In recent years WoW has been without exaggeration DOMINATING the MMORPG world and has come to be known as the first MASSIVE multiplayer online gaming experience, due to that now everyone wants to make an MMORPG. I ask of you all you gamers out there, does this not seem like a suicide attempt for all people involved, including WoW?
Let me explain.
We've got some at LEAST halfway decent MMO's out there. Aion, 2Moons, Final fantasy 14 (coming soon) Fiesta, DnD, just to name a few but none of them have even come near to defeating the ice cold giant of WoW that blizzard itself is amazed at, but doesn't this eventually spell suicide for that same giant?
Soon players may just be tired of run though a bunch of small innocent forest creatures with spells that make your computer go 2 frames for hour because you own a pink mac (i personally have an xp but let's get back on point here) and collect all the equipment to either sell, wear or give to a bunch of other players who you don't even personally know but do for a fact know that their lives are just as based on WoW as yours is.
Eventually, people are going to want something MORE then orc vs humans or space marines or a stupid goventment conspiracy, and our own boredom shall become the downfall of the game industry because of us playing WoW to begin with.
First, we play WoW and get hooked while the smaller mmos lose money and eventually die to the giant Cold monster known as blizzard.
Then we become bored of wow and want something else, something more immersive. Until WoW comes out with a new expansion pack to hold us over until finally (in a few years time) the creators run out of ideas and start releasing the same stuff over again.
Afterwards, we quit, looking for something new only to discover that all the good games were smothered to death by the giant fat ice cold beast that is WoW.
AND IM NOT BLAMING IT ON THE PLAYERS SO MUCH AS IM BLAMING IT ON GAME CREATORS.
We've had faaaar too many WoW clones in the past few years, as noted on extra credit (a big thumbs up to them) and even though its partially the fault of the hordes of nerds the sit in their basements (or my father in his room. yes my dad plays wow. a pally with more then 6.5k gear score....i think...i haven't played since my first warlock.)feeding the blizzard.
I understand for nerds out there really like WoW but is this as far as you want your gaming experience to go? To lvl....80 (which my dad hit in like..2 weeks...how does he do that?! took me a month to hit lvl 50 on my mage..) I would rather see a game expand past the god of war hacky slashy gameplay with vengence storyline. More then the FF storyline with a halfway good combat system but terribad love story storyline and every other character looks the same. (Hope's yellow shirt is tidus's yellow shirt. almsot every bad guy looks like seymour and theres always the same group of characters... an emo, vincent hope cloud, a cheery girl, vanille rinoa, a serious ownage girl that everyone somehow likes, fran lighting aka Light and the main character which somehow always happens to be a blonde...which extends through most of popular media....naruto, tidus, cloud ,murder princess, etcetc.) and MORE then the space marine go here, shoot bad guys. (at least halo reach's multiplayer will suffice for that....i loved those days of running through beta noobs.)
Can we only hope for a miracle? For a day when the zombies will snap out of it and go play with the WII they brought go but never hooked up (wii still sucks, i just couldn't think of anything else.) or uninstall WOW and go download something better?
Let me explain.
We've got some at LEAST halfway decent MMO's out there. Aion, 2Moons, Final fantasy 14 (coming soon) Fiesta, DnD, just to name a few but none of them have even come near to defeating the ice cold giant of WoW that blizzard itself is amazed at, but doesn't this eventually spell suicide for that same giant?
Soon players may just be tired of run though a bunch of small innocent forest creatures with spells that make your computer go 2 frames for hour because you own a pink mac (i personally have an xp but let's get back on point here) and collect all the equipment to either sell, wear or give to a bunch of other players who you don't even personally know but do for a fact know that their lives are just as based on WoW as yours is.
Eventually, people are going to want something MORE then orc vs humans or space marines or a stupid goventment conspiracy, and our own boredom shall become the downfall of the game industry because of us playing WoW to begin with.
First, we play WoW and get hooked while the smaller mmos lose money and eventually die to the giant Cold monster known as blizzard.
Then we become bored of wow and want something else, something more immersive. Until WoW comes out with a new expansion pack to hold us over until finally (in a few years time) the creators run out of ideas and start releasing the same stuff over again.
Afterwards, we quit, looking for something new only to discover that all the good games were smothered to death by the giant fat ice cold beast that is WoW.
AND IM NOT BLAMING IT ON THE PLAYERS SO MUCH AS IM BLAMING IT ON GAME CREATORS.
We've had faaaar too many WoW clones in the past few years, as noted on extra credit (a big thumbs up to them) and even though its partially the fault of the hordes of nerds the sit in their basements (or my father in his room. yes my dad plays wow. a pally with more then 6.5k gear score....i think...i haven't played since my first warlock.)feeding the blizzard.
I understand for nerds out there really like WoW but is this as far as you want your gaming experience to go? To lvl....80 (which my dad hit in like..2 weeks...how does he do that?! took me a month to hit lvl 50 on my mage..) I would rather see a game expand past the god of war hacky slashy gameplay with vengence storyline. More then the FF storyline with a halfway good combat system but terribad love story storyline and every other character looks the same. (Hope's yellow shirt is tidus's yellow shirt. almsot every bad guy looks like seymour and theres always the same group of characters... an emo, vincent hope cloud, a cheery girl, vanille rinoa, a serious ownage girl that everyone somehow likes, fran lighting aka Light and the main character which somehow always happens to be a blonde...which extends through most of popular media....naruto, tidus, cloud ,murder princess, etcetc.) and MORE then the space marine go here, shoot bad guys. (at least halo reach's multiplayer will suffice for that....i loved those days of running through beta noobs.)
Can we only hope for a miracle? For a day when the zombies will snap out of it and go play with the WII they brought go but never hooked up (wii still sucks, i just couldn't think of anything else.) or uninstall WOW and go download something better?
