Well like most things in life, time will tell on this, but with the massive communities of older players that exist within most mmoprgs it'll be quite along time I can assure you of that, there’s alot of exciting mmorpgs in development and with WoW becoming the fastest-growing online game in history, it should be a bright future.

And as abit of proof to my claims an extract from a recent Blizzard press release.

Blizzard Entertainment today announced that World of Warcraft has surpassed the  2 million subscriber mark. Blizzard expects to see even greater growth with the recent commercial launch in China on June 7, 2005.

And just to add something I’ve yet to say, its abit of a poor comparison between the decline of Pokemon and predictions over the future of mmorpgs, considering that ones a children’s television show and the other is a game, and the big difference in the people that are involved in each mainly young children and people like myself older guys who've been gaming for Avery long time and see gaming not just as a form of entertainment but as a passion.

But then the difference between the likes of LOTR's and such is that their limited a to universe that was originally created, regardless of how many new stories etc that are created people will eventually grow bored of the chracters, the world and so one, with mmorpgs the worlds are constantly changing, adding not just new characters, items and quests, but new places to explore, and the fact that your there in the world and not just reading about it is why mmorpgs and in fact gaming on a whole is such a big business now.

Theres really no way regardless of how long we go on to settle this, at the moment mmorpgs are the biggest form of online gaming and the communities are only getting bigger, there has and there will always be the core following that keeps the games alive, the same goes for harry potter and LOTR's, and wether or not they ever become massive again is something to question, but they will never die and neither will mmorpgs as long as that hardcore fan base remains.

I really suggest you guys pick up WoW I know you don't like to pay a monthly fee but you get the first month included, spend some serious time in the game and you'll start to understand why mmorpgs have such a dedicated fan base and understand why they won't die.

Well it takes time to level up to gain access to new spells and abilities, but i respect what your saying there not for everyone you need to be the kind of person whos willing to invest alot of time to get anthing out of the games, as for SWG the games US release was very buggy and alot of the key features didn't quite work, however the game received review scores of around 70% when it was released here in the UK, and over time with patches and the recent expansions (you can get all 3 in a box set for 14.99 now) the game has improved alot, its the commen mistake people make with mmorpgs in judging them to early.

dito TF Gustav Graves.

my thots egesacly the fee will end up lieting the amwnt of pepal how buy tham games. thare are serves that will evin deel with the onling gaming for free for the company praticaly like gayspiy meny games dont charges a one line fee for thare games realy makes me feel that thay are insucer about the new game coming out.

i think thay whood be beter off not chaging an online fee and making the game smaller at ferst and seling the rest as ad ons or some thing.

required to help maintain  (bull! dont believe evry thing you here on the intret) thay cood do it with out the munny.


that works for me.


or do what uther game comanys do sell thare games for $60-$80 us dolors and make on line free.

if you look at thare price tags when thay ferst come out you will see why. meny games do it the whay blizzard duss it, like unreal trnament i am geting halo is the same way half life 1-2 and so on.

thay wont to bump up the price to incress profits. profit is all ways the bodam line all ways with coprs and comapnys.

excatly, countre strike etc you don't pay for there servers, theres a small advert saying content hosted by valve or sponserd by burger king, just while the game is laoding, then it magicly disapears and you don't see it again till you load a new server/map etc.

yes however it is optional, its just them clans paying for a server it get more rekonised, they do not have to do it as there is public servers such as the halflife public servers etc so for the love of all things holy i did omega, so don't go there.