Exploring the surge of MMO games in the early 2010s and the subsequent dominance of World of Warcraft (WoW) in the genre.
A lot of the enduring classics are still around—if a little diminished—and there are some promising MMO games on the horizon like Still, it's nothing compared to the surge in MMOs we had in the early 2010s . Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn, Neverwinter, Guild Wars 2, The Secret World, DC Universe Online, Rift, Star Wars: The Old Republic, TERA, WildStar, The Elder Scrolls Online, ArcheAge… all of these games and more came out in 2010-2015.
While I'm not sure the term"WoW killer" is really accurate—GW2 was a sequel to an MMO with an already-established fanbase—the term was thrown around a whole lot, and for a good reason. It was easy to see this onslaught as an attempt to topple the then-titan with a thousand cuts. Well, it turns out that the next WoW Killer was WoW itself. And now it's being replaced by… WoW. It's just WoW again. While I doubt it'll ever return to the absurd numbers of its heyday, Dragonflight has managed to claw back some community goodwill, clunky storytelling asid
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