General Discussion

War seems to be to WoW, what WoW was to all the previous MMOs. the same thing, just done better. And I for one am sick of the same old thing I'm waiting for Darkfall! no level up system = no grind! Dark fall will be a truly Unique game and I cannot wait!

It's been in development for the last 7 years, but from I'm reading from the dev diary, I'm guessing we only have 6-8 months more to wait!
 

WAR will be good but it will never reach the player base of WOW. WAR will bring alot of intresting concepts but IMO I think it will be a disappointment.

Originally posted by _Shadowmage

 

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Originally posted by Reygar
Try again...it's November 13th....the release of Wrath of the Lich King.......

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WOW - my mistake. But then 99% of the worlds population dont use the stupid American date format.
 

America does a lot of things most people find stupid. From the metric system to a TV culture.

That same culture has seemed to have ruined most of the minds that have posted thus far. The OP is probably a troll rejoicing a fun time in a fun game. He/she blatantly insulted WoW but for god's sake, I think WoW deserves as much at most times. Or at least the players do.

10 million, which a large majority are now Asian and an even more startling percentage of which are polar bears hiding in the basements of adults who thought they had children. The majority of WoW players won't be switching because they are the arrogants who believe their life should center around "being with" 24 other people in static hell for a few hours or are too busy getting phat lewts that weren't really earned so much as sat around for.

Four years of WoW and all I can say is Death Knights can go try to suck a doorknob.

Edit: And no, I don't agree with the OP that WAR will obliterate WoW, but it's funny to watch people walk up and slap it in the face once and a while. People left for Lotro, people left for AoC, people left for every other little game. To me it just means there's a large group of people who really don't want to play WoW but don't want trash - and aren't giving up on the search.
 

I think WAR will be good for WOW. A little challenge in the market will encourage blizzard to improve WOW.

WOW has been great for the MMO market - millions more MMO players. WHich means potentially lots more

Its also been bad for the MMO market - everyone wants a slice of the $1.5 billion per year WOW pie. So most games are following the same EQ2 / WOW type model.

WOW has taken 4 years to reach 10 million players - I dont see WAR getting there overnight. EA & Mythic arent trying to dethrone WOW anyway so why does anyone else care?

Play the games you enjoy and dont worry about what other people think.

I will be playing WAR.

Originally posted by Frey

WARHAMMER ONLINE is coming out this Thursday 18th Sept 2008!  Savour your remaining days WoW, you have kept the seat warm for WAR...

But do not worry World of Warcraft, you will not disappear into oblivion...  You will merely become just another face in the crowd.

Take care everyone! 

SUBMIT to WAR!! :)

Why would anyone want WoW to lose its subscribers? In my opinion, any game that comes out to beat WoW's numbers would have to be even more pathetic and watered down than WoW is, or absolutely revolutionary. Warhammer is neither, thankfull. It won't beat WoW, and thank god for that. I don't want to play a WORSE version of WoW, its bad enough already.

Since the majority of WoW players are in Asia, WAR isn't going to dent that number until it gets over there and if they like it....

Not that matters who's epeen is bigger.

Originally posted by _Shadowmage

 

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Originally posted by Reygar
Try again...it's November 13th....the release of Wrath of the Lich King.......

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WOW - my mistake. But then 99% of the worlds population dont use the stupid American date format.

Well, your mistake AGAIN.

US pop ~ 300M

World pop ~ 6.6T

US has around 4.5% of the world population. Can you look things up in google and do division?

"Here they go again." 

I have never figured out the mentality that one mmo has to beat out the other.   Most of the poeple want to see wow come crashing down don't even play wow.  Sure there are some who play wow and are getting tired of the every day grind that is almost ever PVE game.   I plan on playing WAR but I am still going to play Wow.

Like some have posted before, WAR is mainly PVP oriented while Wow is more PVE.  Though Wow offers PVP on the side PVE is the main focus.   If you play WOW for the PVP then most likely your the one that will leave.  Most PVE players don't want to PVP.  Even though the server I play on is PVP most in my guild don't like to PVP.  Only a few mention WAR.  A few mention they are going to play it and like me will play War but not quite Wow.  War and Wow are to mmos which approach mmo gaming from two different ways.  War is PVP first while Wow is pve first.  Two different player pools.  If anything was going to be compete with Wow it would have been AoC, but that did not come close.

I do find it funny that on the one hand people say "oh Wow is going to loose its player population."  Then the other side goes well they are all Asians as if that is all who play wow.  Last I checked my sever still has a stable heavy population that all speaks english. 

I hope War is as good as everyone says because I think it will fill a nitch in the mmo world that been missing.  A very good pvp rvr mmo.  That is why I am looking forward to playing it, but I still am going to play wow and hope the WotLK is also a success.  One does not have to kill the other.   And despite the failure of Funcom I had wished AOC would have been a good game too.  Need more mmo success than failures.

Kill WoW?

It won't even be a ripple in the pond.