Comment on Interesting to see how dead the MMO genre has become. Are there still players around?

• ngwoo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You don’t see anything except Linux discussed on Lemmy because Lemmy has a couple thousand active users

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• hydroxycotton@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think you’re missing that lemmy is a pretty tiny slice of the internet and niche-ish communities either don’t exist or are mostly inactive. Just because something doesn’t seem to be making wave son lemmy, doesn’t mean it isn’t popular. The community for it just isn’t really here (yet).

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  • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Indeed, so that’s my point.

    There were quite active BG3 and Helldivers 2 communities when they released as those are worldwide hits.

    If you look at !helldivers2@lemmy.ca vs !finalfantasyxiv@lemmy.world, you instantly see which one is a more active game.

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    • hydroxycotton@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      steamdb.info/app/553850/charts/

      steamdb.info/app/39210/charts/

      I probably just wouldn’t use lemmy as an indicator of popularity.

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      • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re right. I guess FFXIV players are too busy playing to be here too ha ha

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• Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  WoW hasn’t been synonymous with the MMORPG scene since at least the last 5 years. You didn’t hear much from it because it’s just another expansion, for one of the many currently running MMOs. When was the last you heard about GW2 expansions? Or Elder Scrolls Online expansions?

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  • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Copy pasting the comment below

    Indeed, so that’s my point.

    There were quite active BG3 and Helldivers 2 communities when they released as those are worldwide hits.

    If you look at !helldivers2@lemmy.ca vs !finalfantasyxiv@lemmy.world, you instantly see which one is a more active game.

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    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But neither BG3 nor Helldivers were MMOs though. Activities in those was a spike when the game released. WoW released 20ish years ago lol

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