Riot might be the only big established company with a genuine shot at creating a WoW killer. The lore and world are basically already made for them (WoW also had that advantage). They also have a huge, established, and loyal fanbase. Their funder Tencent is giving them no deadline and can provide nigh-infinite resources. They got the lion’s share of the Blizzard brain drain, so potentially a lot of experienced MMO people determined to make a better game. And they have a lot of vidya industry big names, first among them being Ghostcrawler himself, who led WoW through its best years, and has a great openness for communication with the players.
If Dragonflight doesn’t save WoW from its decay, the Riot MMO may end up being the one to give the coup de grace.
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They do have a good chance since they spent 10 years worldbuilding Runeterra.
However:
>They're still a Tencent company
>There is a good chance it'll be another bog standard WOWclone with nothing revolutionary to add to the genre, will likely follow post WOTLK style MMO game design, as its Riots MO to copy a superior game and make it f2p trash with an oversized marketing budget and ease of access to the china market
>Ghostcrawler was never a good developer for WOW and is why we got amazing systems like cata/MOP talents, speedrun dungeons, and timegated daily rep grinds to unlock timegated daily rep grinds in order to unlock your valor vendor
>It will be f2p, so expect heavy pay 2 win, thousands of alt currency, and billions of gaudy cosmetics that makes a level 3 player look awesome while the highest tier dungeon/raid armors look like shit
Ghostcrawler is a hack, everyone hated him for a reason.
"Systems design specifically is everything that is not level, story, quest or encounter design. My team handles everything from classes to mechanics to items to trade skills to achievements to UI design, and that includes the game balance."
Spoiler: Everything his team worked on became DOGSHIT after he joined the team to replace Pardo.
>ohhh godd corporate wiener I love this corporation uhhh ahhh ngngghhhhhh
>t. OP
t. blizzard shill
Gay and Fake.
Nobody care about killing WoW anymore. Go back to your cave.
yeah bro they bought Hypixel and Hytale is coming in 2024 that's their mmo
>WoW killer
Nobody cares about trying to "kill" WoW anymore, Blizzard has been doing that on its own for years now.
Besides, Riot's MMO is still literal years from release at this point, nobody knows frickall about it so far beyond some of the staff. It's beyond premature to say it's going to "kill" anything.
Ghostcrawler already killed WOW, activision is just scavaging the corpse for all its worth
WoW-morons always say Ghostcrawler sucks, but class design was at it peak when GC was in charge.
WoW-morons also hate him because he had open dialogue with the players and responded on the forums and basically told them "No, your shitty ideas are shitty, we aren't putting your half-baked, poorly thought out, dogshit ideas in the game", which pissed off forum morons who thought they have all the answers on how to "fix" the game (aka make the game cater to their specific wants and needs) and got pissy when GC wouldn't bend the knee to their insane demands.
When GC left the decline was felt immediately, WoD was a piece of shit, classes got whimped and became boring builder/spender clones of each other, "borrowed power" bullshit started infesting the game etc
WoW-tards to this day still have ptsd over GC being based and telling forum posters with their shit "ideas" to get fricked and seethe about it non-stop.
We need more devs like GC who don't give a shit what dumb forum posters want and recognise vocal critics are usually just morons with agendas, the biggest reason wow is a steaming pile of shit is because to many devs listen to morons on forums and allow themselves to be bullied into changing a game to suit what these people want instead of sticking true to their own vision.
It's an artists job to give people what they didn't know they wanted, not to create something based on what morons ask for.
>Class design was at its peak when GC was in charge
He litterally deleted entire roles from the game and created the homogenization that the game has been struggling to fix for over a decade now
Half of his 'specializations' are fricking unplayable and some classes, notably pure DPS classes are one nerf away from being benched dogshit
On top of this he gave us such amazing systems like
>Badge farms for tier gear
>Speedrunner mode
>Daily Quests to unlock daily quests to access a valor vendor
>homogenized item level
>Thunderforging
>Specializations
>AOE tanking trivializing everything
>Every class should have a self heal and 20 defensive CDs
>Builder->Spender proc based class design
Funny too, he left for fricking Riot and immediately tried to ruin that game, but the Runes and Mastery system was already dogshit due to the p2w element of runepages so he only replaced shit with more shit, even though the mastery system was superior in every way
Don't forget dungeon finder and raid finder probably his biggest damage he could have brought to the MMO genre. If any new MMO came out and implemented it that game would have been DOA but WOW had 10 million subs by the time that shit was implemented so its only been a slow death as the uber hardcore playerbase can't replace their numbers as they quit/get burnt out or straight up die as all the newblood are stuck in LFR hell with no reason to progress past.
Playerbase:
>Dungeons are too short
Ghostcrawler:
>lol badges give tier gear now
Playerbase:
>Classes are imbalanced
Ghostcrawler:
>they're all the same now lol
Playerbase:
>There is nothing to do if you don't raid
Ghostcrawler
>raid finder
Playerbase:
>Once im full BIS I have nothing to do
Ghostcrawler
>Thunderforging
>Choose faction:Noxus
>Race: Human
>Skin color: light
>Class: warrior
Yep, its gaming time.
There's absolutely zero information about this game.
We know what the world is like and that the guy in charge streamlined WOW to be unfun garbage
Minecraft was the wowkiller.
There is no next big MMO, it's a permanent niche now and there's no going back.
I think MMOs could reclaim their throne if they stopped copying WOW and understood the roots of what made WOW good: being a shameless everquest knockoff with better artists and tech.
You're right, Minecraft did kind of take over the online open world sphere, because minecraft does what MMOs used to do, give players a massive playground to play in.
Every MMO now is so hyperfixed on rigidly curated questlines and hyperbalance that they all fail to capture that old feeling of playing an online roleplaying game because exploration was replaced by questmarkers and npcs spending hours spewing out exposition instead of giving you a simple quest to delve into dungeons with friends, and players have no hand in the world themselves as anything that players could potentially do that is amazing could be considered 'toxic' by your average redditor who never played a real MMO in their underaged lives.
I'll never play chinese homosexual shit, and never support homosexual companies.
have a nice day.