The Doctors say he has a 50 percent chance of making it. But there's only a 10 percent chance of that.

Recently, a panel of MMO insiders convened at the Game Developers Conference 08 to discuss the future of MMO's. Apparently, much of the conversation revolved around the current, WoW dominated state of MMO's. As we've known for a while, every MMO that's been released after WoW has barely been able to attract attention. This was pointed out by Jack Emmert of Cryptic studios who pointed out that only LoTRO has been able to reach the 100,000 subscriber mark since it's post-WoW release.

Just another reason why we think the state of MMO's today is that of a subculture. There are some avid practitioners, but the medium has yet to reach the popular appeal of console gaming, film or television. We think some serious changes need to be made for MMO's to reach those levels. And apart from someone inventing a holo-deck, prospects for that happening in the near future are not great.