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World of Warcraft has "peaked" says THQ exec

Category: PC, Posted: 04/10/2008 at 05:52PM CDT by Tim Mellish, Staff Writer

wow World of Warcraft is going to reach its peak, if it hasn't already. This is the view of THQ executive Jack Sorenson. I'd have to agree with him. Even though WoW is ten million strong, with a highly anticipated expansion pack on the horizon, WoW is going to stop growing at some point.

Despite how big the game is, people are eventually going to be bored and move on to something else.

Also worth noting is that Blizzard has not recently released a press statement indicating how their numbers have grown. Sign of the times to come?

Mr. Sorenson's opinion, though, has to be taken with a grain of salt. THQ is working on a Warhammer MMO, which would be in direct competition with Blizzard's currently unbeatable hold on the MMO market. Of course he wants the game to die down in popularity so that people migrate to Warhammer. If I were him I'd want the exact same thing.

He said, "However long it takes World of Warcraft to go through its cycle there will always be people on it, probably always be millions of people on it, but does it keep at that peak? And I think that, I wish I could see the numbers, but my guess is that it probably already has peaked - but it's still a great business. Who wouldn't want that?"

[Via GameIndustry.biz]

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Posted by ChristIllusion on 04/10/2008 at 07:15PM

i agree. people will get bored and see that the game isnt worth paying for :P

Posted by Imonfire on 04/10/2008 at 08:57PM

And then it will become free like Anarchy Online did *hope*.

Posted by jambo on 04/10/2008 at 09:44PM

Even if the current numbers are going down, I bet there will be an increase after the Exp Pack comes out.

Posted by BahamutBBob on 04/10/2008 at 10:27PM

Imonfire, if that happens, I'll be sitting in front of my PC when I'm not working or sleeping, like I used to.

Posted by cowfish13 on 04/11/2008 at 12:43AM

Repetitive gameplay ftl!

Posted by Leonick on 04/11/2008 at 07:43AM

It'll probably start dying when the real competition like Warhammer Online and Guild Wars 2 are released

Posted by siggs on 04/11/2008 at 09:34AM

I would write something meaningful if i cared for the game in the slightest ¬_¬

Posted by Dr.Aaron on 04/11/2008 at 11:42AM

There's no such thing as a peak, apart from the entire population of the universe...

Posted by madvillain on 04/11/2008 at 01:24PM

people getting bored of warcraft? are you nuts?
people like me, who are absolute lore nuts, will be eagerly anticipating the next expansion

besides, THQ sucks and is clueless anyway

anyway, the numbers might be slightly going down because of lack of new content, aside from sunwell
i assure you ince WotLK releases the numbers will jump up

Posted by madvillain on 04/11/2008 at 01:25PM

and warhammer sucks. so does conan and pirates

Posted by vincian on 04/12/2008 at 12:15AM

I don't think it's fair to judge Warhammer before it comes out. Unless you are talking about the lore, in which I would be inclined to disagree with you there.

I'm actually quite torn between the two. I was planning on returning to WoW once the next Xpac hits, but all my real-life friends are planning to get Warhammer once that's out.

Posted by spi 360 on 04/24/2008 at 11:01AM

I used to play WoW and i got bored with it and i was only lvl 16...so of course other people are going to get bored with it, its just BORING you sit at your computer moving your little character around to do nothing meaningful...