Used to be West Karana and now it's not
I shuffled through the Gameboy Advance discount bins at some local retro game stores, and this is what I came away with.
It’s creator appreciation week, and I’m appreciating the creation myths of the most popular MMOs in the world!
Here we go again. The top 38 MMOs in the last 30 days in the USA, as reported by Google Trends.
I don’t play every MMO that comes out — not by a longshot. But, I follow a lot of gamers, streamers, and game developers, and between me and them, I see a lot of discussion about the new MMOs that come down the pike.
Crowfall was released a couple of weeks ago. Suddenly, everyone was talking about it. And then, suddenly everyone was not. What did it all mean? I asked Google Trends to help me analyze searches for a dozen or so MMOs to help understand what all was going on with MMOs today.
I realized today that I have no clue whatsoever what the term “MMO” means anymore. I gave it some thought and came up with “An MMO is an online, real-time game where other people affect can your game.” That’s pretty vague. Clearly there are games which call themselves MMOs and can be played as if … Read more