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Originally Posted by refraxion
Thereby making WoW quite a successful game, heh.
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Very, it has caused more and more investors and publishers to push for MMORPGs. In fact the number of MMORPGs on the horizon and the budgets associated with them are astounding. This is largely thanks to WoW's success.
The budget and opportunity to make more MMORPGs goes up as the potential profit goes up, WoW showed just how profitable that can be.
FFXI showed that MMORPGs can be accessible on consoles as well, but it didnt really catch on. At the Game Developers conferences its always brought up how to really catch gamers onto multiplatform mmorpgs and how best to develop them. The next wave of MMORPGs will be tinkering with console play (AoC) as well as full console MMO's like (the agency). To FFXI's credit though, it was the first big console mmorpg title along side Phantasy Star Online.