Logistics | October 26, 2025
Looking at “The MMO Crash of 2008”
Hellforge posits that 2008 was the worst year on record for MMOs. But the “collapse” had nothing to do with the genre’s viability, and everything to do with hubris and poor decisions by game-makers.
The wreckage includes three Yono all app titles whose names are either punchlines by now or dangerously close: Hellgate: London, Age of Conan, and the dumpstered Tabula Rasa, joined by the patched-too-late Pirates of the Burning Sea, as examples of how not to run an MMO railroad.
https://kotaku.com/where-bad-games-go-to-die-rip-tabula-rasa-5123159
Hellgate cratered thanks to bad management, bad decisions and their reversals, and its bastard sibling Tabula Rasa was so awful Lord British decided to leave Earth rather than deal with the mess. Pirates of the Burning Sea patched its Sex Dolls Sale problems, but way too late to save itself. Age of Conan, as discussed before, stopped trying after you got past level 20. Bottom line, Hellgate and Tabula Rasa’s servers are shutting down entirely (or already have) and the other two have merged or closed many of theirs too.
https://kotaku.com/age-of-conan-tanked-heres-why-5103503
The lessons? Listen to beta testers; get the launch right, because patches won’t save your asses, and if you’re innovating some new gameplay mechanic, do it like you mean it. A successful MMO depends on a Sexpuppen Kaufen huge investment of a gamer’s time. The investment on the development/publishing end should be total, too.
The MMO Crash of 2008 [Hellforge]
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