
Former Ultima Online lead says MMOs have ‘been in a rut for a long time’, and that cozy games like Animal Crossing have been filling a non-theme park hole
The golden age of MMOs is no more—while it does still get new entries as a genre, we’re long past the gold rush of the early 2010s, where it seemed like everyone and their mum was trying to make a new multiplayer world to jog around in. The handful of big boys remaining aren’t relics…