Supposed “Warcraft Killers”
With the increasing amount of MMOs on the horizon, there’s been a lot of buzz concerning games that will dethrone WoW as the ultimate MMORPG experience. Personally I think that Warcraft is a bit of a unique entity that will not be so easily toppled. You have to take into consideration that before World of Warcraft was released most Massively Multiplayer games were happy to have a couple hundred thousand players at most. Warcraft is fast approaching 11 million. This isn’t to say that the game is perfect or that newer games won’t take a small bite out of the playerbase, just that I don’t think anything is going to shoot past it in the near future. That said, I think it’s always worth shopping around for new games. This is especially true given the fact that I’ve never had more than one MMO account at any given time. What’s coming up soon? Let’s see….
There are other games coming out of course, but the two listed above are the most widely talked about. I tire of people judging games that haven’t been released or are still in BETA. I’m more of a “I’ll reserve judgment” kinda guy, ya know? I understand that a brand new game will not and never will run as polished and clean as a game that’s been out for years. I’m more than happy to cut these newcomers some slack, which right now is a horrible memory leak in AoC and lackluster game play in WAR. Fix it and impress.
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