It's time for a significant change in the video game market
by Patti Rybarczyk
Have you ever played any of the big MMOs? If you have, you probably noticed the lack of creativity that has been plaguing the community for years. SWTOR was supposed to end this, but they practically pasted every other game's features. Where are the advanced character controls that the community has been asking for? Every game is just a randomly generated attack. We want to control our actions further.
Think about any of the boss fights you have encountered. The tank is always just sitting there holding aggro and hoping that the next attack will be blocked. Wouldn't it be amazing for the tank to lift his shield in defense and actually interact with his character. What would happen if the raid attacked the leg of the boss. Would he fall over and do different attacks? All the MMO games are great, but they let numbers control the outcome of every fight.
Maybe Guild Wars 2 will raise the bar a bit with their environment interactions they are incorporating. In one of their previews, a toon fails to blow up a bridge successfully. Instead of them letting you go around freely like most games, they actually make the bridge fall over. Once the bridge collapses, it blocks your character's path. You can no longer go to that part of the game. This is a level of consequence and responsibility that no other MMO has really incorporated. Will this force the other games, or future games, to have environment interactions and consequences that they have been neglecting for so long? It would probably be impossible for current games to update their game engines. Even if they were able to, the massive amount of resources it would take to update their current content would probably nullify the possibility of it happening.
While there are many new games in the works, and countless expansions, everything is the same. For instance, Mists of Pandaria is the next World of Warcraft expansion. They have added some new and fun quests, but most of them are collection or killing quests. For those who have been playing for years, this is such a let down. No one enjoys mob grinding for hours on end. They followed the exact blueprint that surged their subscribers and has seen them fall off every month. It worked well in the past, but the player base is always wanting some kind of change. We need something different besides minor tweaks to the same flawed model. It is basically a rewrite of every other expansion with new visuals and not much else.
What happened to the uniqueness of games? Think about it, most games are literally a copy of every other game. What made them any different? Even World of Warcraft, all they did was patch together all other old MMOs and make them better. Since then, every game is just a rip off of one another. No one wants to kill wolves all night long or collect a hundred eggs for some random quest giver. The lack of innovation is killing the industry and it needs to be changed.
What can SWTOR and others do to change their inevitable decline in subscribers? No one knows for sure, they could attempt to fix their current faults, but like mentioned earlier it is probably unfeasible and unprofitable for them to do so. These companies need to take a look at Guild Wars 2 and see that innovation is something that they should have tried doing. Sometimes change is good and all we can hope is that the next generation of games start to innovate even further.
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Title: It's time for a significant change in the video game market
Author: Patti Rybarczyk
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