I seem to recall reading a quote from Mark Jacobs a couple of years ago that DAoC had a projected 5 year lifespan when they launched it - meaning that Warhammer will be coming online just at the time that DAoC is due for retirement, assuming Mythic get their project management right.HappyG wrote:lol
In 2007 DAoC will be 5 years old, will most likely have less subscribers than today, and MMORPG market will be bigger than today. Why would they support community od 100.000 if they can aim for a million?
On the other hand, they may try keeping the two running in parallel, as Sony have with EQ and EQ2. Nobody has actually shut down a MMOG because it's reached the end of its natural lifespan yet - EQ still rumbles forward like a juggernaught in a zimmer frame, UO has lost the plot and rambles like an insane, drooling old biddy (since when has Ultims had anything to do with samurai and ninjas, for crying out loud?!) The only MMOGs that die, die of commercial failure and they usually die young (Earth & Beyond) or more likely stillborn (Mythica, the first Warhammer Online).
Personally, I'd like to see Warhammer - it should give us a dark, gritty alternative to EQ/EQ2 (unbelievably bland generic Tolkien-ripoff fantasy world #2164) or WoW (fun but... quirky, goblin hand grenades and gnomish clockwork robots aren't to everyone's taste).
