The MMO Is Dead—So Where Are We Going After the Funeral?

Remesed: 'The MMO is dead in America—so says PC Gamer, so says Ten Ton Hammer, so says Rock Paper Shotgun—indeed, so says the Fresno Bee, and if the Fresno Bee is running your obit, you’re pretty damn dead in the world of gamers.

But all these eulogies of dubious regret are merely a confirmation for me. You see, the deceased was a good friend of mine.

My first MMO was World of Warcraft. I was introduced by friends and immediately sucked into the vivid, living world. It was a particularly fraught period of my life (graduate school), and my relationship with the game was definitely unhealthy in its intensity for a time, but it also felt somehow special and magical.'