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Rawrcast Ep 158:The MMO Market in 2012
February 07, 2012 :: Posted by - Kaeril :: Category - Bioware, Mists of Pandaria, Other, World of Warcraft
2011 has come and gone, giving an idea of what we can expect in the year to come. Cataclysm has become the expansion Blizzard wants to forget. A nobody developer came out of nowhere with Rift to show just how hungry players are for an alternative to World of Warcraft. The much hyped Star Wars: The Old Republic was released at the eleventh hour much to the relief of the C-3PO cos-players. Sony released its DC Universe only to have it go free-to-play six months later. If you were one of those suckers that shelled out the $200 for the lifetime subscription, you got butt-raped by Sony, no lube or nothing. This next year, there will be some additions to the gang of ankle biters trying to take down World of Warcraft from its pedestal. Will any of them deal a mortal wound or will Blizzard’s Mists of Pandaria be the redeemer and be a bitch slap to the upstart competitors?
World of Warcraft
It’s the 800-pound gorilla in the room, or panda in this case. I had a lot of hopes with some major game fixing announcements to be made at Blizzcon. So when the panda expansion was announced, my reaction was along the lines of, “What… the… fuck!?” This was the exact opposite of what it was going to take to keep me from unsubbing and my fling with The Old Republic. Pet battle system? I wasn’t aware Nintendo had swallowed Blizzard whole. And I swear we’ve heard this “We’re fixing the talent trees for reals this time!” conversation before. Looks like the Cataclysm “simplified” talent trees weren’t moron-proof enough. The fact that we still haven’t heard anything on the Big Bad of this expansion is disconcerting. Metzen’s speech about WAR!!!! being the bad guy sounds like a cop out to me. I think the rest of the Blizzard devs had no idea what to say with this so just turned to Metzen and told him, “Dude, just go out there and do your thing. Say something epic.” I’d think they learned their lesson not to do that after 2010′s “GEEK IS!” Read more…
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