tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post8679646079646314540..comments2024-03-28T10:18:05.213+00:00Comments on Inventory Full: The Machine StopsBhagpusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-3035655253120828642016-07-10T14:44:24.983+01:002016-07-10T14:44:24.983+01:00Yes, it is interesting, especially because several...Yes, it is interesting, especially because several of the main developers themselves are still making MMOs very much in the same mold as the ones that made them famous - Richard Garriott, Brad McQuaid, Mark Jacobs. It seems players like to go on playing the same MMOs and developers like to go on making them but the businesses that support it all not surprisingly feel their investment could be more profitably directed elsewhere.<br /><br />I also found it interesting that not only did I have to go to Wikipedia to find out the names of the "star" developers behind Turbine's MMOs but when I did I found I'd never heard of them...Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-42490441565155719922016-07-10T00:38:07.818+01:002016-07-10T00:38:07.818+01:00Well, it's interesting, none of the famous, ea...Well, it's interesting, none of the famous, early MMO-makers are still around, at least in their original form.<br /><br />SOE (EQ): recently became DBG<br />Origin (UO): disbanded by EA early 2000's.<br />Turbine (AC): Now mobile-only<br />Mythic (DAoC): Shut down by EA recently<br />Funcom (AO): Exited MMORPG field after relative failure of TSW<br /><br />Yet, all those games are still running, in some form or another.<br /><br />It appears that the only studios that have survived in something close to their original form are those in the slightly later second wave: Blizzard and Anet.<br /><br />- Simon<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com