Poll: Will Age of Conan topple World of Warcraft?

Hey, everyone. I'm creating this poll just to see what the general consensus is on Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures' chances to displace World of Warcraft as the king of MMORPGs. Your input will be appreciated.

*Guild wars will kill WoW*

*Vanguard will kill WoW*

*Hellgate london will kill WoW*

*Lord of the rings online will kill WoW*

None of succeeded in killing WoW and Conan wont either.

I thank you for input, but I cordially disagree. I believe it will be slow, but once word spreads it will gather into a tempest. Alas, this might just be my hopes talking.GSU28

Two things...

1) You can disagree all you want, but it's not going to happen.

2) Why do you hope WoW will get toppled? Are you some kind of scorned lover of WoW? What incentive do you get if WoW dies? A cookie?

No, I seriously doubt it. World of Warcraft has ten million active subscribers. How many unit sales? I have no idea. Fifteen or twenty million? I can't even begin to imagine. And WoW's popularity is still climbing.

World of Warcraft is a behemoth. No one hero is going to enter its lair and return with its head. It cannot be killed by one hero alone. No, it will take a whole army of heroes, hacking away at this vast, terrible monster before it falls.

Age of Conan can't do it alone... but Age of Conan and Warhammer Online and World of Darkness and Stargate Worlds and Star Trek Online and Warhammer 40K Online and the Firefly MMO - maybe they could kill the beast.

There are very few MMOs out today that are actually any good. EverQuest, pre-expansion Star Wars Galaxies, Dark Age of Camelot... that's about it. But there are a lot of MMOs in development that either look or are very, very good. The MMO playerbase is ultimately finite, and the more good MMOs there are, the harder WoW has to fight.

But no, one single game will not kill WoW. Not now.

No MMO beats WoW, Warhammer online might become a strong competitor though.

The only game that had a chance of stopping the beast was pre-cu star wars galaxies. It was a masterpiece.--Rampage--

A agree, and it had player housing ;)

I just want player housing :(Av177

Why? So you can have virtual tea parties?

If you're online you should be out killing things and raiding. Not redecorating.

The only game that had a chance of stopping the beast was pre-cu star wars galaxies. It was a masterpiece.--Rampage--

Even if Age of Conan turns out to be a great game, I doubt it can outdo WoW. Part of WoW's success is the fanbase Blizzard already had from Starcraft and WC3. Also, the age restriction might have an impact. In general, WoW seems more accessible to a wide range of audience, and it doesn't seem AoC will have that broad appeal.

Probably not.

Guild Wars 2 will! Haha, I just had to do it. :P

I think you have to consider that another factor is that if you put time into a game, you grow/develop a certain amount of loyalty to that game, so to just up and quit any game for another takes alot.

Good graphics, but DIRE combat system, is not enough ...

+ its 360 aswell so you know its going to be casualized crap.

[QUOTE="GSU28"]I thank you for input, but I cordially disagree. I believe it will be slow, but once word spreads it will gather into a tempest. Alas, this might just be my hopes talking.dnuggs40

Two things...

1) You can disagree all you want, but it's not going to happen.

2) Why do you hope WoW will get toppled? Are you some kind of scorned lover of WoW? What incentive do you get if WoW dies? A cookie?

I don't hope WoW dies, I just want AoC to be as or more successful.

In order for that to happen, the entire WoW customer base would have to be disillusioned with the fact that Blizzard doesn't give two craps about them and they only want their money. I don't know if that's actually the case or not but that's how EQ was toppled by WoW.

Most people that played EQ back in the day gave it up because Verant treated them like virtual slaves and people didn't want to put up with their crap any more. There was a mass exodus to WoW from EQ. It was really the day EQ died...

I don't expect anything like that to happen to WoW for at least another five years...Blizzard will get sloppy or they'll offer something even better.

Back in the day, they used to say, "Nothing can beat Everquest."

But is Age of Conan going be the one to do it? Not likely.

1) Can Conan run on a casual computer?

