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Will WoW stay as popular when the 40k MMO comes out? Personally, I have no preference, but I think it'll be a tie. the 40k MMO'll have better graphics and a large fanbase thanks to 40k's popularity, but WoW precedes it by a long shot and has had numerous patches and 2 great expansions. Until the 40k MMO gets these things, it'll probably be seen as a buggy, slightly frustrating MMO. Now if (when) expansions and patches come out, I'm foretelling that the world of MMO's will be rocked by 40k. And as an end statement, I don't think Runescape will be able to compete.

Please post what you think but be polite.

Wow won't go anywhere because of all the people who never even heard of 40k that play it. A 40K online rpg will mostly just be GW and maybe some DOW fans making up the vast majority. I'm sure it will be a great game with lots of players, but nothing will kill wow. It will stay for as long as Blizzard wants to keep it. Hell people are still playing Everquest and they keep making expansions for it as far as I know.

True, I was just wondering because of 40k's solid fanbase. GW seems to care more for its customers than Blizzard.
they do all those epic conventions and what-not. Are you a WoW player?

While I don't like WoW one bit, I don't think much is going to shake it from it's perch.

It's pretty much a subculture all it's own.

Also:

halo3uber wrote:GW seems to care more for its customers than Blizzard.

I'm not sure every MMO needs to be measured against WoW. You can produce a very profitable MMO with 1/100 of GW's subscriber base.

WoW will eventually drop away, but I don't think it'll be done by any new MMO. Sure, new games can come out with better graphics, smoother interfaces and less filler material, but no MMO released can match WoW in its real core strengths - existing communities. No graphical or gameplay improvement is going to make someone walk away from the game they've put hundreds of hours into, where they've made friends and formed communities they share a history with.

In time (lots of time) I think WoW will slowly fall back as its design falls further and further behind the technical curve and other MMOs continue to evolve to focus more directly on the different kinds of play possible. But it'll be a death of slow attrition as WoW fails to gather new players and older players leave MMOs. I don't think you'll ever large blocks of the WoW base leaving for some other game.

WoW is a cultural phenomenon and you can't really beat that. Blizzard couldn't predict it was going to be as big as it is. There was an article the other day I saw that said that Lord of the Rings Online has the most consistent growing population at the moment. WoW may be reaching the point that it is bleeding of players now.

I used to play WOW, and everquest too back in the day, and even Meridian 59. One day a year or so ago I kinda just decided it was all a stupid waste of time. I canceled my account and never wanted to go back since. I played often but I don't think I was ever at the addict level, as I still managed to have a bit of a life. I drew the line at voice chat, for some reason that just seemed like ultimate nerdyness to me I prefer console games a lot more now. Maybe I'm just old and lazy and would rather lay on the sofa when I play stuff.

Wait, is there any information on the 40k MMO besides "Yeah, were making one!"?

Yeah, the new info is " There's gonna be some Space Marines. AND Chaos." Nerdgasm.

You know...

The reason why WoW is so popular, in my view, is the system requirements.
Compare it to every other MMO or, frankly, most games out there and you'll see why.

WoW requires basically nothing for your system.

ive said it before.
The only thing that will kill WoW is a stake through blizzard heart,

I love when people make predictions about Warhammer related internet MMO endeavors and seem optimistic it will do well against WoW.

Why would you even want that? We play a miniatures game people, if people start playing an MMO based on our miniature game they will stop playing/painting and go play the MMO. Do you want that? Does GW want that? I'd think the answer would be no.

halo3uber wrote:True, I was just wondering because of 40k's solid fanbase. GW seems to care more for its customers than Blizzard.
they do all those epic conventions and what-not. Are you a WoW player?

Are we talking about the same GW? The ones that keep hiking prices because they care about us so much? lol

Seriously, theyre both buisnesses that wanna make money. Where Blizz does it better is they managed to draw in more mainstreamers and not jsut the nerd sub culture.

And Blizzcon is alot more of a convention than Games Day or any other GW con will be for the forseeable future.

So, comparing a 40k MMO is like comparing a tabletop 40k to Starcraft. Its apples and oranges.....or maybe more like potatoes.

And Dawn of War hasnt reduced the table top gaming portion of GW, if anything its likely drawn in some players- if all the Blood Raevn armies out there now are anything to go by.