Wanna take on World of Warcraft? Got a billion dollars?

Whats the deal with all the skulls?

I tried WoW a little ways back with a 30 day free trial. I'll admit, it was fun, but I just couldn't get into it; especially how some people really, really get into it.

I enjoy Guild Wars: Nightfall every now and again (twice a month?).

Different folks, different strokes.

Haha...that's like Michael Jordan saying it would cost him a billion dollars to compete again Nike.

didn't know you could yank yourself off like that, he's pretty good at it...

If WoW is the best mmo that can be created, I cry for the future of gaming. Yea, WoW's fun, I play it myself off and on, but it's really not that AMAZING. I haven't played an mmo yet that I've enjoyed nearly as much as a console game and that's not because I don't enjoy online play, they're just always lacking the "oomph" that keeps me addicted.

100 billion dollars.


It's hard to type Dr. Evil... :(

Any CEO who thinks the only way to pull one over WOW is by throwing money is not much of a CEO.

The future of MMORPGs are those that can be played in a web browser via ActiveX or Java. 2MB install, takes 3 minutes to setup, etc. Once the FiOS bandwidth is in place all that data can be streamed. Just look at all the content in something like Google Maps, for instance. Anyways, I gave up on WoW due to the cliche fantasy setting; Boooooring! Something with a steam-punk setting would be nice... combined with 19th century American Frontier

This is true, to an extent, which really really sucks for those of us who like the idea of an MMO, but not WoW.

Bioware's MMO will change things =)

The main problem with any competition against WoW is advertising, plain and simple. WoW has the global mindshare, and unless you can somehow drill your product deep into that section, no MMO can hope to compete with WoW in terms of pure dollars, at least in the short term.

(in terms of long term, word of mouth can work wonders, but any product of equal production cost to WoW is going to be not as profitable for some time.)

Bruce Campbell!

It can be beat but not by Game makers of today. WOW when it first came out and even now had an unholy amount of bugs in it, and various issues. The difference is wow had time to polish up while companies were still unaware of its growing power.

The problem is with the internet comes game companies that feel they can pump out a product not finished and the consumer should be grateful for patches that will come later down the line to make it better. Look at the Witcher,and that is a good scenario of a patch at least you aren't paying monthly there. These game makers aren't giving people a reason to leave wow and start in a new world with them.

I am not a huge fan of wow, but I am pretty sure I am not going to give up my lvl 70 character to go do a grind in another place with less content more bugs, and another fee. People aren't rejecting sword and shield they are rejecting a rigmarole process they already know and are comfortable with some where else. If they want to beat WOW come up with a polished game, not only with gritty ugly models, also show places to dance and interact. Open the beta Wide so everybody can see it and let the word spread. If you are trying to stick to the tried and true MMO formula then enjoy your failure.

Haha i want to see someone accidentally destroy the servers wow runs on and watch the news of suicides all over the planet! AHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAH. fucking losers