{"id":136810,"date":"2026-05-22T20:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/its-2026-and-dune-awakening-is-trying-to-convince-everyone-that-its-not-an-mmorpg-again\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:26:18","slug":"its-2026-and-dune-awakening-is-trying-to-convince-everyone-that-its-not-an-mmorpg-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/its-2026-and-dune-awakening-is-trying-to-convince-everyone-that-its-not-an-mmorpg-again\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s 2026 and Dune Awakening is trying to convince everyone that it\u2019s not an MMORPG again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n            <!-- image --><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- content --><\/p>\n<p>You know, I\u2019m starting to think that either interviewers love baiting Funcom about <a href=\"https:\/\/massivelyop.com\/tag\/dune-awakening\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><em>Dune Awakening\u2019s<\/em><\/a> MMORPG status, or Funcom really loves baiting MMORPG players about it, but one way or another, it is 2026, and we\u2019re <em>still<\/em> apparently doing the thing where Joel Bylos comes out with a new take on MMORPGs to try to exclude <em>Dune Awakening<\/em> but doesn\u2019t actually do it and makes headlines all over again. (I\u2019m fond of Bylos, so just imagine I am doing this whole post with an affectionate but tired mom tone.)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/frvr.com\/blog\/news\/its-not-an-mmo-is-my-strong-feeling-dune-awakening-lead-explains-how-genre-labels-have-been-one-of-the-biggest-challenges-for-the-survival-game\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\">this week<\/a>, Bylos is back rewriting history and reframing the genre again, suggesting that Funcom originally settled on the term \u201cMMO\u201d for <em>Dune Awakening<\/em> \u201cbecause [the devs] figured it was easy,\u201d which is interesting to us because Bylos appeared to have no qualms at all when <a href=\"https:\/\/massivelyop.com\/2024\/06\/21\/funcoms-joel-bylos-explains-why-dune-awakening-is-an-actual-factual-mmo\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">describing the game as a sandbox MMORPG in 2024<\/a> and indeed explaining how <em>Dune\u2019s<\/em> gameloop was <a href=\"https:\/\/massivelyop.com\/2024\/03\/07\/hey-game-devs-stop-namedropping-star-wars-galaxies-and-make-a-spiritual-successor\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">heavily inspired by MMORPG <em>Star Wars Galaxies<\/em><\/a>, a player-economy-driven crafter-centric sandbox MMORPG that is still unbeaten in that arena as far as I\u2019m concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, a year ago, just as <em>Dune<\/em> was gearing up for launch, <a href=\"https:\/\/massivelyop.com\/2025\/05\/07\/funcom-is-already-hedging-on-dune-awakenings-place-in-the-mmorpg-genre\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Bylos was hedging on those comments<\/a>, trying to pivot the game\u2019s marketing back to the hardcore survival genre to attract, we assume, the kinds of people who play <em>Tarkov<\/em>, not <em>WoW<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/massivelyop.com\/2025\/04\/25\/first-impressions-dune-awakening-is-an-mmorpg-pretending-to-be-a-survival-game\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">MMORPG players weren\u2019t fooled<\/a>, and neither were <em>Tarkov<\/em> players, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/massivelyop.com\/2025\/06\/23\/funcom-is-retooling-dune-awakenings-pvp-endgame-to-be-more-pve-friendly-after-all\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">game\u2019s PvP split<\/a> and subsequent revisions that favor the 80% of players who came for PvE content have already shown.<\/p>\n<p>But even after all of that, according to an interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/frvr.com\/blog\/news\/its-not-an-mmo-is-my-strong-feeling-dune-awakening-lead-explains-how-genre-labels-have-been-one-of-the-biggest-challenges-for-the-survival-game\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\">FRVR<\/a>, Bylos has swung even harder against calling this MMO an MMO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s an MMO,\u201d he argues. \u201cI\u2019ve worked on multiple MMOs for sure, but I think there was a weird space where we were trying to do slightly more. We have this big, connected world, we have this big deep desert with lots of players being able to go in there. So it was a hard game to describe, and I always find that people kind of have a very set notion of what a genre is. So it\u2019s hard to describe something that does something slightly new. [\u2026] It\u2019s not an MMO is my strong feeling right now. [\u2026] it\u2019s definitely not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But then he goes on to claim that the key <em>reason<\/em> is progression \u2013 that MMORPGs like <em>World