Game Niches

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Please help me identify all the game niches.

Off the top of my head I see:

Primary interacton game Niches:
Pvp Niche
Cooperation Niche
Collection Niche

MMORPG Primary Niches
Endgame (PowerCreep) Niche
TR Niche
Alting Niche

Other online game Niches:
Gambling Niche
Flash Niche
Cutesy Niche
Danger Niche
Theme Niche
Racing Niche


DDO game niches:
Dungeons and Dragons experience Niche
Heroic Questing Only Niche
Epic Questing Only Niche
End Game Niche
Raiding Niche
Crafters Niche
Static Group Niche
Roleplaying Niche
Speed Running Niche
Race X Only Niche (WF only, Dwarf only etc)
Cosmetic Niche
Exploring Niche
Full Favor/Run every quest Niche
Builder Niche
Class X Only Niche (Rogue Only, Wizard only, etc)
Monster Manual Filler Niche (Monster Hunter)
Pets Niche (Get all the pets in the game)
Soloer Niche
Achievements Niche (fastest completions, highest difficulty, solo's duo's, world firsts, etc)
Economy Niche (try to accumulate in game weath. Start up your own in game "storefront". Farm rare items and sell them at high prices)
Permadeath Niche (I got to ask, what is Permadeath as a niche?)
Eberron niche (theme niche)
Forgotten Realms (theme niche)
Dynamic combat niche
3-dimensional gameplay niche (I think this one is covered )
1st person niche (we can do that)
3rd person niche (and that)
PUGing niche
Complex character niche (DDO is king of this)

(I extend my appreciation and a warm thank you to DDOTALK71 for helping to complete this list. I have only removed the ones that doubled, such as PvP niche, but anything I did not add already is here in this list. Thanks DDOTalk71!)

(the list grows on courtesy of Vryxnr, thank you Vry and much appreciated!)


EDIT: I am not done, I am gonna stop here for now. A little at a time, chisel away until its organized.


Swords and Sorcery niche
High Fantasy niche
Post-Apocalypse niche**
Survival niche*
Steampunk niche*
Turn based combat niche*
High Score niche*
2d Side scroller niche*
2d Top Down niche*
Shooter niche*
Sports niche*
Mobile gaming niche*
"little thought involved repetitive" Clicker niche*
Tactics/Strategy niche**
Puzzle niche**
Word play niche*
Educational niche*
Simulator niche*
Dating sim niche*
Builder niche*
Mathamatics games niche*
Memorization games niche**
Relaxing/simple/short time killer niche*
Competitive Party game niche*
Open World niche*
WoW clone niche*



(EDIT: With the list now showing a healthy size, we will want to consider if all the major niches are there, and which ones are sub-niches, and organize them accordingly. First Ill wait a bit longer to see if anything else shows up on this thread)



I am curious to see look at a list the pretty much covers all the major territory. I will edit this OP to add niches I missed, and that others see.

While not all of these niches are ones I like or support, they are, nonetheless, making real money.

That is the game I play in real life, making money. I do not have a boss, I am a boss and people work for me.

I guess my habit spills over to my favorite online game. I want it to make more money like me!


I would like to try an envision DDO with these niches filled somehow, and in a way that only makes DDO better!

If this can be done, DDO will take over online gaming.

More money means we can get rid of the bugs, ad more features and updates, and have more people to play with.

Niches would leak into each other a little at times.

If the game had a good PvP niche for example, some incentive for a game style that attracts people who like that to this game to do that here, they would probably end up running quests here and there, but mostly stick to what they do.

How could this niche be added in a way that does allows both niches to co-exist?

The biggest niche I see right now is what I call endgame niche, because I see more people playing endgame style games then any other.

How can we cash in on that niche adding it to co-exist with this niche?

How many niches are there, and which ones are the biggest on down to the smallest?

We should be going after the biggest first, and slowly with updates and money made from gains (using this approach and getting population increase) picking up the rest.

It is a game, like any game, it can be altered to hell and back with a good enough budget.

So, the point of this thread is to analyze the niches. I may say I think it is good to go after other money sources, and include that here, but the point of this thread is primary to be aware of them first, correctly identify them, and understand them better.

If anything else is posted digressing from this, I will simply remind the poster of this and refer to underlined sentence in this OP.

Thank you, enjoy DDO!