Conan MMO dev: WoW popularity in decline

"9.3 million paying subscribers" is the term they used. If you take it at face value, that means exactly what it says. You could go a little deeper and think "There might be people paying for the account but not playing."

Many different ways to be taken but still only one way to understand it. WoW is still popular and growing.

I play WoW because I enjoy it and I haven't found a time to stop due to lack of things to do (in game). This article was posted a little over two months ago and I'm sure the amount of subscribers has increased since.

I bet he's going to eat his words come Christmas. I know many people will probably be recieving WoW for Christmas, especially after their current ad-campaign. I personally don't like WoW but I'm not going to argue with obviousness.

I, for one, am tired of WOW news. Actually, news about any MMO in general.

Once you've been addicted to one and manage to break away, you don't ever want to go back.

most people who are going to play wow already have. i'm ready for the next mmo, i got tired of wow after 5 months and promtly quit and deleted it 6 months ago

cov was pretty fun for about 6 months too. i hope the conan one or maybe that warhammer one will be good enough for a few months of play

Here's the thing...If you're tired of WoW, you know what you're not going to be interested in?

Another medieval fantasy MMO.

So, Conan dev, if you're wrong, you're screwed.
If you're right, you're screwed.

Yay.

I'm still waiting on a wild west mmo.

Funny thing, I'm not playing WoW cause after the voice chat update, my PC crashes when the game starts, if not, I'd be playing right now.

If WoW is so popular and shows no signs of slowing down, isn't the celebrity ad campaign redundant? The total number of subscribers is thrown around as proof but I can't believe that an MMO can continue this kind of growth without expanding the market.

WoW doesn't lose players, they either gain some and others go into hibernation until the next expansion. I'm in the hibernation category because frankly, the game has gotten boring. But when wrath of the lich king comes out you can bet your ass me and probably a million others will come back to the game for at least a while.

I believe WoW's subscriber numbers are based on total subscribers over the life of the game, not current subscribers. Yes, 9.3 million is an enormous number. But it includes people like me, a guy who canceled almost a year ago.

Of course, that doesn't mean the game's going anywhere. It just means the numbers are going to spread out as the MMO market continues to develop.

This game is the beginning of the end. The level of mild addiction this game causes in people is the writing on the wall, showing how people aren't gonna be able to handle it when totally immersive virtual reality becomes possible. I bet 2/3 of the planet will zone-out into a virtual world if given an option.

I tell ya, if you can figure out a method for feeding people in VR helmets while they lay in a semi-conscious state playing a game, you'll make a fortune. Oh, wait... It's called "Domino's."

I'd like to see a quality harry potter mmo

It could be that Blizzard have noticed a decline and that is why they've suddenly made an increased effort in television advertising.

I'd take this more seriously if it wasn't coming from someone competing with Blizzard

Can we get a Dune MMO in the next ten to fifteen years? Please? I want to be a Sadaukar, or maybe a Mentat Bashar like Miles Teg.

I don't like this one bit, I remember a while back I responded to a post about WOW saying I didn't like how places give WOW a cake walk. Never criticizing them, but if you attack WOW your word seems to be some what flawed. Anything that has to do with WOW has to do with sunny times in Azeroth with dancing cheers. If somebody actually complains they are branded as whiners, or casuals who want welfares.

If you don't believe the feeling on the net is WOW is dying, then just play the game, the ability to get a simple party is becoming a chore. No matter if you are WOW Europe or America tanks and healers are getting quite scarce. The funny part is sites, and blizz seem to be ignoring it, the truth is even if wow died tomorrow it will be seen as huge success. It isn't wow that will suffer it is what ever blizzard attempts to create next that will get the back lash from WOW resentment.

But hey I am just rumbling on the net, a whiner, we all know we don't mean anything. I mean look how well the PS3 is doing from all those rumblings before it......

With over a half a million people ready to hop onto Warhammer Online when it releases, it's the only title that I can see even remotely competing with WoW.

The development time behind War is staggering, and the hype is at the level WoW was many months into it's own closed betas.

I have hopes.

That "feeling on the Internet" is probably mostly coming from people who never played the game or played it and put it back down because they knew it wasn't the kind of game they wanted, on top of the people that bag on it just because it's popular or because its community tends to suck.

While I personally enjoy WoW, I do agree that the community sucks (love my guild though!), along with the argument that WoW has heavily skewed people's perceptions of the MMO market. An MMO doesn't have to come anywhere near WoW's level of popularity to be considered successful, but a lot of people (particularly WoW fans) tend to believe that a game will either "kill WoW" or "totally suck."

LOL - the picture is so funny. I am sure a very small percentage of people actually get what some of the words mean!!

Dit is sommer lekker befok!