Comments on: The Next WoW-killer

By: Will

Will — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:27:51 +0000

AFAIK, the new plan when Starcraft 2 launches is to be able to talk to people in WoW while still in SC2 and vice versa, FWIW.

By: crouton days — My WOW-killer

crouton days — My WOW-killer — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:00:53 +0000

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By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:00:10 +0000

I agree. And there are games that don’t look or feel like an MMO, Puzzle Pirates for instance, which are hugely popular. In the forums, we discussed the idea that someone who piggybacked on an existing network might be able to do it. An MMO done over Xbox Live Arcade for instance.

By: Jeff Tidball

Jeff Tidball — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:08:26 +0000

I think you’re correct that nothing will come up from under WoW’s shadow and kill it. (That is, it can’t be killed by a higher-quality knockoff of itself.) However, I think it could be killed by a game that’s different and puts together a larger, or better, or more lucrative network from somewhere else. Imagine, I don’t know, a massively multiplayer version of that Nintendo game where you take care of your dog. At that point, is it so vastly different that talking about whether it kills WoW isn’t relevant? Maybe, but then you’d probably have to say that the iPod isn’t the CD-killer.