The state of the MMO industry
World of Warcraft was released on the 24th of November 2004 and is at present nearly 6 years old. Regardless of age, the game is still performing well and dominates the genre. The third expansion should become available before the end of 2010, the previous. Flying in the old areas of the game has been wanted by the old fans for a long time, and with the new expansion we will see this, also more wow macros.
World of warcraft could be classified as defacto MMO game, as nothing else has come close to topping it yet. There have been several MMOs released of the course of wow being released, but none of them have been as successful as wow. We are still waiting for an MMO to be released to challenge wows position as the no1 MMO. A lot of people are suggeting that the new star wars game could compete with wow. So many people love star wars, and this can only go in the games favour.
Some people have left world of warcraft to play Ultima Online, a game well renowned for its complexity. The more subscriptions the developers get, the more money they make, so this is the main reason they are making the game more accessible!
Loads of people are no playing the browser based game called Farmville, this is because of the Facebook boom. This simple game is a possible threat to the way future MMOs will be developed. You currently have to put quite a bit of time into subscription based MMOs, but Farmville is the opposite of this. MMOs of the future could be more like Farmville, as it is setting future expectations of the genre. The subscription based offerings from most current MMOs may prove tedious to the younger generation of free broswer based MMO players. Warrior Macros.