Warhammer Online loses 43 servers

Sadly I think this is going to be the story of most new overly-hyped MMOs based on well-known IPs. Large sales in the beginning, followed by sharp drops in subscription figures and then possibly a steady decline until subscription numbers even out at around 100K or less in many cases.

I think Blizzard's new MMO, whenever they plan on releasing that, may be an exception to this rule.
 
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This is rather unfortunate - I was still keen to see what this game looks like.

As much as I enjoy playing WoW, I feel that competition is crucial if we have any hopes of seeing quality remain constant.

I just hope the same won't happen to stargate worlds and Star Wars: The old republic. I'm pretty sure guild wars2 will remain SOLID.
 
What a surprise. At least they specced enough by the sounds of it.
Is this the economy taking a toll, people cannot subscribe to both WoW and this, and have to choose one?
imo WoW will always win, since people already have considerable investment in it.

To a degree, this explains the free trial that they are now doing.
 
I don't think it's as a result of the world recession. I think it's simply because Warhammer doesn't provide much incentive to keep playing come end game.
 
I'm quite surprised by this, the game looked like it would be THE game to challenge WoW. So WoW is still killing off anything trying to compete it seems. I wonder how LotR Online is doing? When I was playing it last year it still had a pretty strong community.
 
LotRO has a steady population. I think it may be slightly on the rise. It isn't crashing and burning though, much due to their constant stream of large content updates.
 
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LotRO has a steady population. I think it may be slightly on the rise. It isn't crashing and burning though, much due to their constant stream of large content updates.
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well turbine is still running ddo; both their mmo's are still in existence.
 
I'm actually playing LOTRO at the moment. I was quite suprised to see a large amount of players in the ealry stages of the game.
 
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I'm quite surprised by this, the game looked like it would be THE game to challenge WoW. So WoW is still killing off anything trying to compete it seems. I wonder how LotR Online is doing? When I was playing it last year it still had a pretty strong community.
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Hhhmm, ye, although I think WoW is also losing players. I am seeing every day that people are saying they are tired of WoW. (srsly)

Anyway, this Warhammer announcement made me think and I went to check XFire for the games with the most amount of minutes per day. Yes, I know it is not accurate in the sense that not everyone has XFire, but it is still a good indication. Some interesting games in the list too...

(This is for the day so far, which is not over yet)
GAME - MINUTES PLAYED
World of Warcraft - 7,307,526
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Multiplayer - 5,927,014
Call of Duty 2 Multiplayer - 4,121,040
Counter-Strike: Source - 1,257,557
Battlefield 2 - 820,166
Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne - 754,481
Call of Duty: World at War Multiplayer - 625,303
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - 578,112
Silkroad Online - 553,276
Guild Wars - 447,010

The numbers are impressive, no?!
 
Yeah. But still, nothing can compete with WoW. It's literally slaughtered the rest of the MMO market, turned it sideways and raped it. Then turned it back again. Quite sad, I was planning on playing this, but alas...
 
I think the only MMO that will be able to beat WoW is Blizzards new MMO.. Perhaps. If it were World of Starcraft.. oh man..
 
I never bought the game, and nothing is pulling me away from Lord of the Rings - Online. So this outcome is not surprising, these games that have massive hype surrounding them rarely has great endings.
 
I personally feel that only two MMOs may compete with WoW:

1) Aion - Apparently pre-orders in Korea alone were 6 million and there are hundreds of thousands of online players at any given time.
2) Guild Wars 2 - At the end of this month they will have reached 6 million copies sold. Considering many peoples' gripe with Guild Wars is the heavy instancing, and that Guild Wars 2 will attend to this as well as offer very many updates/upgrades whilst retaining the no monthly fee policy, I think it has a good chance of competing. It will be tough comparing WoW's subscriptions and GW2's active players, but I'm sure it can be done.
 
Hey, I think you can include Lotro to that list, the game is doing great and growing. Mines of Moria was great and a new Book is coming out this month. Do I think you can add Lotro to that list.
 
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