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I predict a rapid exodus of players from WoW in early 2009
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I have quit WoW about 7 times and came back. I'm currently playing again. I predict that you will be incorrect. I am still waiting in ques to get in to my server, and the moment they relase ANY new content, people line up around the block to get it.
WoW is not going anywhere fast, and with future expansions, will continue to rule the market due to extreme polish, low requirements and kid friendly content. You may have been correct about that piece of cornshit AoC, but you're off the mark here bud.
LAWLSAUCE! Thanks for the laugh, buddy!
Your welcome Popinjay, and thank you as well for another meaningless response. Again using WOTLK opening sales as some sort of excuse. But I understand you haven't been around that long I guess, live and learn.
LAWLSAUCE! Thanks for the laugh, buddy!
Your welcome Popinjay, and thank you as well for another meaningless response. Again using WOTLK opening sales as some sort of excuse. But I understand you haven't been around that long I guess, live and learn.
Sorry you didnt read the WHOLE list, but The Burning Crusade and Original recipe WoW also beat out Warhammer those months too, not just WOTLK.
Yeah, facts are meaningless to you I guess, lol. But in the real world, they usually matter when trying to show a point.
"TO MICHAEL!"
I agree that when a polished contender comes along, WoW may bleed subs rapidly. Losing 10% in 2 months? No, I don't think so. I think WoW will likely follow the decline curve that the original Lineage did once it peaked and started losing players to its sequel and other games. That should be your model.
The day will come for sure, but the game that starts siphoning off WoW's playerbase in large numbers is _NOT_ WAR. Give me a break. Don't get me wrong. WAR is not doing badly. With the exception of the Lineage franchise and WoW, every P2P MMORPG release to date has seen a massive launch surge followed by a steep drop-off, in turn followed by steady growth. So really speaking, the game is not doing badly. It's just not experience a phenomenal WoW/Lineage-type growth curve. However, the game that eventually takes WoW's spot will _have_ to follow that kind of growth curve.
If WoW does lose subscribers this quarter, it won't be to WAR. They'll just quit the genre for now.
Pretty stupid predictions, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion. WoWm is not only the best MMO/Game out right now, but is becoming a worldwide phenomenon. Watch TV, you will almost always see a WoW commercial on there. People love it. Not too hard, not too easy, damn near any age can play it. And like I always tell people who despise WoW.
"I guess if it does not have the words Halo or Gears of War marked on it, then it must suck."
Stonecreamer
Ok, in case you haven't heard... WoW is dying, will be dead this year and WOTLK is a immense failure.
If you are still playing WoW, you can stop now.
Wait.. its March and WoW's not dead?? Well, I'm sure it will die within the nine months left as predicted.
"TO MICHAEL!"
The OP actually looks a little quaint here, two months down the road.
As far as I can tell from Dalaran and Orgrimmar on the server I dabble on (where Horde are outnumbered), the place is packed still. Wintergrasp groups have two full raids. Constant LFG spamming for instances and heroics. I don't see people leaving en masse for Warhammer, that's for sure. Warhammer is such an inferior game from the production standpoint and variety of gameplay standpoint that it will always be nothing more than a niche game compared to WoW.
People have been predicting WoW's demise since early 2005 -- I remember the posts then about how the game was too easy, World of Easycraft they were calling it, and how this would mean in six months noone would be playing WoW anymore.
None of them have to go anywhere. They could just not play. People beeing burnt out on the same old shit over and over and over again. i havnt bought any MMOs in like a year because all the ones that come out are shiet.
Why do WoW fanbois hate the other games so much? WAR is a better game from a PvP perspective and hence has a strong base due to that. WoW PvP is a joke that got funnier every year. WoW PvE is played out and dumbed down, so the appeal is gone to a true MMORPG players. You WoW fanbois hate anything not WoW, so your opinion means squat. How do I know? When I started playing WAR, I kept saying to myself 'WTF are they talking about, this is a very good game"
Maybe 10-20% of the players I used to play WoW with are still around. So keep on deluding yourself about that WoW is doing better and better. I did not play with terribads who are the overwhelming majority of WoW right now.