2) Do people even know about this game? hell i just found out today what it was

3) When ever a mmorpg comes out they say its gonna kill wow.

the ONLY mmorpg that has a chance of killing wow is Warhamer online. Not only because it looks similar its because it has a HUGE fan base cause of the table top games that were around in the 1980s to present.

The only game that will pull gamers from WoW is infact Starcraft 2 assuming it has no monthly fees. Either way, Blizzard wins.

Yes, I know they're different genres but many gamers remain loyal to blizzard simply because blizzard is known for quality games.

WoW will never be toppled. I think it will always remain a popular game even past the year 2015...hell, there are still folks playing Diablo 2 and Starcraft.

The game is fun, it plays on anythng, its got a large community full of generally nice people. ANYONE can play it.

Now, as for Conan, I think it will get very popular provided it is a quality game. To me, Conan seems like the anti-generic Fantasy MMO; it will take place in a fantasy setting and it will have skills and stuff, yes, but everything else seems fairly unique. You can build settlements, the combat is real time (what I am looking forward to the most), the PvP seems great, the first 20 levels are offline (so youre guarenteed to get your money's worth, and if you like it you subscribe!), and many other things.

No, nothing will topple WoW short of WoW 2. But others can come close. I think the best MMOs of the future, however, will be the ones dedicated to maintaing a great game: EVE isnt successful relative to WoW, but it is a great game and is successful enough that the developers have maintained it as a credit to the MMO genre. Same with LOTRO and, to an extend, Guild Wars (tho its not an MMO)

no

but the fight will be between Age of Conan and Warhammer Online

Reading this thread i actually thought it was a joke thread, but reading through it i see it isn't which is fine so i answered No it has no chance just like 90% of the others and I'll give my opinion why.

I like most others believe for one warhammer has a much greater chance of taking WoW out than AoC and warhammer really has no chance either, but i do think they will get a nice chunk of the market maybe somehwere around where guild wars is 2 - 3 million people within maybe 12 -18 months of release. I don't know if AoC will be a great game but i think it has a better chance of being another Vanguard than another great game. It promises alot which it may not deliver and it needs a hog of a machine to run it well, so not very accessible to casual gamers. Also AoC doesn't have the gamer fanbase that warhammer has and def not what Warcraft had. You gotta remember before WoW launched there was major success with warcraft 1, 2,3 and Starcraft + diablo. Warhammer has 25 years in with table top games, semi to really successful RTS style games and the team making the MMO have already created quite a good MMO in the early 2000's. so AoC basically no chance of taking over WoW IMO lucky to have 500,000 subscribers 12 months after launch.

Voted No, but as most of the people here have pointed out, a simple no isnt the entire answer.

Conan and Warhammer are both on the horizon, and they'll (probably) steal a decent chunk of the player base. Conan has itself an excellent literary base spanning a considerable number of years, plus a couple movies that it can use to draw people in. Warhammer too has an excellent background with a massive backlog of tabletop games and literary works, with a slew of RTS games along the way. But theres one hitch. Both a strongly PvP focused. I'm willing to bet many if not most PvP nuts from WoW will try one or both of the new MMOs, but ultimately its all going to come down to how good the gameplay of both is. If the gameplay is up to scratch, one or both of these games will put a nice dent in WoWs PvP player base, but i dont see the PvE side of things being shifted much. So in the end, WoW is really only going to get competition of 1 half of its focus, and as anyone who has been following WoWs development lately, they have been trying very hard to beef up the PvP side of their game.

NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

just to tell you guys but lineage 2 has beaten wow even look at wikipedia at "list of best selling video games" and go down to pc section lineage 2 has 15mil while wow has 10 mil

just to tell you guys but lineage 2 has beaten wow even look at wikipedia at "list of best selling video games" and go down to pc section lineage 2 has 15mil while wow has 10 mil

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15 million active subscribers paying at one time?

It will have a better start then WoW if they stop delaying the game.

But it will implode soon after...don't think it will maintain the 500k subs in the long run...