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SupBambiKing on 25 January 2014
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pezus said:
Soonerman said:
I don't know why people get excited about this. This game will be dumb down for the controller for a console which means the game will be lame. After all, FF XI was pretty dull and boring. And I still have no hope for this game. WoW will still be doing better when this one comes out.

Huh?

WoW is only going down.

This game doesn't need to have more subscribers/players than WoW, though. Why would it?

Will it be subscription based or F2P?
If  its F2P this game won't have a chance to reach a decent quality level and to be healthy in the Sub Segment they need to stop trying to be the WoW Killer like every other game in the last years tried.

To be honest > Nothing ever will beat WoW in Subscription based MMORPG Segment.
And the biggest mistake is trying to do it.
To be competitive with WoW you need to release with content worth of 10 years aka 5 Expansions or so.
All the MMORPGs of th Last Years had all the fault of missing Endgame Content while they tried so much to be the "WoW Killer"
It doesn't matter if you pump out 200 Million into Story Telling like Star Wars TOR had if you finished this after 2 days and cleared every Raid Encounter and got the highest PvP Rank after 5 more days.Same happened with Aion,Tera,FF14 and all the others.
ESO will share the same fate > A strong first free month mainly through the WoW Community pushing it to good numbers before it is dead after that month.
Doesn't matter if you have 4 Million Subs in the first month when you drop under 500k the moment the free month is over and people go back to WoW/other games.

And high sub numbers as a subscription based game is needed if you want the game to stay healthy and get constantly new Raid Content and other things.
And don't tell me you don't need Raid Content > What will you do then?2 Days to max Level(in every MMORPG) and then?
Challenge and Raid Content are the only thing which brings ENOUGH people to stay otherwise you end up at a bad F2P Model like Star Wars TOR did.
I really hope EverQuest Next is able to manage this cause it was back then something like the inspiration for WoW.If they still have the quality they can create something that could rival it without trying to be it.
Everquest Next is together with Wildstar the only game which has a realistic chance to survive and stay healthy in the same genre as a subscription based model.