Why is it people want wow to die... I don't get it, if you don't like the game dont play it and get on with your life. I mean i come on these fourms once aday and someone has started a new "WoW Killer" thread. I am far from a wow fan-boy, i will admit i am currently playing wow among other things. So could someone explain to me why people want wow to die. I mean there is one game that i will celebrate once it is cancelled but im not on here makeing post about it.....
People who are interested in MMORPGs as a genre, rather than just playing a game or two here and there, like it when something interesting happens. Seeing the current champion unseated by a newcomer would be big news.
Imagine the same team winning the Super Bowl every year for ten years.
Why is it people want wow to die... I don't get it, if you don't like the game dont play it and get on with your life. I mean i come on these fourms once aday and someone has started a new "WoW Killer" thread. I am far from a wow fan-boy, i will admit i am currently playing wow among other things. So could someone explain to me why people want wow to die. I mean there is one game that i will celebrate once it is cancelled but im not on here makeing post about it.....
People who are interested in MMORPGs as a genre, rather than just playing a game or two here and there, like it when something interesting happens. Seeing the current champion unseated by a newcomer would be big news.
Imagine the same team winning the Super Bowl every year for ten years.
Every time someone types WOW-Killer on a keyboard, this should activate a large shock mechenism, and after the person has regained the use of their hands again, and/or bladder control enough time should of past for them to reconsider the cliched and pointless route they are following.....WOW is WOW, its simple to get into, and will run just about on a mobile phone now, it is almost a training ground for MMORPGS and is huge because its simple and its popular bacause its simple, its simple and therefore runs on anything...So to be a WOW killer by any bench mark, I would need to make a MMORPG that looks great but runs on my toaster.
Not only that. I would have to design said game to be simplistic from the ground up and presume no-one has ever played a mmorpg, that isnt really going to fly now is it 10 years on, WOW came out at the right time to engage an emerging market, and made fantastic inroads into Asia in the early days, those facts only make a WOW-killer unlikely, successfull games will follow yes,but I would be suprised to see anything like WOW...And to be fair I got into MMORPG,s before WOW, so I found it it insulting to my senses but I see how it came to be a giant and doff my cap in its general direction, however I am swearing under my breath.
And lastly as already stated this will be a superhero game, appeal will be different even though an Avatar or a Superhero is the same damn thing at the end of the day.
Why is it people want wow to die... I don't get it, if you don't like the game dont play it and get on with your life. I mean i come on these fourms once aday and someone has started a new "WoW Killer" thread. I am far from a wow fan-boy, i will admit i am currently playing wow among other things. So could someone explain to me why people want wow to die. I mean there is one game that i will celebrate once it is cancelled but im not on here makeing post about it.....
People who are interested in MMORPGs as a genre, rather than just playing a game or two here and there, like it when something interesting happens. Seeing the current champion unseated by a newcomer would be big news.
Imagine the same team winning the Super Bowl every year for ten years.
If it was my team I'd be cool with that :P
Btw WOW will never beat the real king Super Mario Bros over 40 million copies sold, and thats just the original :P
Everytime someone makes a stupid topic about "the WoW killer" god kills a kitten. Kittens killed this way = 5,287,908
It would be quite a bit more then that actually, number wise.
Short answer : NO
WoW has lasted long enough for people to get sick of it, play 3-4 other games, come back to it again and shake their heads saying to themselves. "Blizzard just keeps on impressing us."
When Blizz goes public with SCOnline or WoWII, then thats when we will start to see the original start dieing down.
Just so you know im going to kill wow.....with a rock..so stop making these Will this kill wow shizzles because now you know whats going to kill wow. me, with a rock.
Originally posted by aleos Just so you know im going to kill wow.....with a rock..so stop making these Will this kill wow shizzles because now you know whats going to kill wow. me, with a rock.
I've always seen it as when someone says "this game is a wow killer" it pretty much translates to "this game will be an epic failure". I'm not quite sure why that is.. but it seems to be pretty consistent so far.
That's just a general observation.. not a prediction.
I've always seen it as when someone says "this game is a wow killer" it pretty much translates to "this game will be an epic failure". I'm not quite sure why that is.. but it seems to be pretty consistent so far.
That's just a general observation.. not a prediction.
I hope it's not an epic failure though I want something new to play. Funny sig by the way.
Just so you know im going to kill wow.....with a rock..so stop making these Will this kill wow shizzles because now you know whats going to kill wow. me, with a rock.
I'll donate a dollar to the cause. Get a brick.
if we keep going down this road soon we can afford a cinder block.
lol are you kidding me? With Star Wars and DC Universe coming out do you think Champions has a chance?
