Originally posted by Reborn17

I would think China banning the sale of virtual items (including subscription cards) would have been a more telling sign than an ad on their homepage.

Wow i didn't know that, that reinforces my beliefs, thank you.

Originally posted by Martinmas

Originally posted by Guile

Why would blizzard put big advert on their homepage, they earn plenty from monthly subscriptions, why would
they need the extra cash from an advert, no other mmo has them.

What do you guys think?

 

That is kind of like saying why would they make anymore games since they are earning plenty from monthly subscriptions. They are a business and with them being a business they do whatever makes them a profit.

Yeah i've heard the business thing before, but the majority of other MMO's don't put adverts on the homepage because they don't need to, it's wasted space.

They would rather fill that space with something about the game.

Blizzard is only after making cash from WOW now, not making it a better game, that means they have lost interest. If they have lost interest, then they must be thinking about their new MMO more, hence they will start making that their main priority soon.

Originally posted by Deathstiny

so Everquest reached it's peak at about 500k subscribers and is still going strong after 10 years...

WoW has 11million+ subs and is obviously doomed after 4 years?

kthxbye

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Nowhere in my post do i say wow will suddenly stop. I simply stated that wow is ending, they can forsee it, and now they are milking the cashcow for all its worth, they are spending most of their efforts on the new MMO. Trust me, when the sub numbers stop being released, u will know they are dropping and Blizzard will soon release the first details of the new MMO, to bring them all back in.

If it makes you happy mate, sure!

Who cares, i don't check the forums enough to know every post ever made, i didn't even know someone had posted it, I just made this conclusion using my own thoughts from occasionaly checking the WoW site.

You fail at pointing out silly errors on forums instead of giving valuable feedback. I only thought of this and thought this was the best forum to vent out this thought.

Good Day Sir.

cant deny the proof tho.

Proof: WoW is Ending.

Firstly i would like to say that i really enjoyed my stint of WoW, it was great. I played for 2 years, attaining full epic kit from karazhan when it first came out. But since that it started going down hill.
Tthe decent developers have left the team and joined a new team to create Blizzards new MMO.
I think blizzard have decided to milk WoW for all its worth ready for the new mmo when it comes out.
Want proof?
Why would blizzard put big advert on their homepage, they earn plenty from monthly subscriptions, why would
they need the extra cash from an advert, no other mmo has them.

What do you guys think?

SWG was no where near perfect, and i'd be happy with a Star Wars skin over a WOW type game.
There I said it.

When will people learn: Innovation != Good Gameplay.

Blizzard took everything they have seen in MMO's and polished it up.

Just beacause they didn't innovate doesn't mean that the gameplay is going to be bad, the numbers prove that it isn't.

I tried Warhammer, and it just seems like they wanted to make a polished version of WoW with some new elements added.  It isn't that good, in fact it made me want to play WoW again.

Originally posted by Teiman

You can create 1 characer in 1 minute.

Has son you enter the map, click "Enter battleground".

You first quest, or 2 th quest will ding you to level 2.

Then the battleground will start.

As level 2, you will still be able to kill people and have fun, because the game will autolevel you to 8 for the battleground.

This mean, in something like  3 minutes, you will be kicking ass of other players.

Theres no other MMO where in 3 minutes you can be doing quest AND pvp AND exploring, etc..

WAR excels at casuals, IMHO.

Anyway...  IANC YMMV.

 

Wow, is this true? If so, that sounds amazing... really can't wait to play it now.

I'm glad there is no Death Penalty.. Reason?

Scenario:

You're in PvP/RvR theres a group of enemies closing in on you, you're outnumbered, but with luck you might just win.

With a death penalty in PvP, your group members would just run away, thinking they are outnumbered and there is no hope, why risk sitting AFK for 10 minutes if you KNOW you're going to die.

Without a death penalty in PvP, your group members might see there are more enemies but you wouldn't mind about dieing, if it meant you might just win. No penatly on losing so just go for it, etc.

The death penalty in PvE however is understandable, and adds a bit of excitement when you might die. It also gives you an incentive not to run in with no brain and attack stupidly.

Wow, that was excellent, this cinematic has really hyped me up for WAR again! Woohoo!

EDIT: Who was the ugly horned guy at the end with a Dragon?

It doesn't have to kill WOW to be any good, although it most definitly will offer some nice competition for it.

WOW needs some competition to stop the developers shoveling out crap to their playerbase, hopefully, WAR will give them a nice kick up the arse. Only the gamers will really be glad.

Just look at PS3/Xbox/Wii, if they didn't have each other, on their own they would suck.

The system looks great, much better than WoW's crafting system i must say.
I'm also glad there isn't Armour/Weapon crafting, as that can be detrimental to Weapons/Armour received from PvP and PvE.

The only problem i can see though is that Talismans are created for high level items, yet what is the point in a level 10 or 20 (cant remember) creating talismans?

Communities should be developed in the servers not in forums, i for one, am glad that there are no forums, other MMO forums are just for whining.

I'm so glad they didn't include Weapon and Armor crafting. It was one thing in WoW that annoyed me....

To have weapon and armor crafting causes an issue as there are either bosses/pvp that people dont want to take part in because they can craft better, or that you can get the best items from drops/pvp so there's no need to craft.

I especially like the idea of custom types of potions instead of WoWs generic pots that are always the same.

except the 5.5million asian players pay pennies to play

People want to play with millions of other people, thats why WoW keep going on about their user base. No-one wants to play a game that is dead, you feel alone and bored.

I find that i usually log off around the time, all my friends log off, usually because the social aspect of an MMO disapears without friends.

In before ''Dur maybe dat is 10 million accounts, not 10 million subscribers''.

Although on my server, it doesn't seem to be as busy as it used to be.

Wow is so big now, that i think that it won't be just one game that will kill it.

I think it will be a mix between a couple of really nice games, and a bad expansion pack that will take a majority of the player base. But even after that i think there will be enough players for blizz to keep wow going.

Remember, they aimed for a player base of around 500k...