This makes me HAPPY! Very happy! Even though I didn't have any problems with Sim City, it still sucked knowing this might be the future of games.. And with the Xbox "always online" rumors as well... Good to see those rumors might be false. I think they intended the consol to be always online, but after all the fuzz they decided to drop it, and that they are holding back the info as sort of a PR-stunt. The more people are angry about rumors, the more fuzz it will be may 21. when people find out it wasn't true after all.. Free publicity. "Always online" would perhaps fit better with future consolles when internet conections are more stabile and avalible everywhere.
Also...I hope that game-companies in the end will understand that MMO's are not the future in the gaming industry. It's a part of it yes, but not something every game should be turned into. Things always progress in the gaming community, but not all changes are good and should be permanent. "Single player" is not a mode that needs improvement. Single player games is the essence of game-playing because in the end thats what games are for.. You can step into a different universe and make it your own. This "social" gaming is something you can choose to do if you want, but it does not fit all games /gamers. Games are not the same as Twitter or Facebook. Though lately I feel that game-creators have tried to jump the social networking-trend. In alot of cases I think this will just backfire. A big company from my home country almost went bankrupt due to an MMO game they spent years on. Almost all the staff were fired in the end and now they don't have any money for new projects I think.. Sad.. If they had just made it a single player game instead it would be a huge success!
Sorry for the long speech.. I'm just a bit anxious about a possible Fable MMO/single player announcement.
