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I predict a rapid exodus of players from WoW in early 2009
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when it comes to mmo pve content WoW is the best with LOTRO at a close second. WoW only ruined the genre for mmo players that legit have no lives, sorry to say you gotta move outta your parents basement sometimes guys. They took a dying genre and made it popular to the masses. Most people who would never be caught dead in an mmo enjoy playing WoW. If anything this game saved the genre. It has its flaws, nothing in life is perfect get over it, just like every other game.
When someone posts the sheer amount of nonsense the OP did, dares you with this as part of his follow up post:
.... then they 'disappears' like Keyser Soze in the movie "The Usual Suspects", you can BET this thread will probably still be alive until his next "prediction".
I guess it will be January 2010 until we see him again for some more 'enlightment' though. But at least the other 'enlightened' people who think Wow will fail along with him still troll this post. So that's something at least.
"TO MICHAEL!"
you assume that wow players will migrate to another mmo ?
dont forget that before wow the total MMO market was around 7 million players. WoW didnt take very many players from MMO's, most were brand new to the genre.
I would bet at least 6 million, maybe as high as 8 million players in WoW are new to MMO's. Id also bet that most of them will simply leave the market and go back to wherever they came from. My guess is Diablo 3 will take a great many wow players away
Thank god wow players don't have to deal with you, and have fun gangning the 3 or 4 people who would join DF.
alright so the op thinks hes the sole person who thought that. Buddy most saw the game declining after the horrible opening day.
WOW might lose players, but not to the turkeys you listed, especially not WAR.
I do agree that WOW is long in the tooth, that noob gamers are, after 4 years, no longer noob gamers and are beginning to look for something else, and that if a new and polished MMO comes out it could capture some amount of WOW's player base.
But no, folks are not going to bail in huge numbers for WAR and EVE and those other subpar games you listed.
WoW will not die...yes it may lose players but the game wont die...not yet anyway. I mean how would it die...a bunch of players leave to go play another MMO? that wont kill the game it will just make more people feel like playing it because aslong as there is a few thousand people playing the game then the game isnt dead.
According to who? Blizzard....lol...the guy with no life who has 36 Shaman accounts...WoW has reached its peak.. The downhill slope is in view...it is not going to get any bigger...Just about any software store you go to have you noticed all those copies of BC and Wrath still sitting on the shelf? Ive seen copies getting boxed back up to make space for other games..
Blizzard is a business and they are in the business of making money so why would they ever tell you that their sales and sub numbers are on a decline...Hell im not even a math wiz and I wouldn't be that dumb.
Other signs of a doomed game: Recruit a Friend, nerfing raid bosses, kicking the hardcore players in the nads because they have more casual players and they want to focus the game that way...its all about MONEY.....say what you want that is the truth.
That fact that it's *on* the shelf is a good sign actually, means that they are still selling them
As for your other signs, yes, it's a 4 year old game. I also agree the downward slope will probably be in sight soon if it hasn't already. Took about 4 years longer than most other MMO's.
According to who? Blizzard....lol...the guy with no life who has 36 Shaman accounts...WoW has reached its peak.. The downhill slope is in view...it is not going to get any bigger...Just about any software store you go to have you noticed all those copies of BC and Wrath still sitting on the shelf? Ive seen copies getting boxed back up to make space for other games..
Blizzard is a business and they are in the business of making money so why would they ever tell you that their sales and sub numbers are on a decline...Hell im not even a math wiz and I wouldn't be that dumb.
Other signs of a doomed game: Recruit a Friend, nerfing raid bosses, kicking the hardcore players in the nads because they have more casual players and they want to focus the game that way...its all about MONEY.....say what you want that is the truth.
Ah look who it is, our good friend Woody. Your rantings like Greyhoofs, are the best I read here.
Other signs of a doomed game: Recruit a Friend, nerfing raid bosses, kicking the hardcore players in the nads because they have more casual players and they want to focus the game that way...its all about MONEY.....say what you want that is the truth.
