WoW killer?? In short: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....

Seriously, the only thing that will kill WoW is if Blizzard close down the servers, the next Blizzard mmo or time amd I'm not too sure about the last one seeing as Ultima Online still being played. Hell, even The Realm Online got players, the oldest mmo I know of that's still active. Released in 1996. When you think about it it's not that old.

Despite what delirious fanboys of whatever mmo in the making say, they are peanuts compared to WoW. WoW is the king of the hill. If you haven't gotten used to it by now, you never will. Good luck living in lala-land then.

Originally posted by Whifflebat

Why is it people want wow to die... I don't get it, if you don't like the game dont play it and get on with your life. I mean i come on these fourms once aday and someone has started a new  "WoW Killer" thread. I am far from a wow fan-boy, i will admit i am currently playing wow among other things. So could someone explain to me why  people want wow to die. I mean there is one game that i will celebrate once it is cancelled but im not on here makeing post about it.....

People who are interested in MMORPGs as a genre, rather than just playing a game or two here and there, like it when something interesting happens. Seeing the current champion unseated by a newcomer would be big news.

Imagine the same team winning the Super Bowl every year for ten years.

Originally posted by bonobotheory

Originally posted by Whifflebat

Why is it people want wow to die... I don't get it, if you don't like the game dont play it and get on with your life. I mean i come on these fourms once aday and someone has started a new  "WoW Killer" thread. I am far from a wow fan-boy, i will admit i am currently playing wow among other things. So could someone explain to me why  people want wow to die. I mean there is one game that i will celebrate once it is cancelled but im not on here makeing post about it.....

People who are interested in MMORPGs as a genre, rather than just playing a game or two here and there, like it when something interesting happens. Seeing the current champion unseated by a newcomer would be big news.

Imagine the same team winning the Super Bowl every year for ten years.

Thank you that makes perfect senes to me now.

Every time someone types WOW-Killer on a keyboard, this should activate a large shock mechenism, and after the person has regained the use of their hands again, and/or bladder control enough time should of past for them to reconsider the cliched and pointless route they are following.....WOW is WOW, its simple to get into, and will run just about on a mobile phone now, it is almost a training ground for MMORPGS and is huge because its simple and its popular bacause its simple, its simple and therefore runs on anything...So to be a WOW killer by any bench mark, I would need to make a MMORPG that looks great but runs on my toaster.

Not only that. I would have to design said game to be simplistic from the ground up and presume no-one has ever played a mmorpg, that isnt really going to fly now is it 10 years on, WOW came out at the right time to engage an emerging market, and made fantastic inroads into Asia in the early days, those facts only make a WOW-killer unlikely, successfull games will follow yes,but I would be suprised to see anything like WOW...And to be fair I got into MMORPG,s before WOW, so I found it it insulting to my senses but I see how it came to be a giant and doff my cap in its general direction, however I am swearing under my breath.

And lastly as already stated this will be a superhero game, appeal will be different even though an Avatar or a Superhero is the same damn thing at the end of the day.

No it won't be a WoW killer.  It's a decent game but no WoW killer.

And if people would stop looking for MMOs to kill WoW then perhaps we'd get some better quality MMOs on the market.

Originally posted by bonobotheory

Originally posted by Whifflebat

Why is it people want wow to die... I don't get it, if you don't like the game dont play it and get on with your life. I mean i come on these fourms once aday and someone has started a new  "WoW Killer" thread. I am far from a wow fan-boy, i will admit i am currently playing wow among other things. So could someone explain to me why  people want wow to die. I mean there is one game that i will celebrate once it is cancelled but im not on here makeing post about it.....

People who are interested in MMORPGs as a genre, rather than just playing a game or two here and there, like it when something interesting happens. Seeing the current champion unseated by a newcomer would be big news.

Imagine the same team winning the Super Bowl every year for ten years.

If it was my team I'd be cool with that :P

Btw WOW will never beat the real king Super Mario Bros over 40 million copies sold, and thats just the original :P

In short, no, it is too rainbow.

Everytime someone makes a stupid topic about "the WoW killer" god kills a kitten.  Kittens killed this way = 5,287,908

Originally posted by zethcarn

Everytime someone makes a stupid topic about "the WoW killer" god kills a kitten.  Kittens killed this way = 5,287,908

It would be quite a bit more then that actually, number wise.

