AoC will be like Wildstar. People who think they want a more hardcore game will flock there, the population will boom shortly, then taper off for ages before plummeting. And the game will close.
Narrator - It didnât.
A new challenger approached the group of overly buff men wearing leather underwear and moving and heaving rocks about in the fading Greek sunlight.
Born atop a golden palanquin and held aloft by Kickstarter backers groaning under the weight of their donations and hoping for the merest drop of Beta, or for the more ambitious, Alpha.
âYOU THERE!â the man seated comfortably atop his cushions shouted to the sweating, muscled, glistening bodies below him. âWhy do you dare impede the progress of our GLORIOUS creation? Do you not know who we are? We are the WoW Killers!â
One among the many slowly grinding through the movement of heavy rocks looks up and smiles.
âWeâve heard of you, and seen your trailers⌠weâre not impressed.â He points at the wall behind him. âAge of Conan, Warhammer Online, Wildstar, the Cities of Heroes and Villains and many others have claimed such a title⌠and here they are now. Mortar for our wall.â He gestures specifically to corpses smashed between the boulders labeled as various milestones. Wrath, Cataclysm, even simply patch updates.
The man atop the palanquin grows furious, his face darkening in rage and he brings forth a weapon to attempt to punish such insolence, the whip of angry forum-goers, but it is casually deflected aside. The man who taunted him draws his sword and leaps atop the palanquin, buoyed up by 15 years of steady subscription fees and laughing at the struggles of the kickstarters. His sword tears through the arm holding the whip with a sickening crunch as bone shatters and flesh splits.
Falling back upon his cushions, the man sputters with his face going pale:
âThe thousand backers of kickstarter and the investors of a new MMO will descend upon you! Our Beta testers, shall blot out the sun!â
The swordsman smiles:
âThen we will release a content patch in the shade.â
Howâs that for a 300 reference for you?
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But thereâs been so many of the yearsâŚ
They couldnât defend their treeâŚforget the city 
Ashes is not a wow killer. The 2 games are so different and will appeal to 2 completly different audiences.
good reference but in the end they all end up dying soâŚ
Betrayed from within, and as many say⌠the only WoW killer will be WoW itself⌠a rather acceptable parallel is it not?
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Youâd have 11 to 12 dollarsâŚ
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Yes. I hope shadowlands isnât Ephialtes of wow that betrays wow from within 
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So how many of these so-called Wow Killers have been made? And yet WoW is still here?
Itâs promising too much: too good to be true.
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The game is still in the early alpha stages and is being created by a tiny studio that could lose all funding tomorrow and drop off the face of the earth without anyone knowing.
Maybe talk about it as a wow killer once its released and the studio is actually making money off it.
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Letâs be real. Some people have so much /played that theyâll never leave wow. Change my mind.
WoW did die.
It died in WoD and came back
But now its dieing again. They even said it in BFA
Azeroth is crying and dieing
Magni says it over and over
We should probably just put her out of her misery at this pointâŚ
This is too painful to watch.
Saw the gameplay for it and what the developer said was in it and it wont compete with WoW. Itâs like when you hear a kid talk about how he wants all these really cool things in one package without realizing what kind of mess that creates.
At the very least itâll be itâs own game that in no way will be directly competing with WoW and more than likely as every other mmo that looks like it, will fall into obscurity if not out right die.
Right now the mmos around are making their own game instead of competing with others. I doubt we will ever actually see a âWoW killerâ. In the last 15 years think only 2 games actually tried to be like WoW but in the end one died and another went itâs own route.
Way more than 2 tried to follow the âwowâ formula.
Only one still successful is FFXIV, but itâs kind of doing it slightly differently. But Yoshi-p himself is a HUGE wow fan so even the lore reason for 2.0 is based around wow.
I never knew that type of ornate chair had a name. Thank you for teaching me a new word! Bravo on the reference, btw. Truly.
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I watched that video with asmongold and I couldnât handle the whole
âSo itâs going to be like getting an ice cream sundae?â
- âwell kind of but this ice cream sundae is served in a bowl made of brownies and the ice cream will cure deathâ
Some of that stuff sounded too good to be possible