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  WoW is like the Universe. One day it will implode upon itself. : Sambula
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    Except the universe is going to keep expanding forever....so WoW will experience a heat death? : thetangent
    • It'll be so big that players would be too far from each other to see. : Sailor of Fortune
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  You would be suprised how little it would take to topple wow. It's just most companies let their mouths ... : lcizzle
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    it's not just good marketing that makes Blizzard good. Their games ARE awesome. Most games on the market ... : d3vilsadvocate
    • It's the social aspect. Loads of people get into it because a friend or two are playing. Once you play fo... : the_burd
  • lol Funcom is the LAST company that's going to make a game that competes with WoW. : Pneum0
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  On the PC scene I think Valve are the only ones that could come close. They are doing a great job at bui... : Wombat Woo
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    Agreed. If anyone could take it on, it'd be Valve. : Medieval Barber
    • Don't forget about Epic, imagine an MMO Gears of War. : eclips3d
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    Their MMO experience is limited to being a reseller. Not saying they can't. : Sylvanus
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      WoW is Blizzard's first mmo too. : [7]kami
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        Depends. You need to consider what was learned from Battle.net. They learned quite a bit from Diablo & ... : Sylvanus
        • Like Valve learned from Steam? : [7]kami
  • Basically I'm saying that running a successful MMO is a huge undertaking. While past successes deserve k... : Sylvanus
• What are your success requirements? What are your comparison parameters? Who will you include? Who... : Sylvanus
• a mixture of staleness in either the product or perception of staleness in the user base, just like Everq... : pharoah mike
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  Blizzards new secret MMO. : imcompa
  • This is pretty much it. : [7]kami
  • that'd have been my guess if he didn't have said "against Blizzard" : razorblade79
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  Bioware's Star Wars MMO looks to have what I'd consider the best chance: 1.) Broad appeal of a popular... : Sylvanus
  • I agree here. If anything has a shot right now, it's this. I just hope that Bioware can create a big en... : kallanta
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  Polish. : Durajim
  • Agreed. It will take a developer/publisher being smart enough to realized that releasing early and hoping... : Shin_Chan72
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  It'll take the marketing fuckwits closing their traps about the game except for tiny teases... that way t... : vertdang
  • I support this man in his bid for the presidency. : lotus2133
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  Here's what it takes to compete or beat them: don't start out looking to compete or beat them. Seriously.... : three-d
  • I'm going to agree with you on this, because it makes (common) sense, but... Does it even matter after... : Durajim
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  Some new ideas, every MMO that was supposed to be the "WOW Killer" still followed the basic fantasy MMO f... : kodt
  • you have to remember that WoW was the same exact thing, an EQ-clone, when it came out... it became so pop... : brainchild420
• not the title itself, the company. The company has to be madly famous before the MMO product. : ZaldronGG
• TLDR: A finished and well polished MMO could do it, but it would be extremely difficult to hit WoW sized : Kaerof
• It will take another good developer that can get away with a "When it's done" release date. Companies lik... : eclips3d
• What it takes is for Blizzard to fail at a game. They haven't yet (excluding internal projects they shut... : Defacil
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  6-10 years development time and at least half a billion $ would probably be enough. Oh and a good license... : razorblade79
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    more realisitically I'd say, someone like Nintendo could pull it off, by targeting their newfound market.... : razorblade79
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      Honestly I can't figure out why Nintendo has not made a full 3D real Pokemon RPG on Gamecube or Wii yet?.... : kodt
      • A Pokemin MMO would be great as it would inherently be a PVP game but people won't fear it as one. : Sailor of Fortune
• A MMO With more user generated content maybe? Like quests, items, etc. But not getting anywhere near the ... : imcompa
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  It'll happen eventually. There was a time where it looked like nobody would ever topple Everquest. : Sideways Bob
  • Lineage was more popular than Everquest. : razlebol
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  Originality and polish. : razlebol
  • Just the polish actually. WoW isnt THAT original. Its just that it looks/plays/runs so well. : bolneze
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  1 Billion USD, and a shitton of skill and luck. : utgaardsloke
  • Exactly, it seems like a lot of folks don't understand that while yes you do need a lot of money and reso... : clickles
• it takes a world without me-too sheep. : araczynski
• I haven't played wow for years (and wow that seems weird to say) but I have to say, I felt something spec... : portwineboy
• An MMO engine that can run more than one game on it via plugins and a slightly cheaper rate. And of coars... : OhMyHip