Daoc gonna fade away?

[fortunefish]

sould us loyal daoc player worry about WoW?

Im beginging to wonder if this is just gonna be another SWG where everyone goes o o o new game and then comes back after free month coz daoc will allwyas be in their hearts.

Or

Will it hit us hard and will everyone move because it looks that way atm...all they talk about on general discussion is WoW PvP vids etc etc and im wondering how many of u r moving.

please for me and other on FH please type the words:

Yes
No

no i know im gonna miss... dont lecture me on this post just a few words is fine fanku!

regards

[Darac]

I for one will be giving Mythic the bird when WOW goes retail. Or maybe before if I get on beta I imagine a lot of DAOC players who play Hibernia or Midgard will be doing the same. Most people who play in Albion will probably hang around a little bit longer until they get their FOTM Infils and Sorcerers to 50 only to find out their is nobody to kill in RVR!

Oh sorry, got carried away! I guess my answer is "Yes"!

[fortunefish]

oops sorry missed this bit out ...

WHY>????

[Draylor]

Heh. WoW will have no more effect than the last 10 'its gonna kill DAoC' game releases did. They were hardly noticeable

[Aithe]

to be honest WoW is going to be bigger....a LOT bigger...

[munkeh]

After playing the stress test, all I do is wait for wow atm.
And no, it will not be another SWG. You'll see, this is a game for years to play.
There will always be a hardcore group in daocc that keeps playing it, I just wonder if the zones will not seem extremely empty tbh... but no one can foresee that.
The hardcore group will excist of the people who talk the 1337speak on these forums and are in-game number crunchers... they will continue in their own little world.

[Cylian]

WoW won't 'kill' DAoC, but seriously doubt that DAoC won't take a major dent.

Blizzard might not innovate a whole lot, but they're very good at polishing ideas and turning them into fun games. And usually they do work to balance their games as good as possible.

On the other side you got Mythic, while they undoubtly made a good game about 3 years ago, they happily ignore their customers, don't care about game balance and just throw in more time grinds.

Guess all those players of 'broken' classes will try WoW, as well as those that dislike the Bot/ML arms race.

[Hakansson]

I sure as hell don't belive in WoW =P sticking with daoc atleast until i have seen most thing's in NF and know if it is bad or not

[Lian]

I can number at least 10-12 people in my guild that will switch to WoW when it comes out. And it's the people that you play with that make the game imo. DAoC isn't all that great, but playing with the same people for 2.5years gets you kind of attached to them.

[cHodAX]

WoW will deliver a big blow to DAoC but not a crippling blow, I know alot of people are leaving when WoW goes live but I expect about 25% of those to return to DAoC within 6 months. Mythic will need to do something drastic after that to get people to return but with EQ2 also looming and a number of smaller MMORPG's on the horizon I can see DAoC's player numbers dropping month after month for the next year.

[cHodAX]

Originally Posted by Cylian

WoW won't 'kill' DAoC, but seriously doubt that DAoC won't take a major dent.

Blizzard might not innovate a whole lot, but they're very good at polishing ideas and turning them into fun games. And usually they do work to balance their games as good as possible.

On the other side you got Mythic, while they undoubtly made a good game about 3 years ago, they happily ignore their customers, don't care about game balance and just throw in more time grinds.

Guess all those players of 'broken' classes will try WoW, as well as those that dislike the Bot/ML arms race.

Well said.

[Oro]

I'll be splitting my time between DAoC and WoW. Will be taking up the GM's job ('guild', not 'game') for the first time since quitting Mid. Playing with a few friends and looking forward to some insane silliness with some people I miss.

Longevity or degree of absorbtion who can say, but the intial signs are really promising.

I've applied for beta but of course no word as yet

[Draylor]

Originally Posted by Lian

And it's the people that you play with that make the game imo.

Yup, thats probably the only reason Ill even try WoW.

Its just the same old game with a shiny new set of graphics - but as with every other game it takes most people quite a while to realise it.

Read something about WoWs PvP plans the other day, couldve summarised it perfectly as 'what DaoC does'. Remember, this is 'innovative', 'new', and 'different' - or something

[judas]

Think Daoc will be as dead as when they first introduced PvP servers overhere. RvR will be unzergy with no "leets"out most of the time but as said after the first free month most ppl will be back as im quite sure the PvP system on WoW is crap compared the the Daoc one. just hope we have like 1,72 by the time first month of WoW is gone or peeps might just quit instead.

[Cylian]

Question would be, how to innovate medieval (well, sort of) combat ?

in the end it always breaks down to:

Side A vs Side B (vs. Side C/D/E whatever)
melee combat
ranged combat
support
an Strategical Landmark that fits into the 'world' -> Towers/Keeps/Towns

but there are differences between WoW PvP and DAoC PvP.