3 years ago I said it will be the largest launch ever for a MMO it will have at least 3 million subs on launch day watch and mark these words or post again for those that naysay.....

In your dreams, hahahaha. Comparing a porche to a chevette.... lmao, rofl, someone pick me up the OP is a raging comedian tonight.

I am not going to go into great detail as there is far too much to seriously list what BW has innovated into MMO's with this up and coming title. Big one is companions programable AI (al a Mass effect 2) They will not just be a passive or agressive pet, you will have so much customization just with them.

The crafting system is also very unique....

Not going to be hard to crush the gaming mogul, there game is stale, its over 6 years old the engine is spent, hence there top secret project "Titan".  SWTOR is going to be a great game to play for the next 3-4 years...then we will all be back here in the same boat waiting on blizz'a next mmo...

I'm leaving.

Opps, sorry guys thought this was an adult discussion...   <Forum Exit Left>

Got my 4 CE Copies pre-ordered. Me happy.

Got my 4 CE copies paid for from amazon.com.

Originally posted by DLuna

Originally posted by sinjin

Originally posted by Nazgol

GW2. It will not live up to the hype the kool aid drinkers give it.

 agreed, the game is going to flop like a fat kid smoothered in butter.

The thing is, I can't really see it being less of a success than GW1.

Unless you're talking about the quality of the game itself. But I tend to associate 'flop' with bad success.

Originally posted by Xexv

Edit: And in the future we all live in a golden paradise where all asian grindfests/facebook social-style games have been burned at the stake.

Except in Asia. In that alternate reality, they love those games and probally dislikes ours. Who knows...?

 Don't get me wrong I played GW1 for a few years off an on, great game... I am just burnt out on medival fantasy, I need apocolyptic, space, zombies....anything but more knights in shinning armor and more wizards with xyz fireballs. I have been gaming for over 15 years, the only other non-medival fantasy type setting that intrigued me for any length was SWG (Pre-NGE) Before and ever since it has been fantasy that has attracted me.  Time for a change and I am sure many feel this way. Need a fresh new universe that is compelling enough to entertain me for years to come.

Originally posted by Excalaber2

It's very unfortunate, but the unprofessional behavior and very apparent lack of experience of the team is the #1 reason I am no longer playing this game.  I see threads come up like this and shake my head from time to time when I see them pop up :(

 Its the only MMO I have never purchased a copy of.... and for this reason ^

People play this game?

Originally posted by Nazgol

GW2. It will not live up to the hype the kool aid drinkers give it.

 agreed, the game is going to flop like a fat kid smoothered in butter.

No, I will play both.  Two totally different games and two totally different worlds.

Originally posted by Auxiliary

My best educated guess as to the level of failure of the upcoming MMO's goes something like this.

 

TOR will be a monetary succes, but it won't become the cashcow EA is hoping it will be. The gameplay and story is similar to the original KoTOR games, but for the rest it has many standard mmo features. The game will be extremely polished, high quality and even players who say it is WoW in space will notice that they easily spend several hundreds of hours in the game and enjoy it greatly.  I just realize that unlike WoW I will not find the raiding, battleground pvp and other end-game content very impressive after doing it once or twice. I will level up several classes which suit my preference and then jump over to other MMO's. I expect many other players to have a similar approach with TOR, but I might be underestimating the level of dedication of Starwars and Bioware fanbois.

 

GW2 will be a huge succes, but it will not be the New Atlantis some of us are hoping it will be. My main concern is that I will rapidly devour all the dynamic events the game has to offer, complete all the dungeons in no time and then only care about the occassional WvWvW battle. The problem is that we know nothing about business model it is going to follow after the initial release. We know it will be buy to play with a cashshop, but we know  next to nothing about the content updates after launch. Are they going to provide free content updates, mission packs, rapid expansions or something entirely different? This game won't fail in any way though, but it may be too slow with content updates after launch.

 

TERA will hopefully be a succes, but I am fearing it will be overshadowed by the competition. I have looked at several hours of people streaming the Korean Version and the combat looks really and I mean really good and lots of fun, but I expect GW2 fanbois will decide themselves that their game has better combat. GW2 combat looks good, but TERA combat looks great. The Big Ass Monsters or BAMS are something I am looking forward to. The most fun I ever had with WoW raiding came from the worldbosses such as Azeregos, Lord Kazzak, The Green Dragons and so on. Competing with other people for the best items is always a great thing in my eyes, but it is content limited to a small group of people. The PvP combat is very good and looks a lot of fun, but the world pvp system might need some extra polishing before it releases in Europe. The Political System excited me at first, but it depends entirely on how much people are willing to fight over provinces. I am also worried about the remaking of the Elins for the western market. Even if they put some decent cloths on those little girls, I will still expect people to bitch about it and create bad publicity. I guess they will be about as succesful as Rift, but never get past 1 million active subscribers (number of accounts will be bigger) at the same time.

