WoW killed itself for me. I’m so happy I never got the Horde tattoo I was planning lol
The next big hit on the this nich is undoubtely Riot’s MMO. Has resources, a gigantic playerbase and well know developers.
WoW will die when it becomes obsolete.
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You forgot Fruit Cake
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omg loves me some fruit cake.
I don’t think that there will be a new expansion after Shadowlands, but what we see will be just a line of patches to repair the systems that were taken away and reintroduced with different labels.
The lawn can be mowed time and time again and will always look the same underneath.
There is no WoW killer, Wow will just fall into obscurity like Everquest did.
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Shadowlands is designed around different principles than wow was designed on before, or than other games in the genre are designed around. Basically they were trying to turn these on their heads to prove that everybody was doing it wrong.
It was wrong to make people feel rewarded for their time spent. This meant people who didn’t deserve rewards got them. Only the best players who played the game most seriously deserved rewards. And besides cosmetics and gear, what other rewards were now set asides for the most elite players?
A sense of progression. That has been utterly removed from the game for anyone not at the pinnacle. That was a big part of what made the entire game fun, from leveling to end game (no matter what sort of content you chose for your end game, depending on what sort of player you were).
Look at PvP gearing. Several expansions ago contemporary devs explained why rating-locked ilvl conquest gear is bad for PvP and was being removed. And yet the current devs decided to implement it anyway. And apparently, despite the fact that PvP population is cratering, they think that the issue is that there are not enough rating locks to keep out the casual scum. And so they’re doubling down on that in 9.1.5.
In the end, they have proven that everybody else was right all along. And the attempt to force casuals to git gud once again failed.
The overwhelming majority of players in any MMO are casuals. A game that only serves and attracts elites won’t be an MMO. The demand is too small.
The real WoW killer will when Blizzard and the community is completely infilitrated by woke SJWS(were halfway there already).
Instead of getting fresh content or needed game changes, you will be given a new Black trans main character of the storyline to replace Anduin(No main White characters allowed anymore).
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Blizzard is going to kill it’s own game, it’s already in the process of doing just that.
Wow cant be killed period
Wow isn’t dead . Define dead.
people will always be here but it sure wont be no endgamers the frustration now cause lack of players is huge if it truly gets really low of people its in trouble wow has always been a competitive endgame kind of thing and with low people oh boy. sure casuals will be here but the ah stuff like that will be a true joke then to cause most of those kind of people supply themselves .
I think the MMORPG genre is dying and basically just consists of the same 30 people hopping between games trying to get that spark back, rather than it being a healthy market bringing new players into the genre.
So no, I don’t think anything will actually become a “WoW Killer” other than WoW itself. Frankly, we’re already past the point where something passing up WoW would be a huge moment. The huge gap between WoW and every other MMORPG has severely diminished and it’s not because other games got better (although I’m not willing to say it’s entirely because WoW got worse either. There’s multiple reasons).
Anyway, I don’t think games like New World or the eventual release of Ashes of Creation are going to change the MMORPG landscape, and before New World, it’d been since like 2014 since we saw any real notable movement in the genre outside of Eastern ports coming to NA.
So no, I don’t think there’s going to be a WoW Killer, though I’m sure people will try and place that title on whatever game anyway if WoW ever falls so low that it’s without a doubt no longer on top.
Wow just one shotted itself and it’s gonna need some major Rez power on top of heals to make the game worth returning to.
I’ll never say it’ll actually die as blizz shills will shill out there cash always. Hell I even had like 2 people argue with me a while back saying spending 20 bucks a week on tokens is fine.
Blizz however is no longer the “big number 1 mmo” it’s at a solid 2nd place rn and even tho that doesn’t seem bad since they only dropped by one spot with ALL of this happening it’s still something being that this mmo was always number 1.
Ffxiv took a lot of wow players who unsubbed from WoW. With endwalker coming out and the cool reaper class it’s going to hemorrhage even more WoW players.
And with gw2 coming out with a much hyped expansion WoW needs a major win.
Not even going to mention new world since we don’t really know how well that’ll be.
If 10.0 isn’t a resounding hit WoW is going to keep dropping until it hits gw2 pops. Thatll be the lowest I can imagine it going ever. It’ll still have expansions and it’ll still be running but it’ll no longer be the huge giant it once was.
Every big company thinks they will last forever. The reality is, they don’t.
The reason WoW isn’t dead yet is because for years there was no mainstream MMO competition. WoW, as bad as it was, had no competition.
Now you have FF14, New World and I can easily see WoW being scrapped entirely once it loses the majority of the market.
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Okay let me put it on other words 
Wow cannot be killed but suicide is an option 
Yes.
In fact, I think they have already killed it when they made questing irrelevant and moved that time spent in the game to mandatory repetitive endgame activities.
It just hasn’t hit the ground yet.
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You couldn’t be more wrong.
FF14 is thriving, pretty sure they have more active players than WoW does now.
New World remains to be seen but I know many people are leaving WoW to try it.
The demand for MMOs is still there, people just dont want to be constantly lied to and used to further the bottom line. When they pay money monthly for a product they want the devs to actually listen.
10.0 will be the WoW killer…or saver.
The Playerbase.