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Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
WoW killer finally here guys.......
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Well first of all have to give credit to Blizzard for doing a finde job of killing itself with all its development decisions if it was not for that game would still be way over ten million subs.
But has it turns out a game has finally come that will pound the last nails on the coffin. RIP
Drumroll PLS......................................
Classic WoW got released and now has server popualtion fo 4.4 million world wide. (just bear with me) So right now people are playing a game with no instant que. A game that has 40 man raids to look forward too which makes for larger guilds. Game were there is actual sense of a community.
Game were dungeoun design like Strathholme and Black Rock Caverns dwarve the current content in almost evey aspect. In short they are simply playing a better vidoe game.
That being the case it is going to be dificult to go back to retail WoW still a good game but worst than WoW classic so players will be taking a step down to play current WoW. Some how Old content is better than New content. Unreal.
Now WoW classic is finite so when most of player base get past Naxxramus then they will be looking to play an MMO with no instant que 40 man raids and good community. Which is were Ashes of Creation could step in if they come out with playable version sooner than latter.
Just to be clear Blizzard is the WoW killer cause there is no way to convince them to get rid of instant que or put 40 man raids back in game. As far they are concerned they are the experts and have the billions to prove it. Think it got to big to care.
But has it turns out a game has finally come that will pound the last nails on the coffin. RIP
Drumroll PLS......................................
Classic WoW got released and now has server popualtion fo 4.4 million world wide. (just bear with me) So right now people are playing a game with no instant que. A game that has 40 man raids to look forward too which makes for larger guilds. Game were there is actual sense of a community.
Game were dungeoun design like Strathholme and Black Rock Caverns dwarve the current content in almost evey aspect. In short they are simply playing a better vidoe game.
That being the case it is going to be dificult to go back to retail WoW still a good game but worst than WoW classic so players will be taking a step down to play current WoW. Some how Old content is better than New content. Unreal.
Now WoW classic is finite so when most of player base get past Naxxramus then they will be looking to play an MMO with no instant que 40 man raids and good community. Which is were Ashes of Creation could step in if they come out with playable version sooner than latter.
Just to be clear Blizzard is the WoW killer cause there is no way to convince them to get rid of instant que or put 40 man raids back in game. As far they are concerned they are the experts and have the billions to prove it. Think it got to big to care.
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It has definitely been on a decline for awhile but that was due to Blizzard's own mistakes than the rise of a challenging mmorpg. Modern WoW is in a very weird place right now with plenty of ups and downs. Blizzard tried some new things at the beginning of the latest expansion that REALLY didn't work and as a result they've had to spend the majority of the expansion fixing things instead of focusing on new exciting content.
Have you ever heard of shroedingers cat?
What about someone who got resuscitated, but who will never awaken from the coma and is kept alive by machinery?
the resuscitation is a more applicable case here. But in that case the revived person would be either alive or undead which still would not be dead.
Okay, i can see where you are comjng from.
A better fitting anology would be someone bleeding out and trying to staunch the bleeding.
More like hacking off their limbs to try and conserve the bloodflow.
Or stab it with a white-hot knife, that’ll cauterize it.
When you stitch a wound, you’re repeatedly stabbing it with a needle.
Don’t discount medicinal stabbing!
In any case, Ashes of Creation will barely even dent WoW's popularity. Because while AoC may be a great MMO, it is not in the same vein as WoW, since AoC will focus primarily on PvP and open-world content. I'm even confident enough to say, 2 years before release, that AoC will not have good raids or story content. They have to fill a LOT of different zones with content, since they want players to spread out and settle into competing regions. So it's safe to say that most of it will not be good enough content to compete with WoW's meticulously designed raids and grand story lines. Anyone who wants that kind of familiar, distilled, linear content will never leave WoW for AoC.
But hopefully AoC can thrive in a different niche, offering more MMO strengths rather than RPG ones.
