WoW Relevancy Question

[Bollwerk]

More competition for WoW will be a good thing. It will force them to be at the top of their game.
I keep hoping some company will make an MMORPG as good as WoW, but so far.... nothing comes close. (for me at least)

[Sam DeathWalker]

You have to look at the simple economics of the situation. WoW has the most money coming in and thus can hire more artists, programers, etc. There is no reason to suspect that Activision will not reinvest in WoW.

Aion spends X bucks on its new game. WoW spends 10X bucks on its new expansion ..... duh.

Why don't do you ask "How long will Google be the top search engine".

The only possible way it will die is if the graphics engine cannot match new competition. But you saw with Cata they revamped the old part of the world to update that engine. They may have enough money to port over to a new engine or they made their engine modular enough so that they can update it as time goes on, something EQ1 did not do (maybe because at the time they could not).

Ya its the same old same old but so what why would change a formula that has clearly worked. Does Coke change? You will see real change if the subscriber base drops by a ton.

No MMO is going to beat wow for the forseeable future. It will take a new platform (i.e. 3D) or something we don't know about right now to take it away. It won't die by a "similar" competitor, it will take something like people going to farmville or just some entierly different thing to hurt it. Like the WWF. Had its time in the sun, it didn't die by another wrestling federation coming along, it just slowly lost viewers as time went on. So it will be with WoW.