The themed week on the genre of MMORPGs is running, and MeinMMO was a guest at GameStar Talk to chat about the current state of online role-playing games. If you want to watch the discussion with Mary, Géraldine, and Karsten, you’re in the right place!
Who is present at GameStar Talk and what is it about? In line with the currently ongoing themed week on the genre of MMORPGs, host Géraldine Hohmann invited Marylin “Mary” Marx (Lead Community Manager for GameStar, GamePro, and MeinMMO) and Karsten Scholz (Senior Editor at MeinMMO), two individuals who have felt at home in online worlds for many years.
The trio discusses the peak phase of MMORPGs triggered by World of Warcraft, the subsequent drought decade, and the last online role-playing games that managed to generate hype. They also look at future projects and discuss the question of whether there can still be really good MMORPGs in 2024.
You can watch the current GameStar Talk on MMORPGs below:
Packed Themed Week
As part of our themed week, several articles have already been published online. For example, the first four parts of our large MMORPG report:
Part 1: The Pioneers of Online Role-Playing Games
Part 2: The First 3D MMORPGs
Part 3: The Exceptional Success of WoW and Its Reasons
Part 4: The Peak Phase of MMORPGs and the Failure of WoW Killers
Furthermore, we had the opportunity to talk with the lore experts from Elder Scrolls Online about ten years of stories in Tamriel, we shared our wish list with you, on which the universes for which a new MMORPG must absolutely be created are listed, and we presented you with the MMORPGs with the currently best ratings on Steam as well as the best MMORPGs for PlayStation and Xbox from our point of view.
You can look forward to the following thematic week highlights:
Friday – May 31, 2024:
- Multi-part report on the MMORPG genre – Part 5: The Great Drought of MMORPGs and the Flight to More Lucrative Genres
- Recommendation: The Best MMORPGs for the Switch in 2024
- Interview with Roxanne Sabo, Community Lead at Amazon Games, about the current roadmap of Lost Ark
Saturday – June 1, 2024:
- Multi-part report on the MMORPG genre – Part 6: The Current State of the MMORPG Genre and the Future of Online Role-Playing Games
- List: All MMORPGs currently in development for PC
- Recommendation: Is it still worth starting Guild Wars 2 in 2024?
Sunday – June 2, 2024:
- The Best MMORPGs of All Time – Evaluation of the Community Survey with personal assessments or anecdotes from editors, authors, and guests (plus: how would the top list look if editors, authors, and guests had voted?)
- Column: The Hype is Programmed – This is what our wish MMORPG of the future looks like
So it is worth checking MeinMMO regularly in the coming days. How did you like the GameStar Talk? Should we collaborate more often with colleagues from GamePro and GameStar to report on the best genre in the world? Let us know in the comments!
