Reunion

Recently hitting the eleven million subscriber mark, Warcraft has already shrugged off challenges this year from well-received online role-playing games like Warhammer Online and Age of Conan, both of which received healthy sales but don't stand a chance of cracking the top spot. In fact, Mike Morhaime, president of Warcraft's maker Blizzard, said in a recent conference call that 68% of departing players who cited Age of Conan as their reason for quitting ended up returning. Normally gamers are fixated on The Next Big Thing, but this time they seem to be heading back to The Last Big Thing in droves.

I'd heard that about AoC players about 2 months after it came out, and I wasn't surprised, Conan was a steaming pile of shit.

Warhammer is about to hit its second month since release, I wonder if they will post the numbers again?

WoW will continue to hold the top spot for the forseeable future, I don't think the people at Mythic are stupid enough to think otherwise.

I do believe though that the WotLK expansion will mark a turning point, a lot of players are hanging on to their subs for this expansion, it's got a lot riding on it. If it fails to evolve the gameplay I think you will see the sub rates begin to dwindle. I think the KOTOR MMO could be well positioned to challenge it though, and since it's Bioware I think they will do a good job.

KOTOR = no / bad pvp = no reunion

Is there no/bad PVP ? I haven't seen enough details on it yet. If they are trying to appeal to the masses though PVP will be an after thought unfortunately. I've been a big fan of Bioware games, but will give it a miss if it does not offer some decent PVP. I still have a sub to a PVE game in LOTRO, if I need my fix, not that I have in the last month though.

Whatever bioware makes, it will be different and interesting. I mean...they're bioware. I don't picture them putting much emphasis on pvp stuff, but I bet their story driven pve will be fantastic.

I won't even be playing MMO's by the time the KOTOR mmo comes out.