THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WOW KILLER. PLEASE stop making these type of threads. It does nothing but reveal your own stupidity.
Poll: WoW killer
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Star Trek is your best bet. Uber massive franchise coveted by nerds.
Or even better; how about DIABLO Online?
Blizz can do what they did to Warcraft to their REAL RPG, and it will be so good all statues around the world will cry blood ^^
Or even better; how about DIABLO Online?
Blizz can do what they did to Warcraft to their REAL RPG, and it will be so good all statues around the world will cry blood ^^
Right for me there is no game that will 'kill' WoW, you just can't kill something that popular. It's still increasing in popularity.
Trying to to kill it with another game is ridiculous, they will only accumulate a fan base from somewhere else and possibly take a few fans from WoW. But WoW's current strength would require something on the epic scale of Avatar to derail it.
But WoW will eventually disintegrate on its own. Every game is maintained by something new each time you play it unless you love the game's concept so much you can continue regardless. But for a number of people WoW is maintained by the updates, expansions and patches.
But a game concept can only last so long before it gets boring, by adding patches and expansions you're just slowly trying to polish a diamond or add ever increasing extras to make the diamond look better. Now you may say that other games have lasted for eons by just doing the same thing. These games were not MMORPGS that you have to pay for.
The necessity to pay to play, means to make the money worthwhile you have to spend a greater amount of time playing the game and thus the repetitive and samy nature(I do not refer to the repetitive grind of playing, but to the actual way in which this is done) begins to become ever more obvious.
You cannot play WoW for an infinite amount of time unless you are an obsessive(true obsessive, 20 characters level 80, across 3 different accounts obsessive). The experience starts to repeat, thought you could ignore it to begin with it becomes ever more obvious. As if you had an infinite life no matter what you experienced, you would experience it in the same manner your personality would dictate and everything would descend into monotony. You need an end to make the experience worthwhile.
However, Blizzard may have the genius ability to add totally new concepts to WoW and keep people interested. This is perfectly possible as you can add new players, but without the endless patches and expansions the repetition of style becomes more obvious.
But you never know Blizzard are very good at this, I respect them tremendously, WoW is a fantastic game, brilliantly made and superbly continued. I also respect anyone who can get £8 a month off people for basically the same game.
But I think eventually WoW will be overtaken, or I hope so, some variety would be nice, and I haven't spoken to my friend since he started, I'm beginning to wonder if he actually leaves the seat I always see him in.
Oh well sorry it's so long.
Trying to to kill it with another game is ridiculous, they will only accumulate a fan base from somewhere else and possibly take a few fans from WoW. But WoW's current strength would require something on the epic scale of Avatar to derail it.
But WoW will eventually disintegrate on its own. Every game is maintained by something new each time you play it unless you love the game's concept so much you can continue regardless. But for a number of people WoW is maintained by the updates, expansions and patches.
But a game concept can only last so long before it gets boring, by adding patches and expansions you're just slowly trying to polish a diamond or add ever increasing extras to make the diamond look better. Now you may say that other games have lasted for eons by just doing the same thing. These games were not MMORPGS that you have to pay for.
The necessity to pay to play, means to make the money worthwhile you have to spend a greater amount of time playing the game and thus the repetitive and samy nature(I do not refer to the repetitive grind of playing, but to the actual way in which this is done) begins to become ever more obvious.
You cannot play WoW for an infinite amount of time unless you are an obsessive(true obsessive, 20 characters level 80, across 3 different accounts obsessive). The experience starts to repeat, thought you could ignore it to begin with it becomes ever more obvious. As if you had an infinite life no matter what you experienced, you would experience it in the same manner your personality would dictate and everything would descend into monotony. You need an end to make the experience worthwhile.
However, Blizzard may have the genius ability to add totally new concepts to WoW and keep people interested. This is perfectly possible as you can add new players, but without the endless patches and expansions the repetition of style becomes more obvious.
But you never know Blizzard are very good at this, I respect them tremendously, WoW is a fantastic game, brilliantly made and superbly continued. I also respect anyone who can get £8 a month off people for basically the same game.
But I think eventually WoW will be overtaken, or I hope so, some variety would be nice, and I haven't spoken to my friend since he started, I'm beginning to wonder if he actually leaves the seat I always see him in.
