We saw games "born" and "die" (i assume you are talking about audience here) all time. WoW wont be a exception. If you ask how long it will take the answer is unknow.

Meanwhile, there are some hints its already started:

Article about it:

http://rog.gameslate.com/mmorog/warcraftrealms-graphs-wow-decline

Sources:

http://www.warcraftrealms.com

http://www.warcraftrealms.com/temp/activity.htm

Slowly...just like this thread apparently. LOL

Originally posted by Horny

We saw games "born" and "die" (i assume you are talking about audience here) all time. WoW wont be a exception. If you ask how long it will take the answer is unknow.

Meanwhile, there are some hints its already started:

Article about it:

http://rog.gameslate.com/mmorog/warcraftrealms-graphs-wow-decline

Sources:

http://www.warcraftrealms.com

http://www.warcraftrealms.com/temp/activity.htm

 

Auto Assault died, Ryzom died.

There are still games around that weren't nearly as successfull as WoW. If games like AC, DAOC, EQ, UO, Lineage, etc are still around with a player base I don't see any reason why, at some long point in the future, WoW won't experience the same thing.

Originally posted by Zoulz

Originally posted by CDCosta

WoW is going to die in a few years...

 

Its nothing Like EQ or UO, dont even kid yourself.

Your right, wow is much, much better and will probably out-live those games ten fold.

Much better? How do you figure? All WoW did was take the features from all the successful and innovative games before it (DAoC, EQ, UO, AC) and simplified it so much that a retarded monkey could play it. Better? Name one feature WoW has that isn't in an MMO that came before it, and that it did a better job with.

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Originally posted by Nightbringe1
Without a continious cycles of new and improved items entering the game people will very shortly max out their characters. The resulting stagnation as nothing new entered would be far worse than having to actually play the game on a regular basis to keep you uber status.
New gear NEEDS to enter on a regular basis to keep the game fresh, and it has to surpass older gear in some fashion or it is meaningless.

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the key word in this is STAGNANT. Main reason I left WoW was the pitiful amount of time it has taken them to add content. Makes me wonder where my monthly fee is going, especially with a such a high profile game as WoW. I actually think this is what truly will kill WoW and already IS killing WoW. Sad too, since I really enjoyed this game, but the game has to grow otherwise it turns into pondwater.

It will die with a squeak when they forget to feed their hamsters... hehe

The bottom line is wow wont die. It holds more then half of all MMO Subs. It will take hella to kill it.

Originally posted by MasterPain55

Ever since the intro to resilience, the pvp game and pve game are completely seperate. Its almost like two different games now. It looks to me like WoW is going to end up killing its self similar to what happened with swg, but over a longer time scale. Its sad because a person on the wow forums brought up the topic of resillence destroying the game and a dev (blue) replied by saying, we understand your concern and we will be adding superior items(blues) w/ resisilience to more reputation vendors. It just goes to show that WoW is allways going to be a endless grinding game and eventually people are going to see through this and move to other mmos.

WoW's biggest problem, and its future failure, is the community.  There is no real community in game because:

1) No houseing - people who live close togther begin to watch out for one another and become "tight" which builds bonds.  WoW has no social side.

2) Reaching max level is possible solo. If you dont need others you tend NOT to care about them.

3) Everything is static.  Nothing you do can change the game, so why care?

Compare wow's community to EQ2's, and you see a world of difference.

here we go again. wow will die when the 10 million people who play it dies. as long as it is making money it will stay up. this is the only way.

Never going to happen.

WoW will die when WoW 2 is released. If you hate WoW or are bored by it I guarantee it wasn't made to appeal to you. It was made to appeal to the other ten million plus still playing it.

I canceled awhile ago.  I still check out the forums once and awhile.  The best of WoW is behind us.  It's simply a legendary game a few developers put their heart and soul into, turned into a marketing ploy to suck up that last penny.

Like this OP mentioned the PvE PvP seperation was a huge mistake.  No point in Pveing if PvP is your thing.  I personally enjoyed doing both, but the resilience locked you into one or the other.

The e-sport is a joke.

There's no depth in the game besides gear.  No evolution in the game.  No fights for cities.  Nothing but pointless PvE objectives that are considered "world PvP"

Oh ya I hear they're adding pvp zone.  I can tell you that will be a complete failure right now cause I know Blizzard's idea of world pvp. 

It will be a pit in the middle of nowhere, with no ties to the actual world, and people will go for a few pieces of gear the first couple weeks.  After that most will begin the locust swarm back to battlegrounds for their leet uber gearz.  After 2 months the pvp zone will be an empty shell of nothingness.

I probably sound bitter.  That's cause I am.  I enjoyed this game for awhile, but found myself stuck getting bored with, but aiming for that next piece.  It's a shallow game.

It's your soccer mom's MMO.  It's the McDonald's of MMOs.  Most likely you'll find you like Jack in the Box burgers better, but everyone can get something out of McDonalds.