World Of Warcraft: MMO Industry is Ailing: Is it WoW's Fault?

Eurogamer editors have an interesting article based on Jack Emmert's (Cryptic Studios) comments on the health of the MMO industry.

Emmert blamed the questionable health of the MMO business on the runaway success of World of Warcraft, pointing out that Lord of the Rings Online is the only MMO released after WOW to break the 100,000 subscriber mark. In a friendly dig at Blizzard's senior vice president of game design Rob Pardo, sitting on the same panel, he said that other MMO developers had essentially "worked QA for you, Rob".

Fascinating...

You can read the entire "roundtable" discussion transcript at Massively. Be sure to post your thoughts on our forums. *g*