These are always fun. It’s time to play Nostradamus! In 2008…
1. Warhammer Online will be a huge success and be the second largest MMO ever released in the western hemisphere.
2. Age of Conan will be a success but it will fall short of Warhammer’s numbers. Funcom will patch out the nudity once every subscribes.
3. Vanguard will continue to fail but you don’t have to be a seer to know that.
4. LOTRO will come up with 27 new special offers for you to become a life-time subscriber.
5. Pirates of the Burning Sea will have a small but steady launch. The game will have initial appeal and survive the WAR/AoC wave but will suffer in the 4th quarter from a lack of gameplay.
6. Tabula Rasa will continue to be a mediocre game.
7. 38 Studios will have some big announcement that rocks the gaming world.
8. Raph Koster and Metaplace will take over the world.
9. SOE will move to India
10. Wrath of the Lich King will bomb. Yes, you heard it here folks.
11. Only some of these will come true.
“11. Only some of these will come true. ”
I’m voting for number 8.
Bombing for WotLK will be like only 1 million copies in the 1st week or something… but I agree from the sentiment. WoW’s starting the movement downhill finally.
As for number 6, I hope you’re incorrect. I want to like this one for while, but I spy AoC and WAR pulling me away in a few months time if PotBS doesn’t.
I’m hoping you’re right with numbers 1 and 10. I’m rooting for WAR being the WoW killer.
Hehe, I like these and agree with most of them, except for AoC. I think they will have smaller numbers because of the graphic requirements. If they can keep it from being too extreme so it’s more like EQ2 performance on release rather than Vanguard, they may still suffer initially but if decent enough should recover a couple years down the road.
Cuppy, so you mean we can we expect to play Metaplace in 2008? 🙂
I personally hope so! It would certainly be a quick Alpha to open beta though. 😉