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Maybe TOR and GW2 would kill wow's player base or put a dent in it. But it would have to be both combined. WoW does have a loyal fanbase I think most WoW players will play TOR and GW2 for a while and soon as Blizz add something to WoW they will jump back. RIFT is a prime example here.
OMG not this again *sigh*
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What does it even matter? There will still be people who will continue to enjoy and play WoW and SWTOR, and perhaps even some that will play both. No doubt that SWTOR will attract a lot of old and new players alike, but we all know WoW isn't going anywhere soon.
No... not 15 mins... I used to wait for over 30 mins to get logged on my server on EVERY launch... On vanilla I waited for hours to get logged sometimes (when it was few months after the launch), lag was huge... Sometimes I couldn't move properly how laggy it was, but thankfully we didn't have the fortune of server crashes on every major raid day, it was usually only on Wed.. Vanilla WoW was catastrophy for first year or so... but it was still better than any other expansion...
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Whatever your smoking send me some. WoW killer, no. It will take a chunk outta their subscriptions, but take it down.... However Rift may go down. Just got an E-mail from Trion saying it's on sale now for 50% off the normal price. It's $4.99, come on, just go FtP and get it over with.
Wow is all but at the end of its cycle. With all the clones and the new mmorpgs that are coming out, Wow will peacefully fade away. Maybe Blizzard will realease Starcfraft mmorpg. I cant wait for the new star wars and to one day get a decent rig so i can gw2
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it wont kill wow, it may lessen its numbers. but i do think it will be easily the most sucsessful western mmo after wow.
it may even match or surpass wow's numbers at one point but even then i wouldnt consider wow "killed".
WoW had offers like that aswell... Tho not in the first year after the launch
.... It just as well might be they have enough subscriptions to make profit of and can afford such sale with 50% off to get new players... Sale doesn't mean the game will go down....
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If you can run GW1 you will be able to play GW2... Atleast that's what they said...
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I don't think it will kill off WoW, but will take many subs away from it however not enough for Blizzard to pull the plug on it. Bioware has the correct formula take content that many care about or are very interested in and create a good story around it and have a good amount of detail and high quality game world wrapped around it. The deciding factor though if they can push the social networking aspects like Blizzard did with WoW. Back in Vanilla WoW I think the 40 man raids really hooked alot of people not due to the raids or the content itself but forcing players to work with others creating friendships and a social experience outlet for many.
I truly do hate these kinds of threads, these WoW killer threads. Regardless of the game they are raving for I hate them. WoW will likely die a death of a thousand cuts...so to speak. Rift took about 600k from WoW, others will take still more until WoW is no longer the giant that it is, even then it may not die unless Blizzard kills it because they aren't drawing in the kind of money they have become accustomed to. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they shut WoW down when they get ready to release Titan, even if Titan turns out to be a very different kind of MMO. But that's still a few years away I would imagine.
It's made by EA...
the same folk that make DAoC, y'know the game that to this day, if you want to switch your toon that is on another server of the same cluster (meaning the same server) you have to actually log out and re-log back into the game.
This kind of fundamental game design has never been fixed nor addressed in 10 years.
Looking at that, then looking at it's record of huge hits becoming huge flops because of it's lack of development and customer service investment = it doesn't have an ice cube's chance in hell to come close to WoW...but it will do one thing for the first 6 months.....take a good chunk of WoW's gold farmers. Kudos for them!
Word.
For me WoW has never been un the nº 1 place so...
Someone said,
"Also people need to face reality and accept that sci-fi (no matter how big the ip) will never have the universal following as fantasy."
Sci fi has a bigger folloing than fantasy.
I ask you, Where is the Fantasy channel?
Have a sense of humor, no need to get ALL MODDY !
A Simpson's quote shouldn't be worth a warning. You are lucky anyone is bothering to read this rag.
it doesnt need it's own channel, because it isn't a niche? Pretty sure things like Merlin weren't looking to air on their own channel. Or any vampire show, etc for that matter. fantasy has a much, much larger following than sci fi
When a man lies... he murders some part of the World.
Looks like TOR has a guaranteed 8m subs.
Y'know, ToR could someday surpass WoW, and I still wouldn't say it's a better game. I've yet to see any "Daigo" potential from ToR.
Unless that Sci Fi IP is Star Wars, Fantasy has a larger fan base then your next Sci Fi IP unless sthat IP is Star Wars.
Star Wars is simple one of the most popular movies series in the world if the most popular.
GW2 > SWTOR > WoW
imo
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oh sorry...that's wine...wine does that..."
" it doesnt need it's own channel, because it isn't a niche? Pretty sure things like Merlin weren't looking to air on their own channel. Or any vampire show, etc for that matter. fantasy has a much, much larger following than sci fi"
You said it yourself. Fantasy is niche.
Comic books- Superman , Spiderman, x men , the hulk- all Sci fi.
Tv shows- Star trek, Heroes, Lost , Battlestar Galactica - all Sci fi.
Movies- Star Wars, terminator, star trek movies, superhero movies - All Sci fi.
Sci fi is mainstream. Fantasy is niche.
Beyond WOW, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, most attempts to bring Fantasy mainstream have failed miserably.
A couple of recent fantasy success' does not translate into more fantasy fans than Sci Fi.
Have a sense of humor, no need to get ALL MODDY !
A Simpson's quote shouldn't be worth a warning. You are lucky anyone is bothering to read this rag.
I'm kind of "with this".
It just leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth when people start talking about taking any game down.
No one i staking wow down. Just like nothing took Everquest down. My, how short the memories are.
Things run their course, that's it. That's how it works people.
how many of you are clamoring for the old vaudeville acts? "Doutbt many if any on this site". Yet Vaudeville is very much dead.
Or the old Borscht Belt comedians?
It's just silliness.
Everything has its life span. WoW is not going to vanish just like Everquest hasn't vanished.
And here's an idea, no one has played SWToR over a long period of time and can really commnent on how the game stands up over the course of a character and even continuing on after that character is maxed out.
Will SWToR gather lots of box sales? You betcha, starting with me. But that doesn't mean any of us are going to stay with it for the long haul. That all remains to be seen.
I just can't wait for all the "I'm going back to WoW" posts because SWToR wasn't WoW 2.0. *shivers*
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