I highly doubt it will. The graphics are not a pixel better than World of Warcraft and their only "grasp" on people is a specific target group who loves role-playing and lots of in-game dialogue(most WoW players dislike this).
Smells more and more like another Age of Conan.
Not everyone can be a role-playing lover like the ones who purchase StarWars:TOR. Obviously, I say this as no real competitive World of Warcraft player will enter the realms of the casual. They even said it, all content is easily approachable and filled with boring dialogue.
Starcraft II is one of the best and most played games in the world. Crysis 2, Team Fortress 2, Oblivion, Halo, Gears, Uncharted, The Witcher, Mass Effect & Half-Life does not reach it's socks in terms of gameplay and e-sport potential.
"But will it run the most dumbed down game ever seen in history?" Turns out your console actually will.
Jesus, the graphics already shown are just patethic! Why do they bother :O
Since you have no bubbles left, I won't get too deep into a discussion. I have never personally played EVE, so I cannot argue wether or not it is AAA title - I do however believe the most new MMO's are released with very little content and very short production times due to microtransactions and minor DLC later on, which kinda eliminates the "AAA" thing.
The newer MMO's also tend to completely rip-off existing products and make them into a new universe w...
Is this a new game, as in created in the year of 2011 or an old game republished? I really dislike the graphics.
I think all the rip-off MMO's that has been send out with great promises and graphics has totally destroyed the MMO market. Well, not destroyed as it is still alive, very well also, but they have decided a new faith - Pay2Win-models which obviously ruins the "back-bone" of gaming, which is experience matters.
I'd like to put blame to Aion, Age of Conan, Warhammer Online & Lord of the Rings Online before ever casting doubt upon World of Warcraft.
Who cares what the income is per player. The goal with F2P is to attract as many people into your game and gain income from micro transaction which people are more likely to spend money on.
Are you ready to put out very well maintained modding tools and community support together with a fully customizable game with great server-to-game interaction and not P2P crap?
Probably. MMO's now-a-days can make much more money by the F2P model than by a subscription model, any game can infact. People seems to do minor purchases than pay monthly fees.
They made Modern Warfare 2. Are they now all of a sudden Saints to cod-haters?
No doubt they are talented, but they will hardly make a Call of Duty "killer" unless they win the rights to Modern Warfare.
@dark-hollow:
You obviously didn't play the game from launch. It was immensely buggy.
Hopefully their game won't release with the 200 bugs that Call of Duty 4 had and needed atleast five patches to fix. Talking about Buggy games (CoD4 was fucking buggy)
There is not many AAA MMO's coming out. World of Warcraft is still the only AAA MMO which has continously supported more than one million players. The rest are going F2P 100%.
I am afraid to tell you that is not possible.
I played MW2 more than any CoD aswell. It simply was so fast paced. The close city combat was immense fun. Unless they make a major screw-up before launch, this will be the FPS of this year.
@Zechs34: Battlefield 3 will not be one of the best games of the year, far from actually. Bad Company 2 was not even close and BF3 looks like a direct upgrade from it. You will be dissapointed, immensely.
I consider myself a core gamer, yet I cannot purchase Battlefield 3 after seeing how their community acts on forum boards across the "internet". It's simply disgusting to see the "mature"-scene as they call themselves, behave like children.
@RedSky: You can still play in a Team/Clan without CoD:ELITE. They give clan incencitives with CoD:ELITE to promote a team/clan community.
90% of "indie games" are fucking terrible. Almost so bad I feel like puking when watching gameplay videos. Then we have the 10% that will actually make it big and those 10% should get our support, the rest is just the random chineese hardware copy-maker.