 

TSW might be a succes, but even though I tried finding some information about it. I discovered that there isn't a lot of good information available about this game yet. The amount of publicity the game gets is also very minor compared to juggernauts such as GW2 and TOR. Just like TERA I expect this game to be overshadowed by the competition. I don't really expect massive failures in this new generation of MMO's. Because developers should have realized that releasing your game prematurely is nothing short of suicide.

 

ArcheAge is a game I know very little about. What I heard definitely sounds promising, but the aesthetics of what I have seen so far turn me off. When I played Rift, I could never really get into it because of the aesthetics. I expect ArcheAge to suffer the same fate. The amount of publicity it receives is also very minor just like TSW. For me personally this is the game I find the least interesting, but that is because I dislike the aesthetics and if I dislike those, the game won't do much for me even if it is the best thing since ambrosia.

 

Diablo 3 is not a MMO. If Blizzard decides to go with a subscription model or a cashshop for this game I expect a lot of raging customers, but since they decided to try out how far they could go recently with services such as Call of Duty Elite they might go along with it nonetheless. The game will still be a huge fucking succes, because Diablo 2 is a game you could find in any internetcafe around the world for a very long time. There have been only a handful of decent isometric action-rpg's since Diablo 2 came out and there is actually a very big market for this type of game. Torchlight did extremely well and that game had very little features and even lacked multiplayer. Diablo 3 will most definitely be a part of Battlenet so I assume it won't be pirated as often as Torchlight either (5 million times in China alone).

 You my friend, are underestimating it bigtime... Those two group of fans are bigger than WoW... and more loyal than the Lotro fans to turbine.... just saying.

and one thing for a fact is I am going to be multi boxing 3 accounts sooo... I know of many people from SWG (Pre-NGE) days that had upwards of 12 accounts.... that is how crazy those fans are compared to WoW fans.

Best tools for community ever in this game.... soooo much customization.

Not BW's problem to fix the way human beings hidding behind a keyboard and screen talk smack.

The one thing I can guarantee you is half the people on here would not say half the shit they say to someones face...period.

Or... I'd end up in jail right lickity split.

Originally posted by fistorm

     Ok, so I was bored one day and clicked on the free 7 day trial, knowing the reviews saying its a wow clone.   I was amazed at this game, after day four into the trial I bought the game.  Heres why.

 

This game does have a uncanny wow effect to the UI, but its far from a wow clone  once you start to get into the stories and the gameplay.   This game is what wow should have evolved to and even further, it targets a much more mature mindset type of crowd of people.    There is a ton of people in this game right now, no shortage of players running around the zones.   It has alot of mini raiding going on, and the loot system is unbeleivably rewarding and player friendly.   Everyone comes up to a rift and the raid starts right there in the zone, it grows right there on the ground and out of the sky.   You can instantly join the "public group" which turns into a raid of all players in the area around the rift.   

 

your a hybrid kind of character also, almost like having three jobs active at same time like ffxi's jobs and subjobs, but also like WoW's paladin class, except that its customizable with around 7 differant classes per type of role.   Its got quite a few elements in it like EQ2,  such as shinies, ect.

 

In closing all I got to say from someone whos played every mmo out there,  dont write this thing off because of the wow element to it, its amazingly deeper then WoW could ever be.    Once you try it, and get out to the open zone, youll be glad you tried it.   Again, it runs on all my computers including laptop, and they even made it so it will look good on every one of them

Not to mention the game runs super smoothly and almost no bugs what so ever in this thing, I'm truely amazed and happy I tried it.

 and after one month you will quit....

Originally posted by Czanrei

Why is it their Web site labels the game as a mmo, when their CEO recently went on that rant about how badly he thought of mmo's as an industry? Talk about being a hypocrit...

 Your actually wrong. He did not say he doesn't like MMO's, he stated that it is too much work and he doesn't enjoy the lengthy developement times as it gets boring to him. 

I played the game at the event and it was fine, better than anything out at the moment....I will be playing and so won't most the people complaining too.

Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale

Only cost 15 bucks and it is a fun hack N slash style of game.