Age of Conan, MMORPGs, Warhammer, World of WarCraft
Growth of MMOs in 2008
2008 was quite a year for Massively Multiplayer Online Games. The year saw another advance from the unstoppable juggernaut, new challengers that may or may not be pretenders to the throne, a flanking maneuver from Middle-Earth, and a painful death in the depths of outer space.
In their latest earnings report, NCsoft has apparently chosen to follow the time-honored “pretend I never got involved with that creepy artificially enhanced embarrassment, and maybe it’ll all just go away” strategy. I’ve got news for them: It didn’t work for David Hasselhoff’s herpes and it won’t work for the Tabula Rasa debacle either.