Comments on: Predictions for MMOs/ Gaming in 2011

By: Out with the old year, in with the new. MMO predictions for 2012 « Welcome to Spinksville!

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:03:57 +0000

[...] didn’t make a great job of my predictions last year. TAGN has a super gaming roundup of 2011, covering what actually did [...]

By: krosuss

krosuss — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:06:28 +0000

Enjoy your blog, as always.

Your DAOC 2 prediction … didn’t EA gain control of its license when they purchased Mythic? How would Mark Jacobs be able to start a DAOC 2?

By: Samus

Samus — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:49:48 +0000

Yeah, I think they are fools to make any predictions at all. I can only predict that I will have the following argument repeatedly 6-9 months after release:

Them: SWTOR was a total failure! Everyone knows that!

Me: It’s the second most successful MMORPG of all time. Everything but WoW is a failure?

Them: But it cost $300 million!

Me: And they made $400 million in the first 6 months.

Them: But they didn’t meet their predictions, and subscriptions are declining!

Me: …

By: My Demands for 2011 « The Ancient Gaming Noob

My Demands for 2011 « The Ancient Gaming Noob — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:47:23 +0000

[...] comes predictions. You can find plenty of them out there. Lots of people have them, like Tipa, Spinks, and Keen. (More linked as I find [...]

By: /AFK: Broken Resolutions Edition « Bio Break

/AFK: Broken Resolutions Edition « Bio Break — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:11:58 +0000

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By: Bronte

Bronte — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:49:19 +0000

I think the Zynga prediction is already true with the success of Cityville!

By: spinks

spinks — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:04:58 +0000

It’s because Bioware/ EA have been so crazy with their predictions, I think. Much as we’d all like it to succeed and also a lot of people think it’ll be a decent game, no one can really imagine it succeeding in the way they want.

I’d like to be wrong on this though.

By: Samus

Samus — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:37:10 +0000

I think it is funny how many people are predicting SWTOR to “fail,” all of which plan to play it.

I can agree with the second part of that prediction, I don’t see it as a game you will want to play for 10 years. My general impression is that most people will play through it and “feel done with it” in 4-6 months, long enough to subscribe but not long enough to keep subscribing.

This is tough to predict, though, because there has been so little info released about the endgame. There’s no real way of knowing if it will be something that keeps people coming back. But they have been so forthcoming with information about every other part of the game, it’s hard to have faith in the part of the game they’re keeping quiet about.

By: spinks

spinks — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:04:10 +0000

See, I think they’re moving away from this. In Black Ops, you can progress your character and get better equipment and there is no character matching at all in online games, so you could easily be stuck with people who outgear you.

I was actually amazed at this, given how popular the game is and how many people play.

By: Irrelevantdrivel

Irrelevantdrivel — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:48:36 +0000

The problem is that major part of fps’s is that in every match everyone starts off completely equal. A major part of them is also having very little lag. Now tell me if you don’t see how this could be a problem lol