sims, why can't it work for proper MMO's?
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The business model to sustain is the hard part.
Now a days, without some slightly aggressive monetization angles, you can't provide a game/service that lets its power users play for sometimes more than 200+ hours for only 15 dollars a month and end up being anything more than niche.
Back in the old days, it worked, because plenty of 15 buck a month casual users didn't have options. Most people that played EQ classic, sucked at it (didn't have the time) and were only content with not getting everything out of the game that
they wished they could cause they had nothing else to play.