Oh well sorry it's so long.
This.Wuvlycuddles said:
Anyone who says WoW is a terrible game is still in their non-conformist, lolololyouplaymainstreamshit phase regardless of their age, and while I don't find it too disheartening that WoW is sometimes referred to as "Runescape with a monthly fee" (even if I disagree with this statement), these people are pathetic if the only reason they hate WoW is that they don't want to be seen as "one of the faceless crowd".
Face it: Blizzard did something right, and they surpassed even their own predictions by thousands of miles. There will be no WoW-killer until something truly original, innovative and even more addictive than WoW comes up a good while from now - or the corporate management decides to rip the WoW community off by doing something truly, incredibly selfish and stupid.
All of WoWs content is based off of the Warcraft games. By that meaning everything in WoW came from the original games. So I think that blizzard will run out of content and it will force them to add something tottaly not inline with the old stuff and it will piss off alot of people. I think cataclysm will succeed but im not so sure whats in store afterwards. Personally of course....
who the fuck has ever said, that killzone 2 was going to be a Halo killer? thats a retarded statement.
They're on different consoles, so it's not like it was gonna have a chance to steal the audience, apart from the minority who had both PS3 and 360.
As for the actual topic, WoW will endure for many years. And i doubt it's some other MMO that'll knock it off, it'll prolly die out some day, when people get tired of it.
The closest thing you'll get to a WoW kilelr, is a game that'll start drawing a larger portion of the new players than WoW. No game will come and steal all teh WoW players from WoW, it will only take some, and the new ones, who hasn't started WoW yet.
They're on different consoles, so it's not like it was gonna have a chance to steal the audience, apart from the minority who had both PS3 and 360.
As for the actual topic, WoW will endure for many years. And i doubt it's some other MMO that'll knock it off, it'll prolly die out some day, when people get tired of it.
The closest thing you'll get to a WoW kilelr, is a game that'll start drawing a larger portion of the new players than WoW. No game will come and steal all teh WoW players from WoW, it will only take some, and the new ones, who hasn't started WoW yet.
Everquest had 2.5 Million players BEFORE WOW came out, It was taken over by wow a year later with 4 Million Subscribers VS 3 Million. Anything can happen and by the way, WOW's stats of "11.5 Million users" has gone down to 10 Million recently, 1.5 Million people left a year into the latest expansion.
Any game can easily take all the currently disgruntled WOW players the way WOW took from Everquest, the fact is a game has to be BETTER than WOW for people to leave it. No other MMO fills each desire that most MMO players have.
Any game can easily take all the currently disgruntled WOW players the way WOW took from Everquest, the fact is a game has to be BETTER than WOW for people to leave it. No other MMO fills each desire that most MMO players have.
When those war mongering hyper rich gold plated berks at Blizzard are making more money a year that some African countries?
Bollocks.
The problem with competing in the MMO industry is that there is effectively a finite number of players, meaning that MMO's must actually compete for the same player. So if any one MMO gets too big, itll stay big. Hence WoW.
I want APB
Still, i reckon the G'ment should adopt WoW as a prevention. To prevent teenage pregnancy. Worked for me.
Bollocks.
The problem with competing in the MMO industry is that there is effectively a finite number of players, meaning that MMO's must actually compete for the same player. So if any one MMO gets too big, itll stay big. Hence WoW.
I want APB
Still, i reckon the G'ment should adopt WoW as a prevention. To prevent teenage pregnancy. Worked for me.
I hate Wow and even I know WoW will never die. Much like Ultima Online, WoW may not always be as popular as it is now but it will go on for a good 10-15 years or more.
Look at Ultima Online, look at Diablo... then tell me WoW is ever going to truly die?
Look at Ultima Online, look at Diablo... then tell me WoW is ever going to truly die?
Who the hell thought Killzone would be a Halo killer? That seems a rather baseless notion.soapyshooter said:
Also, none of the ones mentioned will kill WoW, the simple reason being you don't stop having sex in order to watch porn. And any other game that comes out will hardly be able to draw enough players from WoW to kill it. No, I don't see much threat for WoW yet.
Their graphic style is the killer for me. Can't stand that ugly design.
But seriously, it's one of those ungodly popular MMOs that can only kill itself.
But seriously, it's one of those ungodly popular MMOs that can only kill itself.