Oh, Massively Multiplayer games, I miss you so.

I am installing the Beta for a new offering as I type this. There are many weeks yet to go before the Burning Crusade is released. I was eve having some measure of fun in Star Wars Galaxies about a month ago. All that, of course, has changed with a maelstrom of new console titles. I’ve bearly used my PC for gaming at all in the last few weeks, and I hardly see that changing any time soon. After all, I have high hopes I’ll have a new console in my home within a week. (wii!)

Truly, I wish I could have my cake and eat it too. I greatly enjoyed my time playing FFXI on the 360 (and, in fact, thinking of it makes me want to pick up my subscription again), but otherwise there’s just really not a lot going on in the console space for Massive hags. Phantasy Star Universe is something I’ve always wanted to get into, but from the sounds of things my time would be better spent elsewhere.

Looking to the future, Huxley is still quite a ways away. The upcoming Superhero MMOGs are in the same boat, and I just don’t see a lot of options from where I’m sitting.

Remember back in the day, when games like CoH, WoW, and even SWG were rumoured to be coming to the Xbox? Or the super-awesomo True Fantasy Live Online? Taken from us before it even saw the light of day (along with sister game Mythica), it was the console MMOG that I was most looking forward to.

So it goes. I will somehow manage to carry on, with my Final Fantasy XII and my Gears of War. But still, might MMOGs, I look upon you and the genre I love so much and sigh.

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