It's not necessarily coping. How many of the MMOs released in the last 2 years have been decent enough to drag a significant number of players away from GW2, WoW or FFXIV (which seem to be the big 3 for the western hemisphere right now)?
New World ended up a joke at launch and will need a long time to get past that launch reputation. Lost Ark did get some western players but their player base is still something like 80% South Korean. I know there were a few others that came out but the hype came and went so quickly I can't think of their names.
That's not to say that one of the upcoming MMOs will break the barrier and become a major player but there's simply no way to know until they're released.
The amount of tribalism MMO players seem to ooze is insane.
Mortal Fist
They lost me forever with Cosby Suite... and I played for 13 years.I'm tempted to try WoW on the side to fill time, but they've lost me as a customer for a main MMO. Far too much deleted lore and quests and time exclusive mounts and pets and so on over the years that I can't obtain because I avoided the game for being rubbish. I'm sure it'd still be fun to mess about on, but I'd love a game to invest in and WoW has too much damage.
I played WoW for a long time, but the constant falling back on "Oh no, the Horde are the bad guys again" got old. And, as a Darkspear main, discarding Vol'jin before he really got to do anything as warchief, especially to push Sylvanas yet again, kinda pissed me off. Nothing I've seen of the game since leaving has convinced me that there's any reason to go back. And that's without going into Blizzard's various scandals over the last couple of years.
Mao left WoW because every new expansion came with a reset of stats and abilities. It felt like being knocked back down and having to rebuild only to get knocked back down again.I played WoW for a long time, but the constant falling back on "Oh no, the Horde are the bad guys again" got old. And, as a Darkspear main, discarding Vol'jin before he really got to do anything as warchief, especially to push Sylvanas yet again, kinda pissed me off. Nothing I've seen of the game since leaving has convinced me that there's any reason to go back. And that's without going into Blizzard's various scandals over the last couple of years.
Yeah please don’t hate me because I have a Mist Plot 35 for Personal and LB41 for the FC.
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The hate isn't against 'people who have housing' but against 'people who have housing, and yet feel entitled enough to demand even more content for their exclusive little club while the lack of space remains an issue.
Honestly, there have been allegations over the years that indicate SE isn't exactly free of stuff like that either.
I think it can put people in an awkward spot down the line if any of it ends up going mainstream in the west.
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