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There was a really thought provoking article on WOW.com recently: Breakfast Topic: How should WoW end?
The article makes an interesting comparison to possible WoW endings, and the way Tabula Rasa Ended. The End of Tabula Rasa - Server Shutdown Event Anyway... something to think about. How should WoW end? How should MMOs end in general? |
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How should Everquest or Ultima Online end? WoW will go on for many years and will probably end closer to 2020 than 2010. Although it will probably end with the sub numbers going slowly down and servers being removed, then Blizzard releases a new MMO and most of the players from WoW will move there. Then you'll probably have a few 100k playing on a couple of servers for quite some years, then the game goes free to play for some time and then they shut down the last servers. |
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WoW will end with the death of the last evil god and then everyone will live happy forever after. Actually I couldn't care less for the World of Warcraft lore since it's so corny and plagiarized from the work of better men. I don't think that the creator of the World of Warcraft lore really cares for it and that should tell you something.
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I honestly think it will take decades before WoW dies. Ultima Online was released 10 years ago and is still up and running and it had a MUCH smaller playerbase to start with. WoW might survive all of us ;) |
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WoW may end, probably when it no longer has enough players for one server, but Warcraft will never end. You don't kill off the most profitable IP in your company just because one of the games based on it is coming to an end. :)  |
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aleos
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Joined: 1/02/07
I got a bullet with your email address on it. Don't make me hit send. |
MMO's do not "die", they super nova if WoW was your first MMO i don't feel you have an opinion here. |
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Last day events should probably be planned as a thank you from the devs to its player base. Like TR did in its last days, very classy bunch of devs in that game. Unlike SOE devs of old with SWG or anything to do with $medly; I suspect they would have just turned off the servers at midnight and refund those who paid for that month already...not because it was owed to them, but because they don't want to get sued for it. I Reject your Reality and Substitute it with My Own! |
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Shannia
Hard Core Member
Joined: 11/06/05
"World of WarCraft is held alive solely by the mediocrity of competing products." RendRegen |
Why are you worried about how WoW will end? I'm will to bet that WoW is closer to the beginning of WoW than the end of WoW. After all, this game has over 12 million ACTIVE (currently paying) subscribers. WoW is going nowhere. Folks, please. Stop the doom and gloom posts about WoW. If UO and EQ can still be around after all these years with the few subscribers they have, I'm sure WoW will be around for at least another decade or two. Remember, WoW brings in more money to Blizzard in a year than all of Turbine's, SoE's, Mythic's, mmorpgs combined. You should be writing about what new classes and professions will be introduced with WoW's next expansion and what new races will we be able to play. Think POSTIVE for once.
Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware "Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product." |
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It should not die :) it should be kept alive for the next 2000 years as a warning how a complete genre and more than half of the MMO industry can be drifted in the wrong direction by following the million flies that eat shit. Anyway - that was the bitter version, i think as long as there are players who have fun in WoW it should not die at all. If at some point it does not bring any cash in anymore for blizzard they should bring out a WoW2 where you can start with burrying your WoW1 character in a newbie quest, giving him a statue or tombstone for everyone to see who you are in WoW. From this tombstone you should be able to log into WoW in "ghost-and-zombie-mode" and haunt the players who still play it then in undead battlefields ;) Knitting WoW1 and WoW2 together like that would be hilarious fun i think :) Imagine you play your ex toon as a zombie har har. |
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Nuclear winter will kills all, but WoW and cockroach will survive....
RIP, Orc Choppa |
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After eradicating every single known thread to Azeroth, and every single potential powerful race across the universe. The Alliance and the Horde have no reason to "team up" so to speak, also as such, all the races start veiwing themselves as all powerful. All alliances brake down, and azeroth becomes a multifronted warground. WoW nerds beware, I come equipped with lazers and anti-QQ missiles. If you mess with me, I will $%£@ you. |
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Originally posted by aleos
This. You just pull the plug. The end. When www met dot , they then stumbled upon Secret Society , wich happened to be a Guild , wich in turn told dot about the net . |
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Slowly decaying as other MMOs, but I would add a buff called the Power of the Legend or something, that would be universal and become stronger as less people is playing. So right now it would multiply the stats by 1, but for instance when there are only 100 people playing per server, stats would multiply by a big numer and they'd be legends and *very* powerful. |
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Turn the FFA PvP switch on, so it becomes a final battle to the death. Once you die, you die. Let there be only one!! No more new characters. No nothing. The final survivor is enshrined on Blizzard's website forever=) |
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I would end the game that way: Setting *all* items to the game to legenday, and adding 9 random traits. And maybe spawming enemy monster in the citys, the most cool monsters, and some npc's that give great buffs there. |
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Originally posted by sandolainen
Sand's post is how most MMOs do end. Why? Because companies usually are turning a profit on an MMO that they keep running, even if it has only 30k subs and was launched a decade ago... so why WOULD they want to shut it down? Furthermore, these companies don't want to upset their fans, and even 10 years down the road there are still going to be people on the web that would rather play WoW than anything else.
