WAR (Warhammer Online)

       Now I bet alot of you expect this to be some crazy troll thread. It's not. Im just stating a prediction for the future.

      Age's ago before WoW came out you can look back on these forum's and see many post's saying how great WoW will be. It was great. Now the same thing is happening here with WAR. Many post's are being made about how great it will be. It will be great.

      Let's say WAR end's up getting 8 million player's. Will it still be considered great by the forum's? Or will it become just like WoW, waiting to get flamed for ruining MMO's forever.

     This is just something Ive begun to think about. If it prove's true then I think I can make conclusion that the MMO community doesnt base a game on good gameplay but how many member's it has.

    Comment below. Thank you!

Probably. It's really fun to pick on the King. However, if both WoW AND WAR succeed, we'll have two things. 1) Many more people coming to the genre, which is good (mostly), and 2) more even distribution of those people which might mean WoW gets picked on less.

War will not get 8 million players.

I think that people are a bit clueless as to why WoW has so many. Casual game, good for people who are not gamers, families play, it's easy to get into, you don't have to dedicate your life to it (yet I know gamers feel you have to, however not one person I know who plays wow does - they just play to have fun), you don't have to pvp if you don't want but it's there if you do, etc.

Nothing can please anyone on these boards I mostly read them for humour but while warhammer does have a playerbase behind it i doubt WAR will get millions and millions of customers but I don't care because I'm still going to play it.

Originally posted by Sovrath

War will not get 8 million players.

 

I think that people are a bit clueless as to why WoW has so many. Casual game, good for people who are not gamers, families play, it's easy to get into, you don't have to dedicate your life to it (yet I know gamers feel you have to, however not one person I know who plays wow does - they just play to have fun), you don't have to pvp if you don't want but it's there if you do, etc.

 

Truthfully, I don't think even Blizzard knows why WoW is so popular.  The game is easy to play, yes, but it offers the same things every other MMO does.   I don't think even Blizzard will be able to match WoW's success.

Originally posted by Sovrath

War will not get 8 million players.

 

I think that people are a bit clueless as to why WoW has so many. Casual game, good for people who are not gamers, families play, it's easy to get into, you don't have to dedicate your life to it (yet I know gamers feel you have to, however not one person I know who plays wow does - they just play to have fun), you don't have to pvp if you don't want but it's there if you do, etc.

 

Well honestly you could put any game in the place of WAR. I just used WAR as an example because it seem's popular by a large portion of the mmorpg.com community.

People love to cheer for the underdog and then tear down the champion.  Look at the Yankees, look at the Red Sox.  The Dark Knight makes an apropos statement: "You either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

Originally posted by Sovrath

War will not get 8 million players.

 

I think that people are a bit clueless as to why WoW has so many. Casual game, good for people who are not gamers, families play, it's easy to get into, you don't have to dedicate your life to it (yet I know gamers feel you have to, however not one person I know who plays wow does - they just play to have fun), you don't have to pvp if you don't want but it's there if you do, etc.

 

We are clueless? You just decribed not only WoW but WAR also.

WAR is NOT:

A grind fest were you have to spend 5 hours a day to progress.

War is NOT:

Gear dependant, so you don't have to spend hours AFK in BG's to get gear you otherwise would have to raid hours for.

WAR is NOT:

A hard game to learn or get into. The interface will work much like other MMO's and including WoW's

WAR IS:

A RvR game directed with PVP in mind. However you don't have to RVR and you don't have to grind four hours.

WAR will be casual, and like WoW if you want to be hardcore you have things to do as well.

So if your right and 8 million subscribers are in WoW  for the reasons you stated, then WAR will have no problem competeing.

And by competeing I don't mean take half of WoW's subs away, but more like being able to survive and prosper in the MMO genre.

WoW's two reasons why it is so successful are low required system specs and it's easy to start playing out of the box.

Grandpa Joe and Little Johnny can play with their 8 year old PC. Both will be equally good at level 1. You don't even have talents until level 10.

You can't expect to sell 8 million units if it can't be ran on old computers.