I mean, graphic fidelity certainly isn’t on the list. That is as niche as it gets in the MMORPG world, right?īut I would be hard pressed to declare that Project: Gorgon has focused on doing anything “better” than the rest of the genre, unless you count being weird and quirky. My first thought went to Project: Gorgon. But what about the niche side of things? Where is that? Sure, World of Warcraft, the one live MMORPG that gets a mention, can stand in for the “does everything” title I suppose. It is very easy to say that you’d prefer an MMORPG that did 10 things pretty well than one that did 2 things better than anybody else, or that you’d trade graphical fidelity for features (Is graphical fidelity even something niche MMORPGs offer as a comparative feature?), but what does that look like in the real world? Where is the comparison? Show me that niche MMORPG that does 2 things so well and compare and contrast it to you favored jack of all trades. You know, some details that might serve as illustration. Left completely out of the post, except in the minds of those opining on the topic (something I wouldn’t swear to even that in court given some of the responses), was any sort of attempt to define what niche vs. Absent any other details, why wouldn’t you choose the latter. It was like asking somebody if they preferred a lover who only satisfied some of their needs or one who satisfied them all.
Unsurprisingly, the entire staff decided that they would prefer an MMORPG that had it all.
Somehow, that became a measure of features as everybody weighed in.
Not that every post has to be razor sharp intellectually, but this one was almost the straw man fallacy illustrated, as the staff was asked whether they would prefer a niche MMORPG that focused just on on a couple of strengths or an all-in-one MMORPG that covered all the bases. A Massively Overthinking topic came up at Massively OP last week that struck me as… well… a bit silly.
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