A Salon mostra o futuro dos RPGs online em massa. Star Wars Galaxies versus The Sims Online. Muitas mortes acontecerão no caminho. Mais especificamente as da maioria dos jogos que tentarem competir com esses mamutes.

Most of these games will fail for several prosaic reasons — not the least of which is an unavoidable fact of life: The hardcore gamers who make these games successful can usually obsess over only one game at a time. There are only so many hours in a week, after all, and MMORPGs are nothing if not massively time-consuming.