The Decline of the MMORPG: A Marketing Mirage Over a Lost Genre
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At a time when online games appear and disappear at lightning speed, it seems especially impressive that a small handful of games from the era of noisy phone modems and winding LAN cables still manage, not only to survive, but to thrive. Runescape is one example, Everquest another, but despite the continued success of these games, there is still no other game like World of Warcraft. WoW, as it was called quickly, did not introduce the genre of M…
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At a time when online games appear and disappear at lightning speed, it seems particularly impressive that a small handful of games from the era of noisy dial-up modems and winding LAN cables still manage, not only to survive, but to thrive. {Runescape} is one example, {Everquest} another, but despite the continued success of these games, there is still no other game quite like {World of Warcraft}. WoW, as it was quickly dubbed, may not have in…
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