I think both games will do well. I know lots of people that still play WoW, and still plan to buy MoP and GW2.

I would like to say though, Blizz needs to work overtime on MoP beta atm, I've been watching someone play it and the bugs and exploits atm are rampant.

Originally posted by Lord.Bachus (Blizzard) used to raise by more then a Million after previous expansions

its been a long time since that -- 4 years

http://www.vg247.com/2010/02/10/morhaime-confirms-the-unthinkable-wows-stopped-growing/

Guys, there are pandas... PANDAS ?!?!?

How this expansion could attract people that has more than 12 Years old ? really i'am asking myself, ,i repeat, it's pandas ... (omg)

In short, it won't influence GW2 at all.

The addicts will return to WoW, but since GW2 isn't sub based they will log in when its not raid time.

My brother is sadly a WoW addict with 8 level 85's and raids 4 times a week.  I know this is what he will do.  Its an addiction, just like some people are addicted to smoking, drinking, working out, or just watching TV.  Its a lack of willpower they possess to be away from raids and getting the next uber weapon/armor.

Sucks that one of them is my brother though :(

I don't think Pandas and Pokemon is going to have any effect on GW2.

Originally posted by Lord.Bachus

Originally posted by dzoni87

Originally posted by OldManFunk

It won't have any impact on GW2.

 

Nobody who still enjoys WoW and planned to buy the panda expansion was ever going to quit WoW for GW2.

 

Some WoW players will buy GW2 to check it out, many won't because they're happy with WoW and are planning on being panderps.

^ Pretty much this ^... I couldnt made this up better. :D

  I know plenty of people IRL who arent even bothered to buy GW2 because of MoP releasing, eventhough i showed them up BWEs and everything. People in my country have very low standards and they already invested so much money in WoW to just abandon it (sucks for them anyway but whatever). Other however said that they tried it and they werent happy with no carrot-on-a-stick (a true quote by the way, believe it or not) and they will stick to Pandaria.

  I am not worried in the least, however, majority of my gildmates already are planning on playing it and some of them were even active players even in Cataclysm.

So even if they like WoW less and less, they keep putting more money intoo it, because they allready put huge amounts intoo it?    I

 

  Well, unfortunatelly, yes... dont ask me how, its pretty much beyond me. Call it maybe pathologic addiction or close-minded reasoning or maybe just being plain dumb.

  Like i said... sucks for them. I know i saved a lot of money already, when it comes to spending it on WoW (stopped with it near before Cata) :))

Anet need not to worry of the pathetic Blizzard game.  I have seen WoW evolve over the years and it is very close to GW2's gameplay but it has a sub fee. 

What I am saying is IMO fools pay sub fees for a game when they can get the same thing for free from another game that has dynamic events.

Really now, I am as bored of WoW as a lot of you, but some of you make the arguement that someone who still likes something you don't, or someone who doesn't want to play GW2 and wants to stick to WoW, is automatically an addict. 

Originally posted by Theonenoni

Anet need not to worry of the pathetic Blizzard game.  I have seen WoW evolve over the years and it is very close to GW2's gameplay but it has a sub fee. 

 

What I am saying is IMO fools pay sub fees for a game when they can get the same thing for free from another game that has dynamic events.

GW2 smaller zone, no mounts, no panda, no pokemon, no fishing, no trinity, etc...

They are not the same.

but that said, i'll be playing both :)

Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

Just to clarify in WC3 there was already a Pandarean Brewmaster.

Blizzard maybe many things, but they already had a kung fu panda long before the kung fu panda movies.

 

Yes i am aware of that :P But Panda Monks are still not original at all (I just used Kungfu panda as a modern example). It actually is very stereotypical to make a panda a deep thinking martial artist (and verging on racist according to some, though I don't agree with that). Its a yawn. Being able to play Worgens and Goblins was interesting, but still a stretch for me.

All my great memories of WoW are in a world that doesn't exist any more and I have no way of visiting that world ever again. I messed around a little bit in Cata but it is not the WoW that I explored, enjoyed and met some of my best friends in. If I am going to be forced to play a whole new game then I might as well actually play A WHOLE NEW GAME.

Blizzard made its decision.

They will barely influence each other, and frankly, I think it's more likely that GW2 will have a negative impact on MoP's sales in the West, as WoW is already dying there. Most of MoP's sales will probably be coming from Asian countries.

I think it's actually more of a defensive manuever by Blizz rather than an offensive one.

WoW is in decline, with or without GW2.  And I really think it's time is just coming.  I think that GW2 will definitely draw a lot of people from WoW, but maybe Pandaria will help Blizz keep those players for a bit longer...or have them come back.

Basically, I think that GW2 is a big threat to WoW, and if Blizz does nothing, then WoW stands to take a big hit.  So Pandaria is probably geared at trying to stop the inevitable bleeding.

actually, the 28th will influence it in no way :)

release is on 25th.. just saying *G*

MoP is a joke and will not affect gw2's pop.

At least WoW doesn't have game breaking cash shop.

Originally posted by Zeroxin

They are one month apart, I don't think anyone with money is going to wait.

This.

I already own GW2, but I am sitting on go for MoP.

I dont think it will influence eachother, Both games have a completly diffrent payment model in the first place.

You can never compare a P2P game, for a B2P game, both games are great Triple AAA MMO's.

Some people will leave wow for GW2, and proberly some GW2 players will leave for MoP

Kind regards

It wont effect me because i've no interest in playing that kung fu panda expansion. Guild wars 2 is a much better mmo.