Poll: The next World of Warcraft?

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Hey guys; since WOW has now gone free-to-play-ish, I'm sure I'm not the only one who foresees WOW's eventual and inevitable decline into obscurity. Once it's well off the radar, what game do you think will replace it?

Let me clarify though, I don't mean "the next WOW" as in the next hugely popular MMORPG. I mean "the next WOW" as in the next game to have a comprehensive list of wearing adult diapers. [http://www.rpgownage.com/2011/03/697/] Basically, the next game to waste everyone's time.

While many people will probably say Minecraft or Call of Duty, I'm gonna take a leap and go with Angry Birds. It's sold over 250 million copies so far (making it even bigger than Farmville), and I know many people who spend a lot of time playing it, but see it as a fun little time-waster rather than a video game. It's only a matter of time before they make an online leader-board, continue making more levels, add competitive multiplayer elements (for a subscription fee), and use psychological techniques to keep its "casual" players coming back. Before we know it, society will collapse as people try to get three stars on "that one level they can never beat".

What do you guys think? What game will take WOW's place as the biggest time waster?

 

[flaming_squirrel]

Problem with Angry birds is that it's too casual for it's own good, it also had little replayability.

The WoW replacement will most likely be Titan(?) that new MMO which Blizzard is working on. Until then I cant see any other game having quite the soul crushing, life wrecking addiction which WoW has.


Edit: Some guy on the merits of using adult diapers to improve powerleveling "Just get a sock", I lol'd.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

Spoiler: You'd never had guessed this...

World of Warcraft 2

 

[Xelt]

Whichever MMO Blizzard make if WoW dissapears.
Also, WoW going F2P for the first 20 levels, albeit with limitations, will most likley just get more people playing.

 

[viranimus]

If I had to make a guess it would have to be something that does something that nothing else is really doing. Something that merges Motion control, peripheral vision veiwability and online connectivity?

Second it has to be something without a pause feature, so its pretty much a given its going to have to be something reliant on multiplayer. (because if you can pause there is no reason to neglect life)


Its pretty much impossible to forsee, but I am confident that whatever it ends up being, its not available yet, and not even on the immediate horizon.

(though just for the sake of actually giving an answer, Ill just say ToR)

 

[flaming_squirrel]

If I had to make a guess it would have to be something that does something that nothing else is really doing. Something that merges Motion control, peripheral vision veiwability and online connectivity?

Add 'porn' to this and I think we have a winner.

 

[MetaKnight670]

Probably get laughed at this but I say The Old Republic by Bioware.
After all the developer diaries I have watched on it & all the work that has gone into it, it has to be good.
Also I mean, come on it is Bioware after all!!

 

[viranimus]

Probably get laughed at this but I say The Old Republic by Bioware.
After all the developer diaries I have watched on it & all the work that has gone into it, it has to be good.
Also I mean, come on it is Bioware after all!!

Yeah technically I dont think your off base all that much. COnsidering that every large scale MMO leader thus far has resulted in death and chaos
, (Granted its only a small group, but still) Its pretty safe to think that ToR will have its own share

Other thought, I really do not get the unmitigated loyalty to blizzard and the delusion that only Blizzard can make MMOs people will like. For every one of Blizzards Supposed 12 million subs, theres at least that many more out there who are willing to play an MMO, but absolutely refuse to play a Blizzard MMO. The market has barely been scratched in some respects and in other respects there is an old guard of MMO plyers who want a good MMO and have been waiting for an actual contender to arrise instead of just jumping to the status quo that is WoW.

 

[Crazy_Dude]

A lot of "WoW-Killers" have come by so far and none really seem to hold up. WoW will atleast last another couple of years.

 

[The K-man]

WoW got to where it was by being the a great MMO when very few existed. People played it because there werent any other real options, and by the time any contenders appeared, WoW had a stranglehold on the market.

Nothing will kill WoW, and i doubt it will ever die unless Blizzard pulls the plug. However, when it does go into major decline (though no one knows when that will be), its playerbase will be split between the better MMO's that have come out. SW:TOR will certainly grab a large number, and im sure many will also switch to Rift for a "WoW-like" experience, and GW2 looks like it will grab a decent helping of playerbase as well.

