Poll: Will any new MMO beat World of Warcraft?
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LockeDown said:
In order to beat WoW, a company has to do three things:
1- Look at the elements that have made WoW successful, after all, these things are -working- and you do not throw away success just so you can claim 'innovation'.
2- Identify WoW's shortcomings, barriers, and annoyances, figure out how to destroy them, and do so in such a way that you do not sacrifice what you've already identified as WoW's strong features.
3- Do so faster than Blizzard can.
If you look at WoW, what it did was:
1- Look at the elements that made Everquest successful
2- Identified its shortcomings, figured out a better way around them, and did so without sacrificing the good parts of the game
3- Caught Sony with its pants down in terms of doing this.
No matter how much hype an MMO has, it has NO HOPE of being a WoW killer without doing those three things.
Look at WAR, for example. It tried to do 2, but it failed at 1 (crafting in WAR is unrewarding and impossible to even start to do solo) and 3 (Blizzard came out with it's own answer to WoW, Wrath of the Lich King. The rest is history.)
Fact is, the reason WoW is successful is because they -are- doing steps 1 and 2, and doing so faster than other companies can. So long as they do that, it'll take a miracle to dethrone them.
If I could build the game in my head that doesn't quit bugging me it would be, easily, as popular as WOW if not more so. Yet... while mmo in ways it wouldn't fit the same grouping as current MMO as it is FPS based. Hence it wouldn't be fair to compair it, no matter how good it could theoretically do.
Not that it will ever happen, not lest I win the lotto or something, seeing I can't program and never will be able to even pen the idea down properly on paper let alone get the courage to pitch it to valve... who I feel would be the best group to release the client and maintain the servers.
PS: I would cheat, the game would have an objective (World conquest) that comes with a cash prize for anyone who achieves it that increases the longer the prize goes unclaimed. That would artificially inflate the player base even though, in a twist, it becomes harder to achieve that objective the more people are playing as they are your opponents, those you have to overcome to win.
Not that it will ever happen, not lest I win the lotto or something, seeing I can't program and never will be able to even pen the idea down properly on paper let alone get the courage to pitch it to valve... who I feel would be the best group to release the client and maintain the servers.
PS: I would cheat, the game would have an objective (World conquest) that comes with a cash prize for anyone who achieves it that increases the longer the prize goes unclaimed. That would artificially inflate the player base even though, in a twist, it becomes harder to achieve that objective the more people are playing as they are your opponents, those you have to overcome to win.
