Poll: GW2 vs WoW, who will win?

[Sion_Barzahd]

If GW2 hopes to even shine a light to the solar fury that is WoW they'd better change the game a lot compared to it's predecessor. I found the first guild wars lacking in almost every avenue (although i did find myself being very fond of the secondary class system.)

My money is GW2 will go the way of every other new MMO, in which it will gain an instant burst of suscribes looking for something new. Many of these will be WoW players and will hate that the new game is buggy and flawed due to the fact it hasn't been balanced perfectly just yet, and they will leave it. Soon a lot of people will leave the game for similar reasons, and it will die.

WoW is too polished, years have been spent balancing it and adding content for all types of players. There is so much to do within the universe of WoW itself, and loads of background story to most of it. This is why i think it won't be challenged yet.

Although, when blizz releases their new MMO i bet that might tempt some players away from WoW, perhaps giving an underdog MMO a chance to creep in and become a success.

 

[Chris646]

WoW has more than 12 million players. 12,000,000. Guild Wars, by comparison, probably doesn't have that much.

 

[Sir Bob]

What you should keep in mind is that WoW has no more lore to go through, so it will slowly die down more and more, Guild Wars is not bound by the lore of books and previous games like WoW is. Although I don't think it (Guild Wars) will be the death of WoW

 

[Baneat]

Vapourware vs massively successful franchise..

K

 

[Stammer]

I wish I could report people like you for trolling.

I actually really apologize for that post. I was in a bad mood at the time I wrote it, and just in a really ranty state. See, I have a deep-down hatred for WoW. And as I started to explain my position on this topic it got out of hand.

To explain my view in a more civilized manner: I think that Guild Wars 2 is going to be an awesome game, but those who play WoW like WoW for what it is, and most people are attracted to it because no other MMORPG's have the same features (and those that try always fail). Guild Wars 2 is just not going to draw the same audience.

Any game intended to be a WoW-killer is guaranteed to fail, because WoW has already had some 7 or 8 years to perfect its qualities. But if a game doesn't try to compete with WoW for its own audience, then it's guaranteed to get fewer people BUT it's also not doomed to fail either. That is to say, at the end of the day, Guild Wars 2 is going to rock, but it's not going to have as many players as WoW.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

This isn't even a contest.

World of Warcraft will come out on top, as it always has.

 

[Life_Is_A_Mess]

*sigh* No matter what we try, WoW will always win.
Still, I prefer GW2 to WoW (blasphemy!).

 

[asam92]

No VS threads on Escapist, read the forums rules.

OT: WoW will win simply cuz it already has the fan base and has already been crowned MMORPG king, I am just wondering how long it will stay open for before theyu release something like a WoW 2 or something, cuz the graphics are looking dated.

 

[lacktheknack]

Nothing will be able to beat WoW with it's 12 million accounts.

You're not even tired of it?

It doesn't matter, it's still going to win.

And really, tire of WoW, tire of them all. This is why I don't play MMORPGs.

 

[DracoSuave]

Let's see...

A game made by a company that knows how to make the most popular games of their genres, multiple times over, without fail... that understands the genre, and has built the most successful MMO ever...

vs...

...a sequel made by the company that made Guild Wars.

Yeah. [sarcasm]totally a tie[/sarcasm].

I like NCSoft, I really do, but... no, GW2 is not going to be a WoW killer.

 

[dementis]

I think it will be better but I doubt it will have more players, I've been playing guild wars for quite a while now, my friends recommended world of warcraft to me so I downloaded the ten day trial and hated the game, I asked my friend why it's so dull and he said the game doesn't really get fun until you reach level 10, whereas guild wars is fun from the start.

 

[Bobbity]

I read the article, and now I'm tempted to give GW2 a try, but it still won't beat WoW.

 

[somonels]

WoW. I might pick up GW2 at some point, mostly because of no subscription and it looks interesting in terms of gameplay. Would be my first MMO since I played Mu Online, and private servers, back in 2004.

 

[Korten12]

Let's see...

A game made by a company that knows how to make the most popular games of their genres, multiple times over, without fail... that understands the genre, and has built the most successful MMO ever...

vs...

...a sequel made by the company that made Guild Wars.

Yeah. [sarcasm]totally a tie[/sarcasm].

I like NCSoft, I really do, but... no, GW2 is not going to be a WoW killer.

NCSoft is the producer, not the developer. ArenaNet is, and the only game they ever made besides Guild Wars 1 is GW2.

 

[Merkavar]

no game will ever kill wow.

It has taken wow 6 years to get to the 12 million subscribers and will take at least 6 more to lose them. so for wow to die off there would have to be several games coming out over the next decade that steals subs. each of them adding up to stealing all of the subs.

so no one game will kill off wow.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

GW2 is gonna have to make serious strides in innovations to kill WoW. Sure it may be fresh and interesting, but it's gonna have to more than that to pull players away from the juggernaut that is World of Warcraft. Will it do good? Sure, I can see it gaining a sizable player-base; but WoW has been around for a long time and has had time to work out alot of it's flaws as well as gain a huge player-base.

 

[LitleWaffle]

GW2 has even less of a chance than TOR and TOR doesn't stand any chance of beating WOW.

Without a subscription fee, the game also won't be nearly as profitable. I wouldn'd want to see GW2 to fail though and I hope they manage to scrape by, but forget about killing WOW.

Frankly, I never played WoW because of the subscription fee. (Irony!)

That being said, i'm not entirely sure you could say the creators of Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 scraped by. There are so many more people on there than most think, and you can pay for a lot of things which a lot of people do. More bank space, more character slots, The other campaigns, you name it. Heck, you can now spend $45 on making all of your characters a hero for each character (not so that you have two of the same character, but one character can have your other characters with them in a party now).

There are a lot of dedicated people to Guild Wars and most likely to be more on Guild Wars 2. No where near as much as WoW, mind you, but definitely more than enough for them to scrape by.

 

[seditary]

The only winners here are people who ignore talk like this.

Its not just one or the other.

 

[KnifeyMcStaberson]

know what is going to take out WoW?

Pong MMO