WoW is finished, its only growth is in China, which is nothing more than a marketing ploy. The development staff is being moved to their new MMO. That's a big hint.
Playing: EvE, Warhammer free unlimited trial, Allods Online
Played: Anarchy Online, WoW, Warhammer, AoC, Ryzom. Aion
Strongly Recommend: Ryzom, EvE, Allods Online
Exactly!
There is no WoW killer. Blizzard is doing a great job themselves. I am an example, I left for no particular game, my whole WoW experience was ruined with the Xpac and patch 3.0. My friend did the same, he started WAR, I joined as well and we both like it a lot. Now that I started looking at other MMOs again, no reason to ever go back to WoW. Well, maybe if they do vanilla WoW servers with tweaks and adjustments.
Playing: EvE, Warhammer free unlimited trial, Allods Online
Played: Anarchy Online, WoW, Warhammer, AoC, Ryzom. Aion
Strongly Recommend: Ryzom, EvE, Allods Online
Everyone knows that WoW numbers are bloated by Asian numbers , and those subscribers numbers are ify atbest depending how you define a subscriber.
I ( along with many others ) left WoW for WAR and I just love this game, it is soo much better imho, it;s hard to explain. This patch 1.2 for WAR just made my mind up for sure that this is the game that I will stay with for a looong time to come ( I was with WoW for 3 yeras ).
I highly recommend that anyone tired with wow tries WAR or LotRO ( but LotRO only if you are a PvE player ). These are the two best mmorpgs out there imho, especially now that Darkfall ( a game that for reasons defying logic had a huge following ) has proved to be a complete and utter joke.
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Actually I'm not a WoW fanboi at all. But I did play Warhammer in the beta and for a few months after release, and I thought the game was terrible. I knew many people who played in that time frame and left to go back to WoW when WoW's patch 3.0 came along in October. Sure, WAR has its hardcore fans -- every MMO does. But it's not anything to be compared with WoW.
Why is it that WoW haters never tire of posting thread after thread after thread about how WoW is in decline, when in fact the game seems quite stable in population, and perhaps even moderately growing? You all have been at this since 2005, and it hasn't happened yet. it's fine not to like WoW -- everyone has different tastes. But these endless threads are tiresome and as questionable in basis as they were in 2005.
He would probably recommend you do not roll an Order player on Iron Rock, or an Destro player on Volkmar, as those sides get their asses handed in every single night. Destro on Iron Rock has captured Order city 7 out of 8 times this past week due to sheer numbers. Anyone rolling Order here is just asking for a boring time and a buttwhompin.
Seeing as how there are only 15 servers left of any note, you can scratch a few because even though they have good populations, they are severely unbalanced. There are a few servers like this as this is one of the problems not mentioned about Warhammer.. unbalancing. There is no way for Mythic to fix this at the moment, unless they did forced mergers, which they won't because it's an industry embarrassment. They instituted a new oRvR plan called Zone Domination, which by all accounts, is not going to go well at all. I would suggest anyone thinking about this read up on how well this went on the test server.
While WoW is a known commodity, WAR has a lot of dirty little secrets that most fans will say "oh, yeah its not perfect, but they are working on it." The problem is.. that part they are talking about is the endgame. And for a PvP game, that's all there is.. endgame. And that one needs a redesign, because if its not crashing, its unbalanced. In WoW, it doesnt matter because if Horde/Alliance is outnumbered, the weaker side gets buffs, making it at least a challenge.
There is no such mechanic in WAR, hence you have Destro walking into a city anytime they feel like it on Iron Rock. The more this happens, the more Order gets discouraged and rerolls Destro. Soon there will be no Order because they are tired of losing; check around and see on different sites this is the case. This is bound to happen due to how Mythic structured the game, which they are scrambling to fix now.
Buyer beware.
"TO MICHAEL!"
darkfall will be disappointed? Really? But the website seems to promote it strongly, and i'm about to try
And looks like this one wins it.
holy necro batman.
LOL hey what good is a 2009 prediction if we cant use the actual results?
Please don't raise dead topics.