I recently received an email from one of my readers, Gareld, that really gave me the opportunity to think about why we play MMOs. It also so happens that this topic has been under quite a bit of discussion due to Bioware’s impending “The Old Republic” and 38 Studio’s Copernicus Project. Gerald basically indicated that we tend to play MMOs for the story and the engagement and not just for raw numbers. It was an interesting point.

Now, what really interests us when we are playing an MMO? The story behind the MMO. If playing an MMO was all about numbers we would (more…)