INC! WALL OF TEXT!

People always say this. But there was tons of MMOs that were suppose to beat WoW (WAR, Aion, to name to recent few), but they never did. In the game world, a company that has been going at it for a while (5 years) and has been doing a great job isn't just going to bet crushed. They know what they are doing. Plus people have invested time and money into Warcraft. Also many people know the lore and they like it, they want to see whats going to happen next, even if it does mean Tauren Paladins. How much money have you invested in wow? Lets assume you have been playing for 2 years, that's $360, not to mention $75+ for the game/xpac/xpac. If you have been playing for 5 years, as I have, you have spent around $900 (even as I type that, that number shocks me).

Now when you talk of MySpace/Yahoo/AOL, how much money did you invest in those companies? Zero (well, maybe AOL, but that's besides the point).

World of Warcraft will continue to be a great success as long as they have new expansions, content patches, and cater to all levels of players. (On that last note, games like WAR catered more towards pvp and some RP while games like Aion are almost completely devoted toward pve (8+ Hour raiding with no chance of leaving and coming back the next day)).

@travis: i'm not at all shocked by how much i've spent on wow's monthly subscription. do you pay for cable? try adding that up and get ready to be shocked even more. as it is, i don't pay for cable, my only subscription-based entertainment venues are wow and netflix...not a bad deal at all

@Travis: you're totally right!

@Sinnh: The difference between cable and mmo's is that there isn't such thing as "progression" in cable.

If you all of a sudden switch from WoW to, say, EQ2, you can't transfer your characters (and all the stuff they carry with them) from one game to another. You start from ZERO, after 2 or 5 years of progression and money invested into it.

Warcraft is too big to fail!

@Levaiathan

And the Titanic was "unsinkable"

@Travis

FYI: Aion is not focused on PVE at all... they don't even have any instances that take more than 6 people (standard group size in Aion) to clear yet. It is a heavily PVP focused game with RVR action 1 time a day where you do some PvPvE stuff. PVE is horrible in that game.