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It's not just RS that's "dying"
Randy:
Found this on Reddit and thought it was worth a share:
Thoughts?
btraill:
:P
The general gaming market as a whole not just MMORPGS has been in a decline since the early 2000's. Game sales have been in steady decline as well. Gaming lost a lot of its niche market.
Also, WoW is not unique. I hate when people use the term "WoW Clone".
WoW copied everything from Everquest, Asherons Call, Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot and more... It was just the first game to massively hit the mainstream market when gaming hit its peak in mainstream popularity.
It is unfortunate... I just try not to think about it. I love my gaming.
Pacman Syu:
Interesting. Hopefully EoC will bring a new surge of players.
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--- Quote from: btraill on November 24, 2012, 06:07:52 pm ---Also, WoW is not unique. I hate when people use the term "WoW Clone".
WoW copied everything from Everquest, Asherons Call, Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot and more... It was just the first game to massively hit the mainstream market when gaming hit its peak in mainstream popularity.
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Yuuup.. I don't think any MMO has actually been "unique" in that manner within the last decade.
Mojo:
if you look closely at the trend chart you will see that it had actually levelled out for RS during the first 6 months of 2012. Then when EoC was announced it had a brief rise then started dropping again :( http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=runescape
What I find wierd about that first graph is that RS is consistently above WoW, meaning more people have searched for it, but there are way less players O_O
Randy:
--- Quote from: Mojohaza1 on November 24, 2012, 06:23:58 pm ---if you look closely at the trend chart you will see that it had actually levelled out for RS during the first 6 months of 2012. Then when EoC was announced it had a brief rise then started dropping again :( http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=runescape
What I find wierd about that first graph is that RS is consistently above WoW, meaning more people have searched for it, but there are way less players O_O
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They said in the picture it's due to RS being browser based and WoW having client searches