Originally posted by Scagweed22 is it the graphics? the repetativenesses? i mean what is the point? you could be so much more productive in real life Real life brings repetition and pointlessness too. The only thing real life offers is Great graphics. Its kinda expensive too and way to dependent on the cash shop. Totally pay to win as well. No thank you. Ill stick to my games.
I'm in the beta but it doesn't really feel like anything special. Can't say anything due to the NDA, obviously, but yeah it didn't catch me the same way Aion did.
Of course that may be up to total personal preference.
But I just want to throw this out there.. Anyone who talks about or is looking for a "WoW Killer" is talking garbage. There will never be a "wow killer", and there doesn't have to be. Stop looking for it. EQ1 survived WoW, hell it even survived EQ2, people still play it and have fun. The only thing that can kill an MMO is it's own dev team. Heck look at all the stuff that happened to SWG and it's still going technically.
So give it up. If you're talking about WoW-Killers, you probably don't understand MMOs as well as you think you do.
"Because it's easier to nitpick something than to be constructive." -roach5000
Just so you know im going to kill wow.....with a rock..so stop making these Will this kill wow shizzles because now you know whats going to kill wow. me, with a rock.
I'll donate a dollar to the cause. Get a brick.
I'll toss in a fiver if he'll take it out back and do it like Old Yeller.
Just so you know im going to kill wow.....with a rock..so stop making these Will this kill wow shizzles because now you know whats going to kill wow. me, with a rock.
I'll donate a dollar to the cause. Get a brick.
I'll toss in a fiver if he'll take it out back and do it like Old Yeller.
for 5 dollars ill reanact the entire scene instead of crying though i will smile and instead of a rifle it shall be a mini gun.
Just so you know im going to kill wow.....with a rock..so stop making these Will this kill wow shizzles because now you know whats going to kill wow. me, with a rock.
I'll donate a dollar to the cause. Get a brick.
if we keep going down this road soon we can afford a cinder block.
Let me get in on this too.. Add my dollar to the pile.
To be honest I'd much rather you take said cinder block and drop it on some of the wow fanbase but that's just a personal gripe. I just want to go back to the days where there was honest variety in the genre rather then just some giant juggernaut with a massive population leaving all the other games lacking in proper numbers.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
Champions online, wont kill wow, because it dosn't have mainstream appeal, even to MMORPG gamers.
What they are trying to say, is that they would like another game, to have such mainstream interest and momentum, that the majority of players would forsake whatever wretched game they're playing, and move.
The price of playing a different game, is convincing all your friends to do the same. People have heavily invested time into their current games, and those that have quit, are most likely tired of the same'ol.
A wow killer would have to be:
Sub Genre switch within the MMORPG Genre that holds mainstream appeal. - EQ1 --> wow aint gonna work again.
Play that not only deviates .. but is radically different then the current leader.
Ease of access - Games like Eve online, are too hard to get new player en-masse into.
I had typed alot more, and refined things a bit, but .. the web ate all the changes, and i just don't care enough to type it all twice.
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People who are interested in MMORPGs as a genre, rather than just playing a game or two here and there, like it when something interesting happens. Seeing the current champion unseated by a newcomer would be big news.
Imagine the same team winning the Super Bowl every year for ten years.
People who are interested in MMORPGs as a genre, rather than just playing a game or two here and there, like it when something interesting happens. Seeing the current champion unseated by a newcomer would be big news.
Imagine the same team winning the Super Bowl every year for ten years.
Thank you that makes perfect senes to me now.
Every time someone types WOW-Killer on a keyboard, this should activate a large shock mechenism, and after the person has regained the use of their hands again, and/or bladder control enough time should of past for them to reconsider the cliched and pointless route they are following.....WOW is WOW, its simple to get into, and will run just about on a mobile phone now, it is almost a training ground for MMORPGS and is huge because its simple and its popular bacause its simple, its simple and therefore runs on anything...So to be a WOW killer by any bench mark, I would need to make a MMORPG that looks great but runs on my toaster.
Not only that. I would have to design said game to be simplistic from the ground up and presume no-one has ever played a mmorpg, that isnt really going to fly now is it 10 years on, WOW came out at the right time to engage an emerging market, and made fantastic inroads into Asia in the early days, those facts only make a WOW-killer unlikely, successfull games will follow yes,but I would be suprised to see anything like WOW...And to be fair I got into MMORPG,s before WOW, so I found it it insulting to my senses but I see how it came to be a giant and doff my cap in its general direction, however I am swearing under my breath.
And lastly as already stated this will be a superhero game, appeal will be different even though an Avatar or a Superhero is the same damn thing at the end of the day.
No it won't be a WoW killer. It's a decent game but no WoW killer.
And if people would stop looking for MMOs to kill WoW then perhaps we'd get some better quality MMOs on the market.
