does blizzard have a war on thier hands?
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Or y'know...20 year olds... Hi.Takoto said:
And WoW haters get over it, Come on, I spend a little time off my excursions in Azeroth to come contribute in here don't I? We're not /all/ that nerd in the basement who just won't shut it off for anything.
This New MMO does look good I'll admit, I definately could be pursueded into trying it.
WoW has always been a large part of MMOs, and I doubt thats going to change over one or two games, not now anyways. Personally I don't get the point in WoW, I'd choose online shooters anyday over anything like WoW.
I've still to find a game that will work on my crappy laptop other than WoW and I have not succeeded, but i've stopped playing now since I got xbox live , but I might try Aion, and i'm sure by the time The Old Republic will come out I will have a new and improved laptop
Yes, yes it will, in exactly the same way Age of Conan, Warhammer Online, Hellgate: London and Tabula Rasa did.enzilewulf said:
Until the subscription numbers show millions of players leaving WoW, joining another MMO and staying, all talk of Blizzard's monolith being overthrown is just hype and fanboying. The fact that no-one I know has ever heard of aion doesn't bode well, because they all know what WoW is.
Youngest guy in my guild is 17, there's about 3-7 in the 17-21 age range (including myself at 19).Takoto said:
I think the oldest guy in my guild is mid-to-late 40s at the moment, with the majority of people being in their mid to late 20s or early 30s.
Yeah, all those goddamn 12 year olds!
And LOTRO!
If you combine Lineage 2 and WOW together, you get Aion. Almost exactly the same in everyway in both games, of course Aion does a few other things but thats what I noticed straight away.
Who knows if Aion will even become close to popular as WOW once was, all I know is I'm playing Aion right now!
Who knows if Aion will even become close to popular as WOW once was, all I know is I'm playing Aion right now!
Aion seems interesting enough, but I'm not going to try it.
Every new MMO is always proclaimed as the new WoW killer and they all fail. They get a good amount of customers, last a fair while and probably achieve commercial success, but not on the same scale as WoW.
The only MMO I might believe will affect WoW will be SW:ToR because... c'mon, it's Star Wars.
Every new MMO is always proclaimed as the new WoW killer and they all fail. They get a good amount of customers, last a fair while and probably achieve commercial success, but not on the same scale as WoW.
The only MMO I might believe will affect WoW will be SW:ToR because... c'mon, it's Star Wars.
No. WoW won't die due to competition until it's already nearly gone anyway. Even if it were to shrink down to the size of other, standard MMOs, it's good enough that it would probably survive. Blizzard as a company would probably die before WoW.
WoW Killer, Halo Killer, GTA Killer. These phrases are used by the industry to hype games to absurd levels.
WoW is the perfect example of an MMO, that is why it is compared to. In a few years I'm sure a new MMO will take WoW's crown, but with WoW already having more than a four years head start in the market, new competition will always have a tough battle on their hands. Four years is a long time for patches, expansions, balancing, new quests, festivals, etc. A new MMO would have to be quite something to be better than WoW.
WoW is the perfect example of an MMO, that is why it is compared to. In a few years I'm sure a new MMO will take WoW's crown, but with WoW already having more than a four years head start in the market, new competition will always have a tough battle on their hands. Four years is a long time for patches, expansions, balancing, new quests, festivals, etc. A new MMO would have to be quite something to be better than WoW.
Ahem, Starcraft.NeutralDrow said:
On topic, I don't think any NCSoft mmo will kill WoW, I think eventually Blizzard will kill it themselves because of extreme changes, or it will die of old age.
And contrary to popular belief, Blizzard was around and good BEFORE WoW.
The only MMO I think has a shot at denting WoW's playerbase is SW:TOR. Combine BioWare and the most popular nerd franchise ever to exist and you have a recipe for potential success. If they can KEEP all the players that are going to try it, they'll be off to a good start. Can't wait for TOR, and I'm glad I quit WoW. Blizzard themselves are destroying it quite adequately.
Yes. They are.Cheesebob said:
What I don't get is why they don't just alt-tab to some porn, get done with whatever they need to do and then continue gaming. The other way, they are just going to make their brain build a solid connection between playing wow and playing with themselves, which ends at the point where they can't play wow without touching themselves.
Not that I have any experience in that particular scenario, but I did hear the same cd over and over again while playing Fallout and Fallout 2 for a couple of weeks one summer, afterwards I couldn't hear that cd without visualising the game, or play the game without hearing the music. Even sticks to me now, years later.
