these threads are in every forum of a new game. They get necro'd afterwards to LOL, even though I dont think anyone agrees the TOR will kill WOW, whatever that means. I think it means get the WOW players to switch and not go back. Could be funny if this game ignores WOW players all together. They'll have to just keep playing WOW. Just keep on playing. Nothing else on the horizon...just keep on playing. No other games in dev resemble WOW at all. Just keep on playing. That reason to quit never gonna happen. Just keep on playing. Same thing over and over, just keep on playing......

  If I still knew anyone who was playing WOW. I'd tell em this is the last chance to get out and into another game. But i dont know anyone who still plays.

Not even close. WoW will remain the dominant force. (as always)

Originally posted by dynamo122

Not even close. WoW will remain the dominant force. (as always)

Of coarse it will. Most people agree and are just having fun with another one of these threads. It will sell well becaue of KOTOR, but i dont see enough of an mmo for it to be a wow killer. Lucas is probably the only ones out of the loop. And EA's investors expecting a return. Short some EA stock before launch IMO.

Originally posted by FikusOfAhazi

Originally posted by dynamo122

Not even close. WoW will remain the dominant force. (as always)

 

Of coarse it will. Most people agree and are just having fun with another one of these threads. It will sell well becaue of KOTOR, but i dont see enough of an mmo for it to be a wow killer. Lucas is probably the only ones out of the loop. And EA's investors expecting a return. Short some EA stock before launch IMO.

This is actually great advice especially if they float this release around some of their console sports games too, some quick money to be made there ;)

As far as killing WoW, no game will accomplish this in the near future.  I believe in the next couple years though a game may pass it's sub numbers if a game evolves enough and goes worldwide.  I don't think any MMO for a long while will get the sub numbers it had at it's height.  Blizzard has a very strong fanbase and they brought alot of other non MMO players into the genre and set the bar pretty high for other companies.  I didn't play WoW long but I definitely enjoyed it while I did and felt I got my moneys worth.

Other games... not always the case...

oh no another original thread about a  WoW killer

Sounds like its going to be mostly solo-oriented except for raids and PvP. How will this be any different than WoW? You think 90% of WoW players can actually sit through dialog? You think they give a crap about a good story?

Originally posted by graggok

*blank* will kill wow threads make me want to bake kittens into a pie.

I would eat that pie.

And I agree.

No game will ever kill World of Warcraft. So just live with it.

if anything stands a chance at being a wowkiller its a decent starwars game . its a huge granchise already and has a massive potential user base . whether this is a decent starwars mmo remains to be seen . by the time this comes out though warcraft will already have had one massive body blow from aion . we might be talking about what the aion killer is going to be .

 A scifi mmorpg isn't going to kill a fantasy based mmo.... not enough fans of scifi out there. the game is also already hyped to much, a WoW killer probably won't be a hyped up game like this.

^Agreed with the above post.
Why?
Even tho' both of these games are mmorpg's, they are different genre. Sci-fi is not the "most wanted" thing on this type of gaming, most of the games are mmorpg, and will be.

There is, offcourse, some successful sci-fi mmorpg's, but I will say that ALL the fantasy based mmorpg's will stay dominant.

Anyway, im a Star Wars fan and hope that this game will get at least SOME players.

YES WoW with lightsabers will kill WoW.  Get a clue, it's lucas way of merchandising off force users.  The whole universe and the world within it mater no more, since what would be better then a bawing little pussy like Anakin going emo and killing children.  It's called a loss of innocence.  How you reacted to something the first time around wont be the same as it will react to you now.  All the fancy graphicz and DX9000 with high level polygon counts and OMG AWESOME UBER PHYSICs still wont change the fact your playing rehashed garbage from things already done.

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I don't think this game will kill wow. I wish folks would stop tring to make games to kill wow.  I don't want to play wow, or play games that are a wow ripoff.

