Tencent owns a decent portion of Activision/Blizzard as well.
This will be Riot’s version of HOTS. Years late to a saturated market.
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The strong points of WoW are…uh variety of races? Good raids and dungeons.
And, It’s an adult friendly game, meaning It’s a game that 30+ age people can play without cringing too much.
If the Riot MMO can beat WoW in those 3 points then yes It will steal many WoW players if WoW doesn’t improve from now.
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At this point it’s not gonna take much.
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If it’s anything like LoL it’s going to be cash shop crap to the maximum which will turn a lot of people off regardless of how good the game is.
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I don’t think its going to do well logic is this to many champions to turn into classes and make it all make any amount of sense.
Everquest is still around and it’s not dead.
So no.
Could it become the new top leading MMORPG? Possibly.
The only thing that will kill WoW, is WoW. And they are damn doin a good job atm, this whole expansion has gone blue-footed boobies (its a bird) up and Idk about the future.
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Simple answer: No
Long answer: NOOOOOOOOO
WoW is killing itself already with the presumed decay here in shadowlands. 9.1 has so little energy and excitement around it. I really would say that if Blozzard doesn’t get it’s crap together; the game is going to be going F2P pretty soon.
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WoW is almost 17 year olds and a single game hasn’t killed it inbetween then.
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I really think that all games should stop being referred to as a game killer. Games (and their creators, or their community, or lawyers) kill games.
Having said that, an MMO in the League of League world will be amazing. The creativity they possess for the various world factions they’ve developed just in their MoBA is awesome, and if they’re sticking to legit traditional RPG classes as they’ve stated, every MMORPG better take stock: Riot has a slew of legit gamers in their trenches, and the creativity that’s gone into their characters are so popular they’re mainstream.
Speaking of which, LoL has a level of street cred that will draw in non-gamers as well. I know guys and gals who never play LoL, but they wear the gear, they have the artwork up in their workspaces, and know more than enough about the characters to have their faves. It’s like talking to people about Marvel; they may not collect the comics, but they know enough to hold conversations with the bookworms like myself, and they’re curious for more.
It’s about as bad as pugging in WoW. My LoL ignore list hasn’t even touched double digits yet, and I’ve played for years. My WoW list was full for a time.
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I think the thing we’re going to see is a system of grouping that’s very much more efficient than the other MMORPGs out there. I’m fully expecting a MMR at launch.
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I see these threads all the time but the people writing them never give any kind of metric as to how these new games “kill” WoW.
Do they do it by being so amazing that everyone currently playing WoW stops to go play the new game?
Do they do it by simply becoming more successful than WoW?
Do they do it by outfitting their developers with high powered munitions and raiding Blizzard headquarters to literally wipe out the competition?
If it’s the first one, then no. No single game is going to draw away the addicts who are still here. Myself included.
If it’s the second, that doesn’t leave WoW dead, just not the biggest anymore.
I won’t even give the third a serious thought as it is just silly.
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lol, the only thing that’s going to kill wow is blizzard pulling the plug.
Even then there will still be private servers.
No. The only thing that can kill WoW is WoW. And quite frankly they’re doing a good job of it lately.
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It’s because of how the MMO market started. First there was Ultima Online which was killed by Everquest. Then WoW killed Everquest. We’ve all assumed something else would come along and kill WoW, but it never happened.
In no other game genre is there an expectation that the genre leader needs to be killed. Could you imagine people posting that a new game would kill the Call of Duty, Madden Football, or Super Mario franchises?
But then I can’t think of another genre where back to back you had two massive franchises just unquestionably destroyed by a better and bigger game.
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Could be better, could be worse.
Regardless, it will definitely be more monetized and geared for an Asian market over an American one.
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Considering Ghostcrawler is going after the dungeon and raid crowd it may encourage changes in WoW. Two MMOs for this crowd is one too many.
Riots new mmo wont kill WoW just like their fighting game won’t kill Capcoms Street Fighter series.
People stick with what they know, it’s hard to pull people. They will have the massive LoL audience who are already proven to eat up any microtransaction BS made in China. Riots MMO will print money but it won’t kill anything. WoW addicts are here for life.
No, it will likely go the route of every other would be ‘wow killer’.