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 whether it be due to the graphics being outdated or just that people have nothing left to do in the game (which most people who have a life still have plenty to do in wow at any given time), possibly just the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.
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