Originally posted by Hives

I have no love for WOW but to think for one minute that WAR will even reach 7% of WOW's active "paying" subs is to drowned yourself in total and complete nonsense. But hey, in the end you will have a War/Funcom tattoo on your ass and will be ok.

I couldn't agree more.... I hope he is ready to welcome back 10m WoW players after the free month is up.

True. It's like the OP has had a complete break with reality and doesn't understand why WoW is as popular as it is and what demographic War speaks to.

who - cares?

The masses of subscribers playing WoW are just numbers, you play on a realm with a few thousand people, and you never ever meet or talk to people from other realms (cept in BGs). The game could have 5000, 50000 or 50 000 000 players; you would still have your buddies and your server.

So as long as your game has a solid playerbase that pays enough to keep the game up, maintained and running, why on earth should you care about overall subscription numbers...

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As much as I hate to say it, WAR is craptastic! The game is garbage...

TO the OP:

Arent you comparing apples to oranges?  WOW is primarily PVE, WAR is primarily PVP.  WOW has PVP as a sidenote, with class balance based on PVE action.  WAR will be the complete opposite. 

I play WOW and intend on trying WAR, but in no way is a PVP game going to replace my quest-based PVE MMO!  Sorry Charlie! 

Originally posted by Frey

WARHAMMER ONLINE is coming out this Thursday 18th Sept 2008!  Savour your remaining days WoW, you have kept the seat warm for WAR...

But do not worry World of Warcraft, you will not disappear into oblivion...  You will merely become just another face in the crowd.

Take care everyone! 

SUBMIT to WAR!! :)

Obvious troll is obvious.

I predict that 189,649 people will cancel their subscriptions to WoW to play WAR within one month of its release but that 69.567% of these new WAR subscribers, plus another 78,345 WAR subscribers who were previously WoW subscribers but not when WAR released, will resub to WoW on 11/13/08.

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Originally posted by rikilii
I predict that 189,649 people will cancel their subscriptions to WoW to play WAR within one month of its release but that 69.567% of these new WAR subscribers, plus another 78,345 WAR subscribers who were previously WoW subscribers but not when WAR released, will resub to WoW on 11/13/08.

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Theres a flaw in your theory. The year doesnt have 13 months. So the 11th of the 13 month doesnt exist. So really are you saying anyone who goes to WAR will never resub to WOW.

Try again...it's November 13th....the release of Wrath of the Lich King.......

In my opinion the only game that stands a chance at killing wow is hello kitty online

Dream on - 10 million players don't stop playing their addiction overnight.

I know what will stop WoW. its a game i made up in my mind. Its called World of Starcraft. Its got 3 factions and they are at war and they all have pew pew lazers. Its gunna put blizzard in its place. Suckas...nukeler(lol) launch detected! wtf op! nurf ghosts.

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Originally posted by Reygar
Try again...it's November 13th....the release of Wrath of the Lich King.......

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WOW - my mistake. But then 99% of the worlds population dont use the stupid American date format.

War is an OK game.  It will keep some of you occupied till probably the end of the year, some of you even less.  If you have played the beta, you would realize that there is not that much content in the game at the moment, and sorry, but RVR just gets boring after awhile.    This game will be exactly like AoC, everyone screaming for more content. 

Hence Blizzard has exactly zip to worry about, they might have a two month dip in the playerbase, but that will be it.

Most gamers are asians and they seem to love their grindings. And since WAR has very little grind it will not topple WoW.

But in the west it just might be able to dethrone WoW.

BATTLE OF THE INTERNEZ HAS BEGUN!

War seems to be to WoW, what WoW was to all the previous MMOs. the same thing, just done better. And I for one am sick of the same old thing I'm waiting for Darkfall! no level up system = no grind! Dark fall will be a truly Unique game and I cannot wait!

It's been in development for the last 7 years, but from I'm reading from the dev diary, I'm guessing we only have 6-8 months more to wait!
 

WAR will be good but it will never reach the player base of WOW. WAR will bring alot of intresting concepts but IMO I think it will be a disappointment.

Originally posted by _Shadowmage

 

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Originally posted by Reygar
Try again...it's November 13th....the release of Wrath of the Lich King.......

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WOW - my mistake. But then 99% of the worlds population dont use the stupid American date format.
 

America does a lot of things most people find stupid. From the metric system to a TV culture.

That same culture has seemed to have ruined most of the minds that have posted thus far. The OP is probably a troll rejoicing a fun time in a fun game. He/she blatantly insulted WoW but for god's sake, I think WoW deserves as much at most times. Or at least the players do.

10 million, which a large majority are now Asian and an even more startling percentage of which are polar bears hiding in the basements of adults who thought they had children. The majority of WoW players won't be switching because they are the arrogants who believe their life should center around "being with" 24 other people in static hell for a few hours or are too busy getting phat lewts that weren't really earned so much as sat around for.

Four years of WoW and all I can say is Death Knights can go try to suck a doorknob.

Edit: And no, I don't agree with the OP that WAR will obliterate WoW, but it's funny to watch people walk up and slap it in the face once and a while. People left for Lotro, people left for AoC, people left for every other little game. To me it just means there's a large group of people who really don't want to play WoW but don't want trash - and aren't giving up on the search.
 

I think WAR will be good for WOW. A little challenge in the market will encourage blizzard to improve WOW.

WOW has been great for the MMO market - millions more MMO players. WHich means potentially lots more

Its also been bad for the MMO market - everyone wants a slice of the $1.5 billion per year WOW pie. So most games are following the same EQ2 / WOW type model.

WOW has taken 4 years to reach 10 million players - I dont see WAR getting there overnight. EA & Mythic arent trying to dethrone WOW anyway so why does anyone else care?

Play the games you enjoy and dont worry about what other people think.

I will be playing WAR.

Originally posted by Frey

WARHAMMER ONLINE is coming out this Thursday 18th Sept 2008!  Savour your remaining days WoW, you have kept the seat warm for WAR...

But do not worry World of Warcraft, you will not disappear into oblivion...  You will merely become just another face in the crowd.

Take care everyone! 

SUBMIT to WAR!! :)

Why would anyone want WoW to lose its subscribers? In my opinion, any game that comes out to beat WoW's numbers would have to be even more pathetic and watered down than WoW is, or absolutely revolutionary. Warhammer is neither, thankfull. It won't beat WoW, and thank god for that. I don't want to play a WORSE version of WoW, its bad enough already.

Since the majority of WoW players are in Asia, WAR isn't going to dent that number until it gets over there and if they like it....

Not that matters who's epeen is bigger.