The brothers Garriott, Richard and Robert. spoke at DICE about their crystal ball of predictions for the MMO industry. The prognosis wasn't good and Next Generation was there to grab the details. From Next Generation and Richard Garriott: "After a period of growth, opportunities are closing, budgets are increasing to tens of millions of dollars, and companies need global infrastructure in order to publish. My guess is that over the next 3-5 years, only five companies will operate in this business, and unfortunately, many of the startups will be gone." Garriott also maintains that MMOs now need to be polished and slick visually like FPS games to keep up - where in the past some regressive visuals were tolerated because of the gameplay experience.

The Garriotts Predict MMO Shake-Up [Next Generation]

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