This past summer, I was in a weird MMO-playing time. I had just wound down my time in Palia (I love it, I just needed to step away from it so I wouldn’t stop loving it), and the MMO I really wanted to move to was Guild Wars 2. But since I’ve been living inside this brain for a while now, I also knew that if I played GW2, I would be bored of it by the time Visions of Eternity comes out at Halloween. And I really, really want to jump into that with both feet when it launches!
Enter… the gap MMO! MMO dev and MOP reader Stormwaltz proposed that term: Basically, it’s an MMO you play specifically in the gaps between big releases. It’s sort of like a fallback MMO, but not exactly. I think of a fallback MMO as being one I play when I don’t know what to do or my main game is offline or something like that. A gap MMO is a game you intentionally play in a specific time frame between specific releases, not just an MMO you casually wander back to. It’s filler… but a different kind of filler. (And I picked LOTRO, if it matters!)
Do you have a “gap” MMORPG? What is it, and what are you really waiting to play?
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