The end of 2024 is rapidly approaching and the time has come to look back on the current MMORPG year. What were the highlights and lowlights? MeinMMO editor Karsten Scholz draws a conclusion.
After looking ahead to the coming MMORPG year 2025, it is now time to look back on the past few months. In terms of quantity, genre fans probably can’t complain about everything that happened in the online role-playing game space in 2024. There haven’t been so many exciting new releases in a long time. But what about the quality?
Below I’ll tell you my personal highlights and disappointments, but we’ll also look at the most important launches, expansions and early access starts. You can use the table of contents to jump directly to the section that interests you most.
In 2024, there has been so much exciting new additions to the online role-playing game genre that many other genres have fallen by the wayside. Karsten was able to take along almost all of the exciting new releases, expansions and early access launches.
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The most important new releases in 2024 in the MMORPG area
It’s been ten years since fans were able to look forward to exciting new releases for the MMORPG genre every (almost) every quarter. The last time we had such a strong year was 2014, with Wildstar, The Elder Scrolls Online and the global launch of ArcheAge.
You almost have to be happy about 2024 that at least three titles have made it across the release finish line. But there were actually many more publications planned.
If you then consider how poorly Fractured and Tarisland were received by players and how many potential points of frustration the “best new MMORPG of 2024” – Throne and Liberty – has attracted attention since its launch, my conclusion can be drawn about the most important new releases The bottom line is that it is only sobering. That was significantly worse than hoped.
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The biggest expansions from 2024 for established MMORPGs
The established MMORPGs were once again responsible for the fact that there was still an incredible amount to play from the second quarter onwards. You can see it for yourself in the list: Really every major MMORPG has received an extensive expansion in 2024. And I had fun with some of the addons for weeks.
There were also important updates, such as SWTOR, the release of New Legacy for Ultima Online, the monthly patches for Lost Ark, which brought the solo raids, the first European server for Albion Online and much more.
But Blizzard made the biggest statement among the established companies this year. What they put online for World of Warcraft’s big anniversary was simply absurd. There was:
Unfortunately, this year I only had time for The War Within campaign and a nostalgic visit to Pandaria. But that’s exactly Blizzard’s current strategy: to offer suitable WoW content for as many genre fans out there as possible, which will lure you to the servers every now and then. The goal seems to be working. The thirtieth version of WoW Classic was also overrun at launch.
The next page continues with early access starts, highlights, disappointments and a conclusion.