Quote Originally Posted by zanthor',index.php?page=Thread&postID=140381#post1 40381][quote='Dragonshadow',index.php?page=Thread&postID= 140295#post140295]Or $36 a year for up to 5 PCs with innerspace.

Hmm.

$36 x 3 = $108

$108 for Three years of innerspace on those 5 PCs (you do it a year at a time... do you really think you will still be playing wow in 3 years? WoW is fun, but I'm betting blizz will kill it somehow)

I would go for the $36 a year solution lol. [/quote]http://www.uoherald.com/news/

UO still has an active subscriber base and they went retail in [url='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Online
1997[/url], I played that until Beta4 of EQ in late 98 or early 99... played EQ while checking EVERY other MMO that released until WoW let me into their Beta in 2004... In the four years since WoW released I haven't had any significant desire to look elsewhere, I'm happy with the gameplay and progression the game makes, and quite frankly, I don't see myself moving on to another MMO unless that drastically changes... Since Ultima Online is still live, and it's population peaked in 2003, I'd be disappointed if WoW doesn't see the 10 year mark.
Problem is games change over time. UO was great in 97, and good till about 2000 when the devs took a major turn away from pvp and ruined the game for my friends and I. WoW could do the same thing. Fact is with a game that changes over time, its just not fun after a certain number of changes or repetitions.

Look at EQ1 and SWG for examples of drastic changes and extreme repetition.

Will wow be here in 3 years? Sure.

Will most of the people playing wow be here in 3 years? I doubt it. MMO's seem to have an extraordinary high turn over rate, getting worse and worse after your first mmo. WoW is the king now, and will be for a while, but over time people will get burned out.