Now offering classic or contemporary versions, WoW wants to cater for everyone in its huge and varied audience.
FFXIV might have the edge on player numbers now, but Blizzard’s genre-defining title hasn’t gone the way of Yahoo or Myspace yet.
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Graphically rich, full of narrative detail and dungeons worth grinding to take on, it’s become the new gold standard through years of very smart updates. Final Fantasy XIV’s origin story is worthy of any fantasy hero, and the game itself concludes an 11-year storyline with its recent Endwalker expansion, now’s a great time to jump back in. Somehow, an MMO that began as a disaster for Square Enix and whose player numbers had all but dried up shortly after launch went on to topple the mightiest of them all, World of Warcraft. Read on and level yourself up in the class skill of picking great MMORPGs. But as the definition broadens, pirate sims and sci-fi shooters are welcomed under its banner, along with… however you’d accurately identify Trove. Final Fantasy XIV and World of Warcraft, the two most popular MMO destinations, love a cuirass and a forest full of folkloric pests, and even hot new thing Lost Ark owes something to Tolkien.
High fantasy is still a popular theme in the genre though, even after all these years. The clearly drawn lines of delineation have been made a mockery by the very best MMOs, which pilfer the best parts of any and all genres and apply a formula for long-term progression and gratification to them until we’re powerless not to grind for the next epic refined malachite fingerless gloves or a mount that moves 0.03m/s quicker than our current one. Game genres don’t stay in their boxes as they once did decades ago.
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