I believe WoW will remain second behind ffxiv. It’ll drop to third behind either ESO, gw2, or new world if 10.0 isn’t a success.
Three strikes and ur out and WoW is already two strikes in
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Censorship will bring back the players. 
ill stick with diablo 2
Even if it’s true, I don’t think that’s bad at all. For a 17 year old game to still be the third most popular game in a genre, that must be a really special game.
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Everything they said!!
New World has some of PoE/Diablo elements to it. It’s like they made an action MMORPG. Love the customization.
I read your statements and think some of them are fair points. Also think many of those things will change. I think the professions/crafting though has amazing depth too it so far and love progression on them. I believe the next month will be to iron out some bugs and fine tune. Then in Nov they plan on releasing new weapons/content. It’s a game that has a great foundation to build on. So lets see what is built up from the game.
Jobs get in the way of games, gotta get those 12-16 hour video game days in and enjoy life.
From what I can see, there is a fair amount of luck involved with crafting. If you refine an ore, there is a chance of getting something used in higher levels of that craft. The crafted gear’s score is randomized. Gems sockets are randomized. Looking at the other crafts they seem to work on rather complex systems of using this and this to make this and have the chance of getting that, or whatever.
Given how often WoW players have complained about the whole RNG aspect of WoW, I dont get how anyone could find a crafting system based on luck to be an improvement.
The gear is based on your crafting rating as you get more the avg level goes up. There are items you can add to get specific stats or perks. There is Arcana you can add as well to pretty much secure bonuses. I just learned there is even food you can make and eat before crafting to raise the levels. I think this is crafting and professions done right and a synergy between them where all material feel useful.
NW does professions the best of any MMO and their depth and value makes you want to immerse into the game. I want to spend massive amounts of time on them.
It is because they leaned heavily into king’s f2p cash shop insights on what leads to more cash shop revenue and what whales will tolerate
The previous design of wow would not motivate nearly as much gold sales
Bliz basically assumes everyone will quit anyways, they just want more ‘average revenue per player’ before you leave
This is the monetization phase of wow, which is exactly what kotick told them to do or made their bonuses depend on
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I think people need to realize WoW is no longer a threat to the mmorpg genre. Their reign took control over a decade, but declined over years. I think if anything many are finally venturing out of Blizzard realm. I think at this point unless WoW can do some amazing expansion and patch notes. Their content and everything is will become more niche overtime and hardly eyebrow raising.
Probably going to be Riot Games LoL mmorpg considering GC is over there. That game is going to have some WoW elements, but improvised.
if blizzard was smart they would fire all their lower ranking employees backup move to texas set up there and than hire people from there because clearly there is to many creeps and egotistic people in california and to get away from the pervs you move to a place that is culturally the oposite.
Again, for the billionth time, New World is a new game coming out in a generation and world of technology. To where more people have access to computers than ever before, along with being a new MMO and game. Once the new shine wears off and people get a taste of the end game subs and interest will drop similar to what happens with WoW.
There always is a huge bloat in interest in a new game, and each “record” breaking this that or the other thing. Isn’t that significant anymore honestly, unless its something like a movie which is its own established thing sort of. Yet commonly they still add in pay per view from home for some releases of movies to where people rent the movie from their home. Over going to the theater which is a far more tedious process and is a dying format.
I guarantee once the new smell wears off they will see a massive dip in subs, which is to be expected, given New World is a niche style game, in which they already seem to be. Monetizing it with the prime membership skins, which I can guarantee they did to push prime accounts. With more coming soon due to it being an Amazon game, which thankfully so far its all cosmetic. Yet I have a strong feeling soon enough their going to lock activities behind pay walls.
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I bet wow was number 1 the week shadow lands launched. Give it a month or 2 and if new world had retained its players then we will talk. Most of the people I know that bought it say its OK but nothing special. Good to log a few hundred hours in but that is. Wouldn’t have bought it if it had a sub and a couple I know have refunded it.
Everything/everyone that built the WoW franchise back in the 90s and early 2000s is gone. The lore created in WC3 used up many expansions ago, with the last big bads falling in Legion.
The best the new writers can come up with is a cheap Thanos ripoff and the Kerrigan ripoff that is Sylvanas. The best the devs can come up with us systems layered on top of systems layered on top of systems, which will be replaced by more of the same in the next expansion.
I only hope this new competition can stir some creativity in WoW but I’m doubtful.
inb4 this gets moved to offtopic.
Yet reviews are mixed, even though most of the negative reviews is about server queues and the 2k hard cap (which is a joke in todays standards btw), there is some that actually played the game and expressed disinterest as the game is boring.
I have watched some streams and the game is relatively boring to play.
Citation needed.
Of course its a brand new and shiny game and people will jump onto it and once it losses its shine and people see the end game than the game will lost interest over time.
New World has its niche audience and that niche will may or may not carry the game forward into the future.
The only thing killing WoW right now is Blizzard themselves with all these crack pot changes they are making in game…changing name of one of the most wanted mounts in game ie The Love Rocket just to appeal to not being sexist…I always said though the years of so called WoW killers it would be the company not a new game that came out.
WoW has one trillion infinity billion to the power of Graham’s Number players.
I heard this from Asmonbold, Asmongold’s twin brother.
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All Abomb does is whine about WoW and praise NW and FF.
It gets freaking old.
Like . . . at this point just move on.
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The same could be said for WoW but here I am still in game 13 yrs later…I like a game that makes me want to stay there which NW has right now…there is one thing that NW has that WoW doesn’t and that is real time player housing that I can buy and make my home in…I can make stuff for my home…I can loot things to put in my home…I am not stuck with some fixed template like the Garrison was…that is where Blizzard screwed up with housing…they should of put it into the game…more players would of stayed just for that.
They don’t even have subs. You buy NW once. There’s no sub.
That alone will convince people to try it out, since if you have 30-40 bucks to burn, you can check it out without worrying about a sub.
People can come and go as they please.
But yeah, the first week or so of an MMO is not indicative of its staying power, at all.
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