People who are interested in MMORPGs as a genre, rather than just playing a game or two here and there, like it when something interesting happens. Seeing the current champion unseated by a newcomer would be big news.
Imagine the same team winning the Super Bowl every year for ten years.
If it was my team I'd be cool with that :P
Btw WOW will never beat the real king Super Mario Bros over 40 million copies sold, and thats just the original :P
In short, no, it is too rainbow.
Everytime someone makes a stupid topic about "the WoW killer" god kills a kitten. Kittens killed this way = 5,287,908
It would be quite a bit more then that actually, number wise.
Short answer : NO
WoW has lasted long enough for people to get sick of it, play 3-4 other games, come back to it again and shake their heads saying to themselves. "Blizzard just keeps on impressing us."
When Blizz goes public with SCOnline or WoWII, then thats when we will start to see the original start dieing down.
Are you serious???
(*Mental note: Must start making WoW killer threads.*)
Death to the felines!
every person that makes a thread about the next wow killer should be terminated.
Just so you know im going to kill wow.....with a rock..so stop making these Will this kill wow shizzles because now you know whats going to kill wow. me, with a rock.
I'll donate a dollar to the cause. Get a brick.
Some interesting ideas...
I've always seen it as when someone says "this game is a wow killer" it pretty much translates to "this game will be an epic failure". I'm not quite sure why that is.. but it seems to be pretty consistent so far.
That's just a general observation.. not a prediction.
im gona kill the jackass who started the whole "WOW Killer" thread bull! and they do this so an idiot like me will reply to them grr
I hope it's not an epic failure though
I want something new to play. Funny sig by the way.
I'll donate a dollar to the cause. Get a brick.
if we keep going down this road soon we can afford a cinder block.
lol are you kidding me? With Star Wars and DC Universe coming out do you think Champions has a chance?
Originally posted by Scagweed22
is it the graphics? the repetativenesses? i mean what is the point? you could be so much more productive in real life
Real life brings repetition and pointlessness too. The only thing real life offers is Great graphics. Its kinda expensive too and way to dependent on the cash shop. Totally pay to win as well. No thank you. Ill stick to my games.
I'm in the beta but it doesn't really feel like anything special. Can't say anything due to the NDA, obviously, but yeah it didn't catch me the same way Aion did.
Of course that may be up to total personal preference.
Heck yah, WoW is going to go into a downward spiral fast because of Champions Online. Everyone knows this.
I'm excited for Champions Online, I really am.
But I just want to throw this out there.. Anyone who talks about or is looking for a "WoW Killer" is talking garbage. There will never be a "wow killer", and there doesn't have to be. Stop looking for it. EQ1 survived WoW, hell it even survived EQ2, people still play it and have fun. The only thing that can kill an MMO is it's own dev team. Heck look at all the stuff that happened to SWG and it's still going technically.
So give it up. If you're talking about WoW-Killers, you probably don't understand MMOs as well as you think you do.
"Because it's easier to nitpick something than to be constructive." -roach5000
Short answer? No. It's a niche game. It's not a WoW-killer, if by "WoW-Killer" you mean a game that's going to sink WoW.
I'll donate a dollar to the cause. Get a brick.
I'll toss in a fiver if he'll take it out back and do it like Old Yeller.
I'll donate a dollar to the cause. Get a brick.
I'll toss in a fiver if he'll take it out back and do it like Old Yeller.
for 5 dollars ill reanact the entire scene instead of crying though i will smile and instead of a rifle it shall be a mini gun.
I'll donate a dollar to the cause. Get a brick.
if we keep going down this road soon we can afford a cinder block.
Let me get in on this too.. Add my dollar to the pile.
To be honest I'd much rather you take said cinder block and drop it on some of the wow fanbase but that's just a personal gripe. I just want to go back to the days where there was honest variety in the genre rather then just some giant juggernaut with a massive population leaving all the other games lacking in proper numbers.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
Champions online, wont kill wow, because it dosn't have mainstream appeal, even to MMORPG gamers.
What they are trying to say, is that they would like another game, to have such mainstream interest and momentum, that the majority of players would forsake whatever wretched game they're playing, and move.
The price of playing a different game, is convincing all your friends to do the same. People have heavily invested time into their current games, and those that have quit, are most likely tired of the same'ol.
A wow killer would have to be:
Sub Genre switch within the MMORPG Genre that holds mainstream appeal. - EQ1 --> wow aint gonna work again.
Play that not only deviates .. but is radically different then the current leader.
Ease of access - Games like Eve online, are too hard to get new player en-masse into.
I had typed alot more, and refined things a bit, but .. the web ate all the changes, and i just don't care enough to type it all twice.