of Warcraft<\/em> focus on quest-based progression, while <em>Dune\u2019s<\/em> progression revolves around crafting. If you\u2019re about to object and point out that kind of a lot of MMORPG progression has traditionally focused on crafting and non-quest-oriented content, <a href=\"https:\/\/massivelyop.com\/2025\/07\/09\/working-as-intended-read-a-book-any-book-but-preferably-an-mmo-history-book\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">I know<\/a>. I was there too. I know. And it\u2019s why this argument isn\u2019t compelling, why it keeps failing to persuade people who actually live and breathe MMORPGs, as opposed to gamers from other genres who have been misled into thinking MMOs are just games exactly like <em>WoW<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is well-trod ground for MMORPG players, unfortunately, and I don\u2019t just mean the <a href=\"https:\/\/massivelyop.com\/2019\/09\/10\/working-as-intended-what-it-means-to-be-an-mmorpg\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">fool\u2019s errand of trying to define the MMORPG genre<\/a> by attributes for which there is always an exception that disproves the rule. Last summer, I deep-dived a group of MMORPGs and their studios \u2013 <em>Dune Awakening, New World, The Cube, Lionhearts<\/em> \u2013 that have been <a href=\"https:\/\/massivelyop.com\/2025\/07\/09\/working-as-intended-read-a-book-any-book-but-preferably-an-mmo-history-book\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">working overtime to redefine the MMORPG into a very small box that bizarrely excludes most historical MMORPGs<\/a>. In fact, I explicitly showed how the rise of the survival genre has \u201ceffectively robbed the MMORPG genre one of the fundamental terms we use to identify styles of MMOs\u201d \u2013 that is, the long-running sandbox MMORPGs that focus on crafting, building, lifeskills, PvP, housing, and skilling and often lack quests entirely, all the way back to <em>Ultima Online<\/em>. To quote that piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThese studios don\u2019t dislike MMORPGs; they just <a href=\"https:\/\/massivelyop.com\/2024\/06\/14\/massively-overthinking-the-new-world-aeternum-debacle\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">don\u2019t want the responsibility or cost of running a whole one<\/a>, so they\u2019re slowly redefining what MMOs are, either to get out of supporting them or to pick out subgenres to monetize separately, from MOBAs to battle royales and now to basic sandbox content, exploration, and the living world.\u00a0Or maybe they\u2019re just doing what Funcom did: waffle so hard on whether\u00a0<em>Dune Awakening<\/em>\u00a0is an MMO that it managed to convince not just gamers but itself that it didn\u2019t have to listen to decades of MMO lessons.\u00a0<em>MMO gankbox endgames don\u2019t work, but we\u2019re not an MMO, so our gankbox endgame will work!<\/em> [\u2026]\u00a0Maybe all of this would be mere semantics except that those semantics shape history, and right now, we\u2019re allowing semantics to both erase our genre and shrink its horizon too. To\u00a0paraphrase myself: The reason \u2018nobody is making MMORPGs\/MMOs anymore\u2019 is that gamers and studios have started believing and regurgitating that only 1:1 <em>WoW<\/em> clones are MMORPGs and nothing else counts. We are defining MMOs out of existence because we refuse to let them evolve \u2013 and refuse to acknowledge their bygone diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, this interview suggests to me that the depressing trend we identified continues \u2013 even with old-school MMORPG devs who know better.<\/p>\n<p>Further reading:<br \/><!--W4PL_List_594299-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--#w4pl-594299--><br \/>\n<!--END_W4PL_List_594299--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/massivelyop.com\/2026\/05\/22\/its-2026-and-dune-awakening-is-trying-to-convince-everyone-that-its-not-an-mmorpg-again\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\nSee more: https:\/\/theglobaltrack.com\/<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/corinthiames.com.br\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I\u2019m starting to think that either interviewers love baiting Funcom about Dune Awakening\u2019s MMORPG status, or Funcom really loves baiting MMORPG players about it, but one way or another, it is 2026, and we\u2019re still apparently doing the thing where Joel Bylos comes out with a new take on MMORPGs to try to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow2JLhCw:productID":"","_gspb_post_css":"","maa_idioma":"","maa_pais":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8785,3124,12432,37661],"class_list":["post-136810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ubirata","tag-awakening","tag-convince","tag-dune","tag-mmorpg"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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