Is there a point in caring about the game?

[TeresaFortell]

The MMO genre as a whole is just screwed. Rotted from the inside out by terrible developers, greedy corporate decisions, and stupid short sighted players who wouldn't boycott the bad shit when there was still a chance to turn it around.

But man I'm digressing hard. MMOs are screwed. Every studio realizes that it's easier to just half ass a mobile game and make way more money. Enjoy what you will, but there's no future here. Even WoW, on a long enough scale, will get comfy again and start sipping breastmilk like nothing happened.

While that is quite true, the whole MMO genre is in decline, partly because social media has supplanted MMO as the primary place of social interaction. Initially, MMOs were the only places where one could virtually interact with each other, because there were no other avenues. Nowadays, with the widespread use of platforms like Facebook and Twitter, the importance of MMOs has substantially shifted and reduced. MMOs these days focus more on gameplay and story than the social aspect it once championed.