Some fans aren't convinced by the Dune MMO, and maybe they're right

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A Dune MMO was announced at Gamescom last night, but potential players are far from convinced by the idea.

Dune: Awakening is an open world survival MMO. Announced last night with a trailer featuring sand worms, Paul Atreides, and an awful lot of the desert of arrakis, it was arguably one of the bigger reveals of Opening Night Live. A Steam page (opens in new tab) explains more about how you'll survive in the hostile world of Frank Herbert's sci-fi masterpiece, but the project has been met with a powerful dose of scepticism on social media.

For some, the world of Dune simply isn't an interesting setting for an MMO, a genre that traditionally offers a wide array of different biomes and cultural areas to explore. On a desert planet, that option isn't really available.

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For others, it's the specific concept of a Dune MMO that's the problem. Whether players bounce off the genre itself, or simply prefer not to play with other people, the concept on a multiplayer take just isn't that attractive.

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Then there are the people who think Dune is simply a boring book, an even more boring film, and that a silver screen success doesn't automatically mean you've got a multimedia audience ready and waiting for everything your franchise can throw at it. It's a cynical approach, perhaps, but not one that's entirely unfair. Last year's film starring Timothy Chalamet was a success, but it's not as though