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Nachgeblogt: Die Zukunft der MMO-Industrie

"I think that MMOs worlds are more like brands than products, though they sit somewhere in between. For example, Coca Cola has been successful for 100 years or so, whereas movies have a life of a few years at most (with some exceptions)." (Hermann Peterscheck, executive producer Jumpgate Evolution)

Bei Ten Ton Hammer gibt es einen interessanten Artikel, in dem Cody Bye versucht, die Zukunft der MMO-Industrie anhand des Werdegangs von Hollywood vorherzusagen—sehr lesenswert:

“If you consider that MMOs take 3-5 years to make we’re really only on the third or maybe fourth generation of MMOs and the risks are very high now. The other problem is that it is hard to respond to market changes. If I discover today that players want  a certain type of game and I start making that, but it’s done 3-5 years from now, the whole market has shifted. We can see this happening now. There’s tons of WoW clones coming out now based on market demand set by WoW 4 years ago. So the question is, do players want something else now? If so, what? Do the players themselves even know? If you asked people in 1976 if they want an epic sci-fi movie I’m not convinced they would have said yes, and yet….“

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