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[Darkwolf71]

Originally Posted by Goodsport

I'm bumping this thread back up in honor of my return to WoW last week (with the purchase of Wrath of the Lich King) after a 1 1/2 year hiatus from the game due to having been laid off from work at the time (I'm no longer laid off), though I'd already bought The Burning Crusade beforehand.

Has everyone's opinions here about WoW and other MMORPG's changed or stayed the same since the release of the game's two expansions? Has the game itself changed (if so, for the better or for the worse?)? Is Everquest 2 poised to make a run to recapture the MMORPG throne its franchise once occupied? Are more recently released MMORPG's such as The Lord of the Rings Online or Warhammer Online instead ready to take the mantle from WoW?


-G

Necro much?

Nobody is taking the mantle from WoW.

DDO could have, but the biggest innovation they had turned against them. The combat in DDO is the best, most fun I have had in an MMO, but it required them to leave the 'turn' based system behind which required many many changes from the D&D rules. Which drove away many of what would have been their largest fan base. Shame. DDO is a fun game.

LotRO probably should have done much better than it has. Not real sure why, seemed like a decent enough game when I beta'd it but I had no desire to play it live.

AoC. IMO if any game should have been able to take a chunk out of WoWs hide it was this monster. The problem is, once downloaded it looks and plays like WoW with adult graphics and while boobies are nice, a King of RPGs they do not make.

Warhammer, I mention this one only because my best friend had this silly notion that it was going to not only damage but overtake WoWs subscription numbers. (Yeah, reality has set in for him, he still likes the game.)

Of course there is always:
EVE Online as someone said upthread two years ago, it is the Anti-WoW. It takes a very different mindset to enjoy the possibility of losing very very expensive ships in interstellar conflict. Never gonna be HUGE but it's an impressivly succsesful game considering the risks involved.


Edit: WoW was very much a matter of the stars being right. It's a good game. (I wouldn't say great but that's just me.) it runs very well on non-gaming PCs, it had a pre-existing fan base from B-net. It catered to both the PvP and the no-PvP crowds. (I'm not sure if it was the first to do this, but it was one of the first.) All these things came together and WoW exploded.

At this point there is no competing with WoW. There is only competing for the number two spot in the market.