Blizzard's "major announcement" is but mere weeks away

[roguebanshee]

I'd say that SWG is a direct competitor to WoW. There are few people that will play multiple subscription MMOGs at the same time. I think WoSC would definitely be a competitor to WoW, but worse, since Blizzard has a pretty large following. Lots of Diablo folks had never tried an MMO but went for WoW because it was Blizzard.

And a lot of people only started SWG because it is Star Wars, many of them would likely not have hopped on the WoW train. I know of people who would never touch SWG, EQ, DAoC or WoW due to their settings, but happily paid to play CoH simply because it wasn't Star Wars or elves & mages.

There are people who hunger for a WH40k MMO, but are completely uninterested in fantasy, superheroes or Star Wars. WoSC could easily draw in some of those, if they manage the setting right.