The thing to realize about WoW I think, is that you can't really compare it to other MMOs in many ways. A lot of the players there are WoW-players, not MMO-players. They're not really gamers, World of Warcraft is the only thing they really play, and they're not going to move to another game.
WoW has become mainstream. While there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, it means that a ton of people there are not really interested in the game genre, only in THAT game. It's also the MMO that has been talked about the most outside of the MMO-community, so there will be a lot of people checking it out, probably for a while still.
That is also the reason I've always found it silly to talk about a WoW-killer, cause from what I see, it's not really possible, unless another game gets that mainstream status that WoW have/had.
I'm not sure where exactly I'm going with this, I guess I'm just trying to say that WoW, and a lot of WoW players, are different than most other MMOs, and it's different people who are playing. There are lots of MMO players playing WoW, sure, but there's also tons of people who will never try anything else.
And because of those tons of people, there's another ton of people who want to try it out, but probably don't really have an interest in MMORPGs, so they don't make it very far, because it CAN be confusing when you first log in. I think that might be one of the reasons why so many doesn't make it past level 10.
And let's not forget all the level 1 goldspammers. They have to make a pretty decent chunk of those accounts too <.<
WoW has become mainstream. While there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, it means that a ton of people there are not really interested in the game genre, only in THAT game. It's also the MMO that has been talked about the most outside of the MMO-community, so there will be a lot of people checking it out, probably for a while still.
That is also the reason I've always found it silly to talk about a WoW-killer, cause from what I see, it's not really possible, unless another game gets that mainstream status that WoW have/had.
I'm not sure where exactly I'm going with this, I guess I'm just trying to say that WoW, and a lot of WoW players, are different than most other MMOs, and it's different people who are playing. There are lots of MMO players playing WoW, sure, but there's also tons of people who will never try anything else.
And because of those tons of people, there's another ton of people who want to try it out, but probably don't really have an interest in MMORPGs, so they don't make it very far, because it CAN be confusing when you first log in. I think that might be one of the reasons why so many doesn't make it past level 10.
And let's not forget all the level 1 goldspammers. They have to make a pretty decent chunk of those accounts too <.<
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