Poll: GW2 vs WoW, who will win?

[teebeeohh]

i think people have to rethink their standards when it comes to MMOs. NOTHING will ever be as successful as wow. This is not a bad thing, if the people who now play wow will turn to different games there will be room in the market for a few top dogs and a couple of small ones that can make a nice profit, better for the genre, better for the players.

Now our beloved videogame publishers just have to get into their sick skulls that wow was an exception, not the rule.

 

[EmperorSubcutaneous]

@EmperorSubcutaneus: you can't convince people with a costructed promo video like that. you need actual gameplay, like this:

You got it!

 

[KazOondo]

WoW sucks monkey asses, but it's far too successful to be defeated by a new MMO.

The MMO market is already pretty much done. Either you like WoW or you like other MMO's. If you like MMO's and you haven't at least tried WoW to see if you like it or not then you're screwed. And really, if you do like WoW chances are you're not going to like any other game.

No other game is as pandering, simple, and easy to get into. It's literally the Nintendo Wii of the MMORPG market. It's for casuals and hardcore fanboys. And nothing is going to pull them away from it.

I, however, am really excited for Guild Wars II. I know it's going to do well, but I stand by my thoughts that it will NOT be a WoW-killer. Besides, I don't want it to be one anyway-- that's all I need is a good game to be ruined by the same community that ruined WoW.

I wish I could report people like you for trolling.

 

[WaysideMaze]

I would love to play GW2, but my current system just couldnt handle it.

At the moment, I'm gonna have to stick with WoW.

 

[Saviordd1]

Honestly? Nothing can or will kill WoW, it just cant be done.

But it should

It realllllllly should.

WoW is to the MMO market what a type writer is to microsoft word. It was dependable in its time and it had its glory days but it just needs to die now

 

[joshthor]

the beauty of guild wars 2 is the fact there are no sub fees. if someone wants to get it, they buy it and its thiers for life. its financially viable to keep up 2 accounts. niether have to win.

 

[Spencer Petersen]

No contest pretty much. MMO is pretty much a dead genre thanks to people trying to copy WoW and it'll keep on being that until they stop trying to work with the same basis and instead do a different kind of MMO.

fix'd
Its not little Billy's fault if the kid behind him keeps getting bad grades for copying him.

 

[kotorfan04]

I don't see it as a duel considering GW 2 has NO SUBSCRIPTION fees. They aren't fighting over money, most of the people I know in WoW are looking forward to GW2. I think they can both do well and thrive in their own way. WoW won't be dethroned but Guild Wars will still do damned well.

 

[Tetranitrophenol]

Im tired of defending an incoming game and stating that It will be a WoW killer. More than once have I done this only to be dissapointed by the obvious similarities and bland storyline. Then, samefully I crawl my way back to WoW, where all my friends are and dispite all its flaws its the most complete MMORPG game outthere.

 

[AlexWinter]

World of Warcraft just has too many people too invested in it.

What would it take to make you give up on hundreds of hours of play time?

I once read that collectively World of Warcraft has a total play time of 500 million years or something like that. Perhaps a billion.

If a game were to come along that could topple that behemoth, I would play it too.

 

[Icehearted]

Established fan/user base vs new product or migrating players... Wow gets this in numbers, hands down. I don't think Arena Net want's to topple WoW, they just want their own users. I'm really eager to see what they release, and more so to try it.

 

[Jewrean]

A Tie

I will be buying GW2 quite simply because it looks great and that it will be free (subscription-wise).

However, because Battlenet will have it's own monthly charge soon in my country anyway covering all games (including WoW), it looks like I will be paying money to play WoW ANYWAY seeming as I must play D3.

Note I'm just talking from my own personal perspective.

 

[Auxiliary]

No matter how "great" guildwars 2 may look. It won't cause a major dent in the wow playerbase. I myself have played wow for many many years. I will probably return to the game again at some point.

It is not because it is the best or most addicting game on the market. But when you decide to reactivate your account. You can be nearly certain that a large chunk of your friends is still playing.

I was quite the active raider and pvper and was always hunting for achievements. But I spend an equally large time just chatting with people and then I am not even mentioning realid which is truly brilliant. Being able to talk to my hooked starcraft friends and in the future diablo, woohoo!

 

[Auxiliary]

Mikazuki, you should become my friend if you can afford 12 million accounts >

 

[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.