I bet gaming industry is heating up.
What are WoW netizens take on this competition?
WoW has never had serious competition.
It would be good if it did.
Hereâs hoping.
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Sorry, what
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Itâll really heat up once Metroid Prime 4 is on the rise.
Assuming they mean Riotâs upcoming MMO.
I mean, still not budging on installing a ROOT ACCESS anti cheat. When they still have cheaters.
lmao.
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They going dark for like 5+ years on that I thought. 
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Only competition wow had was FF14
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Theyâre both racing to the bottom, imho.
Blizzard has pretty much nothing going well for it, right now.
Just the same old games, nothing new thatâs worth salivating over.
As a result, Blizzard doesnât have any real hype being generated.
Riot, recently just screwed up the rewards structure in League of Legends, and has pissed off most of the people over there as a result.
No more hextech boxes, which means no more free skins and stuff from playing- just whateverâs in the crappy battle pass.
Things really arenât too great for both companies.
Iâm more looking forward to Mario Kart 9 from Nintendo at some point this year, and MH Wilds from Capcom which is next month.
Blizzard/Microsoft and Riot donât really have anything in the works that seemingly will interest me.
Aside from Riotâs Nexus TV show thatâs a follow-up to Arcane, but thatâs made by a completely different company, and isnât indicative of the gaming scene.
In fact, most people that loved Arcane couldnât stick with League- itâs just not a great game if you donât like MoBAs lol.
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It isnt here yet.
Legend of Runeterra is an indication Mmorpg is in the making.
Riots recent actions like the changes in LoL monetisation and the sundowning of LoR has kinda cooled me on their MMO, especially with Ghostcrawler leaving the project.
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I just donât think the MMO is ânearâ in any capacity. Probably like 2027-28 at the earliest.
WoW itself was worked on since like the 90âs and didnât come out till 2004. (I think actual production on WoW started in â98 - 99â, they were looking at EverQuest at the time.)
I love the League universe and Iâve played since beta (Iâm not a good player or anything lol, I average silver/gold) and the show really helped flesh it out.
I do think itâll be promising, but Iâve seen rumors the game has been scrapped and restarted at least once, with Riot quoting âWe donât believe you all want an MMO that youâve played before with a Runeterra coat of paint; to truly do justice to the potential of Runeterraâ, so I think it was too WoW-like and they wanted to change it.
Itâs Riot and they can afford to make higher budget stuff than Blizzard at this point, just gonna take longer than expected, I think.
They announced their MMO years ago, and Iâm sure most have expected something concrete by now, but alas.
Yup, League isnât in a good spot right now as a result. And Valorantâs got something similar going on with gun skins being overpriced, I hear.
Valorant guns have always been overpriced. Is this something new?
Nah I just donât play it, so hearing about LoLâs pricing drama, folks just pointed at Valorant and said itâs also been similarly bad over there. (Also the gatcha stuff, removal of free loot, etc.)
It was news to me, lol.
Ah ok, yeah, Valorant has always been basically âwell, CSGO sells skins for a bajillion $, so we should toâ.
Like donât get me wrong, the Valorant skins are INCREDIBLY high detailed, probably the best looking guns in all the major FPSâs. But theyâre not worth the price of a AAA game just for a singular weapon skin.
As for LoL, they monetisation changes for new champs is pretty weirdhands. Like it doesnât affect me personally since ive got enough resources banked for like the next 5 years of new champs, but even so.
The gaming industry, in general, is bad atm.
Dragon Age Vielgaurd has pretty much destroyed BiowareâŚso the new Mass Effect that we got teased with is probably not happening. I havenât done FPS games in a long time since PUBG so canât speak on the state of them.
Microsoft has the unique capability of dominating the gaming scene with having multiple studios but seems to be flubbing it. Being in competition with someone would be hilarious with others for Microsoft butâŚthey seem to want to make bad decisions despite having a template on what makes a good game.
Blizzard has WoW: WotLK as itâs best sellerâŚyet every expansion after has been worse. Bioware had Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3âŚthen rushed out Andromeda. Same With Dragon Age Origins. Ubisoft lost their collective minds. EA went from the premier sports games but now follows the pay to win mantra not only in sports games but also Star Wars and such.
The gaming industry is not looking good.
whatever company doesnt embrace level scaling laziness wins.
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I donât really get why people like Riot games. LoL is garbage, their monetization is garbage.
The only good thing Riot has produced is Arcane and thatâs because they outsourced it to a French studio rather than doing it themselves.
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Microsoft is bigger than Riot in terms of their wealth, thats for sure.
Not even close. Have you payed any attention to sales figures? Bfa sold more copies wotlk. You seem to be confusing sales for active subs
PvP games, mostly. League is also free so it was easy to just jump into with some pals.
It was the most popular game in the world, probably a decade or so ago by now. When MoBAs were âthe new thingâ and prior to DoTA 2 being made by Valve.
Similar to WoW during the late 2000âs, early 2010âs was the most popular game in the MMO space.
They both had their time making waves in the gaming sphere.
Yeah, but Microsoft is sitting on IPs like Banjo-Kazooie and does nothing with those for decades.
All Riot has is League and Valorant, and theyâve been hard at work fleshing out the LoL universe with tons of games and animated features.
Microsoft has money, but they really donât seem to be interested in growing their gaming scene. Xbox has all but lost the console wars.