when the world (of warcraft) ends. . .

think of any 3 games that have been crazy popular in the past... what do they all have in common? nobody plays them anymore. the cold truth is that all games no matter how popular,and no matter how widely played, will die and never be played again by the masses.

so what about World of Warcraft? its become one of the most widely played games (if not THE most widely played game) of all time. and lets face it, even people like myself who can't stand almost any form of an RPG still enjoy playing WOW. but like all other games out there, WOW as we know it will lose players, lose popularity, lose support etc. whether it be due to the graphics being outdated or just that people have nothing left to do in the game (which most people who have a life still have plenty to do in wow at any given time), possibly just the fact that the fundamentals of the game will get old with time (for instance, pressing a button to do something and then waiting for the computer to do it for you).

one way or another, the game will die, but then what? there isn't anything that really has the feel that wow does, warhammer is basically wow with a few twists and turns but set in a completely different universe and cant really be played how you want it in every respect like wow can be. same goes for every other wow copy cat.

so what will happen to wow? will they just make a sequel and hope the players of the first wow to switch over to the sequel after they spent they're time on something completely different? will they just upgrade the graphics and add expansions every few years? or will it become one of the "classic" games that nobody plays anymore?

P.S.

i didn't mean to say that warhammer was a bad game or purely a wow spin off. i just prefer wow.

please post comments, thoughts, and opinions

Sorry brah but WoW will never die. A new MMO is being developed as we speak by blizz *hint* Next gen wow *hint*.jjj13

By the time WoW dies, it wil have a sequel (or another -craft MMORPG) to make up for it.

I dont know, man, experience tells me otherwise. I can think of a lot of games that were popular quite a few years ago that are still fairly popular today.

As long as the community is there, the games will be played. This is especially true for PC games as the community can, with the devs/pubs's permission, sustain the game, mod it, patch it, and enhance it.

So ya, while no one is playing Halo and even Halo 2 any more, there are a good amount of people still playing Starcraft, Diablo 2, Fallout 2, Sven Coop, Counterstrike 1.6, Team Fortress Classic, and countless others. Enough, at least, to have a respectably active online community with enough servers to keep me happy.

It will die, when they release their new "top secret" MMO in a completly new universe...KalDurenik

which many are hoping to believe that there would be a "World Of Starcraft" i'd say.

The game isn't going to die. Hell the original EQ still has people playing.

Like it or not, WoW has nearly perfected the PvE MMORPG formula. It appeals to nearly every MMO gamer with its easy of play, depth, and unique art style. I hope it never dies. As much as it is a massive force in the gaming world, it is also probably the biggest achivement in the video game world.

Saying whether World of Warcraft will die is like a Jedi looking into the future. The dark side clouds everything. Blizzard in this case, clouds everything. Blizzard are masters at the art of extending the product life cycle of their games. Where a franchise would have died out years ago, Blizzard still keep pumping in content in their age old games to keep them popular.

But eventually the ONLY thing on this planet that will end World of Warcraft is World of Warcraft 2. Diablo 2 and StarCraft have huge player bases, but once their big brother counterparts enter the markets this year, there will be no reason to play the oldies anymore when your favourite game will be bigger, better and recieve a graphical revamp.

Therefore my voice on the mater is WoW cannot die unless Blizzard intend it to, with the release of WoW 2 (if it will ever be made). Blizzard have saturated the MMO market with one product, which is simply extraordinary. It's like Microsoft, the only thing that can dent it's full monopoly power armour suit is an attack from the inside of the business, whether intentional or on purpose. Blizzard control the very lives of every WoW subscriber out there, and only they will control WoW's fate and its 11.5 million subscribers.

It will not die... they will always add content to it... and when the graphics become so abysmal that people start to notice... they will probably have some sort of graphics overhaul (make the game look better, but it will still be the same game)...Squeets

wow will never die and is a very fun gametony2077ca

WoW is a sorry excuse for a game. It involves no skill, and is a huge grind of time. At no point is it fun, its just a growing addiction. WoW will be killed by another blizzard MMO.coolmonkeykid

WoW has nearly perfected the PvE MMORPG formula.

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WoW has nearly perfected the PvE MMORPG formula.

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WoW has nearly perfected the PvE MMORPG formula.

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do you people not listen they finished artahs's story in Wotlk which means they cant make another expansion just release new content via patches. so until they go really on the side of impractical abstract ( much like they did in burning crusade) there not be any more expansions, theyve finished there pathetic attempt at role playing.aura_enchanted

Still to this day I have never played WOW. Im one of the lucky ones who have escaped its clutches of this major grindfest and time / money sink. The last MMO I played was EQ1 and vowed never to get suckered into paying a monthly fee to play a game ever again. YAY me! lolTyson8earzz

i played it for 4 months then threw the game into my fireplace to be used as kindleing im sorry but grind and self motivated goals in an MMO are simply sorry excuses for being uninventive blizzard is simply ripping ppl off by messing with them psychologically. a door to door salesman follows the same tricks but do you see him getting votes NOOOOO.

if Evercrack can die, so can wow.CheddaBumpz

That's funny since EverCrack didn't die.

MMOs have an incredibly long lifespan. Just look at Meridian 59, the first MMO ever created and that's still going on since 1996. Ultima Online just passed its 10-year mark and it's still alive. Might not contain the subscription numbers of what you consider to be breathing, but it's still kicking.

As long as the games keep pulling in profit, then they will run indefinitely, no matter how small the subscription base may be.

not true man take a look at auto assault, tabula rasa, matrix online, ned i go on? MMO's have died (in matrix's case on the inside).aura_enchanted

Yea, if they suck and don't pull in numbers. I don't think WoW falls into that category.

well no even those games fall under tabula rasa pullked people in but fell under, it was innovative as was auto assault, but MMO lovers hate change.aura_enchanted

Tabula Rasa was never able to achieve 150,000 subscribers and dropped well below 100k after the beginning of 2008, so I don't think it successfully pulled players in. And I'm not sure if you've played it, but it wasn't quite up to snuff and I didn't see much innovation in terms of gameplay. It was touted as a WoW killer prior to and after initial release, perhaps that was the reason why it failed.

Earth and Beyond was the only game that was any good before EA pulled the plug.It just didn't have the subscription base to back up expenditure.