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• • Tales of Pirates? Myth War? Wtf?

  • man thats just for a day  u dont care about the votes or u just see WoW is the most ppl game and its not on the list

     

  • Posted: 3/19/08 5:23 AM
    General Discussion
• • Poll: Do you Belive in MMo FriendShip??

  • Hi eveybody i  like to see people opinion about this issue

  • Posted: 3/19/08 5:21 AM
    General Discussion
• • How does Archlord compare to RF ?

  • u can say but Archlord totaly good game  but full with problemss

    lagg all time and buggy and botters and bad support no patching

    RF better but if u want to play good game ask in general and u get better than this 2 game that didn't mean anything to big mmorpg Want a F2p??

    Rappelz,Silkroad just those are good

     

  • Posted: 3/19/08 5:15 AM
    ArchLord
• • World of Warcraft - Bad For The MMOG Industry?

  • WoW the first game for me but i saw this info from other site and post it here with the important of them so not me i write it !

  • Posted: 3/01/08 7:21 AM
    World of Warcraft
• • World of Warcraft - Bad For The MMOG Industry?

  • People like to find something and blame it for anything that goes wrong, or that goes badly. If you do bad in school, you blame it on the teacher. If you forget something, you blame your parent's for not reminding you. And lately it seems that MMOG enthusiasts are the exact same way, blaming WoW on failures in the industry including dropped project. Recently the Marvel MMOG project was even shut down because they didn't think it would be successful with the P2P model they originally wanted it to have because of World of Warcraft, saying it dominated the industry and provided little room for other games in that model type. Now everyone is moving on to F2P models, trying to revolutionize those with new innovations. But has the vast success of World of Warcraft actually hurt the industry, or has it actually been a blessing in disguise?

    

    First off, most people are mis-led by the numbers. Having a friend who compiles MMOG information and analyzes it to see which models are most successful, and which games are most popular, I understand the numbers that are actually being compared. First off, most people gasp in amazement when they hear that WoW has a whopping 10 million subscribers. But unlike what you might think, that doesn't mean there's ten million players today. The game itself has been around since 2004, and has exploded ever since with millions of sales of the game. But that's what the 'subscriber' count is based on, the amount of people who have purchased the game. So if 5 million of those subscribers purchased the game, played for a month, hated it, and quit, they are still being counted as a subscriber today even if they haven't played since 2004

    So despite the fact that you might think it's the most popular, games like Habbo Hotel also attract a number in the multi-millions. Runescape is also way up there, even though a lot of that is players with numerous characters on different accounts. Therefore, World of Warcraft may, or may not, have the most players on the game today. But whether that be true or not, it does still have the huge amount of sales/subscribers behind it. But does this success harm other games in the industry using the same model? I personally find it hard to believe that it harms the industry in that way. If you take a look at the figures, a lot of people will tell you that World of Warcraft contains such a huge population of gamers that the rest of the games in the industry can't possibly be as successful. But what they're forgetting is that the amount of people in the world that knew what a Massively Multiplayer Online Game was before 2004 was microscopic compared to the amount know, after the huge public achievements by World of Warcraft, including their numerous commercials and celebrity endorsements. So despite the fact that looking at the figures you would see that the majority of MMOG players from a couple years ago are around the amount of World of Warcraft players now, more then half of them are new to the industry. How can a game bringing in such huge amounts of gamers be bad to other games? If one booth at a convention is popular, it brings publicity to the convention, which in turn brings attention from the spectators to other booths, even if it's just briefly such as a glance. World of Warcraft has brought millions of people into the MMOG industry, and for the ones that broke away from the game, they've found a new home on the vast variety of other MMOGs out there to satisfy their need for online gaming.

  • Posted: 2/28/08 4:20 PM
    World of Warcraft