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Is WoW Doomed?
MrTumN3s
Member Posts: 439
Is WoW doomed? I mean not like to the point that they lose their supposed 9 million players( which i disagree with). Wasnt it like last month or something that they had 8 million players. They lie too much. Now aside the fact that i quit WoW yesterday due to the hate of raiding day and night, i have to ask this.
Is WoW doomed? With games like AoC coming out with a new revolutionary combat system and DX10 Graphics, are they doomed? Warhammer has a large fan base, and their beta has 300,000 people signed up, the largest yet in gaming. And yes, their are other games coming out like Darkfall and Fury and such, but those stick out most significantly.
Will WoW lose a large playerbase after AoC and WAR come out? Thats the question of the day.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
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No.....
If only i could find a troll with a tin foil hat. =(
It's not doomed but they won't stay on top forever. At least as subscriber numbers are concerned.
The answer is yes. But then of course, it is for all games. Sooner or later the graphics and gameplay get old. hats the bottom line. Games are, and always will be, out with the old, in with the new. Sure, it may even last 10 years. But yes, it's days are numbered. They were from the second the first box hit the shelves. Thus for that matter, AoC and WAR's day's are also numbered.. its just a matter of will they make enough profit to make it worthwhile to their individual companies.
i know, i didnt say its whole playerbase, just maybe like 2 million or so. WoW will be alive after i get out of college no doubt, CLASS OF 2011! but yeah.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
I refuse to vote in your poll....
People need to learn to carry on a conversation without mentioning wow or blizzard. It's not the be all and the end all of mmos. There were games before wow and there will be games after wow. Get over yourselves and get over wow.
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-
I dont know what your talking about. How come the MMO community, much less myself, talk about WoW or blizzard. WoW is essentially the largest most played MMO in the world. How come talking about the largest MMO game on a MMO site isnt allowed or respected by your standards. My thoughts and questions were simple, they didnt need to be trolled and argued upon.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
WOW is doomed to making millions of dollars per year for many years to come.... sure, one day the sub numbers will drop (probably because people will be playing their next game)
But it won't have me in their game world, which is a huge loss I know....
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Better question is...... Is Wow DOOMED to hit 10 MILLION subscribers before AoC/War release some time in 2008?
Easy answer.
WOW is doomed to making millions of dollars per year for many years to come.... sure, one day the sub numbers will drop (probably because people will be playing their next game)
But it won't have me in their game world, which is a huge loss I know....
lol, that made me giggle.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
LOL, i dont think WoW will be doomed at all.
If any new game comes up short, that game will be doomed from launch, just take a look at Vanguard. Extreamly, poor launch, over 200k players bought it at launch (i was one of them), 6 mths later more than 150k of the players have left. Do you think any of those will jump back onto it any time soon? i doubt they will. Plus all the bad publicity about it, not only from fellow gamers players but from reviewers as well. That is going to hurt it.
What i am getting at is there is a standard they must meet at and failure to meet those standards (which are set by us, the potnetial paying customers) will hold the life and death of the game.
WoW, is the biggest game out right now, even if just 1 of those upcomming titles comes out, i highly doubt it will hurt warcraft at all, but it will hurt other games. Whats left of teh VG players (could kill this game off), would hurt EQ2, may finally finish of Daoc, but that has had one hell of a good run there, and everything comes to an end sooner or later. I can see WoW being with us for another decade, maybe not as many servers at that time, but still running (much like EQ1 and UO) those were 1st generation, WoW is 2nd generation and VG suppesedly 3rd gen LOL if you believe that statement they made.
I voted no after all this game wont just die not with 5 million Western accounts and 4 million asian ones. No this game will over time lose subscription numbers till a hard core of fans are all thats left. This will go on till one day Blizzard either sells whats left of wow to a 3rd party publisher or untill BLizzard one day says its time for WoW to quietly slip away into the MMO history books.
"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god."
-- Jean Rostand
WOW is doomed to making millions of dollars per year for many years to come.... sure, one day the sub numbers will drop (probably because people will be playing their next game)
But it won't have me in their game world, which is a huge loss I know....
lol, that made me giggle.
Surprising...it usually gets huge guffaws.....
besides, my son loves the game so I still pay them 14.99 a month for his sub..... and stood in line at midnight when TBC came out so "he" could play it .......
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
I'm personally waiting for AOC, and yes , I find the combat revolutionary in MMO Category, unlike WAR's same old skill clicking style, though I'm afraid more players will choose WAR as it is easier to adapt. but... after 2 years of wow I'm freakin' bored of orcs and elves..
Eventually, like many good things, it's domination will eventually subside. However, I might interject, that as this happens, you will see vast changes in the types of games available. Blizzard will simply create another type of MMO. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if they aren't already developing one. They are powerful and wealthy. It would be fairly easy to begin development in secrecy.
/winks and nods...
