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look another MMO to fail against WoW!

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look another MMO to fail against WoW!


It's not a competition, you don't have to beat WoW to be a success.
In fact WoW actually helps other games succeed, whenever first-time MMO players consume its available content and go looking for other MMOs to play.
If you want an analogy, think of WoW as a starter drug.

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look another MMO to fail against WoW!


The sad part is you are 100% correct. Pretty much every MMO since WoW has tried far too hard to dethrone it and wound up fading into obscurity a year later. You have to maintain your own niche of players otherwise you will fail miserably. EVE Online does this right, many others do not.

A key example is Warhammer Online itself. It had a strong first month showing (so much so as all the servers were overloaded and they added more frantically) and looked like it was going to do well. Problem is, once you hit maximum level (40) in that game there was little else to enjoy, and the tier system was lopsided from 31-40. People quickly vacated the game in droves and servers merged, making things even worse with population screwups.

They went from a half dozen or so servers at launch to like 50 when it was doing well, and now its back down to 6. Ouch.
Warhammer closes 43 servers
(The game had barely been out half a year)

This goes for you too, Star Wars: The Old Republic. Just because you have a good license like LOTR does not mean automatic win.

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look another MMO to fail against WoW!


Well there's some positive thinking... =)

One would hope they are just trying to make a fun game as opposed to competing with wow (think DDOU which doesn't really borrow from wow much at all and has become relatively successful).

The good thing about this is that it doesn't compete directly with WoW, just like Eve. Warhammer Online is a fantasy game, so the competition is much more head to head, and there it simply doesn't match wow at all. This could be a nice game if done well.

Plus, there's Titans. TITANS.

FOR THE GOD EMPEROR !