That aside, god damn! Shutting down WoW at or shortly after the release of Blizzard's next MMO, and shutting it down with a BANG... wow. That would be a fantastic ending. Blizzard would earn some serious style points in my book, and probably in almost everyone else's too, if they pulled that off. Sure they'd piss off all the people who haven't had their fill of WoW yet. And they'd piss off all the people who want to keep playing WoW instead of anything else. But they WOULD be doing something that is truly novel and different and potentially oh, so awesome. |
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massive apocalyptic battle, with the forces of evil winning.
and for WoW, possible a segway into this new MMO they are supposedly creating..... |
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Kyleran
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Joined: 9/13/06
"In EVE, no one gives a damn about a fair fight." - chafin |
According to some folks, everything including WOW ends in 2012. But how?
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon EVE Cult member since May 2007 Regarding EVE: "To be honest, I think God himself created this game." - Shek Regarding new players in EVE: "Think of yourself as a child released into a park full of pedophiles..." - Eleazaros |
Originally posted by Shannia
Actually, once the China servers go offline for transition to new ownership, the game will be at more like 5-6 million.
As for WoW's end, it isn't going to happen for decades. Most players will be in and out several times, there will be many more expansions, and probably even graphical updates. There are too many horrible MMO's still running about to even get a proper estimate of its lifespan.  |
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I'm on board with one of the apocalyptic endings, especially the FFA PvP battle, but we all know some rogue will just stay hidden, waiting for the last two people to duel, and then gank the winner when he's at 10%.
Otherwise, I could see them finishing off the Old Gods, then calling it quits, and making way for WoW II some years down the road. Maybe with some single player RPG story telling games inbetween.
Considering the "lore" started with humans and orcs occupying the same territory, and has expanded to include "footnotes" such as Sargeras now being the incredibly powerful perpetrator of evil... I'm sure they could keep the story going for quite some time. WTB Sig. |
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sidfu
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Joined: 6/19/05
the 2 games that the companies ruined that ive played are star wars and mabagoni and mobagoni |
everything on the planet labled wow should be taken and sent into the sun to burn sincw wow has did much more damge to rep of mmos than any mmo i can think of
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catsaad
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Joined: 6/02/08
when you cant change anything in this world .sit back and relax .said by anonymous. |
Originally posted by dethgar
Actually, once the China servers go offline for transition to new ownership, the game will be at more like 5-6 million.
As for WoW's end, it isn't going to happen for decades. Most players will be in and out several times, there will be many more expansions, and probably even graphical updates. There are too many horrible MMO's still running about to even get a proper estimate of its lifespan.
i dont think wow will end until blizzard pulls the plug themselves .and i dont think they will .cuz reports are there new mmo will be of different class and wont compete with wow genre.so they will keep both i guess. |
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For all the Blizz haters: here is the roadmap: April/May 2010: new Wow expansion with theme sea and pirates + 2 new races Mid 2011: fast paced MMO on XBOX console with a WOW theme and 20 minutes gaming sessions (BG's and dungeons) Nov 2012: new Wow expansion to reach level 100. End 2012: new MMO from Blizzard with a SF/Fantasy theme and space battles. Starting (or even sooner) a gobal subscription fee for all Blizz games in 2011, Wow1 will end expansions in 2013 to come back with WOW2 in around 2020. But of course there will still be a couple of million western Wow1 players till the launch of Wow 2 in 2020.
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Originally posted by dethgar
Actually, once the China servers go offline for transition to new ownership, the game will be at more like 5-6 million.
As for WoW's end, it isn't going to happen for decades. Most players will be in and out several times, there will be many more expansions, and probably even graphical updates. There are too many horrible MMO's still running about to even get a proper estimate of its lifespan. So your saying the only reason 5 million play the game in china is because of the current owner? and once the players are suddenly transferred to a new owner with no effect to them they will all suddenly stop playing for no reason at all? Good reasoning |
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I think WoW should end happy, doing what it likes, and surrounded by friends. My idea is on a normal Friday night, WoW does it's normal routine to go to the gay bar for a few drinks, surrounded by friends. WoW and Darkfall are really hitting it off on the dance floor, and sudenly the gas main has a leak, someone goes to light a ciggarette....all are killed instantly. At least they all go out having a good time, doing what they enjoyed, and surrounded by friends.
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