I saw two reactions to last Friday’s WildStar news. The first was people loudly proclaiming that the game was dead and that they were done with it; the second was people loudly worrying that the game was dead and stating without reservation that they would go down with the ship. And I completely get behind the second group.
I played Final Fantasy XIV when the game spent a year without a subscription because the developers couldn’t justify a subscription price, when a shutdown seemed nigh-on inevitable. I’ve played World of Warcraft as it’s moved further and further away from the game that I fell in love with more than a decade ago. I played Star Wars: The Old Republic when it first launched, and I kept playing it through complaints when the developers still didn’t know what to do with its endgame, something that I think continues even to this day to some extent.
One of the points that I’ve made in the past is that commitment isn’t simply something a game does to you, it’s something you choose to do, a decision to stick with a game for better or for worse. So what about you, dear readers? What MMOs have your commitment right now, no matter how well they might be doing at the moment?
Every morning, the Massively Overpowered writers team up with mascot Mo to ask MMORPG players pointed questions about the massively multiplayer online roleplaying genre. Grab a mug of your preferred beverage and take a stab at answering the question posed in today’s Daily Grind!
