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End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2024
- World of Warcraft finally getting housing is the most substance-free announcement you can get apart from those “announcement for an announcement” announcements.
- City of Heroes has an official server again. That’s a real win after twelve years of waiting.
- Cryptic gets sold off for scrap, which is a real loss to the industry.
- 2024 saw rampant, horrid, unrelenting layoffs across the MMO industry, which seems to have shocked insiders.
- Stars Reach, the long-in-the-works game from Raph Koster, was finally unveiled as a giant potential ‘hey, we’re entering new territory’ signpost.
- Concord, the Sony hero shooter, folded almost instantly, a baffling product misfire.
- Seeing Gigantic come back after its original short run was a pretty big shocker.
- Palia, which came out to a small splash, was saved by Daybreak, which few would have predicted.
- ArcheAge sunsetted despite being a reliable mid-tier performer, and its sequel is going in weird directions.
- Microsoft finally got Final Fantasy XIV only to make it arbitrarily way more expensive on the console, blowing it.
- Jagex was sold for the fourth time in eight years, creating questions about what’s going on.
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