10-27-2011, 02:32 PM
(10-27-2011, 02:11 PM)Lissa Wrote: Not really. Just about every single MMO peaks around the 5th to 6th year and declines, just not as rapidly as WoW is going through. Go back and take a look at subscribers for UO, Asheron's Call, and EQ, you'll see the same situation, subscribers build for the first few years, a peak occurs around the 5th to 6th year of the MMO, then declines. What is telling is the loss rate.
WoW is not just any MMO.
If you throw together Ultima Online, Asheron's Call, EverQuest, and let's for argument's sake throw in Dark Age of Camelot, you would get around one million subscribers. WoW has, currently, over 11 million active subscribers.
That is less than ten percent. WoW has lost as many subscribers as those MMOs put together.
WoW is not going to "die." It is ridiculous; any other MMO would be considered wildly successful with less than 5% of its current subscriber base.
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