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WAR40K MMO: THQ looking to win over WoW players.

slashbeastslashbeast Member Posts: 533
in Warhammer 40K: Dark Millennium Online

http://www.massively.com/2010/07/01/war40k-courts-1-million-users-wow-players/

As if things couldn't get any worse regarding the information we've been given on the game thus far:

"I've spent lots of time in WoW. As a WoW fanatic, I'm going to go right to 40K as soon as it comes out. It's very friendly to the WoW player," Bilson says.



In addition to aiming for the current market-share top dog, Bilson lets on that WAR40K is looking for approximately a million players in order to be successful. "They've got 14 million players! Gimme a million and I'm good! We're real good at a million, right?" We don't need everybody to migrate. We just need some of them -- and I'm full confident we're going to get them," he said.

This has fail written all over it and it's infuriating.  image

Comments

  • SinviperSinviper Member Posts: 169

    Wow, this puts the  'Games now adays are just out to make some fast money'  right out in the open...so bluntly.

    Originally posted by --Name edited out--


    EX-PRO PLAYER IN WOW HERE.THIS GAME IS GOOD! TRUST ME IM USED TO BE THE BEST IN WOW BUT JUST A N00B IN AION. ITS CHALLENGEING , TRY IT!


    [Sigh, watch out guys, this dude's pro.]

  • laglotuslaglotus Member Posts: 43

    I was hoping this game to be something different, guess I was wrong.

  • HyanmenHyanmen Member UncommonPosts: 5,357

    Somebody doesn't get it.

    Using LOL is like saying "my argument sucks but I still want to disagree".
  • ComnitusComnitus Member Posts: 2,462

    Boo.

    Hoo.

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  • Daffid011Daffid011 Member UncommonPosts: 7,945

    Ugh...   MMOs can get a million players without breaking a sweat and without wow losing a single player.  There are far more homeless gamers looking for something new and all they want is a good game to play. 

     

    I really hope this is just a misunderstanding and THQ realizes that they are not going to out-wow blizzard and that most people don't want yet another game that tries to emulate wow in order to steal subscribers. 

    A game needs to have a reason for players to migrate to it.  Saying "we are like wow, but only better" is not a great sales pitch. 

  • DinendaeDinendae Member Posts: 1,264

    Right now I'm just looking at this as an attempt at early hype; we still have a couple years before we know what the game should be like.

    "Oh my, how horrible, someone is criticizing a MMO. Oh yeah, that is what a forum is about, looking at both sides. You rather have to be critical of anything in this genre as of late because the track record of these major studios has just been appalling." -Ozmodan

  • ForceQuitForceQuit Member Posts: 350

    The other thread on this exact topic wasn't enough?

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