Quote Originally Posted by basketofseals View Post
I dunno why people say MMOs are a dying breed. You can't account WoW's success as part of an MMO market. There was never an explosion of successful MMOs because, for some reason, WoW didn't add to the MMO market. It just created a WoW market for some reason.

Those 100 million accounts WoW has didn't go off to play other, more personally suitable games. The just quit the genre entirely.
Actually, they did. MMO statistics have been on a substantial decline for years. Look at the sheer number of big budget MMOs that collapsed; SWTOR, Wildstar, City of Heroes, The Division and Battleborne. Of that lot, only SWTOR managed to salvage anything, though it came at a massive cost. Elder Scrolls Online also struggled substantially, but turned things around before reaching the financial implosion the aforementioned did. We all know the FFXIV 1.0 horror story. There are simply too many options and people, on average, are less willing to dedicate the necessary time investment to a single game. On the other hand, I do believe the genre will have a resurgence to some extent, though I suspect it will move away from the tab-target style altogether similar to how turned base combat has largely died out.