Now that MxO is gone, which paid MMO is the next to go?

Meh, Sony keeps their stuff on life support anyway, I don't think they'll shut them down as long as people play them. I'll bet on Age of Conan being the next big one to either shut down or attempt to go free to play like Dungeons & Dragons Online...

Who cares? They've been dropping like flies ever since the economy started to implode, and the release of Wrath of the Lich King didn't help.

Several free to play ones have fanished, RFO died quietly and unnanounced, Kotaku didn't even run a story on it despite the news being 3 days old until I sent the tip in, that's how little people cared. I'm sure there was another cancellation or death recently but I forget what it was, MxO I was surprised to hear was even still alive. Not to mention Tabula Rasa.

At the moment, the major ones at least show no signs of going anywhere, I think that's it for the spat of shedding MMOs to make room for the new upcoming ones, I think it's gonna be a while before we see another total shutdown.

Whether you count DDO as a death or not is up to you, it's gone free to play/microtransactions. Personally it's more like a rebirth for me, I might actually play it now. That and Anarchy online is supposed to be getting a DX9/10 overhaul sometime soon (if not already, havnt been keeping up)

But I don't think any remotely high profile games are going to go anywhere, some smaller ones i've never heard of maybe, but how can I comment if i've never heard of them? :P

I suspect though that the console servers for PSU might go offline soon, unless they are joined with the PC ones, in which case that'd probably be my net bet, PSU, but I don't see it happening for a couple years at least.

Perhaps this is the return of the singleplayer CRPG in the vein of the Black Isle classics. It took about a dozen years for graphic adventures to make a comeback... we're coming up on that mark since the end of the 'golden age' of CRPGs in a couple of years.

We're seeing the results of the merging of classic RPG and modern FPS gameplay and we've yet to find a suitable seemless borderline game (ah, something just clicked). Fallout 3 and Mass Effect are great examples of where the RPG devs are at in making action games; and I have a feeling Alpha Protocol will follow suit. Borderlands, on the other hand, is the opposite: an FPS core with proven RPG elements on top. If the RPG devs continue to develop the actual RPG experience, the FPS (fine, 'action') devs can interperate what made such systems fun to create what will become the 'true' role-playing videogame experience. DICE's Mirror's Edge is doing its part to evolve the first-person experience by providing something for other devs to improve upon.

Zenimax seems to have a heads-up. Putting id Software and Bethesda under one roof can either lead to another Take2/THQ/2nd Rate publisher or a joint effort to further evolve a genre. Imagine an open-world id-built FPS with Bethesda'd-up RPG elements. I'm praying for the latter.

Is Planetside still around?

I think Planetside and Star Wars Galaxies will disappear before Age of Conan...

Personally, I thought that Age of Conan was kind of "bleh", so my guess is that.

"I suspect though that the console servers for PSU might go offline soon, unless they are joined with the PC ones, in which case that'd probably be my net bet, PSU, but I don't see it happening for a couple years at least. "

"@The_A_Drain said:

"I suspect though that the console servers for PSU might go offline soon, unless they are joined with the PC ones, in which case that'd probably be my net bet, PSU, but I don't see it happening for a couple years at least. "

Has any game shut down its servers on Xbox Live since the 360 was released?  I don't see PSU's servers dying until the next generation of hardware."

Conan

I'd probably say WoW.  That game is on its last legs.

"The Lord of the Rings Online is doing very, very well.  Its inclusion in this list perplexes me."

" Planetside...I thought that was free now? "

Conan seems very likely as does Galaxies, especially with Old Republic coming, it'll definitely go by then.
But they might keep it running for a while longer, in hopes that inpatient fans jump onto Galaxies while waiting for TOR, which could still be two or three years off.

I have no idea, but I have a feeling that either AOC or WAR will bite the dust pretty soon.

Lord of the Rings Online actually has a growing player base so I doubt it's going to bite the dust anytime soon. I'll say that Star Wars Galaxies is the most likely, since I've never heard of it, ever.

are you guys shitting me?  everquest is still live?

Final Fantasy XI.  I was 75 RDM, WHM, BLK, SMN, and NIN.  Square B& my account with others because we "glitched" to kill a Hyper NM because it would've been IMPOSSIBLE to do without. 

I hate the bastards at Square for not being able to run a solid MMO. 

I hope it dies out and the lawsuits at Square work.  They need to realize they can't dick people around thinking they're kings.

I didn't know that SW Galaxies and Planetside were still around.  But, I choose "other" because I doubt even being free "Dungeons & Dragons" will last.  Lately, they've been having trouble getting it out the door. (Massively.com) And, with new arrivals Champions Online and Aion: The Tower of Eternity catching a lot of buzz, I don't think D&D Online will be worth the expense of keeping the servers active for long.  After all it will have to compete with all these free MMORPGs.

Man, I can't believe Planetside is still going.

All of Planetsides servers merged into one now so I guess its slowly on its way out, which is sad as it was great for its time, until BFRs... then the devs abandoned it for EQ2, just been drifting along since.

Sony should of put their money into Planetside 2 rather than MAG, still cringe when they claim they are doing something no ones done before with their 250 players.

Trailer for anyone interested in PS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8GJUfhyLCA

I seriously doubt Conan will go down, Funcom still has Anarchy Online going after it failed 8 years ago. They might just make it F2P like they did with Anarchy.

"I seriously doubt Conan will go down, Funcom still has Anarchy Online going after it failed 8 years ago. They might just make it F2P like they did with Anarchy."

" @CL60 said:

"I seriously doubt Conan will go down, Funcom still has Anarchy Online going after it failed 8 years ago. They might just make it F2P like they did with Anarchy."

It didn't fail, it just wasn't an immense success. It still has lots of paying subscribers, and is funded by ads for it's free to play sections.It can't be doing that bad it's getting a massive graphical overhaul this year. "

I voted for Star Wars Galaxies. That game is a ghost town today (literally). There is only one active server and even the population on that is tiny. I'm still surprised MXO got canned before SWG. I always thought MXO had more going for it.

Also, Vanguard should be a choice in the poll.

World Of Warcraft. Nerds everywhere will commit suicide

I will say Star Wars Galaxies. It scared off the majority of its user base when they tried to overhaul everything, and has been a shambling zombie ever since. Also, the fact that there is another new and shiny Star Wars MMO coming out doesn't really help SW:G's chances.