What if you beat out World of Warcraft and nobody cared?

Yet it must be bashed by all the others lol.

Too funny, you like it or you don't. A heck of a lot of people obviously like it.

@ Bossy

You ass.

Consider this. WoW has all this content, because it's been out for four-plus years. It's as polished as it is, because it's been out four-plus years. It's taken years for it to get to this point, with the dual-specs, the 50+ flying mounts, etc. It doesn't just happen overnight, and it sure never launched like this. In fact, it launched as poorly, if not worse than games like WAR did, with nowhere near as much content as it has now. Not even all of WotLK has been released. They're still releasing the rest of it through content patches, so not even Wrath is a finished product.

How ignorant and blind most people are. They forgot that WoW began just as all MMOs do.

For starters, Arena is crap, and there's a lot of people that would agree with me. Just another excuse for twelve year olds to wave their e-peens around. I'm personally glad other MMOs haven't gone down that route. What Blizzard should have done, was not put in some crap deathmatch game mode, and make more Battlegrounds instead.

Swimming mounts? How is that even an argument? Who the hell cares? A swimming mount doesn't actually improve anything. It just means your mount doesn't disappear when you hit the water. This is irrelevant.

If I remember correctly, WAR has real time siege warfare, as well. And as poorly done as it is, it's still 10x more intense and realistic than the half-assed crap fest that is WoW's attempt (They blatantly ripped off WAR and DAoC with that btw.) at "RvR".

Underwater realms? Oooo, aaaaaah, big deal. That neither sells a game, or, makes a difference. I've seen cooler places in the Aion beta than anything in WoW can touch.

Turning off XP at your whim isn't really a big deal either. Most people probably don't even know about this, and more likely, don't care. A small feature that wouldn't make it on the back of a game box.

WoW lore is alright. But Blizzard keeps shitting on it in order to offer lame story excuses for ridiculous features and characters they decide to add in. Imo, WoW lore is being butchered, slowly. Also, WAR's lore is ten times more comprehensive. Before there was Warcraft, there was Warhammer. Keep that in mind. WoW's lore is a drop in a bucket of water compared to the universes of other games.

Pure leveling through PvP will never happen. As it stands, Questing will still be the fastest, and easiest route to level. Plain and simple. Very, very few people will use PvP as a way to level their character. Unlike WAR, PvP is not the focus of this game, and so it will not be a major component to leveling in the long run. It's been stated by the devs that it will not offer nearly as much XP as questing and instancing does.

The "Phasing" and "World changes" only happen on a handful of quests, most notably the Death Knight starting quest chain. It's neat the first time around, and then becomes a lame trick. Kind of like the stupid "poop" quests in BC.

"Latest PvP is all about parachuting..." I don't need to hear anymore. That sounds unbelievably stupid, not to mention ridiculous. It really proves that Blizzard ran out of ideas with BC.

"...and catapults in siege fighting on the PTR." Yeah, it's been done before, in a few other games. Just another example of Blizzard of ripping off of other games, except lately, they suck at ripping off of people. They used to be good at it.

"...dual specs making for a choise IN a dungeon to play..." AFTER you pay an ass-ton of gold to get it. It's not just given to you, therefor, I wouldn't count this as a straight up feature. Either way, some people don't even use it. Personally, it's a waste of gold, that I can use on pots, food, gems, repair bills, etc.

Who cares about in-game contests for real money? WoW is not the only game that does it. In fact, there's something called the Cyber Athletes League, among other groups, that holds game tournaments for money. Congrats, something completely unoriginal. Who's to say Aion won't have it's own PvP tournament? You never know.

As for end-game raid content, and end-game PvP? Who knows? Aion hasn't even released, and it's only been out for a year. I'm sure, that in four years, if Aion is allowed to succeed, it will be as good, if not better than WoW. We don't even know what the end-game is like in Aion, unless you're one of the few people that's played the Chinese version. Other than that, the closed beta is level-capped. I can tell you it's the most polished and well-done beta i've played (Considering that it is a localized version of a year old game.). I can also tell you it's incredibly similar to WoW, but different enough (As well as much better looking.) to be refreshing. I have not regretted placing a pre-order so far (Unlike Wrath of the Lich King, which i'm regretting.).

In short, WoW is nothing new, it never was. It has, and always will be a collection of things stolen and ripped off of other MMOs and games. The difference is that WoW did a good job ripping off of things at first, bringing them all together in a seamless package. Now, they don't even try when they copy and rip off things. All they do is recycle content from the original WoW and BC, or add in unbelievably stupid and ridiculous features (Like that parachute crap you were babbling about.). WoW was a great game in it's time (Up until BC, more or less.), but it's time is coming to an end.

Eventually, another MMO (Hopefully Aion, if not, then Star Wars: The Old Republic.) will come along that will drag all those people looking for something better from WoW. The rest, the hardcore bunch, will either stay until the servers close down, or will wake up and realize that Blizzard has been force feeding them recycled crap for years, and they will leave. You've heard it before, but Blizzard is running out of ideas. There's only so much they can do with the game.

That said, I had a blast with it while it lasted, and I will retain some fond memories I had with the game. But like most people, i'm tired of staying simply because there's nothing else out there. We're just waiting to jump ship. And I think there's two games out there that can be our salvation. Aion, and The Old Republic. I certainly hope they prove to be as good as they're shaping up to be. No game will ever "kill" WoW, but they will wound it, and quicken it's eventual death. The only thing that can kill WoW, is WoW, when it burns itself out.

Think about that, Bossy, before spouting off more of your fanboy crap.

In regards to the article, it was well written. I do agree that WoW will be "a name for the ages" so to speak. It will always be a bar, by which the quality of future MMOs will be judged. It has already been the death of other MMOs, simply because people can't get the fact that WoW is four years old, and they're comparing it to a fledgling game.

It just needs a game to take it's place on the throne.