Originally posted by Thornbeard

Originally posted by felix77

Originally posted by DZverev

 

Originally posted by felix77

Wow your funny, both were out long before WoW. Lineage 2 about a year before. They also have more real subs then WoW. In Asia they are actually monthly subs and not game time cards that WoW counts as subs. You buy one hour and they count you for a year as a sub lol. WoWs going down in the west, but due to AOC and WAR. Then not long after they will be released in Asia.

I'm sorry, but denying the extreme success of WoW is foolish and ignorant.

 

WoW did what no other game was doing at the time, It took a well known franchise and combined it with accessibility for players.

Unlike Lineage and Lineage 2, there was no grinding for half a year until you were at a competitive level. WoW gave something for everyone to do low or high level and made the leveling to 60 and 70 not feel like a grind, but actually enjoyable. That is a major part of its success.

I used to play Lineage 1 for 3 years, Lineage 2 for 1, and WoW for nearly 3. I quit Lineage 1 for Lineage 2 and Lineage 2 for WoW. I quit WoW because for a player who is centered on PvP it is lacking. Furthermore Blizzards style of lets release a new tier of gear every patch instead of focusing on other elements or balancing gear to not make one set absolute did not appeal to me.

Personally, I believe in term of losing subscriber base Blizzard has nothing to fear from any upcoming MMO, not even WAR or AOC, Bliz has their subscriber base locked down and loyal to the game, where they will not even care about any new MMO coming out.

  I'm not denying that WoW has millions of subs. They do, they have less monthly then Lineage at it's peak. All Asian countries buy WoW in game time cards. Hourly cards. So how much do you think a person has to buy before they are counted? Yes I do think they inflate their numbers. In every country. But especially in Asia where any amount of time purchased can be counted. The ignorance is just not knowing their Asian sub model. Lineage actually had 6 million monthly subs. WoW might have beeten that but not by nearly as much as they claim.

That's exactly what you are doing. You are living in denial when you expound these falsities without one shred of proof. If it could be proven that WOW fudged their numbers even marginally don't  you think it would have been proven by now? So you have no proof of it just a feeling. Well welcome to the world of conspiracy theorist. You get a free tin foil hat with membership.

For starters there are many companies(people) who don't need to even know anyone that works for Blizzard to be able to get accurate figures of their subscriber bases, whether concurrent or peak or whatever, and calculate their potential earnings.  As a side note and a funny way economies work, Asian players added a lot of numbers to WoW but isn't even a drop in the bucket for their earnings.  They don't make enough to cover the cost of running the game from the Asian market.  They pay by the hour to play, and if you convert the costs, it comes out to about .04 cents per hour.  Yes, in Asia it costs about 4 pennies to play WoW for 1 hour.

Secondly, STATISTICALLY speaking, almost 40 percent of users don't play WoW because it's a fun game.  Weird sounding huh?  Well the number one reason WoW is so successful is because Blizzard pretty much created the most successful business model their is right now.

As for the fun factor itself is that most analysts agree that the key to the games popularity is that, ironically, Blizzard built this massively MULTI-PLAYER game to be extremely fun to play ALONE.

And when they started, they didn't start with something other people couldn't think of.  They simply, but in the end not-so-simply, took the best strategies and elements from games before it, tweaked those, and added some of their own.

And it continues to be so successful because Blizzard is now a juggernaut who built up a tremendous reputation by only putting out high quality games that functioned well.  Their only downfall with that was it took forever for them to release a game.  With that they had age as well.  Over the years they built up a ravenous hardcore gamer fanbase before WoW was even a thought in the player's head.

One other thing I'd like to mention is currently they have the money and man power to make sure they are keeping a tight ship.  The game works, and works well.  It's solid, which accounts for keeping a lot of people playing.

Originally posted by nightwing70

Prius online. blah blah

Love
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ldJ-PjmMfzc

Maybe Pedophile Online is a more appropriate title for this mmo.. thats just wrong... so so wrong...

I just ran across this game called 'checkers'. Its going to eat WoW alive...

Well, the think is.. the gameplay showed in this vid has impressed me... way much better then wow or lineage2 or perfect world or any other mmorpg... sure for a lvl 1 character.....

vid with 10 min gameplay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdgh3zQYqvo

 Not everyone enjoys this type of "Anime Online", so not I wouldn't bet on it.

Originally posted by jimsmith08

The likeliness scale.

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Darkfalls devs release a new gameplay video

Vanguard hits 500k subs

-----> Prius online gains greater popularity and sub numbers than WoW.

Auto-assault is reborn,gains huge popularity

SOE announce no more expansion packs for EQ2

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Fits in about there i'd say.

HAHA good one !

okay.... look... i know you guys all love WOW and stuff, but the problem is, actually try playing the game first before you beat it down lol? Watching a stupid youtube video that skips frames is not gonna even get close to seeing the actual game play. And this game... if you even get close to understanding how to train with quests, you would not even be grinding. You level up relatively fast in this game, and yes, even faster that WOW... the gameplay, I would say is actually easier to handle than WOW at times and seriously, to me, WOW and Prius is like about the same... Prius is still developing, and many of its features are not even out yet, so there is no point in beating down a game when it's half developed and just as good. Humor in WOW? well, Prius has those too, if you can actually read what they are saying, you would not see less humor than you see in WOW, so you guys, stop cooping up in ur WOW pothole and start looking out for other games too O_o...

To the OP,

Nope.

 lol... just saying, play the game before beating it down

So...ignoring the laughable comment that this is a wow-killer...how is it diefferent from any other Asian MMO in a way that would make me want to play it?

Can't access the site the OP posted but I did some youtube poking and founda few veidoes. After watching them..

Yay. Anotehr Asian MMO. Once again there's calsses that are race/gender specific, with only a few head models to choose from. Boring combat, aside from the fact there are some stupidly oversized weapons and monsters.

I mean maybe I missed some cool content but uh...what is it?

Originally posted by go4broke

uh ya right,, just like Lineage and Lineage 2 killed wow..

 

*yawn* please we don't need another korean grind game.  We need quality that goes way beyond pretty graphics and art direction.

Lineage 2 came out 1 year before wow....

An MMO based on a hybrid car?

 It will be interesting to see how this game rivals to world of warcraft

What? It looks exactly like every over stupid Asian kid mmo.

hahahahahhah NO.

what you should of say Aion vs Prius online........

 Please can someone give me link for NA/EU page of this game.

Thank you

ACTUALLY! All you WoW fanboys need to stop putting WoW on such a high pedestal. WoW is like 200 other games out there, just with worst graphics. I've played many games that are better than WoW and I actually gave WoW a chance, and it was pathetic. You guys just can't adapt to change so you hate. That's also called being a "Hater". You don't want any other game to be successful because you don't want your "friends" to leave you for another game while your stuck raiding alone.

I <3 you all!

Not likely. It seems very repetitive to me.

If anything has a chance of taking down WoW its Aion Online, as that currently is getting a ridiculously large subscription rise.

I know im gonna be playing and paying for it.  

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