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Kasz216 on 21 October 2008
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Ail said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
Ail said:

Possible successfull MMO, yeah

Contender to Wow ? Doubtfull, noone is really playing in the same league as Blizzard these days. Heck expect Wow suscribers to rise to 13 millions or so in the next 6 months....

That's what people said about Everquest and the like before WoW.

Still, a better failing of this new MMO is that Star Wars is too niche to beat WoW.

 

Wow is nothing like Everquest ( I played both extensively).

Blizzard spends more on Wow yearly than Sony used to on EQ in 4 years and you see it in the game...

 

Niche isn't the issue, you could argue Star Wars has more mainstream appeal than Wow...( Wow is still only known within the gamer community).

But heck, how many MMOs aside from Wow do commercial on TV ? :P

Heck I can buy Wow T-shirts at my local mall...

 

For anyone to be a successfull Wow contender two things have to happen:

- The new game has to introduce new features  that are considered a major advantage compared to Wow ( the same way Wow was seen a tonn more fun and casual friendly than EQ when it came out).

- Blizzard has to do a major misstep with Wow and alienate a lot of the player base ( and it doesn't look like WOTLK will do that based on the hype and excitement around it).

Maple Story does!

How they do I have no clue... since it's one of those "free" MMOs.... but it does.