There’s a lot going on behind the scenes at every step of the MMO game journey. When a player connects to a MMO game, it is hosted in one or more cloud data centers. These data centers can be located around the world and normally the player will, unbeknownst to him/her, access the closest data center instance of their MMO game to improve performance and help achieve the lowest ping (fastest response time). (Western Digital Blog)

In this way, Fortnite feels like a more realized version of Bungie’s Destiny, a game that ambitiously tried and never quite succeeded at blending the best of shooter and MMO game design. (The Verge)

Once rare like a legendary loot drop, new MMOs are now more common than ever. And as part of a genre built upon freedom and vast numbers of players coming together, they are among the most ambitious games around. (PCGamesN)