This assumes that WoW will hit its major decline while these titles are in their prime. the one thing i know for sure though, is that the only thing that can waste as much time as WoW is another MMO. No other type of game has the time requirements for success except for a very few single player RPG's which almost never have the replay value to be more than a one time deal.

 

[toughguyjoe]

To the people who say "NO MMO will get as many subscribers as WoW did" Time will tell. I think it's a long shot, but it's not impossible.

SW:ToR will not kill WoW, but it will co-exist with WoW for a very very long time, by my estimates.

 

[fix-the-spade]

What do you guys think? What game will take WOW's place as the biggest time waster?

God knows, it seems like all the major genres are taken.

First Person shooters have Counter Strike
MMOs have World of Warcraft
RTS's have Starcraft
Flight Sims have Il-2

What's left? Racing games?

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

WoW will never be replaced. The age of the one MMO to rule them all is at its end and when WoW goes down(blizz won't make it big twice based solely on how they keep shooting themselves in the foot) the people will scatter to the dozens of good MMOs out there. WoW will die, SW:ToR will not be its death, and no MMO will corner as many subscribers as WoW did.
No MMO will hit the alignment and luck Warcraft did and thank the Emperor for that. Its best for the industry if the MMO throne remains a dusty old seat that cannot be filled. If so more MMOs devs and publishers will pull from the MULTIPLE pictures of success that we have and the industry will do much better.

SW:ToR, GW2, DMO; despite what people may think won't kill wow, won't dethrone it and none will take the throne. I have no doubt they will be successful but not to the point of 12 million subscribers. Again thank the Emperor for that.

I say its impossible because the sheer capacity for luck and quality to be hit is just unheard of. No MMO will manage to get the population, the community devotion(see Zealotry), and over all quality. But i can guarantee ToR won't hit it, DMO will piss too many people off, and GW2 might become one of the new idolization of the MMO market but not the king. And to top if off Blizzard dosen't have what it takes to make that Titan Project replace WoW.

Now let me lay some knowledge on you broseph. WoW's "free to play" lasts only to 20 and which point i am pretty sure it stops.

Just to say GW2 isn't trying to dethrone WoW.

OT: Personally I think it is has already been found in Zynga games.

 

[Nimcha]

There won't be one. The casual players will keep playing WoW because it caters to them almost exclusively. A large group of players will keep on playing because of nostalgia, loyalty or just a lack of willpower to actually quit altogether.

I think the MMO landscape will be quite spread out with multiple games having large (but not as large as WoW has now) playerbases. Who will fight each other to the death on forums such as these about which game is best.

All off the top of my head, though.

 

[DirgeNovak]

Another MMORPG. Probably the StarCraft MMORPG Blizzard is assuredly working on behind a curtain.

 

[Tiger Sora]

Well either Rift needs to improve itself 10 fold. Or the code named "Project Titan" that Blizz is working on will be. I hope I never lose my life to a game the way I did to Wow again.

 

[toughguyjoe]

To the people who say "NO MMO will get as many subscribers as WoW did" Time will tell. I think it's a long shot, but it's not impossible.

SW:ToR will not kill WoW, but it will co-exist with WoW for a very very long time, by my estimates.

I share Mr. Biscuits views on SW:ToR(EA is ashamed of something and it scares them) but i have to say that for an MMO to become a wildfire like WoW is impossible solely based on a statistical outlook. The number of variables is just too damn high for it to happen; or to replicate it with any degree of certainty.

I agree ToR won't kill WoW or dethrone it(again Blizz has a handgun and a foot that's not yet been turned into a bloody stub) but co-existence on a moderate to large scale is impossible for two subscription MMOs. Very few people have the combination of time, money, and desire to play two different subscription MMOs at the same time; and given WoW(still on its slow decline) maintains a healthy chunk of players. Players EA wants but probably won't get. But back to the point only a small(VERY small) number of people will pay for and devote time to two different MMOs at the same time. That alone is the top reason why subscription based MMO's do not co-exist because their nature makes them competitive and that very nature shoots itself in the foot. So the two would not be able to healthily co-exist because their nature puts them at odds; and to co-exist for a long time(assuming any longer than 3 years) would require both to live that long in a healthy state. Warcraft may not have that in it.

It would be nice to see a game at least come close to pulling off what World of Warcraft did. It's statistically improbable, but having a "second titan" in the MMO industry could happen sooner than later if Blizzard lets WoW continue to slump like it has been. A man can dream right?