Can there only ever be one MMOG that's THE MMOG at any one time due to the subscription model and investment of time required? How many people dedicate their time to more than one MMOG at a time...?
Ellingsen: Yes and no. What developers need to do, and what Funcom is paying particular attention to, is to create massively multiplayer online games that are different.
Releasing a World of Warcraft clone might not be such a good idea seeing Blizzard already did a brilliant job at it, and people are most likely going to stick with the best alternative if the games are that similar in terms of content, features and setting.
The original Kingdom Hearts was initially "more hardcore" until Square Enix toned it down: "We had some puzzles in there that would make you go, 'what is this, Takeshi's Challenge?'"
"We would look at all the American RPGs and the JRPGs at the time and just go, 'Right, if they're doing it, we're not": Peter Molyneux and John McCormack talk the development of Fable 20 years on