..if theyve manage to stay around for 3~5 years they will sruvive decades. Even the first MMOs released in the 20th century are still around doing just fine
There is no such thing as a "MMO Killer" because a MMOs community stays true to its game until the community (not the game) dies out
There are MMOs around with less than 50k active players that are still being developed, doing just fine
This is one of the reasons why its so hard for new MMOs to actually get started, you need to target the new generations, not the old ones. Older generations mostly found their game and dont play anymore. Yes there are exceptions, but the 100 exceptions creeping around this forum are nothing compare to the thousands that dont care about AoC and stick to their old game
WoW Classic isnt a WoW killer, if its true that there are still 850k active players then WoW is far, far away from death. WoW Classic is a new game thats intresting for people that lost track of WoW retail or just want to know what this MMO giant is about, its not a WoW killer, not even close
As for AoC, it will be intresting to see how this one will evolve. As I mentioned, MMOs dont die. If you want to have a succefull MMO you gotta find new players, "recycling" old ones wont get you a big community
Im intrested to see how Sub2Play will play out too. Newer generations of players dont like it. S2P is an outdated model and a lot of people will move on the moment they see the model, not even bothering a single glance on the actual game
It will definetly be intresting to see how this one will play out
On the other hand you are right that, in the case of WoW at least, it will stay alive as long as people keep playing it. Even if Blizzard shut down their official servers, there are so many private WoW servers that it will likely survive past that point.
There was also Cabal 2 which shut down 3 years later and Wonderking being shut down in the same year as its release. 2 Games I took intrest in, there sure are many more we never heard of or just forgot about (or dont want to know about such as Bless)
I didnt say that no MMO dies, I said the ones that manage to take ground dont die that easily. Such as BnS, Cabal Online, Elsword, BDO, WoW, FF14, GW, etc
Some of those have only 50k or less active players and are still being developed actively
What I basically wanted to say is that WoW doesnt just die because of another game, it never will
I mightve slightly exaggerated in my first post, mb
CoH was live 9 years 7 months.
WAR was live 5 years 3 months.
Wildstar was live 4 years 3 months.
Tabula Rasa was live 16 months.
What's interesting in the context of this discussion is more what it was that killed these specific MMO's rather than the fact that they died after a having been live for a while, and in the case of some of them, having far larger paying playerbase to keep the game live for years to come.
WAR is a perfect example of this, it closed specifically because Mythic Entertainment were unable to renew their licensing agreement with Games Workshop. While that isn't something that will have an impact on WoW (not in any foreseeable way, at least), it does point out that MMO's often die for reasons other than lack of players, or a better MMO coming along.
There are also other games that have closed specifically because the publisher of said game thought that if they closed that game, all the players would move over to another game within that publishers stable, meaning they don't need to maintain the first game, but still have that player and get their money.
Edit; while I'm not going to state outright any games that fit the above, I will point out that three of the MMO's listed by Wondering Mist were from the same publisher, a publisher that currently has 6 live MMO's, and another 4 in development.
Developers need to understand that MMOs are a living thing and that sure they need to evolve and grow over time but if it aint broke then don't fix it.
Pretty sure WoW knows what there huge mistakes are there are ton of content creators telling them every day were they went wrong but will not fix them.. WoWs consistent and persistent behavior is chasing subsriptions. Actually claim the opposite actions say something else.
WoW is a great game and I really enjoyed it. Personally just had to many disagreements with the devs in that game. That does not take away from all that they have done and well it is still a really good game.
Justed wanted to point out that after playing wow classic a game without all their huge mistakes might be hard for people to go back to retail WoW. Going from strong well knit communities to toxic servers is a day and night expereince. They have implemented anit-toxic mechanism since i stopped playing. Not sure how efffective it is going to be after years of being toxic. There were some servers that were not toxic but toxic servers were the trend when I was playing.
Hope them the best.
same here. I always loved long MMOs
I think that we will have to differentiate between activision woow players and blizzard wow players here guys. Classic/tBC/WotLK players all played with long progression times after all.
Retail WoW was stripped down to the minimum and oversimplified in every possible way to focus on streamlining every process in the game to allow people to gear up their main chars or alts as fast as it is possible to attend the raid. Right now in Retail WoW the only thing which matter is to push yet another raid and move on to the next raid or expansion to generate as much money as they can.
While AoC might give us some depth and meaningfulness it still can fail in many ways especially since Steven likes ArchAge way too much and this bad MMO can influence his decisions too much.
One of the big attractions of WoW when it came out was that it had far lower performance requirements than EQ2, Asheron's Call and Age of Conan, so it could be played by far more people.
It's normal for a early alpha build to run poorly as the developers haven't had time to optimise it properly. One thing to note about WoW is that it is incredibly CPU heavy and not particularly well optimised for higher end PCs. Yes the minimum requirements are quite low compared to other mmorpgs, but that's not necessarily a good thing.
Dungeons were a bit fun, except when you have to rest after every single pull, or if you didn't have a mage, you needed 4000 waters.
PvP had no sense, just killing open world.
AoC pvp will make sense, or at least have protection against griefers. New World already changed the pvp system because of feebback, making the game worst.