Welcome to Polished MMO


Polished MMO is a blog dedicated to pointing out the flaws in today's MMO games. MMO stands for Massively Multiplayer Online, this refers to a game where thousands or more players are playing on one server in a single game world. The most well known MMO is World of Warcraft but that is only one kind of MMO.

MMOs can be like World of Warcraft and follow a fantasy RPG system or they can be as different as EVE online where there are virtually no rules, every player has a space ship and can go anywhere and do anything in a huge galaxy colonizing planets , forming businesses, or waging war. EVE online is an example of a "Sandbox" MMO where World of Warcraft is a fantasy MMORPG, the later currently dominates the market. There are a few other types of MMOS as well ranging from MMOFPS games to MMORTS games.

The Focus of this site is to figure out why the MMO genre as a whole is slowly dying. Hopefully by pointing out flaws on a game by game basis we can figure out whats wrong and fix it for future MMOS.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

E3 brings a new round of fail to look foward to PART 1 of 3

This last week was the 2010 Entertainment Electronics Expo (aka E3) and with
it came an overflowing amount of new information on future MMOS.

Since the majority of mmos ever released can be considered failures in many
different ways, this new group of mmos is likely to fail as well. Here are
some of the reasons each of these soon to be released MMOS could possibly
fail.

- WOW: Cataclysm
This isn't a new mmo but simply a expansion, however it is going to redo the
entire world of warcraft and replace it with something brand new. How could
this fail? Well alot of people may end up preferring the old world.

- Star Wars, The Old Republic
This game seems to be focusing on single player style content (like Mass
Effect) when it's targeting the Massively multi player market (It remains to
be seen how much of the game is really going to be single player driven.

This game also has the biggest budget ever for a EA game, EA being one of the
biggest game companies ever. This could mean a Massive failure from a
financial standpoint if the game bombs.

This game happens to be extremely hyped up on the Internet as being the only
game that could actually have a chance of taking World of Warcraft's place or
being the first in 6 years to even come anywhere near close. The insane hype
is likely to lead to massive disappointed even if the game is amazing.

This isn't the first attempt at a star wars MMO. The first attempt turned out
to be one of the biggest failures in MMO history. History does tend to repeat
itself, although with Bioware behind this one I'm not sure that will actually be the case.

Look for parts 2 and 3 of the E3 MMOs that will likely fail coming soon...
In the upcoming parts we will look at the MMOS below.

Final Fantasy XIV
The Secret World
Guild Wars 2
All Points Bulletin
DC Universe




3 comments:

  1. we need a text box up top to explain to everyone what a MMO is.
    And how about some photos or links to these trailers?? This would be a perfect opportunity to add adsense and sell these items through amazon...

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  2. Too bad they can't make a decent Star Wars game. That should be easy...I think you need to create your own video game!

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  3. If you make a star wars game, please let me know :)

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