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Originally Posted by wagorf
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This guy spitting facts
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Yeah well the POPULAR alternative exists. A dozen of them for that matter, with a hundred billion subscribers.
All these billions of people press a button which launches their game and they log in and they're all in there. Then they press another button which launches a private mini-game just for them and their friends. That's popular. Launching two games to play one.
That's the modern MMOG paradigm. The open-world is simply a social meeting space so you can enter a private game. God forbid you should be inconvenienced or delayed or in any way bothered by anyone other than your select group of elite instancers. What's the appeal of that? It's literally going to your Steam friends, 'hey guys wanna play a session of Total War' and boom you and your friends are enjoying a private multiplayer game. But in MMOGS you replace that by a tedious process where you have to load and log into a complicated environment that is merely a gateway to another game. Oh look I'm in a fantasy world. You're not in a fantasy world. You're in a social meeting space for your next private game.