Warcraft III dying?

[Whoareyou.]

The only reason I hope for it to die, is so that WC4 comes along.

Ooh, Good point; But. WHAT IF WC4 DOESNT COME ALONG

 

[BlackRose]

Every game dies, it just depends how long it takes x3

Starcraft II is already dying.

 

[Whoareyou.]

Every game dies, it just depends how long it takes x3

Starcraft II is already dying.

Ok, fine I agree. But they better make Wc4.

 

[Sharp]

Ok, fine I agree. But they better make Wc4.

They better make diablo 3 come out in 1st trimester of 2011

 

[Whoareyou.]

They better make diablo 3 come out in 1st trimester of 2011

Typing Poll: D3 or WC4.

 

[DioD]

death from old age is ok.

 

[Bloodcount]

Every game dies, it just depends how long it takes x3

Starcraft II is already dying.

Bullshit

 

[Ninja_sheep]

It's going into cardiac arrest.

Get me the defibrillator!

 

[Vacko]

I think it's dying slowly, well haven't been there for years... many friends quited cuz of WoW ... Well only been playing wc3 with lan with few friends. But I really look forward Warcraft4, heard that it will start making after sc2 is done... so 2 parts left

 

[Dinowc]

the only thing that kept me playing Wc3 was DotA
but since I started playing Wow, I quit it

Wc3 is a old game and the only ppl that still play it are those who were playing it for more than 5 years

 

[Whisky]

Warcraft 3 is nowhere near dying, and that is mainly because of dota. Dota is still one of the most played video games with it's estimated player base of 14-22 million people (more than WoW has!), and it's growing all the time.

I have seen people getting tired of WoW and start playing dota, or one of its alternatives. I also have seen a lot of people to be introduced to the AoS genre by one of the newer, standalone candidates like HoN and LoL, and then get converted to dota. In fact, from my experience I would dare to say that there are more people changing from HoN and LoL to dota than vice versa.

That it simply because over the years dota has honed to almost as perfect map as it could be, lacking the severe bugs and imbalances of the newer games. It is just better than its competition. Actually only thing where HoN and LoL succeeded was making dota more known; Dota has never been more popular than it is now. I bet Icefrog knew this would come when he teamed with S2 games to make HoN.

Only thing that is dying are the original servers. Dota has 10 times more players than TFT sold copies. As it is anyways near-impossible to find a fresh RoC and TFT with not already hacked cd-keys from a local game store, and since 90% of people only get it for dota these days, most people just get it the easy way, from a friend or via downloading. Not only this, but there are dozens of private servers with dota ladders, banning systems, active staff and stuff like that. There is really no reason to use the blizzard-provided servers anymore.

Due to dota there is also hope for other custom maps. Dota-players may just get tired of dota for once, and find out that dota is just one map along thousands of others.

 

[Dinowc]

^
dude...
we are tallking about Wc3, not DotA

it's old news that DotA 2 is coming next year as a standalone game
Wc3 is doomed

 

[Whoareyou.]

... DotA is so annoying. 14/15 of the games are DotA then 1/15 is Footies.

 

[Jesus4Lyf]

In my experience, WC3 just moves from being custom-games list centric to cultish. That is, instead of being a place where you can find random games on the list, it's a place where you go to play a specific map or two with close friends.

I still often play Nagaphobia, Samurai Duels (not Ninja Duels), CHOPPY! and Ancient Bound AoS and arena, with my friends. (All maps I've made.)

Edit: All maps I've made before 1.23 which didn't break.*

 

[KaerfNomekop]

Warcraft IV: Edge of Eternity, looks like its up to you...

Yeah... let's hope it brings back the old warcraft fun that came all the way from Orcs and Humans

 

[Whoareyou.]

Lol. Hope for more people on wc3 ._.