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Blizzard CEO- some WoW players did move to AoC

Posted Aug 1, 2008 at 8:04AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Titles, News Tags: Blizzard, Funcom, Mike Morhaime

Blizzard's CEO and co-founder Mike Morhaime has admitted that Funcom's Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has indeed made a dent on the population of World of Warcraft. However, it's not as big as some would have expected.

Morhaime said that " Age of Conan released with some initial success. We did see some of our players leave, [but] about 40% of those players have returned to World of Warcraft." He added that in spite of this, WoW still has an advantage over anything in the market as being "a product that has been continually enhanced, expanded and refined for almost four years now."

We can't argue with Morhaime's reasoning: World of Warcraft does have a good four years of live testing and development over both Age of Conan, Warhammer Online, or any of the big name MMORPGs and it shows.

To even stress this point further, it was revealed that the latest expansion for the game, Wrath of the Lich King, will be coming out between October and December. So the battle rages on with World of Warcraft fighting to retain its dominance in the MMORPG market.

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Where many of us have watched the economies collapse on some of the oldest servers as players migrated to AoC I am not sure that this gentleman is quite aware of the impact of AoC that us out there in the "real world" are.

Warcraft as it stands is beginning to look seedy, stale and players are sick to death of continual gold spamming, the abuse of the trade channel, the abuse of the pre-made system for battlegrounds and the very fact that Blizzard refuse whatsoever to deal with cheats and exploiters in their thirst for money and accounts.

LotR Online which shares the same core engine as Warcraft has little of the problems as that inherent in Warcraft, GM's on LotR crack down on spamming and cheating swiftly as does AoC operate a zero tolerance policy towards those things that make an MMORPG awful for ToS abiding players.

At the end of the day, what Blizzard need to grasp is that we are being expected to pay for inferior service and an inferior product.

And the two biggest beefs at the moment on our server Thunderhorn (EU) are gold spammers and pre-made Alterac Valleys where cheaters are being actively hidden in those from Stormscale and Blizzard have failed to remove one proven cheat.

# A little response to above mister — Revaverho 2008-08-07 01:51

"Warcraft as it stands is beginning to look seedy, stale and players are sick to death of continual gold spamming, the abuse of the trade channel, the abuse of the pre-made system for battlegrounds and the very fact that Blizzard refuse whatsoever to deal with cheats and exploiters in their thirst for money and accounts."

You're right, but nothing stands there in between trade channel and gold spammers in other games as well. That goldseller in question will get banned in those 'zero-tolerance' games, but (s)he'll get his/her message through: Buy gold.

"At the end of the day, what Blizzard need to grasp is that we are being expected to pay for inferior service and an inferior product."

Yep, I agree with you. if game as old as this, World Of Warcraft, can't get rid of even such as small annoyances as goldselling, spamming and abusing, there's something wrong.

"And the two biggest beefs at the moment on our server Thunderhorn (EU) are gold spammers and pre-made Alterac Valleys where cheaters are being actively hidden in those from Stormscale and Blizzard have failed to remove one proven cheat. "

AV premade enabler is not a cheat. It's not a third party program, nor it automates the gameplay in any way. It just throws your party into some of the open AVs and there we go, a premade.

Same things can be achieved through, for instance, pressing "Alterac Valley 1". Your premade will get into same instance once it's open.

# Well... I'll be moving — Nevers 2008-08-07 05:25

from FFxi to AoC when it is released for 360... maybe I'll visit; at $15 per month that's gonna be a pricey visit so proly not. Depends how incredible AoC is by the time it ports.

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