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How should WoW end? How should any MMO end?
Glamis
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There was a really thought provoking article on WOW.com recently:
Breakfast Topic: How should WoW end?
A satisfactory end and a party would be a lot of fun, but I would like to see a darker conclusion to all of our efforts. What if we become so powerful, that we are like titans ourselves? The ensuing battle is one glorious free-for-all resulting in a cataclysmic event ending all life in Azeroth as we know it. Boom! Game over.
The article makes an interesting comparison to possible WoW endings, and the way Tabula Rasa Ended.
The End of Tabula Rasa - Server Shutdown Event
Anyway... something to think about.
How should WoW end?
How should MMOs end in general?
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How should Everquest or Ultima Online end? WoW will go on for many years and will probably end closer to 2020 than 2010. Although it will probably end with the sub numbers going slowly down and servers being removed, then Blizzard releases a new MMO and most of the players from WoW will move there. Then you'll probably have a few 100k playing on a couple of servers for quite some years, then the game goes free to play for some time and then they shut down the last servers.
WoW will end with the death of the last evil god and then everyone will live happy forever after.
Actually I couldn't care less for the World of Warcraft lore since it's so corny and plagiarized from the work of better men.
I don't think that the creator of the World of Warcraft lore really cares for it and that should tell you something.
I honestly think it will take decades before WoW dies. Ultima Online was released 10 years ago and is still up and running and it had a MUCH smaller playerbase to start with. WoW might survive all of us
WoW may end, probably when it no longer has enough players for one server, but Warcraft will never end.
You don't kill off the most profitable IP in your company just because one of the games based on it is coming to an end.
MMO's do not "die", they super nova
Last day events should probably be planned as a thank you from the devs to its player base. Like TR did in its last days, very classy bunch of devs in that game.
Unlike SOE devs of old with SWG or anything to do with $medly; I suspect they would have just turned off the servers at midnight and refund those who paid for that month already...not because it was owed to them, but because they don't want to get sued for it.
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Why are you worried about how WoW will end? I'm will to bet that WoW is closer to the beginning of WoW than the end of WoW. After all, this game has over 12 million ACTIVE (currently paying) subscribers. WoW is going nowhere. Folks, please. Stop the doom and gloom posts about WoW. If UO and EQ can still be around after all these years with the few subscribers they have, I'm sure WoW will be around for at least another decade or two. Remember, WoW brings in more money to Blizzard in a year than all of Turbine's, SoE's, Mythic's, mmorpgs combined.
You should be writing about what new classes and professions will be introduced with WoW's next expansion and what new races will we be able to play. Think POSTIVE for once.
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It should not die
it should be kept alive for the next 2000 years as a warning how a complete genre and more than half of the MMO industry can be drifted in the wrong direction by following the million flies that eat shit.
Anyway - that was the bitter version, i think as long as there are players who have fun in WoW it should not die at all.
If at some point it does not bring any cash in anymore for blizzard they should bring out a WoW2 where you can start with burrying your WoW1 character in a newbie quest, giving him a statue or tombstone for everyone to see who you are in WoW. From this tombstone you should be able to log into WoW in "ghost-and-zombie-mode" and haunt the players who still play it then in undead battlefields
Knitting WoW1 and WoW2 together like that would be hilarious fun i think
Imagine you play your ex toon as a zombie har har.
Nuclear winter will kills all, but WoW and cockroach will survive....
RIP Orc Choppa
After eradicating every single known thread to Azeroth, and every single potential powerful race across the universe. The Alliance and the Horde have no reason to "team up" so to speak, also as such, all the races start veiwing themselves as all powerful.
All alliances brake down, and azeroth becomes a multifronted warground.
WoW nerds beware, I come equipped with lazers and anti-QQ missiles. If you mess with me, I will $%£@ you.
This. You just pull the plug. The end.
Slowly decaying as other MMOs, but I would add a buff called the Power of the Legend or something, that would be universal and become stronger as less people is playing. So right now it would multiply the stats by 1, but for instance when there are only 100 people playing per server, stats would multiply by a big numer and they'd be legends and *very* powerful.
Turn the FFA PvP switch on, so it becomes a final battle to the death. Once you die, you die. Let there be only one!! No more new characters. No nothing. The final survivor is enshrined on Blizzard's website forever=)
I would end the game that way:
Setting *all* items to the game to legenday, and adding 9 random traits. And maybe spawming enemy monster in the citys, the most cool monsters, and some npc's that give great buffs there.