Why are you talking about Warhammer here in this Wow thread again?
Recruit-a-friend after 4 months on the market?: WARHAMMER. (Wow didn't do this four months after they released, did they?).
Nerfing raid bosses (Mythic is doing that to the Lords now as we speak, because of the server cap they just put on, the bosses are TOO hard, and gear isn't dropping enough to deal with the bosse's AoE's).
Kicking hardcore players in the nads... Mythic. (server caps, putting in NEW classes and other junk while not fixing the old stuff for Level40s boredom. Mythic is prepping the game for FUTURE customers, not the existing base)
Err.. WHO's focus here is all about the money again? Talk about truth, it's staring you in the face in you stop ostriching. You need to get off these boards and check out official VN Warhammer boards where Mark Jacobs holds court. It's a damn near mutiny over there and they are OPENLY ridiculing/mocking him on his own semi-official site. And those are WARHAMMER fans doing it who are Level40 playing the game.
When you finally reach level40, come back and update us on things, ok? Bopping around in Scenarios at level10-20 is NOT an accurate overall picture of the game's fun factor and stability.
I know you love Warhammer wooody, but you have to face REAL facts one day, no?
"TO MICHAEL!"
Of course they all predicted this year as the Wow downfall..
They saw one guy say that, so they just assume everyone is saying it. It's like when the Y2K bug was supposed to happen. No one actually asked people who knew anything about the coding much. It was much more newsworthy and sensational to stir up a story and hope it gets a life of its own. Then when the event doesn't happen, so many people were saying it, no one knows who the originator was.
"Wow will have a rapid exodus in early 2009". Now someone can honestly say "I saw it on the internets." And it's since its in print and on the internets, must be true.
So yeah, it's going to blow up this year, you just read it.
"TO MICHAEL!"
WoW has been a phenomenom amongst the MMO community, but, like all great things, it too will come to an end. I don't think it will just completely fall off, as I still see people starting new subs, but it's popularity will drop.
I don't think WAR will take it's place, because most WoW players are going to disperse to several other games.
I know many that have come to LotRO already. Many have gone to WAR, but until they fix certain issues, it will not meet peoples expectations. With FC fixing the problems in AoC, I have noticed new players, some even coming from WoW. Many WoW players will go to Darkfall, I know this because many WoW players are awaiting it's release. Others will simply try other MMO's until they find one they are happy with, or until the next big thing comes out.
This is just the way I see it.
PLAYING: NOTHING!!!
PLAYED:FFXI, LotRO, AoC, WAR, DDO, Megaten, Wurm, Rohan, Mabinogi, RoM
WAITING FOR: Dust 514
I already cancelled my WoW sub, too boring after a month of the same crap in Wotlk...collect 25 badges get the shiny glowing item...do 5 repeatable quests every single day to grind exalted, so you can buy the shiny sword...Grind same instances over and over everyday. Participate in raid in which addons tell you every single move you need to do on boss, tactic wise...
Not inventive at all...
That was one of the most non-sensical rants I've heard yet.
Do you have any sort of idea as to how stores work? When items are selling well they tend to place more of them on the shelf at any given time and ensure they're there for the taking and in-you-face. If you need any more proof that the game is still selling well I suggest you take a look at the latest PC software sales charts, as the facts are right there. Simply looking at the Current Best Sellers list of a local online store, both WoW and TBC have entered the list once again, despite both being two of the best selling games on the site ever.
Blizzard won't tell you their subs are declining because they aren't. They just recently announced their highest subscription numbers ever.
Not a single fact is stated in your post. Instead you've opted to argue with opinion and assumptions.
Just curious, how long had you played Wow before you stumbled upon the fact that it was "not inventive" at all? How long was your /time played info in Wow?
