How many years left?

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I’m not looking to start trouble or cause arguments, but how many years do you think WoW realistically has left? How many expansions?

Was thinking about this today as I was investing in pre-legion items, and the actual return on the investment.

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Probably 3-5 minimum, 7 maximum. Odd numbers because we’re in the middle of an xpac right now and we know xpac usually take 2 years.

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People have been predicting the end of WoW since before the game released.

No one’s been right yet.

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Considering that Ever Quest is at like… what… 25 or 26 expansions now? I would say WoW has a good long time left. I give it another 15-20 years, more than likely more than that.

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well the priest told me if i stop serving in the war smashing things with my hammer left and right i have a good 30 years left. if not well anyday could be last. :disappointed_relieved::disappointed_relieved:

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Eh, WoW’s got plenty of years left. Not entirely because of how strong it is, or what a good job the development team is doing, but because nobody is putting out any descent alternatives.

The leveling experience in SWtOR and BDO is far superior, up to a point. But, neither of those games can touch WoW in end game.

While WoW has made huge mistakes the past few expansions, Bioware (SWtOR) has completely s–t the bed on the past two expansions, and doesn’t seem to have any idea where to go from here. From what I understand, there were supposed to be 3 expansions base on the Endless Empire/Throne, but they figured out halfway thru the second (current) one that the player base wasn’t enjoying it and was starting to bail, so they cancelled the 3rd, crammed some of was supposed to happen in it into the current one, and extended the current expansion until they can rush out something different. The player base is not optimistic.

BDO is a really cool game, everything is great, until lvl 50, where it becomes a forced WPvP game with no real end game. And, since their is no actual level cap (the levels eventually take such a ridiculous amount of XP you may as well say 60, or so, is about as far as you are going to get), those who have been in the longest rule the upper level areas. If you are new you will never really be able to compete with the long timers.

Tera is cool… for 30-40 levels, then it is a loooong grind to … nothing… again, minimal end game, not much to keep players involved. Leveling past 30 or 40 is borderline tedious and boring. So, very fun for 30 levels, boring for 30 more (yea, I skipped a few, but that depends on when you decide the grind really sets in), then some end game, but a dim candle compared to what WoW players are used to.

I haven’t played Rift in a few years. Which is an indication of what I thought of the experience.

Archage was a lesser version of BDO in every way… worse graphics, worse classes, worse quests, worse gameplay, less other things to do, worse housing… OK, maybe farming was better, but only if you enjoy that kind of thing.

So, again, until someone can build a game to compete with WoW, it will persist… or maybe the all-over mediocrity of the entire genre will eventually kill all of them.

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In terms of what? Active development or the servers shutting down?

Even if they scrap WoW, I don’t think they’ll necessarily turn out all the lights. Keeping the servers running probably produces at least a modicum of revenue, even if the population drops to, say, 1 million players. I don’t see that stopping anytime soon.

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There is no limit.

It actually gets further off, because no one new is doing this successfully. Not even blizzard is making a new MMORPG.

Meanwhile, kicking out a poor expansion, like bfa breaks sales records.

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Not picking on yea big guy but that’s unrealistic because technology will be changing which will bring new forms of how people will be entertained.

Wow I guess will still be around for about 8-10 years but if you can’t download it on a phone it will have a end of life. Future kids will try it for free to mess around with like the kids today play donkey kong original.

Now if Blizz keeps up with the new technology and lets say wow 2 is part of that then it might go on living for a very long time.

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I predict world war 3 before wows end

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Scary part is you could well be right. :scream:

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I’ll throw out my prognostication: two more expansions on the normal every other year cycle, so 4 more years of new content after BfA, plus two more years of just keeping the hamsters fed and on their wheels to drive the servers after that.

That makes six years in total after BfA, so I predict the end of WoW in just over 7 years from now. As for a date, I’ll say end of second quarter, so June 30th of 2026.

/moo :cow:

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Have you gone to the everquest forums? Have you seen the trash fire it became about 20 expansions ago?

Wow becoming like that isn’t a victory, its just a death on the back of the people with too much investment to move on.

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I hope the next expansion will be like BFA so i can see WOW getting HOTS-ed.

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Who knows. Wow is in a bad spot right now and if it continues 1 to 2 things will happen.

Players who hate the current state of the game will completely leave bringing in a new breed of players.

Or it’ll just end, I know activision isn’t new to ending unsuccessful franchises no matter how much love it has >.>

I wouldn’t be surprised if blizzard has been working on a new mmo for a while now tbh :ok_hand:t2:

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You might get a new mmo from blizzard before that but wow will continue in some form for a long long time .your grandchildren might even get hooked to it although new generation is that of mobile phones .

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2 more expansions, 5 more years. 20 years is a nice, round number.

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As an active game? 15+ years.

With me active? 1-2 years unless something drastically changes.

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Well. If classic does as well as the hype train over in that forum suggests. We very well could see the re-release of every expansion to date.
I can only hope! That’s at least 15 more years! /shrug
Either way. Wow still wears the crown for some time to come.

Unless the plan is now to kill Azeroth. Move wow into maintenance mode, with every expansion getting its own servers (like classic) and release WoW 2.0?

One can only hope and dream. Lol

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Even if they officially “end” WoW, I wouldn’t expect the servers to just be shut off. It could feasibly continue for years after new content stops being made.

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