The Truth About MMO's: SWTOR > WoW

I don't understand this obsession either. Why are people so desperate to try and prove WoW is failing. All this hate towards a game is unhealthy. I fully agree with you both are amazing games in their own right. Surely there is room for both to co-exist without all this negativity towards WoW.

Its like the whole BF vs CoD or xbox vs play station crap. Why can't we just play both?

The article used information from vgcharts to support its theory that wow is lying about its sub numbers, however on vgcharts it says tor sold 305k copies. Which is obviously wrong. The rest of the metrics used don't even cite a source that gives the data used in the post

Of course, this has nothing to do with the Christmas and New Year's holidays being over and people actually having to work in the weeks.

Naah, nothing to do with it at all.

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I would bet against that. At some point people can no longer play a sub par experience when compared to the newer stuff on the market. While SWTOR has a lot of things in common with WoW and quite a few things are missing because the game is young, there ae a couple simple factors that will keep people from going back to WoW:

1) Graphics
2) Voice-Acting
3) Incredible Role-playing experience.

I'm not gonna say SWTOR is more polished cuz its not yet. but theres a reason why a vast majority of people aren't playing older games even though those games are built better. SWTOR is the next gen MMO and I don't believe enough casuals will go back to WoW considering how much SWTOR trumps WoW with those 3 factors.

Oh right, I forgot, Asians don't count ... they're not people anyways.

Silly me, and here I thought the only markets that mattered were the ones where you earned money.

Appearently asian people aren't real people and is not using real money, which I'm sure all the companies trying to break -into- the asian markets will be surprised to hear.

Better graphics, yes, more interesting design and use of the said graphics, no. WoW has style, TOR has surface, style will almost always draw more people.

Eventually you do get tired of being told the same thing, it's like visiting someone and they always repeat the same story and being shown is still a better storytelling method over being told. WoW is better at showing than TOR is, in it's designs, in the world and when it wants to affect you emotionally (No little Pamela Redpath, I'm not crying, I'm just sweathing trough my eyes).

In a roleplay you have free choice, you have a GM (poor bastard) who has to adapt to what you as players do, even when you mess up his carefully planned adventure. There's no such thing in TOR, if you do something that would mess up the story, someone comes in a picks up the pieces so you do what the game wants you to do anyway.

Check the trend and actually read the graphs the trend started literally from day 5 so WHILST THE HOLIDAYS WERE STILL GOING ON

I take your sarcasm and turn it into factual staments! ;oP

Question is, who cares about the numbers?

Do you enjoy the game?

Yes? Shut up and keep playing.
No? Shut up and gb2<insert your favorite game>.