Right, I cannot compete here with all these great points and long posts (actually I'm just lazy) so I'll lay this down. WoW, has pandas coming. Kung fu pandas. Those things cannot be killed so easily. Hell I'm having a fun time on MOP beta on my Pandaren!
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For me, nothing will ever beat Ultima Online. You could place a house in the game world and furnish it and hold guild meetings there and stuff! People loved that.
I think it's just the way markets usually work -consumers coalesce around one market leader and in networked products like MMOs, that just compounds on itself. And WoW just has that magic accessibility ingredient that makes it the game people want to play. It also has the advantage of being a several year old game. People exaggerate how expensive it is to keep up with PC gaming, but if you ant that super multi-million user market penetration, modest specs certainly helps.
I think even Blizzard knows WoW has it's days of being king of all mmos numbered. Problem is there is nothing like it out there. Like it or not WoW has almost a decade of development and additions to it's universe. How can you compete with that. FF11 could have but Square botched it and instead of leveraging all those years of development and community building it started from scratch with ff14. we all know how THAT turned out.
I am on Mists of Pandaria Beta and we got to test pet battles for one day. Is just a turn based combat so far, not nearly polished enough but added one thing i think blizzard had been missing for years: giving non-raiders a fun to do thing on endgame. Before that, if you didn't want to, or couldn't raid (due to job, gf, bf) there was little to do on WoW end game. Achievements were nnot enough and many of them required you to be on a raiding group.
Now people can "tame" rare pets, train them, sell them on AH, battle them. If blizzard does a good job implementing it, they have a vast world to be hunted for battle pets, and i think they might have created a new reason to stay on wow. Pokewow or Pandamon FTW!
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There was also no better game to just mess around and smurf with people. UO for life!Originally Posted by Shlup
What exactly is the indication for this?I think even Blizzard knows WoW has it's days of being king of all mmos numbered.
The only thing that could compete as far as I am concerned would be a Pokémon MMO. But even that may not work now as Pokémon doesn't have the same appeal it did five years ago. But Nintendo would never go ahead with a Pokémon MMO because of their utter refusal to put anything on any platform that isn't made by Nintendo (that I know of). They could have made so much money off that potential game that the mind boggles at the idea that they never went ahead with it.
I'm not sure if any other MMO would have really worked out too well. I'm sure eventually some company will come up with a master plan and overtake WoW, but I think this will happen at a point when people are simply fed up with the old MMO systems. The new game will need to be groundbreaking to say the least. Imagine the craziest ideas you can think of for an MMO, like artificial intelligence to such levels that the game evolves itself rather than relying on devs. It would need gamechangers on this level. And to be fair, the industry needs this kind of unheard of stuff rather than the many clones out there.
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It'll go the way of Counter Strike eventually. Lots of people will still play it, but only out of habit.
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what new MMO? Diablo 3? That's not going to de throne WoW
If you like Moorpgs, you play WoW. I have friends tell me they hate WoW, but they don't last more than a few months playing some other moo rpg. I suspect it's not WoW they dislike, but moo rpgs.
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There is a Digimon MMO in the works?
You shut your whore mouth!
No, Diablo 3 isn't an MMO.
They're working on a top-secret new MMO. Leaks have said it's codenamed "Titan" but no one knows much more about it.
not based on a franchise? the only way they will lose WoW subscribers is if WoW content freezes.No, Diablo 3 isn't an MMO.
They're working on a top-secret new MMO. Leaks have said it's codenamed "Titan" but no one knows much more about it.
Nope, they said it's a new franchise.
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