How is WAR doing nowadays?

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Originally posted by: Drift3r

Originally posted by: James Bond

Originally posted by: Beev
And when I'm looking to PvP i'll go play a shooter.

Edit to elaborate: A PvP centric MMO cannot succeed. Period. At least not anymore. UO was good in it's day, but a clone of it would fail miserably today. You can't make a PvP MMO and expect it to do very well at all.

I don't think that this is true. I hope it isn't, at least.

EVE online is very successful. Sure it does not have the numbers of WoW but it is profitable and has stable growth. IMHO PvP games done in the old level up formula are very prone to failure. PvP games done using a skill base system are more successful if they manage to get to the "polished" stage of MMO development.

Yup Eve has been steadily growing it's subscriber base for the past 5 years. I think the only other MMO that can say that is Wow. A game doesn't need to beat Wow to be considered a success, it just needs to make a profit.

IMO you're better off trying to find a niche because at this point, making a Wow clone that's better than Wow is near impossible.