Poll of the Day > Is WoW forever?

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Do you think it's never going away?
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Probably not. The game had enough cultural significance in its heyday that I imagine people will work hard to ensure it's preserved. Even if the official servers shut down and it's no longer offered as a product it will be kept around as a historical relic in some form.
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A virtual museum?
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Eventually, Blizzard will cook up a new crack to replace WoW.
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WoW just may outlive all of us.
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Virtual and physical. There are already museums out there dedicated to preserving culturally significant video games. I can't imagine WoW not warranting a spot.
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WoW is slowly killing itself with a disease known as Activision. If the game goes much longer, it will not be the WoW people have loved for an age now passed, but a den on tainted online crack that its consumers cannot drive themselves away because they are so unable, and Acti-Blizz knows this. They are counting on those people to give them more than every dime they have before the product is taken away, and all counterfeits made to suffer one way or another.

Like that private Vanilla server. For years Blizzard denied there would be interest in such a thing, but it happened by way of the fans. Rather than incorporate it into their fold as a way to make more money, they took the route of legal action to have it shut down.

Now I'm curious how long it will be before Acti-Blizz tries to sue every copycat MMO on the market. Because how dare anyone try to copy the success of their now dying game? It's THEIRS. They want all of the money that comes with it.

That or someone will manage to buy out Activision and immediately close the doors on it (and every company Activision ever acquired by extension). Whichever.
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Entity13 posted...

WoW is slowly killing itself with a disease known as Activision. If the game goes much longer, it will not be the WoW people have loved for an age now passed, but a den on tainted online crack that its consumers cannot drive themselves away because they are so unable, and Acti-Blizz knows this. They are counting on those people to give them more than every dime they have before the product is taken away, and all counterfeits made to suffer one way or another.

Like that private Vanilla server. For years Blizzard denied there would be interest in such a thing, but it happened by way of the fans. Rather than incorporate it into their fold as a way to make more money, they took the route of legal action to have it shut down.

Now I'm curious how long it will be before Acti-Blizz tries to sue every copycat MMO on the market. Because how dare anyone try to copy the success of their now dying game? It's THEIRS. They want all of the money that comes with it.

That or someone will manage to buy out Activision and immediately close the doors on it (and every company Activision ever acquired by extension). Whichever.

As much as you complain, you realize this is the perfect plan to pull a, "wait, we are reinventing the game!" type move?

Entity13 posted...

For years Blizzard denied there would be interest in such a thing

I agree with most of what you said, since yes, that's how managers think and managers make the decisions, not actual creators. (not sure about the suing part; Bethesda seems to have a legal department that is desperate to justify its own existence, but I'm not sure about Activision).

but to be fair, what they would have most likely specifically said here (I presume) is not that there would be no interest, but that there wouldn't be enough interest to justify the costs. I don't know if that's true or not, but it is true that the managers will always be thinking in terms of margins.
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