Following speculation surrounding job advertisements on Blizzard's website, a community administrator has confirmed on the World of Warcraft forums that the developer is currently at work on an unannounced, next-gen MMO. The job postings displayed are seeking lead character and environment 3D artists for the unspecified project, which has an icon reading "Top Secret!" displayed alongside the posting where the logo for the appropriate game property would normally be. The community administrator addressed the speculation on the forums succinctly, but said, "No, it is an unannounced Next-Gen MMO. And that doesn't mean an expansion for World of Warcraft either.
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IMO, that means there's 7 million fools out there. Pay $40 for a game then 14 a month to play ??!! What a killing!!
$218 you pay to play the game for 1 year. And I thought $40+ for any game was insanely priced.
cause the last RPG i really liked (pretty much) was Diablo 2
all these "warcraft" type games pretty much suck compared to diablo 2 (atleast single player wise cause i never even liked Diablo2 online much)
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(I am a wow-player, but I'd love to have WC4 instead, the story is so awesome in their RTS)
and yes, I'd love Diablo III too
lol, no really
More people know about WoW and it's much more of a time sink. Some people even get turned off to GW without giving it a chance or even playing it after hearing about its "differences" to WoW.
Personally, I stopped playing WoW for Guild Wars.
They both have their strengths, but GW better suited my play style. I could casually jump in and get stuff done, and never feel like I had to justify a monthly cost. WoW would require me to spend a ton of time in game, both to grind my character to get anything done, and also I felt I needed to get my money's worth out of it.
They've added a lot of grind to GW recently, but it's completely optional and of course it's still free.
More people know about WoW and it's much more of a time sink. Some people even get turned off to GW without giving it a chance or even playing it after hearing about its "differences" to WoW.
Personally, I stopped playing WoW for Guild Wars.
They both have their strengths, but GW better suited my play style. I could casually jump in and get stuff done, and never feel like I had to justify a monthly cost. WoW would require me to spend a ton of time in game, both to grind my character to get anything done, and also I felt I needed to get my money's worth out of it.
They've added a lot of grind to GW recently, but it's completely optional and of course it's still free.
Everyone is entitled to their Opinion, but GW only kept my interest for about 2 weeks.... Now it cost me $49.99. So it basically boiled down to $25 per/week for me to play to the point of being bored of it. In fact most games I've purchased only hold my interest for no more than a month.
Now WoW on the other hand has kept my interest for some years now. $15 a month is cheep.
If your friend is only buying expansion packs to "beat" them as fast as possible, he's missing the point. GW shines in PvP.
If your friend is only buying expansion packs to "beat" them as fast as possible, he's missing the point. GW shines in PvP.
Right, but you can't measure the amount of gameplay in PVP just as you can't measure online FPS combat. It's endless in a sense. All a matter of how long it takes for you to become bored of it really. My bud's been on GW for a couple years now.
However, I'm kind of upset that I got him playing WoW. Now he stays cooped up in his room a lot more.
WoW just has more morons.
Number of subscribers doesn't mean something is better. That's like saying Windows is a better operating system than Linux because more people use it.
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this new mmo isnt going to be diablo/wow2
this new mmo isnt going to be diablo/wow2
Where did you read that?
this new mmo isnt going to be diablo/wow2
Where did you read that?
New franchise usually means whole new game series, not a squeal to anything in the past.
I know what that means, but where did anyone read that its a 'new franchise'?
9.3 million subscribers would argue.
9.3 million subscribers would argue.
That doesn't mean there are 9.3 million current subscribers. That means thre has been a total of 9.3 million accounts opened. Trust me, WoW does not have a total of 9.3 million current subscribers. Each server only holds about 1000 people. Add about 500 for queue, and that's still not even close to 9.3 million
And with each given month, more and more people are leaving WoW for bigger and better things.
9.3 million subscribers would argue.
That doesn't mean there are 9.3 million current subscribers. That means thre has been a total of 9.3 million accounts opened. Trust me, WoW does not have a total of 9.3 million current subscribers. Each server only holds about 1000 people. Add about 500 for queue, and that's still not even close to 9.3 million
And with each given month, more and more people are leaving WoW for bigger and better things.
“World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees’ territories are defined along the same rules.”
From: http://www.blizzard.com/press/070724.shtml
Personally, i'm hoping for an MMOFPS of Starcraft. Never been another MMOFPS to compete with Planetside, shame that belonged to Sony, dragged through the dirt to shake off subs like all their other games
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