Originally posted by KillHurt

Originally posted by Wizardry

Originally posted by Tahamtan

Guys,

 

What do you think? what is going to be the top-notch MMO in 2012? Do you think it is going to be one of upcoming MMORPGs or a continuous popularity for one of the existing MMOs?

 

 

#4 GW2 This game carries a lot of controversey as to what is good and what is not.This narrator is definitely 100% biased,he simply cannot see or just does not achknowledge the down side of the exact ideas he is hyping.There is a definite bad side to everyone of the 10 reasons.I will use one example...He talks about f2p and quality and talks about EPic scaled objects.Well GW does not have useable buildings they have no insides,so no they do not carry the same quality as paid games that spend a lot of time making buildings useable.That one picture was a Guild Hall picture,nothing but a pre zone in picture.

 

 

 

Without sounding too biased, Guild Wars 2 does have insides to buildings now just as some other MMORPG's. Guild Wars (original) does not, but Guild Wars 2 will have taverns, shops, houses, tombs, etc. to go inside and explore.

That user is on a continuous Don Quixote-like crusade against the game.  One day he will lay that windmill LOW! 

In other words, don't worry about being biased.  The guy your responding to is biased with astounding conviction.

In 2012... It's all about SWTOR! And SWTOR will continue to be king for quite a while. Wow will have a major drop in subscribers the first 6 months SWTOR is out and then continue to die off from there. GW2 will have a pretty decent start with an increase for 3 months, then a decline and level out at around 1.2 million.

So at the end of 2012 this is what I see:

SWTOR: 6.1 million players

Wow: 5.3 million players

GW2: 1.2 million players

All others are not worth mentioning. I barely mentioned GW2 just to humor myself!

I am hoping that it will be Darkfall 2.0 . ... lol

GW2/WoW

In all truth, stating who will be top in 2012 isn't going to mean much due tot he release times.  I wouldn't look at any statistic seriously unless it was 2013+ when all the "new mmo hype" has subsided and the true life of the MMO can be judged.

My guess is that GW2, SWToR and WoW will all be competing for the top spot.

Top MMO will be WoW ... whats so exciting about that ? Its WoW, year after year, since how many years now ?

Personally I might start playing SW:TOR. Or continue with Vanguard. Or maybe put another pause into my online gaming.

Originally posted by kylekbb

I think that GW2 and (this would have been Tera till D3 and Titan possiblty ) STWOR will have it. If Archage comes over all the sandbox lovers and a few others will make it pretty freakin close. Lineage Eternal I HOPE!! Will be a bit of a contender now this is all without WoW.

 

With wow its proably going to still be WoW. You cant take away 10m subs in a year unless its utter shutdown. Just not to probale. Now with that said i think that its going to go around this line up.

 

1.WoW

2.Gw2 or SWTOR

3.what falls from 2

4.LET(lineage eternal)

5.Tera

6.Archage

7.D3

8.Torchlights (2 or 3rd?)

9. Who knows .

D3 and TL2 are simple hack and slash games there not massive multi player and not even realy full rpgs just fun for 10min in between work and lunch on your smartphone/tablet.

My list.

1. WoW

2. League of Legends

3. Diablo III

4. SWTOR

5. TERA

6. GW2

@up

Yeah Diablo 3 and TL2 are not MMORPG's , heck they are not even MMO's.

Not anymore than  Call of Duty or BF3 is lol

LoL / Dota 2 are also not Mmo's. No persistant world.They are Moba games.  Instanced fights, like rts games.

GW2 stands a pretty good chance. WoW can still be the top MMO as ever.

Originally posted by Wizardry

 

I included Kingdoms of Amalur because they have stated they will turn it into a MMO and it was originally slated to be a MMO. 

As far as I am aware, you have this slightly backwards.

There is an MMO in development based on the same world as Kingdoms of Amalur.  It is known under the code name "Copernicus".   It was always meant to be an MMO and has always been developed as such.

During development they decided to release an additional single-player RPG based on the same world in order to introduce people to the world.  Thus Kingdoms of Amalur was born.  The single-player RPG will be out in 2012.  The MMO will not.

I could be wrong about some of this info if more has been released recently, but it was accurate as of a few months ago.  

If you mean subs...still WoW, if you mean most growth SWTOR. I think GW2 will be a great game, don't get me wrong, but they have not done enough main stream advertising imho. Not enough people even know about it to really be excited about it or know enough about it. SWTOR, on the other hand, has not even started TV adverts yet and is one of the most hyped games out there. 

Not saying that SWTOR will be the best game ever, but that it will show the most growth in 2012 if it has a successful launch. I think judging by the reactions from most players that have played the beta, especially over the weekend (damn NDA breakers!), I could honestly say the only thing that could ruin the game at this point is a poor launch.

I could see GW2 growing faster then GW1, but not nearly as huge of a success as some people on these forums make it out to be. 

Just to add a tid bit about TSW: I don't think this game is going to show even remote growth after launch judging by Funcom's track record and that alot of people simply don't trust them anymore.

Well its either going to be SWTOR or GW2. Jurys out on which one will win though. Hopefully both! 

wow will remain number 1 in terms of total players. If u are talking about number 1 new release its gonna be tor or secret world. Im still not convinced gw2 will launch in 2012

Ooo predictions - what do I get if I'm even half right?

By end of 2012:

WoW will have announced FTP.

EQI will still be going with Subs.

Warhammer will be gone.

LOTRO will have shown video of mounted combat.

One or two of the super hero MMOs will be gone - no idea which.

SWTOR will be going strong after the normal 6 months of chaos following launch.

GW2 will just be exiting the 6 months of chaos or still in it.

SWTOR will dominate! sure less subs than WoW but will still be awesome

Originally posted by MMOAttack

SWTOR will dominate!

I disagree.

WoW will still be first in subs by a very large margin, despite people saying it is dying (predictions that have been around as long as WoW). SWTOR will still be huge and people will say it's bigger than they thought it would be / should be. GW2 will launch and sell a ton of copies and even tho it's FTP after the box purchase people will still find a reson to be pissed off.

Short answer - WoW

Originally posted by Fozzik

I agree with those who say that SW:TOR will likely sell more initially, and then fall off steeply in the first few months. WoW will maintain its top spot in terms of subscribers in 2012, but it will continue to decline. GW2 will sell very well initially, and will steadily climb in numbers as people learn about the game. So...

1. WoW (downward trend)
2. GW2 (upward trend)
3. SW:TOR (downward trend)
4. Secret World
5. Rift, if it goes F2P...may trend upwards a bit, otherwise, it's going to fall

Wildcards: Copernicus, if it launches around Q4...could surpass Secret World and Rift pretty quickly. WildStar? Hard to say.

The problem with including GW2 (which admittedly you have to do) is that it can only have an upward trend, as there is no sub, so every box sold will be counted, we'll never know how many of them actually play at any given time.  This is the good thing about WoW, SWTOR, etc we can at least get fairly good guesses at subs since they are publicly traded companies and we can see thier game revenues (if not subs).  While NCSOFT is publically traided and we'll know how much revenue GW2 generates, it is only box sales it still gives us no indication of how many people are actually playing.