World Of Warcraft Crushing PC Game Industry?

simoniker writes "Age of Empires co-creator and Iron Lore co-founder Brian Sullivan has been discussing his studio's first game, Titan Quest, but along the way has openly wondered whether World Of Warcraft's success is part of the reason for the decline of the PC retail game market. Sullivan commented: 'For retail PC games, I think the biggest problem is World of Warcraft... It is such a compelling MMO game that it sucks up a lot of money and time that would normally be spent on other retail PC games.' Does WoW's growth actually mean that PC games in other non-MMO genres may sell fewer copies?"

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I was ...

[llamalicious]

I was going to RTFA, but I have a wow raid in a few minutes, so like, whatever.

Re:Just wait it out

[chill]

I was swept up into the WoW phenomenon for about a year, but once I hit 60 I learned that the end game wasn't really my thing.

I'm impressed you were playing video games at 59. It gives me one more thing to look forward to when I get old.

  -Charles

Re:Of course it does

[Anonymous Coward]

You say that as if people only have time to smoke crack. I personally have never smoked it so I'm not sure what it is like, but I've certainly tried multiple drugs during a week before. Smoking hash one day and mary jane another or even crystal meth another. Why does crack have to be described like it is some massive life-sucking force that drains all your resources, time, and energy? I think people are overreacting just a bit.. it's just a drug.

As translated by the underpants gnomes

[Sathias]

1/ Rip off Diablo 2
2/ ?
3/ No profit
4/ Blame MMO by same company