Why WoW will continue to dominate MMORPGs

[valkry]

I ahvent even heard of that KotOR lol. I don't see wow failing for a while at least though. Also, I want to find out what happens next lore wise...

[Tasty]

I ahvent even heard of that KotOR lol. I don't see wow failing for a while at least though. Also, I want to find out what happens next lore wise...

Lore Shmore, I'd rather just cut people up with Lightsabers :P

[krinkle]

Having said the above, the most annoying WoW bug that still exists in the expansion is the one I call 'The graphics location bug'. This is where the WoW client thinks another player or creature is some where else in the game and it's really right next to the current player. The screen doesn't show the creature or player but the map may show a player far away. Never-the-less, WoW does have smooth game play even if you're boxxing 36 WoW clients on 11 computers over a high speed cable Internet connection through a router.

Haha. That bug drives me crazy! I never knew it existed until I started multiboxing and all my toons would hearth and only 4 out of the 5 would show up! So annoying.

[wowphreak]

deysnc bug annoying what happens to me sometimes is I'll af all my chars mount up and start moving to a new area to see all my guys standing there
alt tab and from there point of view my main standing there so in order for them to sync up gotta run em outta of mini screen range and then back.
I wish there was a way to force resync or something.


One of the thing that WoW does right is that they add new content on a regular basis for free.

They never got pvp right hoping in wotlk its get better.

One of the things thats gonna kill wow is having all these new areas and not enough players in each area. Since there seem to be a hard limit on the number of people, is that everyone will be to spread out and getting groups will be a major pain. This is already happening to some degree if yeh don't play at prime time.

[OzPhoenix]

Given the extreme overlap of audiences between WoW and Diablo 3, I would expect Blizzard to (assuming D3 is a full subscription service like WoW) retire WoW in favour of D3 when it comes out in 2-3 years time.

That's my 2 copper.

[Tasty]

Given the extreme overlap of audiences between WoW and Diablo 3, I would expect Blizzard to (assuming D3 is a full subscription service like WoW) retire WoW in favour of D3 when it comes out in 2-3 years time.

That's my 2 copper.

Lucky I still consider WoW just a game. I imagine if they 'retire' WoW alot of people will be upset cause their 'accomplishments' will mean nothing. NOT that you can't actually accomplish stuff in WoW its just that its WoW related most of the time and has no real world value. (imo)

[OzPhoenix]

Given the extreme overlap of audiences between WoW and Diablo 3, I would expect Blizzard to (assuming D3 is a full subscription service like WoW) retire WoW in favour of D3 when it comes out in 2-3 years time.

That's my 2 copper.

Lucky I still consider WoW just a game. I imagine if they 'retire' WoW alot of people will be upset cause their 'accomplishments' will mean nothing. NOT that you can't actually accomplish stuff in WoW its just that its WoW related most of the time and has no real world value. (imo)

I just don't see how the subscriber base of the two games could survive side by side. It would seem to me that most of D3's new accounts would cannibalise Wow's subscriber base.

[Tasty]

Given the extreme overlap of audiences between WoW and Diablo 3, I would expect Blizzard to (assuming D3 is a full subscription service like WoW) retire WoW in favour of D3 when it comes out in 2-3 years time.

That's my 2 copper.

Lucky I still consider WoW just a game. I imagine if they 'retire' WoW alot of people will be upset cause their 'accomplishments' will mean nothing. NOT that you can't actually accomplish stuff in WoW its just that its WoW related most of the time and has no real world value. (imo)

I just don't see how the subscriber base of the two games could survive side by side. It would seem to me that most of D3's new accounts would cannibalise Wow's subscriber base.

*sigh* back to reminiscing about D2.... good times. My merc was so decked out lol, windfury etc. It managed to kill everyone I dueled hehe. Also not everyone will want to play D3 (i think). Kinda like War

[thinus]

Good god it makes me wonder why you even bother with MMORPGS at this point in time lol. If I didn't like WoW and there was nothing better I'd switch genres for a while :O

I enjoy the challenge of 5-boxing. Besides, I only listed the things I don't like about WoW to illustrate the point that there is room for improvement. There are many things I do like. If it wasn't for 5-boxing I probably wouldn't be playing WoW because once you get to the *grind* phase I start to lose interest.

[Moorea]

I don't understand your post,



is this a personal opionon based on that PvP and PvE exists with smooth gameplay?

is this a QQ post about a desync bug?

is this another excuse to bring up the fact that you ZOMG play 36 characters?

Having a case of the mondays ?

back to topic: I would agree that wow is pretty unique - another reason for it to be around a long time is the investment (time) that millions of people have in the game - unless they screw up majorly I think it'll be around for a long time.

On the other hand I'm a bit worried that some realms can quickly become ghosttowns when significant % of players jump to other games or realms