So, be prepared possibly in the next, say 2 years to see some type of announcement made by Blizzard on their new-style MMO...
This was only a guess..hope..wishful thinking...no facts are perceived in this thread...
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
John Lennon
thats a really bad question... i think you should re-word it to get your message across better.. every game is doomed.. its jsut a question of when.. maybe a better question would be " Do you see WoW losing the top spot in the next year" or something similar.. i personally think it will soon start to drop sub numbers in the NA/EU market.. we tend to want the newest, best of everything... games tend to last a bit longer in asia.. look how long lineage was around.. adn theres actually a starcraft channel in Korea.. well not just SC but 90% of the time.. now how still plays games that dated in the West? definitely not the majority.. but yeah, 1.5-2 years from now WoW wont be on top.. maybe not worldwide, but definitely in the West.
man thats a brutal sentence
WoW will never be doomed. It has massive appeal to large masses of people.
That being said I did a trial, and leveled up to 20 then quit. I honestly couldn't figure out why people like it. It had 0 attraction for me.
Unfortunately most of my gaming clan plays eve and WoW. I don't like either ROFL.
I play swg. It's not perfect but it's fun for me, and the 2 other guild members that play it with me are great guys. Our guild used to be huge on our server before the CU. It's actually the first game I played with my clan. Now we are rebuilding...
I will be playing AoC but I'll probably end up back in SWG. I honestly don't see AoC pulling any of our guild members from other games, especially WoW. Based on the responses I got to the "Anyone plan on playing this?" post, prospects are dim.
I'll be roleplaying a lone wolf type LOL. Once I cap out I'll probably cancel and go back to SWG out of loneliness. It's no fun when no one else is in your teamspeak channel, no matter how good the game is.
-Viz
already been discussed a hundred times before. the only thing that will kill wow is TIME. it is INEVITABLE. just accept this and move on.
Highly doubtful it will be "doomed" but they will loose players yes.
A few realm transfers and shutdowns and they can even out the population on the servers again.
yeah, i believe i can give u the link to it, hold on.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
I no longer play Wow, and I cant see that changing. But I don't blame Blizzard, I think after 3 years I kinda outgrew it and got bored.
That said-- I would buy a new Blizzard MMORPG in a heartbeat. Why? Blizzard puts out good non-buggy products. You can bet that they will test the crap out of their games, and it shows.
I've watched the launch of several games, and Bllizzard does it best. They make sure their servers are stable. When Wow launched they SOLD OUT all of their boxes in my area, and still the servers were playable launch day and the first week. Heck most MMO's can't do that for expansions. Look at UO's Age of Shadow's launch. People couldnt even play it for 3 weeks and they had rollbacks and all kinds of problems for months after that.
The general rule of thumb used to be never to play a new mmorpg until it was at least a year old. Blizzard raised all of our expectations with Wow, and we expect that same kind of launch from people like EA/Sony? Not going to happen.
If Blizzard shut down WOW tomorrow, it would still be the most critically aclaimed, most poplar and succesful MMOG to date. Its doomed to stick around for another 5 or 6 years or for however long Blizzard decides to support it. If UO can still support a couple of servers after all this time, why wouldn't WOW?
It wasn't doomed as soon as it hit 1million subscribers;)
war and aoc and all the other games coming in the next couple of years will not kill wow, it will take a hit of course but some wont like war or aoc and return untill something better comes out, my hope is both of those games bring in even more fresh mmorpg players and gives games companys the insentive to create better mmorpgs
what ever way you feel about wow hate or love it has shown devs what a quality piece of software can do and the cash it can bring in.
Nothing on the short-term horizon is going to kill WoW. But this is largely based on scope of awareness. This is because there's stuff already clocking WoW handily, they just don't appeal to the people wondering about "WoW Killers".
It's kinda like a few years ago when it was largely ignored that Lineage had more than 10 times as many players as then-king EQ1. Problem was a) it was in Korea largely played in PC Baangs and as such had arguable numbers; and, b) was so unenjoyable to fans of EQ1 (and AC1 and UO) that people felt they could largely ignore it. Even FFXI suffers from similar elements, being mostly popular in Japan and having a console UI that alienated the still-dominant (to this day) PC users.
Fast-forward to present. There are ten times as many accounts in Habbo Hotel as there are in WoW. The game is free though, so we don't know how many people are actively contributing to the revenue. But even if we said only 10% did, that's still very respectable. Then there's Krazykart Racer which has, quite literally, been played by 45 million unique people in South Korea, and is coming to the U.S. through Viacom. Ignored. Audition. Same. Maplestory. Same. Heck, Club Penguin. Same. Dofus, Gaia, the list goes on.
The point is that if you're looking for the next AAA CD/DVD-installed patched fullscreen DIKU-inspired MMORPG to kill WoW, none announced really have that sure-fire chance of killing WoW in a way that WoW pushed FFXI off the top of the heap (which had already surpassed FFXI from what I've been able to dig up)