Sand's post is how most MMOs do end. Why? Because companies usually are turning a profit on an MMO that they keep running, even if it has only 30k subs and was launched a decade ago... so why WOULD they want to shut it down? Furthermore, these companies don't want to upset their fans, and even 10 years down the road there are still going to be people on the web that would rather play WoW than anything else.
That aside, god damn! Shutting down WoW at or shortly after the release of Blizzard's next MMO, and shutting it down with a BANG... wow. That would be a fantastic ending. Blizzard would earn some serious style points in my book, and probably in almost everyone else's too, if they pulled that off. Sure they'd piss off all the people who haven't had their fill of WoW yet. And they'd piss off all the people who want to keep playing WoW instead of anything else. But they WOULD be doing something that is truly novel and different and potentially oh, so awesome.
massive apocalyptic battle, with the forces of evil winning.
and for WoW, possible a segway into this new MMO they are supposedly creating.....
According to some folks, everything including WOW ends in 2012.
But how?
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Actually, once the China servers go offline for transition to new ownership, the game will be at more like 5-6 million.
As for WoW's end, it isn't going to happen for decades. Most players will be in and out several times, there will be many more expansions, and probably even graphical updates. There are too many horrible MMO's still running about to even get a proper estimate of its lifespan.
I'm on board with one of the apocalyptic endings, especially the FFA PvP battle, but we all know some rogue will just stay hidden, waiting for the last two people to duel, and then gank the winner when he's at 10%.
Otherwise, I could see them finishing off the Old Gods, then calling it quits, and making way for WoW II some years down the road. Maybe with some single player RPG story telling games inbetween.
Considering the "lore" started with humans and orcs occupying the same territory, and has expanded to include "footnotes" such as Sargeras now being the incredibly powerful perpetrator of evil... I'm sure they could keep the story going for quite some time.
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everything on the planet labled wow should be taken and sent into the sun to burn sincw wow has did much more damge to rep of mmos than any mmo i can think of
Actually, once the China servers go offline for transition to new ownership, the game will be at more like 5-6 million.
As for WoW's end, it isn't going to happen for decades. Most players will be in and out several times, there will be many more expansions, and probably even graphical updates. There are too many horrible MMO's still running about to even get a proper estimate of its lifespan.
i dont think wow will end until blizzard pulls the plug themselves .and i dont think they will .cuz reports are there new mmo will be of different class and wont compete with wow genre.so they will keep both i guess.
Actually, once the China servers go offline for transition to new ownership, the game will be at more like 5-6 million.
As for WoW's end, it isn't going to happen for decades. Most players will be in and out several times, there will be many more expansions, and probably even graphical updates. There are too many horrible MMO's still running about to even get a proper estimate of its lifespan.
So your saying the only reason 5 million play the game in china is because of the current owner? and once the players are suddenly transferred to a new owner with no effect to them they will all suddenly stop playing for no reason at all?
Good reasoning
I think WoW should end happy, doing what it likes, and surrounded by friends. My idea is on a normal Friday night, WoW does it's normal routine to go to the gay bar for a few drinks, surrounded by friends. WoW and Darkfall are really hitting it off on the dance floor, and sudenly the gas main has a leak, someone goes to light a ciggarette....all are killed instantly.
At least they all go out having a good time, doing what they enjoyed, and surrounded by friends.
with every year we get a new contender for the crown . its just thus far its a bit like watching boxers take on mohamid ali in the 70s . warcraft seams pretty unbeatable . but you see its getting older and it can only pull out so many tricks out of its hat before someone deals a knockout punch . lol
i think by the time warcraft 2 is released a lot of people will have moved on to other mmos . by that time they ll be available on consols .
if cloud gaming technology ever comes in it wont really matter what system you have at home because every system will be able to play every game . that will revolustionise mmos more than ever .
i can see the pay to play subscription based format becoming far more flexable in the future .
i think we ll see 1 week sub options . less costly monthly subs . mircotransations become common place as the years go by .
i know a lot of you will disagree with me now but your wrong simple as that . two years ago i was saying ddo should be free to play with item shops etc . most people disagreed and look whats happened .
the mmo market is like any other market in the world .
things change with time .
how i think wow should end .... with one almighty meteor coming down and wiping out the whole sorry mess warcraft has become . lol
They should spill beer on the servers.
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