We saw so many MMO games even with modern graphics, fail so hard… After 20years. no one can compete with World of Warcraft. not even close… What’s the real secret?
The cartoonish graphic style? The combat animation style?
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It is called WOW PRIDE when you play a great game you know it and these recent 2 xpacs have been really good, just look at how many goblins in this new zone
More gnomes/goblins = better game. Check when BFA got good it was GNOME patch 8.2. When did legion get good? Always if you were a hunter because you had Addie Fizzlebog.
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Why are you playing WoW and not some other game?
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I wasn’t even a wow player before and I’m still here, I started playing wow in Cataclysm because the game was launched in my country, I didn’t know that the game even existed before then I saw some ads and I gave it a try, even because usually I don’t search for this kind of content you know news about games and jerk things, I was used to play offline games in general.
My thing about mmos started due to lan houses and I remember that the very first game I touched was warcraft and as incredible as it may seem I almost didn’t play it because I wasn’t able o understabd the game it was a new concept to me took me years to find age of mythology and fall in love with this kind of game but in the period which I had access to the internet I was dedicated to a game named Priston Tale and Dofus till wow was launched in my country.
I started playing wow in Cataclism because the game was launched in my country in 2011 these other games were way older from 2001 and 2004 and I had access to these in my country, at the time I wasn’t fluent in english so I had no idea that the universe of warcraft even existed and trust me I missed a lot of things with it.
Now the thing is why do I still play this game? I truly believe it is a matter of content, the game is too big and I still have many things to do in here, I can say that because I came back to the other games I used to play recently and in the end after reaching some pretty good levels the game felt like an infinite leveling repetition day by day and all these games believe you or not made me waste way more money in an endless looping of buying some necessary stuff to be able to level up properly, in another game I had to buy the currency in order to equip my character properly, I know in wow many people do that, they pay for a pull in gold or something but I don’t feel the necessity of doing that in this game, I farm gold just to buy token or pets usually and even if I’m badly equipped doesn’t matter I can do old content I have lots to farm and I have the expectancy of new content coming and the continuation of the game which matters a lot because I had the experience before of a game ceasing to exist and it was philosophical to me, I told myself why did I waste my time in here? In the end it is all a waste of time but a really fun one.
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Addicted? I Guess… I don’t have an answer. really. I love the game though.
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The secret is invested players mixed with a hefty dose of FOMO and sunk cost fallacy.
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Nobody has done a mmo better than WoW on how your character’s presence exists in its virtual world. (so far)
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This is the real answer.
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Got it’s foot in the door first, did some genuine work in it’s youthful years, now WoW is content and has an addicted player base to keep to afloat and thus is not longer required nor motivated to remain “competitive” with the other MMORPG hitters.
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Even if it is in the #1 spot, it’s hard to feel any sense of pride for this game. Not when Blizzard is clearly using exploitation tactics against us.
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Because the controls are actually responsive.
None of the other MMOs have figured out how to make their abilities and character movement be as smooth as wow.
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I agree with you but I don’t know if it’s because I played WoW first and that is how my brain is wired now or if it is because WoW’s config is better. Maybe both, I am not used to GW2 and probably won’t connect with it the same way after years
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This for sure.
And Wow’s dungeons and raids are always solid. So when you just want to blast some enemies. No game does it better than Wow.
A lot of MMOs have really “floaty” movement and unresponsive combat.
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ESO is clunky
Ff14 is clunky
None of the other MMOs I’ve tried compare to how smooth wow plays.
Even classic wow has them beat.
Add on support helps a ton
Macro making is super easy to do and that’s also a plus.
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I did not try either of those yet but ty for the warning I probably will not do them
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MMOs are an investment.
You’d basically have to make a game that’s so absurdly good, it has to be enough for everyone to leave everything they have behind.
WoW was that game, back in late 2004.
But it’s going to likely be a while before anything worth while replaces WoW.
WoW has been able to adapt, and still is adapting to the gaming space. More solo-friendly content, for example. And housing is next.
Even when a good new MMO comes out, they always underestimate how much pull the old games still have.
And, older games can always steal and implement newer ideas.
Making a new game that can compete with a world that’s been built up over twenty years, is difficult.
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Because they jettisoned all the RPG stuff.
Which is why, while WoW is the number one MMO, FF14 is the number one MMORPG.
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but thats not true at all. and if you think so you are im a bubble
some years back ff14 beat it in evry respect even by the numbers
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I came to WoW from the original RTS games they made. I kept waiting on WC4 but they never made it so I came over to WoW instead. I did not want to play WoW originally. WoW coming from a preexisting game helped it out a lot. That’s why FFXIV does so good now too cuz it also came from preexisting games. Star Wars MMO failed because it did not come from a preexisting game series. It just came from Star Wars. A Star Craft MMO would be way more successful than SW MMO ever was.
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Most MMOs don’t stick around long enough to build a truly massive world, massive in both size and things to do.
MMOs are expansive to make and maintain, some companies underestimate this, some just want to make a quick buck by being the “new” WoW killer for a month
Most struggle to make content that appeals to ALL types of players
WoW is super polished compared to the other options on the market
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