My sources are the official forums, which have almost daily posts about players quitting and all their friends quitting... WoW might be approaching saturation, but unless server population caps are being lowered, I'd say the huge list of full realms and the continual release of new ones contraindicates the population falling significantly. The official Blizzard forums have always been full of "I quit [if X happens]" posts. Very few seem to put their money where their mouth is and actually quit.
Coming this year: Crysis, Unreal 2007, Team Fortress 2, Warhammer Online plus a whole variety of other games. I think only the most optimistic World of Warcraft diehard fan would not see that the game is due to lose players to these big titles coming out. Some people will definitely switch to these games, although I can't help thinking of the old WoW adage; "They'll come crawling back." Plenty of my friends have quit WoW, some of them multiple times.:P
Rolling a new character last night on one of the new Oceanic realms, a lot of the players I encountered were genuine new players rather than rerolls. From this (small) sample I'd say that reports of WoW's death are greatly exaggerated.:P
No. Just... no. Wrong on so many levels that I had to make it my sig.:P
(For starters, 'acre' is a measure of area, not length. Then you need to understand area versus volume.)
The gene became established when a squirrl and all his lil' brother and sister squirrls inherited the gene from a mutated parent who survived (maybe from two parents, and it was recessive?). Then our brave lil' squirrl set up a racket when the next eagle came along, dying in the process, but saving his siblings that shared the gene.
Meanwhile our selfish squirrl goes "oh noes not me, eat little Cynthia instead!" and then in three months time when our selfish squirrl is all growed up and horny, he realies that Cynthia was one of the last female squirrls around and the rest got all eated up. He then gets bitter and cynical and posts on slashdot .
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So as to stay on topic... I had a WRT-54G as a router for a year or so and it needed semi-regular reboots, then one day went catatonic. The warranty replacement was better, seemed to last longer between crashes but still needed an occasional swift kick, here's hoping my new Netgear wireless modem/router. Never quite got around to trying open firmware though, for the vast majority of users 'out of the box' is the prime criterion and one that, IMO, open source still needs to work on.
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Rolling a new character last night on one of the new Oceanic realms, a lot of the players I encountered were genuine new players rather than rerolls. From this (small) sample I'd say that reports of WoW's death are greatly exaggerated.
They have a mandate to fight global warming.
No. Just... no. Wrong on so many levels that I had to make it my sig. :P
(For starters, 'acre' is a measure of area, not length. Then you need to understand area versus volume.)
The gene became established when a squirrl and all his lil' brother and sister squirrls inherited the gene from a mutated parent who survived (maybe from two parents, and it was recessive?). Then our brave lil' squirrl set up a racket when the next eagle came along, dying in the process, but saving his siblings that shared the gene.
Meanwhile our selfish squirrl goes "oh noes not me, eat little Cynthia instead!" and then in three months time when our selfish squirrl is all growed up and horny, he realies that Cynthia was one of the last female squirrls around and the rest got all eated up. He then gets bitter and cynical and posts on slashdot .
So as to stay on topic... I had a WRT-54G as a router for a year or so and it needed semi-regular reboots, then one day went catatonic. The warranty replacement was better, seemed to last longer between crashes but still needed an occasional swift kick, here's hoping my new Netgear wireless modem/router. Never quite got around to trying open firmware though, for the vast majority of users 'out of the box' is the prime criterion and one that, IMO, open source still needs to work on.
You, sir, made my day.