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This week's WoW Factor touches on a oft-discussed topic. Everyone is always looking for that game that will be a "WoW Killer" but what exactly does that mean? We take a look at the elusive "WoW Killer". See what we think and then weigh in with your own thoughts in the comments.
Read more of Joe Sanicky's The WoW Factor: What is a “WoW Killer?”
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1/16/12 9:18:51 AM#2
Yeah. There won't be any WoW-killer. Both players and industry should stop once and for all to 'look' for game that will replace WoW. There won't be one. No mmorpg in prediciable future will replace WoW as single hegeomon looking at small fishes from big mountain. WoW will continue to lose subscribers and eventually WoW will be forced to stop (at least ffor a while) milking WoW-players for server transfers and just close / merge some servers. There will be few games more popular than rest though so big difffrence like WoW vs. everyone else won't happen again.
Besides WoW-like themepark model is seeing it's demise. It still have power to gain players ,but this gameplay model with "end-game" and instance grind will have less and less power to keep playerbase occupied.
That's why initial flood of players and mass quits after few months.
If that does not change mmorpg's genre will lose overall number of players - most to other mmos / games , some might leave gaming completly. Freemium / f2p won't be able to stop that if games won't be more diverse. Besides imho mmorpg popularity already peaked and will be in decline for some years ahead. Some playerbase already migrated to MOBA games, some will migrate to MMOFPS / MMORTS , normal multiplayer games or single player games, casual games or leave completly.
Oversaturation of mmorpg genre, halt of playerbase growth (if not redution of playerbase size) and recession in west that always sooner or later hit 'entertaiment spending'. Think some studios will have (some already did) to change from producing mmorpg's to produce diffrent kind of games , some will have to close, etc That playerbase that will stay will require product more suit to their tastes and bit less casual.
Bubble is bursting and imo genre need this. |
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1/16/12 9:20:35 AM#3
Blizzard. Too old for this, am I. |
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1/16/12 9:22:26 AM#4
Well, with SWTOR just released, Guild Wars 2, Archeage, The Secret World, Firefall, Planetside 2, TERA all being teased to come out within the next year or two, and WoW already on the decline with last year's subscription number drop, I can't imagine our era of the death of WoW is too far away... |
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1/16/12 9:27:02 AM#5
We have already seen that no single game will kill WoW. It will be the many games that are releases over time that take a bunch of players here and there.
Swtor grabbed a piece, Rift, and when GW2 releases there is yet another piece of the WoW pie removed. |
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1/16/12 9:28:17 AM#6
A game that goes back to the roots (no clone) or brings new mechanics that work would be a WoW killer |
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1/16/12 9:31:02 AM#7
Originally posted by Serelisk UO, Meridian 59 and Everquest are all still up and running. The only true death of Wow this side of 2025 would be if Blizz released Wow 2 and at the same time closed down the oldWow servers to get the players to move. That is not likely but not impossible either. Wow will be dethroned as the king of MMOs pretty soon but it wont die. It will in fact be one of the larger MMOs for years unless Blizz really f***s up those pandas. My bet is that Wow will lose 15-20% of the players each year like it have the last year which means it will be a game with millions of players a long while yet. |
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1/16/12 9:32:25 AM#8
How to be a WoW killer... Stop being a WoW imitator. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, "Wow is already good at being WoW". People who truly love like WoW will NOT choose your game over WoW because WoW is closer to WoW than your WoW clone can ever be. The best you can hope for is to pick up WoW's scraps that have either become burnt-out on WoW, or didn't like WoW much to begin with.
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1/16/12 9:39:39 AM#9
It would be a game that like WoW is a fluke in the industry. it would congeal angry players like WoW did when SWG revamped and 250k very angry gamers seen that to destroy sony and the people behind the combat upgrade,we needed to move to WoW and make WoW reviews stellar even though in truth it was just another crappy grind fest. it was all about timing as well. in time WoW will suffer the sony revamp syndrom like SWG did and it will die away by it's own hand in time. Of course it will have it's die hards like the NGE folks but not many years from now blizzard will roll out it's own WoW killer and the old gal will go the way of 2 servers and full free to play. it's ironic but age happens.
Currently in post production my new Hero Engine based MMOG Force-Strike viva la SWG! You will live on my love!! |
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1/16/12 9:49:23 AM#10
WoW killer? Thats easy
Greg "the scrub" Street |
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1/16/12 10:02:06 AM#11
definitively not SWTOR ... |
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1/16/12 10:03:01 AM#12
MoP is a WoW killer |
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1/16/12 10:20:27 AM#13
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1/16/12 10:45:26 AM#14
I like how everyone thinks a video game is going to kill wow, a little outside the box you might recognize some of the more successful wow killers such as: family, friends, sports, jogging, new job, new girlfriend, playing golf, cards, hunting, fishing, cycling, swimming, oh my gosh the list just goes on and on. I see a lot about blizzard killing its own game, perhaps to casual? Guess what? Most people have other things going on than video game land, blizzard isn't killing wow, they are just stepping outside the comfort zone to let it grow, doesn't work for those wow veterans but they need to do something and its done by bringing in fresh blood, the game is over 7 years old, they know its going to get old and people will move on, how about they tweak the game to make it fit into peoples lives better, and new players won't know vanilla wow so they won't have the expectations, Blizzard = genius that's all that's to it, I loved the game then and I still do even more now, it just keeps getting better imo.
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1/16/12 10:55:01 AM#15
Won't be a video game that kills wow, everyone will have thier own personal reason that life brings thier way
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1/16/12 10:56:22 AM#16
Old age/time.......Thats about it for WoW....I mean UO is still kicking....It will happen.
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1/16/12 10:58:43 AM#17
Well.. no one's asking for permadeath here right?! Just a good, HUMBLING pwning ^.^ Even WoW isn't the best at their own arena and I think there is potential for a build that can put up a good fight and outmatch WoW in the collective and competitive world of MMOs. ~V~ |
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1/16/12 11:20:29 AM#18
Video games won't kill wow. Wow will die one person at a time and live one person at a time. For a lot of people killing wow just means they have other things they need or have to do. All this about making it more casual and that will look it, that's actually going to do the exact opposite because most people have other obligations than giving thier life away to video games, kudos to blizzard for evolving and always being ahead of the curve, when I started playing, I couldn't believe how smart people needed to be to create a world so immersive, have so many real life aspects, lessons, and just be able to touch a nerve like wow did, today its different but its changed for the better, its new player friendly and its also friendly for those that have other priorities, blizzard isn't killing wow, they are saving it.
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theniffrig
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1/16/12 12:01:19 PM#19
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1/16/12 12:44:55 PM#20
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