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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 5033697" data-attributes="member: 18182">I think we agree more than disagree.  Someone could make a game superior to WoW in every way, and still not seriously puncture Blizzard's golden balloon.A new game doesn't have to threaten WoW's dominance to become a popular game, and valuable franchise.  But an excellent game will definitely offer serious competition for gamers monthly $15.  Most of us can't afford to pay more than one of those at a time!If a new awesome D&D MMO came along, and sucked away a decent sized chunk of Blizzard's audience for only six months, that's competition!  Not enough to knock Blizzard out of it's orbit, but enough to impact their profits.  And of course, as gamers, we shouldn't really care about that half of things . . . . we just want lots of people playing our favorite game so that it gets the attention and continued development that it deserves!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />A new kickass MMO needs to do better than DDO, LOTRO, and others, but doesn't have to be a WoWkiller.  It just needs to offer enough competition to remain sustainable and visible to a sizeable audience.</blockquote>