Now what this game might do is kill LOTRO, and I hope it does. Turbine has made a mess of things since moria.  I am so looking forward to going back to something that I can deal with. I miss playing SWG, but soe ruined that game for me.

I agree with what the last 2 posts have stated , not a WOW killer just the same rehash of WOW and nothing more or innovative. Enough of the fanboi circle jerks please for this overhyped potential diaster.

ToR isnt really a game that would appeal to the average WOW player anyway, a few will try it for a few weeks just to see what the hype is all about (as long as theres nothing new happening in WOW that is!!) and then return to WOW again, if they ever left that is, just like all the other times when a new game came out (AOC ?), there is a place for scifi games, but for the moment, the consensus is that fantasy games are more fun, the other thing is, with the hype surrounding this game at the moment, living up to it is going to be something of a nightmare for bioware

Originally posted by lionrwal

Reason 1: This game is very much similar to Knights of the Old Republic, one of the best Star Wars games EVAH!!!! It's also made by Bioware, the makers of K.O.T.O.R., are making this game.

Reason 2: This game will revolutionize MMOs because you will not feel like you are grinding, and the quests(called missions in The Old Republic)will not be like, "Go and kill 10 acklays" or "Collect one krayt dragon hide." The missions will be like, "Go slice into the computer to take over the ship."

Reason 3: Several gaming sites have already written reviews on this game, and they are all good. One site even states,"As the force-choked trooper slides across the ground, clutching is neck, it becomes obvious; this game is a WoW killer."

 

Umm going by the last decade of SOE monumental shit pile games (EQ2, Vanguard, and the oh so original SWG) logic will deduce that this game will be another titanic waste of money and stomps all over reason number 2.

Why people hang on to these consistent disappointments is being studied by multi-billion dollar think tanks. You guys are like little kids that keep getting punched by by the bully that swears he wont do it...THIS TIME

Here is my prediction based on factual history of SOE games. It will be rushed to production, large amounts of content will be missing and 50% of the classes will be broken and unusable. It will have great graphics. Once the game patches come down and some assemblance of a game is revealed, the Developers will not listen to community suggestions for improvments and just start nerfiing classes until the game is broken again and then the rest of the poeple that have spent a long time leveling a character that they finally are starting to enjoy will see its entire mechanic system change as sony implements something to stop the droves of people sick of the bullshit rules from leaving.

Dont deny it, the last time Sony made a game in which the purpose of it was to actually have FUN was asherons call.

Dude what the hell are you talking about, this game has nothing to do with SOE.  Absolutely nothing.

Originally posted by leadhead101

Here is my prediction based on factual history of SOE games. It will be rushed to production, large amounts of content will be missing and 50% of the classes will be broken and unusable. It will have great graphics. Once the game patches come down and some assemblance of a game is revealed, the Developers will not listen to community suggestions for improvments and just start nerfiing classes until the game is broken again and then the rest of the poeple that have spent a long time leveling a character that they finally are starting to enjoy will see its entire mechanic system change as sony implements something to stop the droves of people sick of the bullshit rules from leaving.

 

Dont deny it, the last time Sony made a game in which the purpose of it was to actually have FUN was asherons call.

That's pretty much how it will be, i'm not going to get my hopes up t be only shafted yet again by SOE. No mmo will kill WoW but itself, blizzard is going the casual route with gimmicks to get people to play.

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Originally posted by leadhead101
Here is my prediction based on factual history of SOE games. It will be rushed to production, large amounts of content will be missing and 50% of the classes will be broken and unusable. It will have great graphics. Once the game patches come down and some assemblance of a game is revealed, the Developers will not listen to community suggestions for improvments and just start nerfiing classes until the game is broken again and then the rest of the poeple that have spent a long time leveling a character that they finally are starting to enjoy will see its entire mechanic system change as sony implements something to stop the droves of people sick of the bullshit rules from leaving.
 
Dont deny it, the last time Sony made a game in which the purpose of it was to actually have FUN was asherons call.

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Wow, this post is so full of misinformation I can barely take it all in.