It was released around Halloween 2016, and it was quite fun and got positive reviews. But not in a shock-and-awe with gore way, but more in a family-friendly way. As you might guess, it’s a jumpscare game. I predict this server will die-off, though.Ī discussion thread for my prediction of Age of Wushu closing was started on the Age of Wushu forums, and there were some disagreements, agreements, and some in-between opinions.įuncom created a new tie-in game for The Secret World called Hide & Shriek. Let’s see (and hope) Snail doesn’t drop the ball. So far the server actually seems to be doing relatively well and is in a healthy spot.
This is an attempt to attract new players and to get older players to return and spend more money on the game. Instead of closing, they opened a new server after further merging older servers. I’m kind of sad Age of Wushu didn’t shut down, as it’s still limping along. My two biggest predictions for 2016 were that Age of Wushu would shut down (and I was wrong) and that Funcom would continue to produce The Secret World tie-ins (and I was right).
And so that is the primary focus of my predictions this year: A massive shift away from the themepark genre and a huge focus on sandbox features in MMOs.īut first, what about last year’s predictions? The average MMO gamer now wants freedom, choices, and ways to affect and change the game world. What is that reason, you might ask? It’s an MMO that embraces the psychology of the current average MMO gamer. Black Desert has been, in my opinion, the only true success story this year and I believe there’s a reason for that. Black Desert Online officially released, Twin Saga disappointed us, Otherland left us asking, “Why?” Riders of Icarus rose to the challenge of replacing Dragon’s Prophet in North America, Blade & Soul had a good start but faltered, and Tree of Savior has received ‘mixed’ user reviews on Steam. A (small) handful of interesting MMOs came out. it is nothing like TES3 Morrowind.Last year was a mixed bag. ESO Morrowind has preyed on ES player's nostalgia. The quests are repetitive and boring, fetch this, fetch that type garbage. The main questline is extremely short, with no payoff. The dungeon you mention, cannot even be accessed unless you bought another 1500 crown DLC pack. its smaller than the HoT area was, doesn't have depth, and it has all kinds of closed off space that is inaccessible such as the massive Volcano in the middle that takes up at least 1/3 of the map area, and the islands off the northwestern and southeastern coasts. I don't think you've played ESO Morrowind very much. Specially considering it has a new class, huge map and dungeons. I don't see how Morrowind is more of a cash grab than PoF. But, ESO's world is bigger, every character has a voice, quests are varied, there are dungeons on every map, crafting is better, has first person view.
That is why I support all the complaints about the mount gamble box - I don't want to have to look for another said:Honestly for PvE ESO is way ahead now. However I don't want it to become yet another example of a greedy and lootbox filled MMO like so many of the others. This is still the best MMO for me - for the moment. I'm really looking forward to the new LS season and the future of this game. But I have to say, with the release of PoF I have completely fallen in love with this game again, and I am glad that ANET addressed many of the problems that existed with HoT. I was one of the people that was really upset with the direction of this game once HoT was released, and was questioning the priorities of the devs with the Legendary delays, and the LS being put off for so long. Said:After giving WoW another try with Legion and being left disappointed for the 3rd time in a row, being disappointed and feeling ripped-off from Zenimax and their opportunistic cash grab release of Morrowind for ESO, and playing the vapid, grindy borefest called FFXIV Stormblood, I can say with certainty this is the most enjoyable, and immersive MMO out there.