The Daily Grind: 2009's defining moment

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Another year of copy cat games failing hard. Watching WAR and AoC scramble to repair themselves and dozens of other games rising and falling in the blink of an eye.

One of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results.

MMO devs are truly insane as that is their mode of operation and for 6 years now we have seen nothing but a parade of broken re-skins of the same game.

Will 2010 be any different? We will see...I'm not gonna hold my breath or anything.
IMHO TOR is going to have massive response but will it hold? Somehow I don't see a linear / scripted story driven MMO with virtually no free form that we know of, doing very well over the long haul.
STO - anyones guess.

One thing is for certain, 2010 will be the year of the IP's.

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Couldn't agree more and doubt 2010 will be anything more than 2009. I have hopes for 2011 and SWToR but that is a long way off.

I also got soured on Roper games with CO and formerly Hellgate. I know it isn't fair to blame one guy for crushing fun game play but he is 2 for 2 in my book and I am not going to give him a third chance with STO. It might be great but they lost me before the game was even in beta.

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Cameron: Bill Roper dont have nothing to do with STO, he is the Executive Producer for CO, but the executive producer for STO is Kraig Zinkievich. The Cryptic CEOs for all the games are other people.

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