Will there ever be an mmo to beat WoW???

I mean Blizzard reign over the market cannot last forever. Some comapny out there (will probably have to be an already large company) will have to beat them some day. Eq1 was eventually beaten, UO was eventually beaten.
I am personally awaiting AION but do not expect it to be a WoW killer at all.

Darkfall was probably the most anticipated flop of the generation, and everyone thought that would be a WoW killer, Warhammer online even before Darkfall's release.

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Obviously there will have to be sometime. A lot of people expect Star Wars The Old Republic to do it, it is from Bioware. So if any has the best odds i would have to go with that 1 as far as the near future is concerned. That really depends on if they do it rights and do not s***w up as well though. Either way it will take some time for whichever game does go that far to actually get to that point.

I pray that TOR will be able to topple the WoW giant, but I'd would just be happy if it was a well rounded game. And I personally believe there are a few games that are better then WoW, but come from smaller companies. Shadowbane was, by far, a better game, though it just recently died, and Darkfall is a fun game to play, its just the grind that really kills me. I'm a PvP fanatic so WoW got old really fast.

And I wouldn't say Darkfall was/is a flop, it's just not for WoW fanbois. I mean, it's cool if you love farming and RPing, but darkfall is about pvp and seige warfare, two things that WoW almost competely ignored, regardless of the BGs, biggest waste of time and money ever.

The biggest problem with new MMOs IMHO is that they all try to look like WoW.
When that's changed, WoW could be dethroned.

SW the old republic and maybe global agenda. wow is getting worse everypatch . one day it will get toppled down

World of Starcraft will be better than WoW =)
I think Aion will be a success but it is going a different path than WoW so I think both games will coexist pretty good.

Maybe World of Warcraft2? I would love to see a WW2 MMO

lol, of course there will. This is generally what the trend looks like from my experience: Really good game comes out (almost a decade ago, it was Everquest1) and for the next 4 years every decent looking rival game that releases is the "EQ/WoW-killer" game. You've heard it a thousand times playing WoW of how ppl said that games like Lord of the Rings Online or Age of Conan or Vanguard was going to "kill" WoW. This goes on for a while until one of two things happens: 1) a hot new game that comes out that really is better than WoW, similar to how WoW built upon the concepts of previous MMOs and weeded out the problem areas; or 2) WoW drags on for so long that people simply are tired of it after 8+ years and finally the game declines into nothingness (where EQ currently is).

I am waiting for something like Fallout Online. post nuclear world, wearing whatever you find, crafting weapons from pieces of junk, stuff like that can be even turn based

Wow will never die, just like Starcraft or Warcraft 1,2,3 or Diablo 1 & 2 never died.

And the only game that will dethrone wow, is the next MMO by Blizzard.

Aion wont kill wow (because it's nothing new, just a nother solid korean mmo)

SW: Old republic - we will see about this one. Bioware have no experience in MMO industry at all, they wan't to bring single player cRPG story to the MMO. Too early to say anything, only hype so far. All we know, is that Mythic will Bioware (and many people are concerned due to that fact, as we all know how WAR ended up).

Blizzard is the best gaming company on the planet (either if u like it or not), they gather the most telented people in the industry, they have unlimited budget, they never rush games.

So far, preety much every new MMO fails, either if it's AOC,WAR,Darkfail...

Aion won't fail for sure (played euro cb4 & cb5) because it's a very polished and overall solid product, but then again, it brings nothing new to the genre. And people will get bored with this one very fast.

MMORPG market is a desert right now, so I will just upgrade my pc and I'm moving on to single player games. A lot of good titles comming this autumn.

With the way things are atm, the only thing that will bring WoW down is Blizzards new MMO thats in the works. After trying alot of other MMOs I just find they are all trying to duplicate instead of doing their own thing.

I think Perfect World was getting there...but its seemed to stall right now, I think Earth Eternal will be a great game, dont think it will exactly top wow though lol

You mean beat it as in have more subscribers?

IDK about that, but in graphics, gameplay, fun, and everything else WOW has been beaten already by far.

In popularity WOW is still king, IDK if anyone will beat them there.

wow will be toppled by the next mmo that blizzard puts out. they will stop supporting wow when it comes out and people will be forced to switch. i am tired of wow and am going to switch to aion

Wow will eventually get beaten. Its just a question of time when. Someone just needs to make a pretty damn good mmo.

I don't understand how WoW became such a "Great Game". WoW has nothing special compared to other games out there and in my opinion, I think WoW is a PoS. I've seriously tried to like it but even in my opinon, Runes of Magic was much better. It's quests are rinse and repeat just like any other MMO out there, yeah sure, the community is bigger but I noticed there are more children running around but what does it REALLY have that other games don't? WoW is a duplicate of other games so let's not put WoW on such a high pedestal. I played Runescape longer than I could withstand WoW lol

Well, the new MMO blizzard is making might kill its own mmo, but diablo 3 has some potential too.

Aion can dethrone WoW, PvPvE looks very promising

Aion, hopefully.