Well it killed WoW for me all right. My account is sold. 

3 things people need to realize:

1) Most of you have horrible grammar

2) Your delusional if you think WoW will get toppled by AoC

3) pie > all

Na,  AoC will do nothing to WoW, BUT I can tell you what can be a WoW killer

$200 for a barrel of oil by end of summer

forclosures up 300%

food prices up 100%

.........* shakes head * ....that is a Wow killer for me!

Originally posted by Hrica

Na,  AoC will do nothing to WoW, BUT I can tell you what can be a WoW killer

$200 for a barrel of oil by end of summer

forclosures up 300%

food prices up 100%

.........* shakes head * ....that is a Wow killer for me!

 

When I went to feed 4 with Spaghetti yesterday...we were talking 40+ bucks US...

Uh...I could usually feed 4 with Spaghetti ...for $20

And dont ask me to drive anywhere....so all that gas money will go to pay for AoC

LOL

Originally posted by admriker4

China. 1/3 of the total world population lives there

More like a fifth actually

My prediction?

AoC will have around 500k subs, 2 months after release.

Then once WAR releases, they will drop to 200k. And WAR will rise to 1 million players in the EU - US.

I will play AoC, just to kill time till the game with real PvP ( RvR )comes out.

( Oh and I will go buy me a second 8800GTS 512MB to setup my SLI, so I can actually run this resource hog of a game )

But neither WAR nor AoC will kill WoW, which is a good thing, cause I don't need all them WoW noobs in my game :p

greetz

The next big massive multiplayer game will not be on the RPG area.

It will be a sport massive multiplayer game. What is the most popular sport worldwide? Soccer ( football in Europe).

There you go, when a big company release a well thought Massive Multiplayer game on this area , it will blow those 10 millions by far.

And I don't think that the next Online Football Manager will do it because it will need a big and experienced company on both sport and MMO fields.

Maybe on the next years there will be a co-production between companies like Blizzard and Sigames.

When/if that happens, we will be talking about hundreds of millions in active subscriptions.

Who cares if this game does only have a few hundred thousand playing. Thats more then enough to have a good gaming community. You don't need millions of players to have a successful game. I my self have been playing WoW for 3yrs and it's time to move on. I like the game very much but at times it gets very boring becuase of the lack of content I think they provide. One new area and some dailys since the last expansion pack is not enough. They make enough money and have the resources to give us a little more I think through out the year. Really....how many times can you run those same boring dungeons over and over again on your multiple lvl 70s that most people have.

WoW does have a very immature community....that is because the game can run on basically any PC. Nice thing about AoC is that you cant run this on any given machine which will stop a lot of children from playing since they do not have the money or mom and dad will not spend it to upgrade there machine. I also think WaR will have a big following as well because of the cartoon graphics that also allow you to run on most machines. AoC will be a more mature audience which is what a lot of older gamers want. There is nothing worse then being in a raid at 10pm rolls around and two or three or your guildies have to leave because its past there bedtime on a school night....Let WoW and WaR have all these children. AoC is meant for the Mature audience and thats what we want.

Guys...

The true Wow killer is most certainly Blizz's next mmo. They will not do the same mistakes they did with WoW so it is easy to imagine their success.

Now the one thing that will seriously weaken the numbers of wow players is simply the combination of the two games : AoC + WAR, with WAR claiming the big chunk of the pie.

Some say that wow players are "noobs" and "immature" but a seriously large percent of them play WoW only because there is simply NO better game available (but this changes now with AoC and later with WAR).

I predict that at least 1/3 of wow players will change to AoC and WAR in the coming couple of years.

Originally posted by matraque

The OP is so wrong.

Nothing will beat wow.  If something beats wow, it will be Blizzard next MMO.

WoW runs on pretty much any machine out there... you can't beat that.

Just one question than--with Blizzards next MMO will it to be able to run on pretty much any machine out there?? If it does that means they have made a new game with out any improvments towards graphics... so it will be a new game with the same graphics, same style just a differnt name and differnt proffesion/classes/race?? o yea sounds good to me!!! lol

Many people are craving for something more, and I think AoC will be it. But I'm sure that little kids and people with crappy pcs will keep WoW strong

O and my thoughts on AoC being the WOW killer…How I would love this to be true I don’t think it will happen and there reason for this is because WaR is right around the corner. But AoC and WaR companied will hit WOW really hard.
AoC and WAR will  more than likely take 95% of all the PVP’rs from WOW—and that’s a Fact…Be honest WOW players you no that to be true(read the PVP forums on wow, everyone can not wait for AoC and WAR)…And will take other PVPer’s from around the MMO community—AoC and WAR are built on PVP…So the question is how many PVPers make up the 10mill at WOW?? I could say 100k I could say 5mill… truth is none of us no.. And on top of that How many instance/raid guilds have completely down everything they can do in the game?? Are they ready for a new challenge and Game?? None of us know!!!
I do know it will take at least 2 games to knock WOW of its high horse and those games are coming.

And I will throw this out there 2.. With an MMO coming from Biwoware (in the next year if rumors are true)
Depending on the title—that could be a big blow to Blizzard---reason for this gamers know that Bioware makes great games, and Bioware has a nice following….And if and this is a Big IF-----If it turns out to be a Star Wars MMO—watch out Blizzard and the mmo community.. and to be honest cant see that it wont be.. with the new Star Wars CGI movie coming out, and everything surrounding that, what a great time to tell everyone about the new Star Wars MMO.. There are a crap load of Star Wars fans, and a crap load will play the game.. It happen for WOW—you had the nerds playing the game—the pen and paper game….And if it’s a Star Wars mmo and its done right….WOW wont even be a bleep on the RADAR---all you will ever here about that game will be stories.