From Level Up to Live Service: How Online Gaming Started Feeling Smaller

There are more games than ever. So why does online gaming feel like it revolves around fewer worlds? Anyone who played online games in Brazil in the 2000s and early 2010s probably remembers a very different feeling. It was not just that there were many games. It was that each one seemed to be its own world. Grand Chase was not just another title on a launcher. Perfect World was not just one more icon in a feed. Ragnarök, GunZ, Combat Arms, Priston Tale, Cabal, MapleStory, Mu, Tibia, World of War