"TO MICHAEL!"
well i can only speak for myself i ve spent the last two months level up my two main characters to level 80 . one horde one alliance . i ve enjoyed doing this and seeing the new content . but upon reaching 80 i ve found for at the moment at least there seams to be very little interest in pvp in wow . the battlegrounds are nearly dead and wintersgrasp is laggy as hell so i ve decided to go back to warhammer and lord of the rings for a few months .
i proberbly will return to wow sometime in the year but with several other quality mmos out now and others of less quality but cheap to buy and try or even free that interest me . i no longer see the point staying in wow all the time .
if warhammer is improved upon it would be the natural place for most of the bored warcraft crowd to go . its pvp is essentially better than wows in my opinion .
lord of the rings offers as decent pve with a more serious storyline . i find it a lot of fun as well .ddo and everquest 2 are buyable now in the uk for about 2-3 pounds and conan can now be brought for 5-8 pounds . although these are games i doubt i d want to subscribe to i think they might be worth a try . also runes of magic looks like it may be worth a look at .
theres an awful lot to do if your bored with wow nowdays . i think there will certainly be a slump in warcraft this year . ecconomic factors will effect it like everything else . i think its peaked but it will be here for its tenth birthday and proberbly will still have a sub base of 3 maybe 4 million even then .
i doubt there will be a wowkiller . at least not for a few years yet .
Actually, Aion would be the more "natural place" most bored warcraft people would probably go. It's got way better graphics than Warhammer, a much better PvE content in game than Warhammer, HUGE amounts of people already playing so no shortage of PvP adversaries with dying or 'retarded growth' servers, there is actually a "third" faction NPC that can tip battles in favor of the other two, and its a much more polished game that doesn't need a massive overhaul to stop people from playing a crashing endgame.
Even Darkfall would allow way more freedom to PvP than Warhammer does based on it's descriptions.
"TO MICHAEL!"
S'okay, s'okay. /pat :-)
Actually, Aion would be the more "natural place" most bored warcraft people would probably go. It's got way better graphics than Warhammer, a much better PvE content in game than Warhammer, HUGE amounts of people already playing so no shortage of PvP adversaries with dying or 'retarded growth' servers, there is actually a "third" faction NPC that can tip battles in favor of the other two, and its a much more polished game that doesn't need a massive overhaul to stop people from playing a crashing endgame.
Even Darkfall would allow way more freedom to PvP than Warhammer does based on it's descriptions.
It seems like a good place for wow players to go to, it has better graphic. I would like to play there and become god to. I would have large wings and no one could defeat me, I would just hit them and they would die. But I admit I love WAR and would not leave for Aion, maybe just play Aion for a bit.
War is more than just freedom to kill it is how we like the game to be. Plus it is war what is not to like about War?
LOL .. you use an addon to spoil the boss fight and you blame blizzard???
WOW has some of the best boss fights out there. If u spoil it youself by using an addon .. there is no one to blame but you.
And btw, on some of the more challenging bosses, addons are great help.
Close but...
The other PvP people get wings too. So you will be having air pvp battles, which is exactly what they have now. People fighting in the air without mounts while at the same time, others are fighting PvP on the ground beneath them.
That's considerably more freedom than a game (Warhammer) that has 170 people funnel through doorways into a hallway where 80 opponents are AoE CCing them nonstop, posting blockable standards and stacking them all into a big, heaping pile while telling Level20 players to mob outside spamming spells and junk until the server crashes. YEEEHAAAAAAWWWWW!!!
Yeah, this sure sounds like more freedom than fighting in the air.
"TO MICHAEL!"
I did not say more freedom, what your talking about. I never say anything about freedom. I want freedom I will play WURM online and build a house and a nice fountain in front porch. You should be critical of AION just like you are of WAR AION already has many problems lots of hacker already. I just play WAR because I like war and play tabletop war and like to kill things and say I play online to. So game has problems so what. Even wow has crazy problems, like crazy berserk Paladin with bubble smak smak dead. But no need to complain GMs will fix the problems we hope so.