STOP keep thinking !

You do make Mother Earth warmed !

Originally posted by zymurgeist

Fisssshhhhh

 

Hook line and sinker.

 

With so many real issues in life why do people waste time making issues out of nothing

 

 

 

 

I saw a question, not an issue. Whats the issue you think is being made?

Sigh.

The people dissing the OP probably had a bone to pick with him due to the misleading title. As someone has mentioned, a cheap way to get people to read your post.

However, it's an interesting hypothetical question which i suppose would have been raised at the Blizz studios before.

On to the question!

There will be a minority who will harm themselves - that i'm sure of. But a small minority it will be.

Yes, riots may happen, but it would be quickly controlled by the police. No major issue here.

The bulk of the damage would be actually on Blizzard themselves than on the actual players. The majority of WoW players will be able to move on to other games or even quit MMO gaming for a while.

Blizzard on the other hand, will be overwhelmed with legal problems and may be forced to shut down.

The gaming company has to be responsible to the players; the players do not need to be responsible to the company.

On a side note, future MMO companies will be forced to provide adequate guarantees against sudden shutdowns but in the meantime, customer confidence regarding MMO companies will drop for a while. I would imagine that the other MMO companies will have a really hard time trying to convince their  suscribers that the same thing will not happen to them.

As much as i like to envision a world of arnachy, i just don't see it happening because of a game.

In conclusion, the main sufferer will be the company and not the players.

It would be better world all in all! lol

and dont forget the micro economy around it including those that make a living farming gold for the sellers market, the ones that publish guides and books and the other industries hanging off the brand.

WOW is so much more than the revenue that Blizzard makes - its almost an institution and whether you like the game or not its hard to argue the impact it has on gaming culture and  that its almost an institution with over 12 million subscribers.

i guess one of Blizzards big challenges is knowing that it is highly improbable that there will be a game to rival WOW's success especially one they make themselves. Therefore they have to contend with the inevitable fact that one day the revenue stream will decrease (and probably quite fast) and there is no way to fill the hole.

Originally posted by Rockgod99
I wouldn't wish that on any of those poor players. You realize that there are people that make their entire life revolve around Wow? People that wake up I'n the morning with the only thing I'n their head is to run and manage a guild? I fear if that was taken away many, many people would finallyhave to look In the mirror and realize that life isn't I'n that glowing pc screen.

Hrm, I should buy stock in a sunscreen company in case this happens, be plenty of sales if it were to eventuate. I know one person who will race home on his lunch break to log in and play then head back to work. It kindof scares me that maybe 10 years ago, I would have been that way inclined. Thankfully im older, slower and games have less of a (forgive the pun, please) wow factor than they did when I was younger. I know from my high school days of MUDS and then TFC (oh GOD I miss that fun, TFPixar isnt my cup of tea :\ ), I had a tendency to get addicted to gaming, thankfully I self imposed a restriction on MMO's by hearing of 'Evercrack' and its many victims. I missed out on the early days, but I feel that by missing out, I lived long enough to grow and now can turn my back on its current situation, for a time.

The players will be the victims, but with the constant casualization and catering to the 1 hour a day gamer, I think that the biggest impact will be on the more, invested gamer, much smaller number than 12 million. Some few will take it very poorly, most will shrug it off as a bit of fun that ended.

interesting question though, although a bit pointless

but honestly i have no idea what will happen, there could be some anarchy going on for sure, but murders are unlikely

i mean 12 million is a huge population, and im not sure any game in this world can ever get this kind of subs ever again

i personally would love to see what are the effects when Blizz just suddenly shut down WoW

i would say, a new world order xD

Maybe LOTRO or EVE for a bit? Then some fresh air?

Imagine an elite team of anti-WoW fanbois staged a daring raid to destroy all WoW servers, source control, data centers, and backups of data. This would be conducted in a series of synchronized missions over a span of 2 hours, which would effectively erradicate all data related to the WoW application and all player data to date.

Would this be heralded as the most devestating cyber-terrorism in history? Would there be a global memorial?

12 million souls just cried out in anguish.

Maybe SWTOR could cash in ?  ;-)

As good as anything can be in the media/entertainment, from TV series to movies passing by, of course, games, everything dies some day or another. If it doesn't completely "die", for some, it only survives in the form of private incentives: private pre-NGE servers on SWG, mods to improve Deus Ex graphics, a 1280x960 mod for FFVII PC... 

The same would happen with WoW, I guess. I'm sure so many people would just find a way to play that game again. Heck, how many private WoW servers, from Vanilla-locked ones to the latest WOTLK versions, are currently running? Those just wouldn't stop.

Of course, that couldn't pertain to 12M active players and a few other millions lurking by to come by once every few months. So, just like we don't see hordes of players on FFVII or Deus Ex today, but rather playing Mass Effect 2 or Modern Warfare, well, if WoW were to disappear, we'd observe those masses just jump on the next thing. Such a "next thing" would come, soon or later, to fill the void left by WoW. Of course, some 10 years after, we'd still be bitching about how [insert "old game's name"] was better, somehow, than the latest hype. Because it's true that some ideas, like Deus Ex's multi-path scenario and RPG'ed FPS style, or like FF's materias, just don't get old. I'm convinced that we're actually longing to re-play with some of the best systems we've encountered in our gamers experience. Whatever, I'm digressing I suppose.

So yeah, WoW can stop. For a few hundred thousands, it wouldn't (via private servers). For most others, millions, they'd just play the next game. We did that so many times since the 1980's. I'm sure we'll do it again. 

This is a misleading thread. Closing this up. Please do not create threads with misleading topics in effort to bait others. Thanks.