Short answer : NO

WoW has lasted long enough for people to get sick of it, play 3-4 other games, come back to it again and shake their heads saying to themselves. "Blizzard just keeps on impressing us."

When Blizz goes public with SCOnline or WoWII, then thats when we will start to see the original start dieing down.

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Originally posted by zethcarn
Everytime someone makes a stupid topic about "the WoW killer" god kills a kitten.  Kittens killed this way = 5,287,908

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Are you serious???

(*Mental note: Must start making WoW killer threads.*)

Death to the felines!

every person that makes a thread about the next wow killer should be terminated.

Just so you know im going to kill wow.....with a rock..so stop making these Will this kill wow shizzles because now you know whats going to kill wow. me, with a rock.

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Originally posted by aleos
Just so you know im going to kill wow.....with a rock..so stop making these Will this kill wow shizzles because now you know whats going to kill wow. me, with a rock.

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I'll donate a dollar to the cause. Get a brick.

Some interesting ideas...

I've always seen it as when someone says "this game is a wow killer" it pretty much translates to "this game will be an epic failure".  I'm not quite sure why that is.. but it seems to be pretty consistent so far.

That's just a general observation.. not a prediction.

im gona kill the jackass who started the whole "WOW Killer" thread bull! and they do this so an idiot like me will reply to them grr

Originally posted by Antarious

Some interesting ideas...

 

I've always seen it as when someone says "this game is a wow killer" it pretty much translates to "this game will be an epic failure".  I'm not quite sure why that is.. but it seems to be pretty consistent so far.

 

That's just a general observation.. not a prediction.

I hope it's not an epic failure though :(  I want something new to play.  Funny sig by the way.

Originally posted by xaldraxius

 

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Originally posted by aleos
Just so you know im going to kill wow.....with a rock..so stop making these Will this kill wow shizzles because now you know whats going to kill wow. me, with a rock.

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I'll donate a dollar to the cause. Get a brick.

if we keep going down this road soon we can afford a cinder block.
 

lol are you kidding me? With Star Wars and DC Universe coming out do you think Champions has a chance?

I'm in the beta but it doesn't really feel like anything special. Can't say anything due to the NDA, obviously, but yeah it didn't catch me the same way Aion did.

Of course that may be up to total personal preference.

Heck yah, WoW is going to go into a downward spiral fast because of Champions Online.  Everyone knows this.

I'm excited for Champions Online, I really am.

But I just want to throw this out there.. Anyone who talks about or is looking for a "WoW Killer" is talking garbage. There will never be a "wow killer", and there doesn't have to be. Stop looking for it. EQ1 survived WoW, hell it even survived EQ2, people still play it and have fun. The only thing that can kill an MMO is it's own dev team. Heck look at all the stuff that happened to SWG and it's still going technically.

So give it up. If you're talking about WoW-Killers, you probably don't understand MMOs as well as you think you do.

 Short answer? No. It's a niche game. It's not a WoW-killer, if by "WoW-Killer" you mean a game that's going to sink WoW.

Originally posted by xaldraxius

 

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Originally posted by aleos
Just so you know im going to kill wow.....with a rock..so stop making these Will this kill wow shizzles because now you know whats going to kill wow. me, with a rock.

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I'll donate a dollar to the cause. Get a brick.

I'll toss in a fiver if he'll take it out back and do it like Old Yeller.

Originally posted by bonobotheory

Originally posted by xaldraxius

 

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Originally posted by aleos
Just so you know im going to kill wow.....with a rock..so stop making these Will this kill wow shizzles because now you know whats going to kill wow. me, with a rock.

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I'll donate a dollar to the cause. Get a brick.

I'll toss in a fiver if he'll take it out back and do it like Old Yeller.

for 5 dollars ill reanact the entire scene instead of crying though i will smile and instead of a rifle it shall be a mini gun.
 

Originally posted by aleos

Originally posted by xaldraxius

 

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Originally posted by aleos
Just so you know im going to kill wow.....with a rock..so stop making these Will this kill wow shizzles because now you know whats going to kill wow. me, with a rock.

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I'll donate a dollar to the cause. Get a brick.

if we keep going down this road soon we can afford a cinder block.
 

Let me get in on this too.. Add my dollar to the pile.

To be honest I'd much rather you take said cinder block and drop it on some of the wow fanbase but that's just a personal gripe.  I just want to go back to the days where there was honest variety in the genre rather then just some giant juggernaut with a massive population leaving all the other games lacking in proper numbers.